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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 - 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.
• 100ms secures $20M to power next generation of live video apps - Live video conferencing infrastructure startup 100ms, based in India and the U.S., has raised $20 million in Series A funding to power the next generation of live video apps, coming barely five months after closing a seed round. This latest round was led by Falcon Edge’s Alpha Wave Incubation, with participation from Matrix Partners India […]
  Topics: startup, infrastructure, online, platforms, techcrunch, live, 20m, apps, secures, 100ms, power, video, generation, months, product, build.
• 13 New Ecommerce Books for Spring 2022 - Once a quarter we publish a rundown of new business books that could help ecommerce merchants. This installment includes titles on analytics, podcasting, events, direct-to-consumer, more.
  Topics: spring, ecommerce, hardcover, marketing, learn, success, startup, guide, kindle, business, retail, books.
• 1K Kirana raises $25 million for its hyperlocal shopping and distribution platform - 1K Kirana, an Indian startup that operates an eponymous hyperlocal shopping app and retail distribution network, has raised $25 million in a new financing round as it attempts to help brands and neighborhood stores reach more consumers. The three-year-old startup’s Series B financing was led by Alpha Wave Global, Info Edge Ventures and Kae Capital. […]
  Topics: distribution, raises, million, hyperlocal, consumers, startup, shopping, techcrunch, items, partner, supply, 1k, retail, platform, kirana, stores, shop.
• After acquiring Dija and Fancy, instant grocery startup Gopuff launches in the UK en route to European expansion - Instant grocery and essentials delivery is already a very crowded field in Europe; but today competition was turned up another notch: Gopuff — the U.S. leader in the space with a service that delivers food and essentials for a flat fee of $1.95, 24 hours a day — launched officially in the U.K. It plans […]
  Topics: fancy, delivery, valued, market, instant, billion, startup, gopuff, today, techcrunch, grocery, expansion, uk, launches, dija, route, europe.
• Amazon acquires India’s GlowRoad in social commerce push - Amazon may be attempting to take on Shopify in the west, but in India, it is gearing up to explore social commerce. Amazon has acquired the Indian social commerce startup GlowRoad in an all-cash deal as the e-commerce giant makes a bigger push into one of its key overseas markets, a source directly familiar with […]
  Topics: commerce, giant, help, techcrunch, startup, amazon, social, push, glowroad, indias, acquires, india, source, million.
• Ankorstore reaches $2 billion valuation two years after launching its wholesale marketplace - French startup Ankorstore has raised a $283 million Series C funding round (€250 million). Founded in November 2019, it took Ankorstore around two years to reach a post-money valuation of $2 billion (€1.75 billion). The company operates a wholesale marketplace for independent retailers across Europe. Ankorstore lets independent brands sell their products to independent retailers. […]
  Topics: retailers, products, working, startup, billion, marketplace, wholesale, ankorstore, brands, items, launching, company, reaches, techcrunch, valuation.
• B2B platform VonWood raises 2.7 million euros - Dutch startup VonWood, a trade platform for wood, has raised 2.7 million euros. The company aims to connect wood buyers and lumbers more directly online, while offering more product transparency. With the funds, VonWood wants to accelerate growth. VonWood was founded in May 2022. The B2B marketplace currently offers over…
  Topics: euros, product, timber, wants, transparency, startup, website, million, buyers, platform, raises, wood, b2b, vonwood.
• Bazaar raises $70 million from Tiger Global and Dragoneer to digitize Pakistan’s retail - Dragoneer Investment Group and Tiger Global are backing Bazaar, a startup that is attempting to digitize Pakistan’s retail with e-commerce, fintech and last-mile supply chain solutions, they said today, joining a growing list of high-profile investors making large bets in the South Asian market. The two investors are leading Bazaar’s $70 million Series B funding. […]
  Topics: product, retail, khata, merchants, raises, pakistans, global, bazaar, techcrunch, credit, easy, digitize, startups, cities, dragoneer, tiger, startup, pakistan, million.
• Colombian e-commerce enablement startup Melonn raises $20M to help SMBs scale in LatAm - Melonn, a Colombian startup that provides fulfillment and software services to small and medium-sized e-commerce companies in Latin America, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors. The round comes less than a year after Melonn raised a pre-seed round from NFX. Interestingly, according to NFX General Partner Pete Flint, […]
  Topics: techcrunch, latam, partner, help, market, platform, scale, startup, small, melonn, smbs, enablement, tech, fulfillment, ecommerce, million, raises.
• Cross-selling startup Carro secures $20M to connect brands with each other, influencers - Carro enables brand partnerships to sell each other’s products without having to purchase inventory or manage logistics and returns.
  Topics: influencers, startup, marketing, having, company, secures, brands, carro, million, sell, products, influencer, connect, perry, crossselling, techcrunch, 20m.
