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Is India’s BNPL 2.0 set to disrupt B2B?

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B2B commerce in India is moving online. Skyrocketing smartphone and internet penetration led to rapid growth in e-commerce across large cities and smaller towns alike. India’s B2B e-commerce space has developed rapidly since 2020. E-commerce has seen tremendous growth in India over the past decade. Image Credits: Redseer.

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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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Now a Berlin-based startup called Billie that has built a similar service — but specifically targeting B2B transactions — is seeing a lift of its own boat from that rising tide. . A logical question might be why B2C giants in the BNPL space are not doing more B2B business directly. but that will work out to $1.7

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Melio raises $110M on a $1.3B valuation to bring B2B payments for SMBs into the 21st century

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Payments for consumers have made a huge shift to the online world in the last year, a time when they have moved more of their purchasing to the internet to minimize in-person transactions in the midst of a virus-based health pandemic. ” What he quickly realized, though, was that the same was not applying to the businesses themselves.

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The targeted approach to cloud and data CIOs need for ROI gains

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CIOs support the core business With cloud forming the foundation of digital transformation at Vibram, the company, always active in B2B, decided a few years ago to increasingly address the consumer by expanding its B2C activity, developing a new e-commerce site and improving all digital touchpoints to reach the customer.

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VCs are entering 2024 with ‘healthy paranoia’

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Today on Equity, we're joined by Deepka Rana, a London-based Principal at Northzone focused on early-stage companies across consumer internet and B2B SaaS. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Daily Crunch: B2B marketplace Sokowatch raises $125M Series B, rebrands as ‘Wasoko’

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Video search is big business : Back when the internet was text, search looked for text. But as the internet – and digital content more generally – becomes increasingly video-first, search is a different challenge. Christine Hall has great look at several in the market. Twelve Labs just raised $5 million for its work on the problem.

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Demand Curve: How to get social proof that grows your startup

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This post shares exactly how to collect and use social proof to help grow your SaaS, e-commerce, or B2B startup. But for Internet-based businesses, social proof looks a bit different. Social proof for B2B. People love to compare themselves to others, and this is especially true when it comes to the customers of B2B businesses.

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