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"We Got Funded!" Cairo-Headquartered FlapKap Raises US$3.6 Million In A Seed Round To Realize Its Mission Of Empowering Underfunded SMBs In The MEA Region
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As the e-commerce boom continues, FlapKap is seeking to ease the process of accessing capital for small and medium business owners without having to give up on equity or ownership.
Topics: underfunded, growth, funding, flapkap, round, startup, realize, offering, mission, us36, coucha, seed, smbs, raised, region, raises, clients, model, million. -
10club raises $40 million seed funding to build Thrasio of India
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10club, a six-month-old Indian startup that is building a Thrasio-like venture, said on Tuesday it has raised $40 million in what is one of the largest seed financing rounds in the South Asian market. The round was co-led by Fireside Ventures (a prominent Indian investor in consumer and hardware tech space) and an unnamed global […]
Topics: round, ventures, indian, thrasio, funding, startup, india, raised, techcrunch, seed, build, firms, million, ecommerce, 10club, brands, raises. -
A new eyewear brand is taking on Luxottica with a single wire, some seed funding and a sustainability story
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A U.K.-based startup has come up with a new design for high-end, direct-to-consumer sunglasses that are original, modular and virtually indestructible. But to get their eyewear in the hands of consumers, they’ll have to compete with some industry giants, including Luxottica Group of Italy, whose brands include Ray-Ban and Oakley, among others. Their company, Wires […]
Topics: brand, production, seed, sustainability, started, glasses, youre, pair, luxottica, eyewear, wire, wires, single, lot, taking, pop, lenses, funding. -
Better Health raises $3.5M seed round to reinvent medical supply shopping through e-commerce
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The home medical supply market in the U.S. is significant and growing, but the way that Americans go about getting much-needed medical supplies, particularly for those with chronic conditions, relies on outdated and clumsy sales mechanisms that often have very poor customer experiences. New startup Better Health aims to change that, with an e-commerce approach […]
Topics: reinvent, customers, raises, supplies, better, supply, seed, health, market, process, techcrunch, shopping, round, stauber, chronic, conditions, ecommerce, medical. -
Boundless Brands Raises $2.5 Million In Seed Funding
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Boundless has also built a full-stack e-commerce platform that enables e-commerce site and app and all the managed e-commerce services
Topics: fb, million, seed, raises, fullstack, services, sandeep, brands, industry, platform, funding, boundless, managed, ecommerce. -
Castiron serves up a $6M seed round to support ‘food artisans’
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The pandemic hasn’t been easy for anyone, but the food service industry has been hit particularly hard. More than 90,000 restaurants and bars have closed, leaving workers unemployed in an already precarious industry. And those who kept their jobs faced the stressful demands of customer-facing work in a pandemic. In response to the changed industry […]
Topics: tools, castiron, seed, artisans, josephson, whats, customers, round, food, building, users, techcrunch, businesses, 6m, support, industry, serves. -
E-Commerce Platform Direct2U Raises INR 1.8 Crore In Seed Funding
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The fund raised will be used for technology development, hiring, marketing and expansion plans
Topics: direct2u, ecommerce, commerce, platform, crore, delivery, ventures, started, seed, inr, raises, rural, entrepreneur, business, growth, flow, funding. -
Ecommeleon announces seed funding
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Ecommeleon, a German startup aimed at sellers on online marketplaces, has announced a successful seed funding round. The money will be used to support the spin-off of ecommerce service provider InterCultural Elements with its final development and initial market launch. In September, InterCultural Elements announced plans to spin-off an internally… Continue reading
Topics: funding, marketplaces, company, market, ecommerce, seed, sellers, ecommeleon, retailers, online, announces, data, tgfs, product. -
Extra Crunch roundup: Guest posts wanted, ‘mango’ seed rounds, Expensify’s tech stack
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Prospective contributors regularly ask us about which topics Extra Crunch subscribers would like to hear more about, and the answer is always the same.