• Daily Crunch: Asian and Hispanic e-grocer Weee! bags $425 million Series E - Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
  Topics: asian, crunch, hispanic, russian, million, going, technology, market, startup, company, techcrunch, companies, weee, bags, egrocer, daily, ukraine, series.
• Daily Crunch: Google dumps FloC plan, proposes new Topics API for ad targeting - Today our cup overflows with news. There’s simply too much going on to cover in a single newsletter, so I’ve tried to fit in as much as possible.
  Topics: writes, round, crunch, startup, million, targeting, google, dumps, plan, today, data, topics, proposes, raised, know, daily, floc, company, techcrunch.
• Daily Crunch: HBO Max is pulling 36 shows this week — Here’s the list - Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
  Topics: bryant, pulling, heres, crunch, shows, week, google, company, techcrunch, interest, max, startup, inflation, daily, fired, founder, hbo, customers, list.
• Deliverr’s nearly flat exit price isn’t as bad as it looks - If Deliverr’s final private round did not include onerous downside-protection provisions, its sale could wind up winsome for all.
  Topics: investors, techcrunch, bad, exit, value, startup, nearly, deal, set, recent, flat, looks, wouldnt, price, isnt, money, deliverrs.
• Digital restaurant startup Zak orders up new capital on mission to be ‘Toast of LatAm’ - As food operators themselves, ZAK founders saw first-hand last year the toll it was taking on restaurants that needed to quickly reinvent themselves during the pandemic.
  Topics: restaurant, mission, brazil, market, digital, restaurants, grandes, latam, capital, company, management, million, toast, startup, zak, techcrunch, orders, food.
• E-commerce logistics startup Hive buzzes following $34M investment - Hive levels the logistics playing field by streamlining fulfillment so that DTC companies get the same inventory management, cost structure and customer notifications that big brands use.
  Topics: team, investment, started, services, fulfillment, hive, round, company, following, ecommerce, buzzes, logistics, 34m, delivery, startup, brands, times, techcrunch.
• Ecommerce solution Kuai raises €2.2 million - London-based startup Kuai Commerce has raised 2.4 million dollars (2.22 million euros) in a funding round. The capital injection will be used to launch an ecommerce solution that helps European merchants to sell their wares in the East. Cross-border ecommerce is a way for merchants to reach an even bigger…
  Topics: sell, chinese, million, social, ecommerce, raises, commerce, brands, kuai, startup, solution.
• Egyptian on-demand grocery delivery startup Appetito bags $2M pre-Series A - Egyptian grocery delivery startup Appetito has raised $2 million in pre-Series A funding, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. The round, which comes after the company’s $450,000 seed round in April, was led by U.S. and MENA-focused venture capital firm Jedar Capital. Pan-African VC Golden Palm Investments, DFS Lab, some angel investors and family offices […]
  Topics: preseries, egyptian, 2m, grocery, startup, ondemand, money, bags, products, delivery, appetito, techcrunch, fmcg, trying, company, mokhtar, egypt.
• Egyptian social commerce startup Brimore raises $25M led by IFC and Endure Capital - The Egyptian social e-commerce market will be worth over $14.8 billion by 2024. The opportunity in the market can be attributed to the growth in online social sellers in the country, over 1.25 million them, helping little-known brands sell and distribute their goods via different networks. Brimore–a market leader in the country and, to an […]
  Topics: commerce, raises, sellers, techcrunch, products, led, endure, brimore, market, platform, suppliers, capital, ifc, infrastructure, egyptian, different, startup, social.
• Egypt’s Mylerz raises $9.6M for its e-commerce fulfillment service, eyes Africa-wide growth - Mylerz, a Cairo-based e-commerce fulfillment startup, plans to enter three new markets in North Africa and expand across Egypt over the next three months against the backdrop of the $9.6 million funding it has just secured. The startup also has its eyes on the growing e-commerce market in East Africa, with the long-term goal of […]
  Topics: techcrunch, egypts, ecommerce, service, africawide, egypt, africa, eyes, delivery, partners, cash, startup, partner, mylerz, growth, raises, fulfillment, logistics.
• Enterprise escalator Impact Rooms rises to prepare African startups for growth and investment - A few years ago, at the start of the fintech services boom in Africa, Oliver Blantern got an opportunity to work in the continent offering advisory services to high-growth startups. For slightly over three years his company, Riverhouse Technology, helped the emerging tech firms in talent sourcing and acquisition. The trained lawyer did all this […]
  Topics: prepare, startup, enterprise, startups, capital, growth, techcrunch, investors, companies, rises, africa, support, escalator, impact, work, investment, rooms.
• European point of sale provider SumUp acquires customer loyalty startup Fivestars for $317M - SumUp, a European-based competitor to Square, PayPal/iZettle and others that provide mobile-powered card readers and other sales technology to merchants and small businesses, has made an acquisition in the U.S. to dig deeper into that market and to expand the kinds of services that it provides to customers globally. The company has acquired Fivestars, which […]
  Topics: small, startup, customer, technology, company, provider, fivestars, techcrunch, businesses, merchants, used, sumups, million, european, loyalty, sumup, sale, point.
