TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

million as the Bangalore-based startup chases the opportunity to digitize neighborhood stores in the world’s second-largest internet market. One of them is India’s largest retail chain Reliance Retail, which serves more than 3.5 Reliance Retail also maintains a partnership with Facebook for WhatsApp integration.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Boat, an electronics and lifestyle startup in India, has raised $100 million in a new financing round that many independent investors termed as the most successful hardware startup story in the world’s second-largest internet market. The startup sells through both online and offline retail channels.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Uberall , which works with retailers and other brick-and-mortar operators to help them update and provide more accurate information about themselves across the plethora of apps and other services that consumers use to discover them, is announcing $115 million in funding. omni channel brands.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Because some of the most profitable NFTs are produced by celebrities with teams , it makes sense that music corporations, fashion brands and designers are venturing into the NFT market as well. Real-life fashion brands use NFTs for marketing in virtual worlds like Minecraft , plus several Atari and Microsoft video games.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

The future of digital retail has arrived in Paris, naturally. Today, SPIN by lablaco, launched its first digitized retail experience called Web3 Fashion: The Origin Story at the famed Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées. There is no need for a headset; anyone with an internet connection can use the app.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

This, along with Vietnam’s high internet penetration rate (about 70% as of January 2020) and the fact that more than 3/4 of of internet users have used online financial services before , lays the groundwork for apps like Infina to take traction. Robo-advisor StashAway gets $25M Series D led by Sequoia Capital India.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Navigating the choppy e-commerce seas : As reporter Ingrid Lunden writes, “e-commerce is synonymous with shopping on Amazon, but the reality is that a retailer has the option to use a bundle of different channels to sell and market products.” Non, je ne internete rien : Stackblitz raises $7.9

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Computers, the internet, fintech, artificial intelligence, any tech you can name ( except mobile tech) people in these regions have always had to play catch up. million pre-seed to that end.

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CIO

AUGUST 30, 2022

On July 8, 2022, a botched maintenance update on the Rogers ISP network in Canada crashed internet access across the country for at least 12 hours, with some customers experiencing problems for days afterward. The nationwide outage affected phone and internet service for about 12.2 This has had a ripple effect through the market.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Contact has been in the business of consumer finance since 2001, while Wasla was founded in 2018 by former Serag Meneassy and Taymour Sabry , both ex-Rocket Internet entrepreneurs, and investment banker Mahmoud El Said. “It’s It’s a huge market at the end of the day, you have roughly 250 million people.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Jio Platforms is investing $200 million in Glance, which serves media content, news and casual games on Android handsets’ lockscreen, the two said Monday, the latest in a series of bets from Mukesh Ambani’s empire as it looks to expand its offering to more than 420 million telecom subscribers it reaches in the South Asian market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

If there’s a sector that has seen the biggest uptick in the number of startups and venture capital in emerging markets since the start of last year, it has to be the digitization of mom and pop stores. Rocket Internet, Global Founders Capital and P1 Ventures co-led the round, which is the largest of its kind in Morocco at the moment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Weng, who previously worked at Walmart, where he was involved in the retail giant’s China import business , told TechCrunch that he’s acquainted with a lot of American supplement manufacturers and is thus able to cut middleman costs. Amway and the likes spend a lot on marketing and sales.” “In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

In partnership with AiFi , a startup that aims to enable retailers to deploy autonomous shopping tech cost-effectively, Microsoft today launched a preview of a cloud service called Smart Store Analytics. Besides being an Azure customer, AiFi’s market share could well have something to do with it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led a $300 million investment in ElasticRun as the Japanese conglomerate doubles down on its commerce bet in the world’s second largest internet market. The e-commerce firms and brands, in turn, gain access to a large market that has historically proven difficult to penetrate.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. But amid pandemic-induced lockdown fears, consumer discretionary spending reduced in Nigeria and other African markets. Africa can list more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

As going to stores became more risky over time, many shoppers turned to buying more goods from the Internet, bolstering ecommerce players like Shopify, BigCommerce, as well as companies that facilitate online payments, like Square and PayPal. billion in cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities. .” billion and $1.73

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Instant grocery delivery continues to be a very frothy market, but today comes news of a major funding round for one player in it that investors believe will still be standing after the hype has died down. billion ($2.85 billion post-money).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Globally, BNPL has seen the most growth in the consumer segment and has driven retail consumption and lending over the past few years. Skyrocketing smartphone and internet penetration led to rapid growth in e-commerce across large cities and smaller towns alike. Image Credits: Redseer.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Global capital markets are heated given pandemic stimulus packages and low interest rates worldwide, but in Brazil the boom comes with a special feature: in Q3 2020, there were 25 primary and secondary equity offerings, and this year is on track to be the most active in history both in number of deals and dollar volume.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