Topics: rounds, techcrunch, mango, health, ipo, large, seed, posts, tech, guest, stack, companies, work, price, saas, wanted, roundup, public, company. -
Fave, with $2.2 million seed, looks to connect creators with their fandoms
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After seven years at Google, Jacquelle Amankonah Horton knew there was a white space in social between fans and creators. She built Fave to fill in that gap, and the company today announced the close of a $2.2 million seed round. Female Founders Fund, HYBE, Sony Music, Warner Music, Concord Music, Quality Control, Right Hand […]
Topics: fave, platform, artists, horton, million, fandoms, creators, techcrunch, super, fans, connect, seed, fandom, fan, music, looks. -
Fitz Frames, with $2.5M in seed funding, wants your kid to have custom glasses
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Fitz Frames is today launching out of beta to offer affordable, custom-made glasses for families, and in particular, for children. The company, which has raised $2.5 million in seed funding, was founded by Heidi Hertel and is led by CEO Gabriel Schlumberger. The company declined to disclose its investors, but shared that it was a […]
Topics: glassesfitz, funding, 25m, wants, glasses, frames, virtual, company, kid, custom, warby, techcrunch, pair, children, seed, fitz, kids. -
Floodlight raises 5.7 million euros
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Ecommerce platform Floodlight has raised 6.4 million dollars in a seed funding round. The company offers a smart business account where ecommerce business owners can manage and optimize their finances. “This seed round is an exciting validation of our platform and its potential to meet the needs of unserved SMEs”,…
Topics: million, smes, company, raises, seed, ecommerce, solution, offers, floodlight, round, customers, business, euros. -
Forest bags $8M seed round to acquire Japanese e-commerce brands
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Japan has been the birthplace of traditional arts and crafts since ancient times. Craftmanship, meticulous attention to detail and balance of design and functionality have contributed to creating unique Japanese products like pottery, traditional fabrics, washi (paper), woodwork, glasses, bento-boxes and more. This craftsmanship continues to be passed along from generation to generation and live […]
Topics: seed, round, market, yuhara, japanese, acquire, products, 8m, japan, bags, sales, million, ecommerce, techcrunch, forest, brands. -
Givz raises $3M in seed funding to make donations a marketing tool for businesses
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Givz, which has developed an API-powered platform that gives brands a way to convert discounts into donations, has raised $3 million in seed funding. Eniac and Accomplice co-led the financing for the New York-based startup. Additional investors include Supernode Ventures, Claude Wasserstein of Fine Day, Phoenix Club and Dylan Whitman. Givz was founded in 2017 […]
Topics: marketing, consumer, forman, raises, seed, platform, businesses, givz, donations, giving, shopify, funding, 3m, tool, company, million, techcrunch, ecommerce. -
Greece’s Pop Market, another dark store grocery delivery startup, gets $3.5M
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Make way for yet another “quick-commerce” player in Europe’s heavily heating on-demand grocery space: Pop Market is a Greek startup which launched last week in Athens — taking orders via and app and touting 15-minute delivery times and a curated selection of “thousands” of items (including fresh fruit and vegetables). The seed round, which Pop […]
Topics: online, greeces, startup, grocery, groceries, offer, delivery, market, store, pop, gets, seed, techcrunch, ondemand, dark, greece. -
Harlem Capital leads seed into Because, an e-commerce enablement startup
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Because provides a “Canva-like” editing experience for e-commerce managers to design and publish messages aimed at driving conversion rates.
Topics: team, ecommerce, capital, shopify, seed, investment, website, sales, techcrunch, software, startup, enablement, stansbury, harlem, leads, companies, product. -
Heroes raises €55 million to acquire and scale Amazon brands
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Heroes, a company from the United Kingdom, has raised 65 million dollars (55 million euros) in a round led by Fuel Ventures and 360 Capital Partners. The company acquires, operates and scales small and medium-sized ecommerce brands that sell on Amazon. Heroes is a new ecommerce business that’s focused on… Continue reading
Topics: raises, seen, heroes, amazon, brands, company, team, scale, acquire, million, vision, ventures, seed, largest. -
How to Find Seed Keywords and Explore Topic Clusters
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Creating a short list of seed keywords is fundamental to search engine optimization, content marketing, and pay-per-click advertising. But for some marketers, the task of identifying seed keywords isn't clear.