• Ex-Chime engineers raise $4M for B2B payments infrastructure startup Streamlined - While working as the head of treasury at Braintree, Boris de Souza once discovered a $90 million payment that went “missing” for over two weeks because of poor payments infrastructure. “It was my first week on the job, and I received an email from a client saying ‘I think you shorted us $90 million,’” he […]
  Topics: techcrunch, engineers, million, ecommerce, businesses, infrastructure, startup, raise, 4m, payment, souza, b2b, business, exchime, streamlined, payments, ach.
• Ex-Snap employees raise $4.3M for conversational commerce startup Whym - Whym, a conversational commerce startup founded by former Snap employees, wants to make it easier for consumers to shop online via their mobile devices. Instead of filling out long checkout forms and entering in payment card details by hand, Whym’s solution offers a single-tap checkout experience where customers can pay via Apple Pay or Google […]
  Topics: text, conversational, pay, whym, messaging, nyland, customers, brands, exsnap, product, commerce, employees, techcrunch, consumers, startup, raise, 43m.
• Flipkart To Invest $20 Million For In-House Credit Marketplace Startup - The project is led by senior VP Prakash Sikaria, who also leads Flipkart's social commerce platform Shopsy
  Topics: flipkart, working, invest, reportedly, million, inhouse, report, products, entrepreneur, sikaria, marketplace, credit, startup, sources.
• Flyp wants to give power resellers enterprise-grade e-commerce tooling - There is no shortage of platforms out there to sell your old stuff. From thredUp and The RealReal to Facebook Marketplace to eBay, the tech world has long sought to capitalize on the generally wasteful attitude of consumerism over the last half century. But lurking among these platforms is a group not often thought about, […]
  Topics: used, wants, inventory, enterprisegrade, resellers, ecommerce, group, ventures, platform, power, tooling, million, startup, techcrunch, flyp, platforms.
• Fresh from new round, Egypt’s proptech Nawy plans full-suite offering - Egyptian proptech startup Nawy, which began life in 2016 as an AI-driven property, listing has grown to offer brokerage services, supporting the closing of property deals. It is now looking for its next path of growth after connecting 40,000 buyers to sellers last year alone, winning the confidence of the Sawiris family — Egypt’s wealthiest […]
  Topics: market, fresh, preowned, mortgage, egypts, property, estate, sector, techcrunch, fullsuite, million, proptech, plans, real, startup, resale, round, nawy, offering.
• Glopal raises €20 million in funding round - Ecommerce international expansion software provider Glopal has raised 20 million euros in a Series A funding round. The startup will expand its operations in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States with a recruitment drive. Additionally, it will use the funding to invest in its technology. Sales increased 3…
  Topics: million, solution, expansion, accelerate, startup, growth, round, crossborder, international, raises, funding, glopal.
• Gopuff, the instant grocery startup, is raising $1.5B in a convertible note at up to a $40B valuation, ahead of going public as soon as mid-2022 - Instant grocery — where urban-dwelling consumers buy food and other essentials and can get them delivered in 15 minutes or less — continues to be a big business, and one of the juggernauts in the space is now raising a big round of funding to meet that opportunity: Gopuff is in the process of raising […]
  Topics: mid2022, soon, convertible, funding, startup, valuation, raising, techcrunch, instant, gopuff, grocery, big, note, round, public.
• Gorillas to acquire Frichti in latest instant grocery consolidation - German startup Gorillas has announced that it plans to acquire Frichti, a French startup that delivers both ready-to-eat meals and groceries. The acquisition hasn’t closed just yet but both companies have entered exclusive discussions. “We don’t share details about the deal itself, especially as it isn’t completely signed,” Frichti co-founder and co-CEO Julia Bijaoui told […]
  Topics: techcrunch, frichti, acquire, subcontracting, instant, consolidation, latest, grocery, frichtis, companies, deliveries, startup, sure, gorillas, delivery.
• Greece’s Pop Market, another dark store grocery delivery startup, gets $3.5M - 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 - 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.
• Hyperlocal Content Commerce Startup Knocksense Raises $1 Million In Pre-Series A Funding - As per the company, the participation in the funding round from Lucky Ali will further empower Knocksense to expedite its expansion plans, reaching more cities and fostering connections with diverse communities across India
  Topics: million, mayank, round, raises, hyperlocal, startup, ali, content, knocksense, commerce, funding, participation, cities, preseries, lucky.
• Indian D2C beauty brand MyGlamm becomes unicorn with $150 million funding - The Good Glamm Group, the parent firm of direct-to-consumer beauty brand MyGlamm, is the latest Indian startup to join the unicorn club. The Mumbai-headquartered startup has raised $150 million in its Series D financing round from Prosus Ventures and Warburg Pincus. The new round, which also saw participation from Alteria Capital and existing investors L’Occitane, […]
  Topics: content, indian, group, million, brand, funding, d2c, startup, firm, techcrunch, unicorn, beauty, brands, india, good, myglamm.
