Meta agrees to acquire Singapore-based startup Manus, which makes an AI agent for SMBs; Manus said earlier in December its annual revenue run rate was $125M+
Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to buy Manus, a popular Singapore-based artificial intelligence agent with Chinese roots …
Swedish investment firm EQT agrees to invest $930M in Douzone Bizon, a South Korea-based provider of ERP and business software to SMBs, for a 37.6% stake
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Source: HR software company Gusto paid ~$600M to acquire Guideline, which offers 401(k) plans to SMBs; Guideline raised $340M and had a $1.15B valuation in 2021
Last month, Gusto, a payroll and HR software company, announced that it agreed to acquire Guideline, a startup offering retirement plans to small and medium businesses.
Miami-based Guardz, which offers a detection and response service for managed service providers protecting SMBs, raised a $56M Series B led by ClearSky
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X says it will accelerate plans to attract ad spending by SMBs, including outsourcing some ad sales to third parties, such as US marketing startup JumpCrew
Social media site accelerates plan to attract small businesses as billionaire owner battles big brands
France-based Cegid is merging with Spanish rival Grupo Primavera in a €6.8B all-share deal; the combined company will sell specialized software to digitize SMBs
Financial Times : Source: CEGID Source: CEGID : Cegid enters into a definitive agreement to combine with Grupo Primavera.
Brex says it will no longer work with SMBs that do not have venture funding and will shut down “tens of thousands” of accounts after August 15
Three months after announcing it would make a big push into software and enterprise, fintech giant Brex is apparently abandoning …
Brex says it will no longer work with SMBs that do not have venture funding and will shut down “tens of thousands” of accounts after August 15
Three months after announcing it would make a big push into software and enterprise, fintech giant Brex is apparently abandoning …
Meta launches its free WhatsApp Cloud API, aimed at SMBs, to all businesses worldwide, and announces paid features for its WhatsApp Business app coming later
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Datto, which provides data backup and protection services for SMBs, agrees to be taken private by Kaseya for $6.2B in cash, funded by Insight and others
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