Topics: tool, keywords, topic, explore, content, list, example, clusters, vegan, keyword, seed, titles. -
Kenya-based Powered by People gets $5 million seed to scale operations of its wholesale e-commerce platform
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A wholesale e-commerce platform based in Kenya, with hubs in the Americas, Asia and Europe, Powered by People, has secured $5 million in seed funding to increase its transaction volume by growing the number of small brands using its B2B online marketplace to reach international buyers. The equity funding was led by Susa Ventures and […]
Topics: orders, startup, brands, scale, kenyabased, million, gets, traders, small, markets, techcrunch, platform, ventures, seed, powered, wholesale, operations. -
Kids on 45th just raised millions in seed funding to sell lightly used kids clothes — sight unseen
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A seemingly endless number of startups has attracted funding in recent years to make life easier for people with money to spend. They’re sold nice clothes, chic shoes, cool office space, on-demand car services, on-demand laundry services, on-demand cleaning services, anti-aging therapies. It goes on and on. Overlooked in the process is the overwhelming majority […]
Topics: clothing, world, sell, clothes, unseen, lightly, millions, used, seed, 45th, funding, items, kids, raised, company, business, startup, sight, worthy. -
Korean internet giant Naver backs e-commerce aggregator New Vessel in seed round
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According to eMarketer, Japan and Korea’s e-commerce markets were estimated at $144 billion and $121 billion, respectively, in 2021. Despite the large e-commerce market size, both countries have fewer e-commerce aggregators than other countries with smaller markets, South Korean e-commerce aggregator New Vessel said. The startup announced today it has raised an undisclosed seed round co-led by […]
Topics: japan, naver, korea, sellers, korean, giant, south, aggregator, techcrunch, ecommerce, round, brands, backs, seed, lee, vessel, internet. -
Kudos, with its cotton-based, eco-friendly diaper, soaks up $2.4 million in seed funding
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If you’ve experienced parenthood, you’re well versed in the surprisingly small world of disposable diapers. Help may be on the way. Kudos, a startup that is looking to reinvent the disposable diaper with sustainability in mind, announced the close of a $2.4 million seed round of financing today. Investors include Foundation Capital, XFund, PJC, Precursor […]
Topics: ventures, funding, product, diapers, ecofriendly, million, kudos, cottonbased, saigal, disposable, techcrunch, parents, sustainable, seed, diaper, performance, cotton, soaks. -
Live video shopping startup Talkshoplive brings in another $6M
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Five months after announcing a $3 million seed round from Spero Ventures, shopping-focused live video host Talkshoplive is back, this time with a $6 million seed extension led by Raine Ventures.
Topics: moore, startup, video, 6m, talkshoplive, round, million, brings, commerce, raine, seed, shopping, live, techcrunch, company, ventures. -
Meaningful Gigs raises $6M seed to link designers in Africa with remote jobs from US companies
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The gig economy has been on an upward trajectory, more so since 2020, when it experienced a huge spurt accelerated by the pandemic. And it is not showing signs of a slowdown the world over, with the sector’s growth now expected to reach $455 billion in 2023, double the value in 2018 and a 17% […]
Topics: companies, designers, talent, gigs, link, seed, gig, world, jobs, remote, number, raises, platform, techcrunch, need, meaningful. -
Medical supply marketplace startup bttn. sews up additional $5M seed
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Founders JT Garwood and Jack Miller started Bttn after seeing the challenges medical organizations had during the global pandemic to not only find supplies, but also get fair prices for them.
Topics: million, supplies, round, startup, seed, techcrunch, medical, additional, 5m, garwood, fuse, marketplace, healthcare, supply, bttn, customers, sews. -
NayaPay secures $13 million, largest seed funding in South Asia for its messaging and payment app
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Pakistan-based fintech platform NayaPay has raised $13 million in a seed round to roll out its multi-service messaging and payment app, and to build payment acceptance and financial management tools for businesses in the South Asian country. NayaPay CEO and founder Danish Lakhani told TechCrunch that the super-app allows people residing in Pakistan to send […]
Topics: pakistan, south, techcrunch, seed, million, funding, secures, bank, payment, messaging, payments, round, digital, largest, capital, nayapay. -
Pancake aims to make customers flip for its virtual home design platform
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Pancake is democratizing interior design services to make it accessible to everyone.
Topics: flip, designer, pancake, seed, platform, aims, virtual, techcrunch, space, work, round, company, design, furniture, customers. -
Park N Parcel raises US$648,000 seed funding
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Park N Parcel plans offshore expansion after raising US$648,000 in a seed funding round.