• Indian e-commerce Udaan raises $250 million - Indian commerce startup Udaan, which helps merchants secure inventory and working capital, has raised $250 million as it accelerates its scaling efforts and prepares to explore the public markets. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup has raised $200 million via a convertible note and an additional $50 million as debt, its chief financial officer Aditya Pande told employees […]
  Topics: startup, note, udaan, merchants, techcrunch, raises, money, million, investors, inventory, working, raised, ecommerce, indian.
• Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart to acquire an online pharmacy marketplace to foray into healthcare space - Walmart-backed Flipkart is acquiring online pharmacy startup SastaSundar to enter the healthcare segment in India as the e-commerce battle intensifies in the world’s second-largest internet market. Flipkart said it has signed definitive agreements to acquire a majority stake in SastaSundar, but did not disclose the size of the deal. Eight-year-old SastaSundar was last valued at […]
  Topics: pharmacy, space, online, marketplace, indian, flipkart, india, sastasundar, valued, giant, techcrunch, foray, digital, million, healthcare, startup.
• Indian e-commerce startup Snapdeal files for IPO - Snapdeal filed for an initial public offering on Tuesday, joining a number of firms in India that have tapped the public market this year. The New Delhi-based startup, which counts SoftBank among its backers, said in its draft prospectus that it will issue fresh shares worth $165 million. Some of its existing investors, including SoftBank, […]
  Topics: ipo, million, ecommerce, including, share, filed, indian, files, users, softbank, shares, snapdeal, startup, india.
• Indian logistics firm Xpressbees becomes unicorn with $300 million fresh funding - Xpressbees, an Indian logistics startup that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, has more than tripled its valuation to $1.2 billion in a new financing round. The Pune-headquartered startup said on Wednesday it has raised $300 million — $100 million in primary and $200 million in secondary (to give partial exit to Alibaba […]
  Topics: xpressbees, funding, firms, blackstone, unicorn, logistics, indian, firm, growth, fresh, online, valuation, techcrunch, ecommerce, million, startup.
• Indian social commerce DealShare bags $45 million from ADIA, eyes international expansion - Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is backing the Indian social commerce startup DealShare, the two said Thursday, joining a roster of marquee investors doubling down on India’s fast-growing e-commerce market. A wholly owned subsidiary of Emirates’ sovereign wealth fund is investing $45 million in DealShare, extending the size of the Jaipur-headquartered startup’s recently unveiled Series E […]
  Topics: techcrunch, platform, ecommerce, commerce, eyes, customers, million, international, bags, cofounder, dealshare, indian, social, startup, expansion, billion.
• India’s Captain Fresh more than doubles valuation to $500 million in three months - Captain Fresh, a farm-to-retail platform for animal protein, has more than doubled its valuation to $500 million in three months as the Indian startup deepens its footprints in the local market and begins to expand overseas. Existing backers Prosus Ventures and Tiger Global have co-led the startup’s $50 million Series C funding, Captain Fresh founder […]
  Topics: seafood, indias, farmers, fish, markets, doubles, techcrunch, months, million, supply, day, captain, fresh, startup, valuation.
• India’s Licious raises $150 million for its fresh animal protein e-commerce platform - Licious, a Bengaluru-based startup that sells fresh meat, seafood and other fresh animal protein online and which became the nation’s first direct-to-consumer brand to become a unicorn last year, said on Tuesday it has raised an additional $150 million from a set of late-stage investors in a move that appears to be a precursor to […]
  Topics: ecommerce, protein, meat, fresh, raises, platform, investors, startups, techcrunch, seafood, indias, vivek, animal, valuation, licious, startup, million.
• India’s Mensa, a house of DTC brands, becomes unicorn in just six months - Mensa Brands, an Indian startup that acquires direct-to-consumer brands and helps them scale within the home market and overseas, has become a unicorn just six months after launching its business. Falcon Edge Capital led Mensa Brands’ $135 million Series B financing round that values the Indian startup at over $1 billion, the two said Tuesday. […]
  Topics: brands, brand, ecommerce, mensa, unicorn, startup, narayanan, indian, global, months, techcrunch, partner, indias, dtc, house, india.
• India’s Moglix valued at $2.6 billion in $250 million funding - Moglix has more than doubled its valuation to about $2.6 billion from $1 billion just eight months ago as the Indian industrial business-to-business marketplace aggressively scales its offerings in many parts of the world. Alpha Wave Global (formerly called Falcon Edge Capital), which led the seven-year-old startup’s previous funding, has returned alongside Tiger Global to […]
  Topics: financing, startup, supply, techcrunch, platform, chain, round, indias, valued, funding, moglix, india, global, billion, manufacturing, million.