But not everyone agrees — particularly those who hope to build a business out of VR retail. Enter Emperia , an “immersive” retail startup that — to its credit — has already created virtual stores for brands including Bloomingdales, Dior, Ralph Lauren and Lacoste. Perhaps so.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It remains at a relatively nascent phase expansion in the technology industry but is at the same time developed enough to have a 400-million-strong internet user base. Sea is the 65 th most valuable company in the world with a market cap of $187 billion, while Bukalapak was Indonesia’s largest-ever IPO at $1.5

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Most of the publicly available information on the internet has already been scrapped. We are going to enter the dark ages of data and the internet because nothing of value is going to be available publicly. That kind of information is going to become very valuable, and people are going to bid and build markets against that.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Now, the Smart Box will be offered to Walmart’s InHome grocery delivery subscribers in select markets starting this month, the company says. This leads to ebbs and flows of delivery requests throughout the days and weeks, instead of allowing the retailer itself to determine the best time to route and deliver certain orders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Social commerce doesn’t silo our retail experiences from the rest of our lives; rather it leverages the power of community and connection to create opportunities in everyday life through social networks. Globally, social commerce is on the path to becoming a $1.2 Globally, social commerce is on the path to becoming a $1.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Munich-based parcelLab , which offers a final-mile fulfillment service for online retailers, has closed a $112 million (GB£80 million) Series C funding round led by the U.S. VC/PE firm Insight Partners. Germany’s Endeit Capital participated as a co-investor, alongside existing investors Capnamic Ventures and coparion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

“We have big ambitions at Firework — to become the infrastructure on which the next-generation of the internet is built and run — and Softbank Investment Advisers supports that vision.”. Last year, Firework was working with some 600 companies, including Albertsons Companies, The Fresh Market and Omnicom Media Group.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

billion in India as the retailer doubles down on the opportunities it sees in India’s e-commerce and payments markets even as the firm contends with rising costs amid the market downturns. India, the world’s second largest internet market, has become a key battleground for Walmart and Amazon.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Xpressbees, an Indian logistics firm that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, said on Monday it has raised $110 million in a new financing round as online shopping booms in the world’s second largest internet market. India’s FarEye raises $25M to grow its logistics SaaS startup in international markets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

With nearly half a million customers across Mexico and a network of 30,000 retail locations where representatives can take deposits, the challenger bank albo is already on its way to becoming a dominant player in Mexico’s emerging fintech industry. albo has proven its ability to drive sustainable growth and is leading the market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

She went to doctor after doctor without a definitive diagnosis and decided to take to the internet to find some answers. What resulted was a drink that eventually became a hit at a Dallas farmers market, which is where the pair was approached to sell Poppi in Whole Foods Market. The drinks retail for $2.49

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

DealShare, a startup in India that has built an e-commerce platform for middle and lower-income groups of consumers, said on Tuesday it has raised $21 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its footprint in the world’s second-largest internet market. There was an opportunity for someone to jump in, he said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Petlove&Co, a São Paulo-based digital platform for products and services for the pet market, announced today that it has raised about $150 million (R$750 million) in a funding round led by Riverwood Capital. The company started its life as PetSuperMarket when it was founded in 1999 in the early days of the internet.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Most merchants have entered the internet by selling on marketplaces but we are hearing from newer generations of merchants and SMBs that they don’t want to be intermediated anymore,” he said. It also reflects the Latin American consumers’ approach to paying for retail purchases over time. market in the future.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

This week the team — Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace — recorded a bonus Equity Shot to help our listeners make sense out of the GameStop trading bonanza happening all over the internet. GameStop, meme stocks, and the revenge of the retail trader — This piece dug into what the initial story was about, with some jokes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Walmart announced today it will soon begin to pilot a new solution that could eventually allow the retailer to deliver groceries to customers’ homes 24 hours per day. HomeValet notes that Walmart customers will be the first to gain access to its boxes, as the product is just now going to market. HomeValet, a D.C.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Purplle, an e-commerce platform for beauty products in India, said on Monday it has raised $45 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its presence in the world’s second-largest internet market. MyGlamm, an omnichannel direct-to-consumer Indian brand, last week raised $24.2 million in a round co-led by Amazon. “We

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