TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

About 80% of household retail in sub-Saharan Africa is delivered through informal channels, which perennially face several challenges like stockouts, leading to an instability in earnings, and a lack of attractiveness to financiers. On average, a retailer using Betastore makes 4.4 orders per month.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Microsoft is extending the Startup Founders Hub, its self-service platform that provides founders with free resources including Azure credits, with a new incubator program called the Pegasus Program. Microsoft’s Founders Hub platform, through which the Pegasus program is facilitated and orchestrated.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Progcap serves more than 700,000 small retailers, who dot hundreds of Indian cities and towns. The startup extends a revolving credit line of $10,000 to $12,500 to retailers, providing them with much-needed capital to buy new inventories and grow their businesses.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

That scarcity is also driving profits through the roof, with buyers paying more for both new and used inventory, and auto retailers benefiting from lower operating costs with less inventory. (A program , which allows users to search for certain GM vehicles at dealerships near them and complete a portion of the transaction online.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Entering a new market with a different social structure, cultural history, and regulatory issues is never easy for a large retailer, even if the difference seems slight. This was a major roadblock for a large American retailer when it started on its journey to enter the Chinese market in 1996.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Scaled Solutions grew out of the company’s own needs for data annotation, testing, and localization, and is now ready to offer those services to enterprises in retail, automotive and autonomous vehicles, social media, consumer apps, generative AI, manufacturing, and customer support.

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MAY 30, 2024

If you want to learn more about generative AI skills and tools, while also demonstrating to employers that you have the skillset to tackle generative AI projects, here are 10 certifications and certificate programs to get your started.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2025

One insurance company, for instance, automated its mailroom with SS&C Blue Prism, using pre-programmed templates to quickly identify and reorder forms and extract typed and handwritten data, SS&C Blue Prism helped the company replace manual tasks with up to 98% accuracy. [3] 4] On their own AI and GenAI can deliver value.

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Not surprisingly, the retail industry was also highly targeted. To avoid the reputational harm and lawsuits that accompany such breaches, businesses must embrace a comprehensive program to comply with PCI DSS v4.0 But how can enterprises know if their payment card data security program is ready? It is also a high-value target.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Enter Bumpa, a Nigerian retail automation platform that wants to do the heavy lifting for companies eyeing more digital operations. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. The TechCrunch Top 3. Helping it along is $4 million in new capital from Base10 Partners, Tage reports.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Bank of Korea (BOK) rolled out details on its pilot program for its retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), stating that 100,000 selected Korean citizens will join the trial in the fourth quarter of next year. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

If you don’t have the data readily available, then you need to partner with a vendor and use a secure environment to share second-party data to deliver AI-driven actionable insights on the business impact on all parties involved, from startup to retailer to the consumer.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The company was founded in 2015 by Roy Avidor, Mor Lavi and Gilad Zirke, driven by their passion for eCommerce and a realization of the challenges faced by brands and retailers in digital commerce. The platform was built to connect brands with retailers and/or marketplaces.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

This tool provides a pathway for organizations to modernize their legacy technology stack through modern programming languages. Code Harbor provides a comprehensive solution for customers for code diagnosis, code conversion, testing and code optimization, said Sujit Singh, partner solutions architect at AWS.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Foxtrot is changing the way we think about convenience stores, and just picked up $100 million in new Series C funding to expand its brick-and-mortar footprint to 50 new retail locations in the next two years. Its origins are as a digital-first commerce platform, but went on to add a retail experience.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Bigthinx – AI technology focused on fashion retail, wellness and the metaverse with products for body scanning, digital avatars and virtual fashion. ByondXR – Provides retail 3D virtual experiences that are fast, scalable and in line with the latest metaverse technologies. The Metaverse.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

It expanded into investing in April with a private wealth management product, and plans a mortgage offering for later this year as part of its effort to be a “one-stop shop for all financial services for Canadians and retailers.” . 50B) due to the network effects it has created with its unique merchant loyalty program.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