• India’s OfBusiness in talks to raise new funds at over $4.5 billion valuation - OfBusiness, an e-commerce startup that sells industrial goods and provides small businesses with credit, is in talks to raise a new round of funding at a valuation of over $4.5 billion, three sources familiar with those talks told me. If the talks materialize, it would be the fourth financing round OfBusiness will secure this year. […]
  Topics: raise, sources, funds, indias, techcrunch, round, startup, small, talks, billion, finance, valuation, ofbusiness, realization.
• India’s OfBusiness valued at $5 billion in $325 million funding - OfBusiness, a New Delhi-headquartered startup that sells industrial goods and provides small businesses with credit, has secured its fourth financing round this year and is now valued at about $5 billion. Alpha Wave Global, Tiger Global and SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the startup’s $325 million Series G financing round. Alpha Wave Global, formerly known […]
  Topics: funding, indias, valued, million, billion, global, mohapatra, techcrunch, b2b, financing, wave, startup, round, commerce, ofbusiness.
• India’s Simpl raises $40 million for its buy now, pay later service - Bangalore-based fintech startup Simpl has raised $40 million as it looks to expand its online buy now, pay later service’s offerings in the world’s second-largest market. Valar Ventures and IA Ventures led the six-year-old startup’s Series B round. LFH Ventures and some existing investors also participated in the round, said the startup, which has raised […]
  Topics: service, pay, customers, indias, ecommerce, startup, services, raises, million, checkout, later, ventures, buy, experience, techcrunch, merchants, simpl.
• India’s Spinny valued at over $1.75 billion in $280 million funding - Spinny, a Gurgaon-based startup that operates a platform to facilitate the purchase and sale of used cars, is the latest firm to become a unicorn in the world’s second-largest internet market. Spinny has raised more than $280 million in its Series E financing round, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The round, which […]
  Topics: earlier, billion, indias, market, round, global, valued, used, funding, growth, india, million, spinny, techcrunch, startup.
• Instacart acquires Caper AI, a smart cart and instant checkout startup, for $350M, as it moves deeper into physical retail tech - Instacart made its name by providing a way for consumers to bypass shopping in stores in person, by ordering items online and getting them delivered to their homes — a business that positively boomed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But with physical stores still looming large in the world of groceries, Instacart also […]
  Topics: instacart, caper, deeper, stores, physical, techcrunch, technology, smart, retail, tech, startup, items, moves, retailers, instant, company, business.
• Instant grocery delivery startup JOKR bags another huge round to enter unicorn status - The company touts itself as “one of the fastest companies to reach unicorn status in history.”
  Topics: company, getting, techcrunch, enter, unicorn, instant, wenzel, status, huge, startup, jokr, york, grocery, growth, round, capital.
• Ivorian e-commerce startup ANKA, formerly Afrikrea, raises $6.2M pre-Series A - A study by McKinsey & Company on general e-commerce activities in Africa says consumer spending will reach over $2 trillion in the next three years. Much of this spending falls under the importation of products, primarily influenced by consumer demand and the positioning of major e-commerce platforms in Africa. Afrikrea, an Ivorian startup founded in […]
  Topics: anka, startup, afrikrea, 62m, sellers, marketplace, africa, platforms, company, ivorian, raises, round, techcrunch, channels, preseries, ecommerce.
• Kenya-based Powered by People gets $5 million seed to scale operations of its wholesale e-commerce platform - 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.
• Kenyan BNPL startup Lipa Later eyes more African markets after raising $12 million - Lipa Later, a Kenyan tech-led consumer credit platform, is planning to expand to new markets in Africa after raising $12 million in pre-Series A funding. The equity and debt funding round was led by Cauris Finance, Lateral Frontiers VC (one of Lipa Later’s first investors) and GreenHouse Capital, with participation from SOSV IV LLC, Sayani […]
  Topics: funding, eyes, africa, million, expand, markets, later, techcrunch, ecommerce, bnpl, raising, credit, pay, lipa, startup, kenyan.
• Kenyan low-cost ISP Poa Internet secures $28 million in round led by AfDB-backed Africa50, plans to link region with cheap, limit-free connectivity - In 2020, Africa50, an infrastructure financier backed by the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) Group and a good number of African governments, hosted an innovation challenge that sought affordable and reliable solutions for last-mile internet connectivity across the continent. A proposal by Poa Internet, a Kenyan startup, beat 673 others from across the world as a […]
  Topics: kenya, continent, lowcost, mobile, africa50, startup, connectivity, round, data, region, secures, poa, plans, bank, limitfree, internet, video, link, million, techcrunch.
• Kenyan startup Wowzi secures $3.2 million from 4DX Ventures, Andela co-founder to expand across Africa - Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration. Wowzi, which connects social […]
  Topics: influencers, cofounder, secures, campaigns, users, africa, techcrunch, expand, brands, social, million, kenyan, media, marketing, wowzi, startup, ventures, andela.
