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May 15, 2023


Revolutionizing B2B Payments: Unified API and AI-Powered Supplier Enablement with Rutter
In the same way that companies like Plaid offer a unified API for banking data, Rutter aims to be the unified API for small business financial data.
Sep 30, 2024

Bench customers are now being forced to hand over their data or risk losing it, they say
After accounting startup Bench abruptly shut down on December 27 and was bought in a fire-sale by Employer.com, Bench customers are now learning they can’t easily just take their financial data and leave. And some are very unhappy about it, three customers told TechCrunch. To recap: When Bench, a startup based in Canada that raised $113 million from investors like Bain Capital Ventures and Shopify, shuttered, it left thousands of businesses without access to their accounting and tax documents.
Jan 10, 2025

Brex partners with former competitor Zip, with an eye on reducing cash burn to get to an IPO
Brex has once again made the surprising, but perhaps realistic, decision to partner with another one-time competitor. This time Zip, the CEOs of both The partnership aimed at boosting Brex and Zip's offering to the enterprise.
May 20, 2025

Connectly, now backed by Alibaba, taps AI to personalize text messages to customers
Stefanos Loukakos, formerly a director at Meta’s business-focused Messenger division and, briefly, the tech giant’s blockchain org, noticed several years ago that online retailers were struggling to connect with potential shoppers. The problem, in his opinion, was that their marketing campaigns weren’t tailored enough. Merchants were sending generic social media, text, and email blasts that failed to resonate with buyers and convert. “Businesses need a solution to create winning messaging campa
Sep 11, 2024