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Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100M on a $640M valuation

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Related to that, the company is also announcing hefty debt refinancing of $200 million per month (money to run the BNPL financing), coming from a consortium of German banks led by VVRB (Vereinigte Volksbank Raiffeisenbank eG), with Raisin Bank and Varengold Bank also participating. He said the latter range from €60 to €100.

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Leave Common Approaches to Average Players: Insights from Belkins Founder Vladyslav Podoliako

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Starting a business offered the perfect opportunity to turn our ambitions into realityto build something meaningful, impactful, and entirely our own. Belkins has grown rapidly in the B2B marketing world, achieving milestones that often take decades in just seven years. What are your future plans for yourstartup?

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Revolution Ventures backs Casted in B2B-focused podcast play

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The value to be gained in the B2B world is something that has been largely untapped. For Lindsay Tjepkema — who has been entrenched in the world of B2B marketing for more than 15 years — the opportunity was massive. So in 2019, she founded Casted , an audio and video podcast product aimed at B2B marketers.

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YC-backed Amenli raises $2.3M to provide insurance to Egyptian consumers

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Founded by Shady El Tohfa , Omar Ezz El Din and Adham Nauman in 2020, Amenli addresses a $2 billion untapped insurance market in Egypt. But it was a series of personal experiences that prompted CEO El Tohfa to look into the opportunities in the market. El Tohfa recounts two stories where his friends lost their fathers.

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Wire grabs fresh funding for secure messaging tech that’s big with G7 governments

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It sells in to heavy-weight customers where security is very much front of mind — including governments, militaries and regulated businesses with high compliance requirements around information (such as the finance and healthcare sectors). On the latter, he points to some large fines that have recently hit U.S.

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The gig economy, cannabis and car data are tech-election winners in 2020

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The next billion-dollar e-commerce company will be a B2B marketplace. Business-to-business transactions are full of complexities beyond the consumer space, including four types of standard payment methods, sophisticated financing tools, bulk discounts, contractual pricing, delivery schedules, insurance and compliance.

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Sequence orders up $19M led by a16z for a new approach to B2B fintech

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But at the same time, there’s been a growing trend for building more for the B2B market, and today one of the newer hopefuls in that space is announcing funding ahead of a public launch in Q4 this year. The opportunity that Sequence is targeting is related to all of these but is taking target at a more specific gap in the market.