MarketForce, a Kenyan B2B retail and financial services distribution startup, has expanded into five additional markets across Africa to grow RejaReja — its retailer ‘super app’ that makes it possible for informal merchants to order and pay for inventory digitally, accept payments for utility bills, and access financing for their businesses.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Commitments to carbon neutrality keep coming from all corners of the business world — over the past few weeks, companies ranging from the fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen to the security-focused networking IT company Palo Alto Networks to the online craft retailer Etsy committed to net-zero carbon emission plans.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Por eso, el grupo ha anunciado el lanzamiento de su Eroski Venture Program , una iniciativa que promueve el emprendimiento colaborativo y el desarrollo de nuevos modelos de negocio mediante la tecnología. El Eroski Venture Program es comple tamente gratuito para las startups que participen y tiene una duración de tres meses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With the whole experience being on the Wasla browser, you have a lot more access to customer behavior and customer interests and therefore be able to really tailor the programs to the user base and so that is really a big addition to the experience– from the start the journey to the payments to the financing,” he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

And if it’s a headache for us, the end consumers, imagine how it must feel to the brands, distributors and retailers of the grocery store supply chain that are leaving money on the table and dealing with angry customers. Its retail and distribution footprint covers 80% of the U.S. grocery retail market both online and offline.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

More recently, the situation has improved for the digital retailer, with Wish managing to grow more quickly in the first three months of 2020. government stimulus programs.” government will offer additional stimulus programs.” government will offer additional stimulus programs.” billion and $1.73

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

California-based Revery is part of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 cohort gearing up to complete the program later this month. million seed round to help it grow faster and appear more mature to large retailers. of fashion retail sales in 2020, and the market’s value is expected to reach $100 billion this year. Just in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Evy wants to bring an AppleCare experience to other brands and retailers. On the other side, it partners with retailers so that they embed Evy’s insurance products on their sites or try to sell an extended warranty in stores. Evy has created 25 tailor-made insurance programs in just a few months. The company raised a $6.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

So, Feinzaig says the “aha moment” led to Ready, Set, Raise changing its programming, which will run 8-weeks, to be more focused on a “realistic fundraising process” vetted by hundreds of women. Gearo : Founded by Justine Barone, Gearo digitizes outdoor retailer operations and brings in adventure-seekers as customers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Singapore’s government launches blockchain innovation program with $8.9 iSTOX completed the sandbox program in February 2020, and was approved by the MAS for the issuance, custody and trading of digitized securities. For retail investors, there are apps like Bibit , Syfe , Stashaway, Kristal.ai million in funding.

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CIO

APRIL 2, 2025

Whether healthcare, retail or financial services each industry presents its own challenges that require specific expertise and customized AI solutions. An AI consultants most important skills The most important skills of AI consultants are, accordingly, programming, data analysis and mathematics/statistics.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Founded in 2013, Bangladesh’s Chaldal was one of the first grocery delivery startups in the world to use the “dark” store model, picking up orders from its own warehouses instead of retail stores. But most retailers in the city are very small and Chaldal was unable to guarantee items would be available for its customers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Berkeley’s alternative meats program. “We This included a co-branded product with Nestlé’s plant-based food brand Garden Gourmet and test launch in more than 40 retail outlets across Switzerland. The pair met in U.C. Sundial Foods started its pilot line with restaurants. “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Unlike YC, 500 Global has geographic-specific accelerator programs, similar to Techstars, with focus on areas like Aichi, Japan, Cambodia, and Alberta, Canada. That said, today’s debut from 500 Global is from its first and flagship program, hailing back from 2010 and, fittingly, including companies from all around the globe.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The models of these B2B companies mirror their retail e-commerce counterparts such as Wasoko and TradeDepot, as they use tech-enabled solutions to digitize medicine distribution to underserved pharmacies, drug shops, clinics, and hospitals. So we wouldn’t expect them to be raising large sums just yet.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Retail investment apps in Southeast Asia attracted a lot of funding last year , and the trend looks set to continue with Vietnam-focused Infina announcing that it has added $4 million to its seed funding. Investors include Sequoia Capital India’s Surge program, Y Combinator, Saison Capital, Starling Ventures, Alpha JWC and AppWorks.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis has significantly increased the share of e-commerce in total retail in recent months, and these new purchasing habits are likely to stick, the OECD pointed out in a report last year. French CCaaS provider Onepilot learned this firsthand: During its beta program, its “support heroes” were available from 7 a.m.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

CEOs used to think, All IT has to do is just write a program. Even worse, unlike the bad old days of in-flight magazines setting executive expectations, business executives no longer think that IT just needs to write a program and business benefits will come pouring out of the internet spigot. Then CEO tech literacy happened.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

The shift to personalized customer experiences will fuel investments in AI, logistics, and payment solutions in the retail sector. Retail and E-commerce: AI will enable hyper-personalized shopping experiences, inventory management, and demand forecasting. Cybersecurity continues to be a significant concern globally.

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