• Mark Cuban and former Oculus CEO back 3D e-commerce startup VNTANA - As Facebook and Apple charge headlong into a more 3D future for the consumer web with big plans for mixed reality headsets, most web content out there is still firmly 2D. And while some are pushing for a completely separate “metaverse” where 3D content lives, that’s likely going to be a hard sell for existing […]
  Topics: startup, ceo, view, techcrunch, reality, web, augmented, ecommerce, 3d, products, startups, software, content, oculus, cuban, vntana, mark.
• Marketing for Startups: A Three-Step Guide to Creating Your Strategy - Marketing for your new startup is exciting. You’ve put time and effort into creating your product or service, and now you need to make sure your market is as hyped about it as you are.
  Topics: creating, social, guide, content, threestep, youre, startup, startups, build, strategy, helping, start, product, media, marketing.
• Monashees backs grain trading startup Tarken - Tarken connects grain buyers and sellers around more transparent pricing for commodities, starting with corn.
  Topics: techcrunch, trading, startup, help, negotiations, marketplace, backs, tarken, monashees, tool, market, sell, grain, tângari, price.
• Montonio is building the payment and checkout solution to rule them all - Meet Montonio, an e-commerce checkout solution created by a small startup based in Tallinn, Estonia. The company just raised a $12 million Series A funding round (€11 million) led by Index Ventures. It wants to become the only tech partner you need to run a small and medium e-commerce shop. Montonio is a multi-faceted product […]
  Topics: product, building, handles, ventures, techcrunch, solution, payment, montonio, startup, pay, process, rule, company, payments, checkout.
• Next-day package delivery startup Veho valued at $1B following $125M Series A - Veho's technology matches package delivery demand with qualified driver partners and lets customers know the actual time of delivery and even communicates when the driver is headed their way.
  Topics: delivery, techcrunch, technology, ecommerce, customers, nextday, valued, veho, 1b, package, series, zur, grow, following, startup, company, experience.
• Not every creator economy startup is built for creators - The inherent tension within the creator economy lies between the promise of financial freedom and the realization this freedom comes at a cost.
  Topics: startups, creator, techcrunch, startup, tools, platform, economy, mcloughlin, built, need, creators, platforms, youtube.
• Papier inks $50M Series C to in a run to lead the online stationery market - Papier, a startup leveraging technology to bring very non-tech products into the world, has raised some funding to continue expanding its business on the heels of strong demand for its personalized notebooks, planners, cards and other paper-based stationery that it sells online. The London startup has raised $50 million, a Series C that it will […]
  Topics: brand, atighetchi, papier, online, technology, digital, today, way, series, stationery, run, products, startup, consumers, techcrunch, inks, market, c, lead.
• Placer.ai, a location analytics startup, finds $100M at a $1B valuation - Many of us are moving around these days a lot less than we used to — because of COVID, we’re working from home instead of an office; and we are traveling and going out less. Now, as we shift back into more “normal” behavior, a startup that’s helping to better understand where and how we […]
  Topics: finds, startup, physical, company, 1b, valuation, placerai, data, using, ventures, real, 100m, platform, placer, analytics, location, techcrunch, customers, round.
• Qureos raises $3M to grow its learn to earn platform - Qureos, a UAE-based edtech and remote work marketplace that is changing how people upskill and get jobs across the globe, plans to grow the uptake of its platform by 10 times this year in its race to create 100 million jobs over the next few years. The startup has today announced closing a $3 million […]
  Topics: earn, grow, 3m, mentors, capital, qureos, investors, trainees, work, learn, startup, raises, techcrunch, platform, companies, learning.
• Rabbit, a 20-minute convenience delivery startup in Egypt, comes out of stealth with $11M pre-seed - The rapid on-demand grocery and convenience delivery craze that has taken over Europe and the U.S. this past year is gradually making its way into Africa and the Middle East. Today, the spotlight is on RabbitMart, or Rabbit for short, a startup coming out of stealth with $11 million in pre-seed funding. Rabbit is the […]
  Topics: comes, yousry, items, 20minute, riders, rabbit, minutes, company, ondemand, preseed, stealth, convenience, going, delivery, startup, techcrunch, egypt.
• Record number of unicorns and IPOs: Indian startups raised $39B in 2021 - In late March last year, as the virus started to spread across India, investors began to worry about the impact a potential pandemic could have on their portfolio firms. They exchanged notes, and on April 1, penned a joint open letter to the local startup ecosystem, advising firms to “prepare for the worst.” In the […]
  Topics: capital, indian, india, unicorns, market, 39b, raised, ipos, investors, familiar, startups, record, number, startup, global, techcrunch.
• Returns software Rever raises €7.5 million - Spanish returns management software provider Rever has raised 7.5 million euros in a seed funding round. The capital injection will be used to fund the startup’s growth and international expansion. The company will be adding AI-powered functionalities to its offer later this year. Rever is a startup based in Barcelona.…
  Topics: million, company, raises, software, startup, wants, rever, platform, strengthen, ecommerce, capital, scale, returns.
