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Business Strategy

Funding Circle | August 17, 2021

Funding Circle, the small business loans platform and Congressional Bank, a bank headquartered in Maryland, have today announced an extension of their existing lending partnership to provide more capital to small businesses across the US. The second phase of the partnership will significantly expand Congressional’s purchase of loans through the Funding Circle platform. By utilizing Funding Circle’s technology and powerful risk models Congressional benefits from a highl...

Small Business Advice

PRnewswire | April 24, 2023

Finli, a payment management platform built for service-based small businesses, announces a partnership with The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA). Together Finli and ICBA will give community banks the cutting edge solutions they need to support customers and impact communities. Since launching in 2020, Finli has provided small businesses a back-office digital platform for invoicing, payment collection, CRM, and communications. This past week, Finli launched an upda...

Small Business Trends

Novo | June 17, 2021

Novo, a simple small business banking platform, announced that the company raised $40.7M in Series A funding. Led by Valar Ventures and followed by other participants like Crosslink Capital, Rainfall Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, and BoxGroup. More than 100,000 small businesses have opened a Novo account since its launch in 2018. Novo surpassed $1 billion in lifetime transactions, opened a new office in Miami, announced several new features, and grew its leadership team. The company...

Impact

H&R Block | February 24, 2022

H&R Block announces its third consecutive year of partnership with Nextdoor to find and execute 10 community improvement projects through Block's Make Every Block Better community impact platform. Now through March 31, people can nominate their neighborhood for a project that helps improve the places and spaces where neighborhoods convene. The call for community improvement projects supports neighborhoods and involves small businesses, ultimately positively impacting milli...