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Businesswire | May 23, 2023

Amazon today released its annual U.S. Small Business Empowerment Report, detailing how the company’s investments, innovations, and initiatives on behalf of independent sellers help small and medium-sized businesses across the country increase their product sales and create jobs. Today, more than 60% of sales in Amazon’s store are from independent sellers—most of which are small and medium-sized businesses—providing a vast selection of amazing products, competitive p...

City A.M. | Business with personality | January 22, 2020

London-based fintech Liberis has raised £32m to help fund the growth of the small business finance provider and expansion in the US and Europe. The funding raise is the first institutional equity fundraise by Liberis, which lends money to small businesses against their future debit and credit card sales, and was led by investment firm FTV Capital. The raise takes the total debt and equity raised by the fintech, which has offices in London, Denver, and Stockholm, to over £150m. &ldquo...

GlobeNewswire | August 11, 2020

nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO) today announced that $18.2 billion-asset Seattle-based WaFd Bank has deployed the nCino Bank Operating System to increase and digitize its commercial lending efficiency and improve the client experience. WaFd was also able to utilize nCino for SBA loan processing to assist small businesses through the coronavirus pandemic as a result of the platform’s agility. The bank worked with management and technology consulting firm West Monroe to implement nCino’s cl...

Small Business Trends

liquid web | August 30, 2022

Liquid Web, the market leader in cloud hosting and software solutions for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), celebrates 25 years of helping businesses grow online. Over the past quarter century, Liquid Web has grown into a Family of Brands delivering technology, services, and support for thriving businesses and nonprofits running mission-critical websites, eCommerce stores, and applications. Liquid Web (High Performance Managed Hosting), Nexcess (Digital Commerce Cloud), StellarWP (...