• Sendcloud acquires AI startup Tracey - Today, Sendcloud announced the acquisition of data platform Tracey. The acquisition allows Sendcloud to offer new data tools, such as AI-driven delivery predictions and near-real-time package monitoring. In this way, the shipping platform aims to offer the best customer experience. According to Sendcloud’s own research, 9 percent of consumers do…
  Topics: data, package, customer, consumers, provide, tracey, startup, ai, delivery, acquires, sendcloud, shipping, retailers.
• Sequoia Capital India looks to double down on commerce startup Bikayi - Bikayi is in talks to raise about $50 million in a new financing round, four people familiar with the matter told me, as the Indian startup looks to scale its platform that helps small businesses set up and run their e-commerce stores. Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital India are holding conversations with the Indian startup […]
  Topics: capital, million, india, sources, techcrunch, double, sequoia, startup, commerce, bikayi, platform, small, round, looks, businesses.
• Shopify acquires shipping logistics startup Deliverr for $2.1B - Shopify today announced that it will acquire Deliverr, a San Francisco, California-based e-commerce fulfillment startup, for $2.1 billion in cash and stock. The deal, rumors of which were reported in April by Bloomberg, is the largest acquisition in Shopify’s history, and Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke says that it will enable the company to […]
  Topics: fulfillment, techcrunch, delivery, startup, retailers, billion, inventory, chain, logistics, deliverr, acquires, 21b, platform, shopify, shipping.
• Small Business Grants: How to Secure Financing for your Startup - Every new business can do with a bit more cash. Find small business grants and additional funding options for your startup. Browse grant programs, find tips for applying, learn about eligibility requirements, and more!More
  Topics: secure, grants, money, grant, financing, offers, businesses, funds, startup, business, small, provide.
• Sneaker e-commerce platform Kicks Crew raises $6M Series A - The global thirst for an up-charged pair of Yeezy’s or limited edition Jordan’s combined with a growth in a digital ecosystem is creating new opportunities, particularly in the sneaker resale market, for companies like Kicks Crew, a Los Angeles- and Hong Kong-based sneaker and apparel platform. The company just raised a $6 million Series A […]
  Topics: 6m, kicks, crew, sneaker, footwear, techcrunch, platform, yip, products, raises, product, startup, market, ecommerce, series.
• Sneaker fit startup Neatsy.ai gets $1M seed after B2B pivot - 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.
• SoftBank in talks to back India’s ElasticRun - SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Goldman Sachs are in talks to back Indian commerce startup ElasticRun, according to four people familiar with the matter. The proposed Series E financing round, at about $200 million, values ElasticRun at over $1 billion, the sources said, requesting anonymity, as the deliberations are ongoing and private. The Pune-headquartered ElasticRun […]
  Topics: startup, elasticrun, brands, billion, softbank, techcrunch, indias, million, talks, stores, indian, ecommerce, firms.
• Startup Marketing Budget: How to Write an Incredible Budget for 2023 - When proposing potential ads at your startup, one of the first questions you’ll likely encounter is, “How much will this cost?” If you’ve prepared a killer startup marketing budget, you will be well-equipped to help executives understand and buy into your vision.
  Topics: need, startup, paid, incredible, write, budget, revenue, advertising, startups, youll, costs, marketing.
• TechCrunch+ roundup: Automattic TC-1, federal startup grants, ‘getting s*** done day’ - Our latest longform look at a notable tech company examines Automattic, “the leading commercial complement to the open-source WordPress publishing platform.”
  Topics: day, getting, automattic, s, company, techcrunch, roundup, post, tech, startup, future, tc1, startups, grants, federal, open, chinese, mobile.
• TechCrunch+ roundup: Collecting zero-party data, Airbnb CEO interview, crypto volatility - On Wednesday, November 17 at 3 p.m. PST/6 p.m. EST, I’ll interview Ben Parr on Twitter Spaces about how zero-party marketing best practices. To get a reminder, please follow @techcrunch on Twitter.
  Topics: collecting, company, volatility, interview, startup, public, techcrunch, distributed, work, billion, roundup, crypto, ceo, zeroparty, ipo, data, airbnb.
• TechCrunch+ roundup: Growth budgets, hiring tips, zero-party data Twitter Space - Are you curious about marketing with zero-party data? Join a Twitter Space with with Ben Parr, president and co-founder of Octane AI, tomorrow at 3 p.m. PST/6 p.m. EST.
  Topics: twitter, budgets, wilhelm, results, growth, zeroparty, hiring, marketing, startup, founder, partner, space, techcrunch, data, startups, tips, roundup, alex.
• TechCrunch+ roundup: Startup survival tips, content as a service, leading with transparency - Once investors started shaving value from high-flying stocks, it changed the game for early-stage valuations, says Navin Chaddha, managing partner at Mayfield.
