Compello Operations Ltd

Business Wire | September 08, 2020

Melio, a B2B payments company helping small businesses digitally manage their supplier payments, has raised $144m to reach more small businesses across the US as they shift to digital solutions to help manage the economic effects of Covid-19. Small businesses typically use a variety of different tools to manage supplier payments, with almost half of B2B payments carried out with paper checks. Melio’s digital accounts payable and receivable dashboard provides a single, integrated tool that ...

Finance

Novae LLC | November 29, 2021

If you've tried to pay for goods or services in America lately, you may have learned how indispensable a bank account can be. A growing number of businesses and institutions will only accept payment through electronic funds transfers from a bank, and may even refuse to do business with someone who can only pay in cash. This is bad news for the roughly 14 million American adults who, by choice or necessity, don't have a bank account. The unbanked increasingly find themselve...

Small Business Trends

Enterprise Nation, Avast | June 16, 2021

Today a global leader in digital security and privacy, Avast announced a partnership with Enterprise Nation, the UK’s fastest-growing small business network and business support provider. This partnership will make Avast an exclusive cybersecurity partner for the national network.The partnership will deliver key cybersecurity resources and training for more than half a million UK small businesses, this will enable them to operate securely and grow in today’s digital economy. <...

Small Business Advice

NerdWallet | November 03, 2020

Financial guidance company NerdWallet announced at the end of last week that it has acquired Fundera. New York City-based Fundera was co-founded in 2013 by Jared Hecht, who previously co-founded GroupMe. It created a marketplace where small businesses could find loans, subsequently expanding into other areas like legal services, while also (like NerdWallet) offering free financial content. “It can be the wild wild west out there for small business owners,” Hecht said in ...