Topics: team, n, expansion, raises, funding, startup, us648000, parcel, plans, logistics, park, seed, thailand. -
Partners at B2B European VC henQ discuss remote work’s biggest advantages
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HenQ, an Amsterdam-based VC that invests in European B2B software startups typically at seed and Series A, recently disclosed the first close of its fourth fund at €70 million. The final close is expected to top out at between €75-€85 million later this year, and the firm has already begun backing companies out of the […]
Topics: remote, vc, works, henq, seed, startups, b2b, invest, software, customers, techcrunch, nordics, business, european, biggest, partners, focus, discuss. -
Passport, a customer service company focused on shipping, has raised $3 million in seed funding from some notable names
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Founders building a brand today are largely relying on new infrastructure to do it, though they’re still heavily reliant on legacy carriers like FedEx and DHL when it comes to international shipping. In fact, prohibitively high prices, along with not a lot of support or tools, are a few reasons why more American products aren’t […]
Topics: names, service, raised, passport, parcels, packages, brands, million, notable, focused, shipping, company, funding, international, experience, carriers, point, seed, customer. -
Psykhe secures seed funding to match consumer personalities to fashion products
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In an overcrowded market of online fashion brands, consumers are spoilt for choice on what site to visit. They are generally forced to visit each brand one by one, manually filtering down to what they like. Most of the experience is not that great, and past purchase history and cookies aren’t much to go on […]
Topics: match, trait, ecommerce, personality, seed, users, techcrunch, funding, startup, based, fashion, products, platform, secures, personalities, consumer, psykhe, retailers. -
Quinio jumps into world of e-commerce aggregators with $20M seed
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The aggregator model has proved to be very successful in Latin America as the e-commerce market explodes in the region.
Topics: 20m, quinio, million, capital, juan, techcrunch, ecommerce, successful, brands, company, world, seed, aggregators, gavito, jumps, latin. -
SEO How-to, Part 5: Analyzing Keyword Data
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Keyword research is a search engine optimization tactic to identify the words and phrases of consumers who are looking for the types of products and services that your company sells. In this post, I'll cover four steps: seeding keyword research, collecting the data, organizing it in my free keyword analysis template in Google Sheets, and analyzing it to understand intent and demand.
Topics: data, words, google, tool, keyword, search, howto, list, keywords, seed, analyzing, seo, demand. -
SEO: Use ‘Niche Down’ Keyword Research for Content Ideas
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Keyword research is one of the most effective search engine optimization practices. It can open the door to compelling content marketing ideas and link building.
The so-called “niche down” method of ...
Topics: search, research, seed, phrases, phrase, mens, seo, shoesmens, ideas, niche, keyword, ahrefs, volume, content, shoes. -
Shopistry bags $2M to provide ‘headless commerce without the headaches’
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Shopistry enables customers to create personalized commerce experiences accessible to all.
Topics: zabian, venture, techcrunch, manage, ecommerce, bags, haidar, brands, seed, headless, working, shopistry, 2m, headaches, commerce, provide. -
Sneaker fit startup Neatsy.ai gets $1M seed after B2B pivot
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Sneaker fit startup Neatsy.ai has snagged $1 million in seed funding after a B2B pivot. Investors in the round include Cabra VC, Flyer One VC and some unnamed business angels. The U.S. startup, which was founded back in March 2019 by Artem Semyanov (the former head of the machine learning team at Prism Labs), is now […]
Topics: product, semyanov, feet, seed, number, sneaker, tech, pivot, neatsy, 1m, shoes, neatsyai, startup, techcrunch, gets, b2b, fit, help. -
Stix expands from at-home pregnancy and ovulation tests to UTI products with $3.5M seed
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Companies like Ro and Hims have capitalized on the need for more seamless and discreet access to health and wellness products that are part of everyday life. For men. Stix is looking to do the same for women, and has today announced the raise of a $3.5 million seed round. The financing was co-led by […]
Topics: tests, stix, seed, test, woman, techcrunch, uti, products, pregnancy, athome, women, ovulation, startup, expands, supplements. -
Sunday raises $24 million seed round to build a fast restaurant checkout flow
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Meet Sunday, a new startup that is going to attract some headlines as it has raised a $24 million seed round at a $140 million post-money valuation. That’s a lot of money for a company that started just a few months ago but that’s because Sunday wants to move quickly. Sunday is getting noticed because […]
Topics: round, going, big, million, seed, qr, mamma, checkout, theyre, raises, fast, codes, restaurants, pay, company, restaurant, france, build, flow, techcrunch. -
TechCrunch+ roundup: Psychedelic investor survey, 6 issues VCs look for, hiring on a budget
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If you can envision a solution that solves a customer's problem, it helps to have technical skills if you want to bring it to market. But that's not a requirement.
Topics: budget, youre, rounds, issues, hiring, investors, look, techcrunch, series, seed, evans, founders, survey, roundup, talent, corporate, psychedelic, investor, partner, vcs. -
Thatch using $3M round to put travel creators on the map
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The mobile app provides tools for travel creators to build their own travel-based businesses in order to curate, share and soon sell interactive travel guides and planning services.
Topics: company, using, thatch, creators, seed, round, travel, techcrunch, thatchs, build, app, west, industry, 3m, map. -
Topsort, an auction-based advertising startup, now valued at $110M after seed round
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When Regina Ye was in college, she was a Shopify seller and recalls being so fed up with advertising solutions that she spent finals week staying up late to figure out how ads worked on Facebook and Amazon. “It was super complicated,” she told TechCrunch. “I was an early adopter of B2B marketplaces, but advertising […]
Topics: startup, auctionbased, ads, customers, round, valued, company, user, ye, topsort, technology, early, seed, advertising, marketplaces, techcrunch, 110m. -
Treet, with $2.8 million in seed funding, gets brands involved in the resale market
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Treet, a company rethinking the resale retail market, announced the close of a $2.8 million seed round today. The financing comes from Bling Capital, Matchstick Ventures, Techstars, BAM Ventures, BBG Ventures, Green Meadow, Interlace Ventures, V1.VC and Alante Capital. Despite the fact that selling old clothes is the most sustainable and most financially beneficial way […]
Topics: market, techcrunch, seed, funding, brand, resale, million, involved, items, gets, brands, list, treet, sellers, ventures, real. -
UK’s Bloom & Wild raises $102M to seed its flower delivery service across Europe
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Bloom & Wild, a London-based startup that takes an updated and online approach to the very traditional business of ordering and delivering flowers, has seen business blossom in the last year. And today, it is announcing a big round of funding to help it double down on the opportunity ahead. The company has raised £75 […]
Topics: million, ventures, seed, delivery, flowers, techcrunch, weve, team, uks, wild, seen, flower, service, bloom, raises, europe, company. -
Valoreo raises $30M more to acquire e-commerce brands across LatAm
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Just over five months after securing $50 million in debt & equity, Valoreo has closed on a $30 million Series A funding round. Mexico City-based Valoreo aims to invest in, operate and scale e-commerce brands as part of its self-described mission “to bring better products at more affordable prices” to the Latin American consumer. Valoreo […]
Topics: company, brands, techcrunch, ecommerce, acquire, capital, american, million, latam, raises, valoreo, startup, 30m, seed, raised, latin. -
White.Inc Raises Over $1 Million Seed Fund
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The company's goal is to reach a revenue of over INR 1000 crore in the next 4 years by creating 5 to 6 differentiated D2C brands
Topics: fund, million, d2c, ventures, reach, whiteinc, digitally, seed, entrepreneur, space, native, company, brands, raises. -
Womens workwear disruptor Ombre Lane wins seed funding
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Indian women’s workwear brand Ombre Lane has received seed funding from a group of angel investors.
Topics: plans, lane, india, seed, ombre, indian, women, brand, workwear, wins, womens, disruptor, funding, body. -
Yummy bags $18M as its expands delivery app across Latin America
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Yummy plans to have 50 active dark stores in both Peru and Chile by the end of 2022, touting that it will be able to deliver over 2,000 products in less than 15 minutes.
Topics: seed, users, latin, expands, yummy, techcrunch, delivery, america, zavarce, months, million, 18m, ridesharing, bags, round, app, venezuela. -
Zapt is now Trela; aims to remove the middleman from group food shopping
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The inspiration for Brazil-based Trela came from a person buying food for their neighbors directly from suppliers rather than the grocery store.
Topics: trela, techcrunch, neighbors, shopping, middleman, suppliers, product, zapt, group, company, grocery, remove, aims, food, nazareth, seed.