  Topics: survival, roundup, leading, wilhelm, service, private, techcrunch, miller, tips, content, slowing, ron, saas, alex, company, startup, transparency, ecommerce.
• TechCrunch+ roundup: VC advice for CEOs, 2022 e-commerce trends, OpenSea’s valuation - This is a fantastic time to launch a startup, but if you're trying to grow one — well, winter is coming.
  Topics: valuation, ecommerce, spac, privacy, ad, startup, public, vc, startups, marketing, advice, trends, data, predictions, techcrunch, ceos, openseas, writes, roundup.
• TechCrunch+ roundup: VC ‘bottom feeders,’ valuation calculator, think like an investor - Farmers don't get embarrassed when the price of corn drops; similarly, there's no reason for startup founders to lose their joy because publicly traded tech stocks are undercutting their valuations.
  Topics: feeders, vc, think, startup, technology, valuation, writes, roundup, investors, war, techcrunch, tech, calculator, sonalker, investor, founders, valuations, post.
• The Folklore Group secures $1.7 million, launches fashion B2B e-commerce platform - Fashion e-commerce startup The Folklore Group today announced a shift from direct-to-consumer to B2B wholesale against the backdrop of a $1.7 million pre-seed funding, which the startup plans to use to fuel the growth of its new business. The startup’s new wholesale business, dubbed The Folklore Connect, will link luxury fashion brands in emerging markets to […]
  Topics: group, africa, startup, launches, brands, south, sales, rasool, secures, continent, ecommerce, million, platform, retailers, folklore, fashion, b2b, techcrunch.
• The co-founder of Brazil’s first unicorn bags $6M for new grocery startup - Mara, a São Paulo-based startup that aims to “reinvent” the grocery shopping experience for the underserved in Latin America, has raised $6 million in a funding round co-led by Canary and Caffeinated Capital. This round caught my attention for a few reasons. For one, Mara was founded by Danilo Mansano and Ariel Lambrecht, the latter […]
  Topics: 6m, cofounder, techcrunch, products, mansano, grocery, orders, help, business, brazils, startup, unicorn, mara, lambrecht, brazil, bags.
• This startup solves the management of shipments in your ecommerce or physical store and helps you save up to 70% in logistics expenses - The SkydropX statup has the mission of making shipping management easier for ecommerce and all types of entrepreneurs, giving them access to very competitive parcel prices.
  Topics: delivery, parcel, shipments, startup, platform, solves, shipping, tool, save, helps, expenses, logistics, skydropx, entrepreneur, management, store, physical, package, business.
• Tiger and Falcon look to double down on Indian social commerce startup DealShare - Tiger Global and Falcon Edge Capital are looking to double down on their bets on DealShare, becoming the latest high-profile investors to go all-in on India’s nascent but growing social commerce trend. The two firms, both of which are already an investor in the Jaipur-headquartered startup (AWI, which is managed by Falcon, is an early […]
  Topics: social, round, investors, million, commerce, platform, falcon, look, talks, dealshare, recently, startup, indian, double, tiger, techcrunch.
• TopUp Mama looking to solve sourcing challenges for restaurants - Stock-outs, unpredictable prices of farm produce and a lack of working capital are among the challenges that plague small restaurants and food vendors in emerging markets. These are some of the pain-points that TopUp Mama (previously Kibanda TopUp) is working to alleviate since its launch in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, last year, and it appears to […]
  Topics: startup, food, supply, mama, vendors, ventures, techcrunch, sourcing, small, challenges, looking, topup, solve, platform, restaurants.
• Topsort, an auction-based advertising startup, now valued at $110M after seed round - 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.
• Valued at $50M, Body404 wants to bring Chinese indie brands to the world - Over the past few years, Shein has taken over online fast fashion by exporting affordable wear from China to customers around the globe. Its success has attracted a wave of imitators, but a startup called Body404 believes China isn’t just about cheap runway knockoffs. The country is also seeing a budding generation of cosmopolitan designers […]
  Topics: 50m, bring, brands, wants, world, valued, body404, wear, zhang, million, indie, return, designers, fashion, chinese, startup, china.
• Vimeo snaps up AI video startup Wibbitz and ‘shoppable’ video tech maker Wirewax to expand its enterprise video tools - Vimeo, the B2B video platform that spun out from IAC earlier this year, has made a pair of acquisitions aimed at building out the suite of features and tools it offers to businesses to create and run their own video strategies. The company has picked up short-form AI-based video creation platform Wibbitz, and Wirewax, which […]
  Topics: tools, vimeo, video, wibbitz, company, vimeos, snaps, videos, million, tech, product, startup, shoppable, customers, wirewax, techcrunch.
• Wayflyer raises $150M on a $1.6B valuation for a new spin on providing loans to e-commerce merchants - E-commerce has continued to boom in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but running an e-commerce business has also become significantly more chaotic, with unpredictable supply chains, logistics hiccups and overall higher costs upending even the best-laid plans. To underscore the demand for solutions to address this, today a startup called Wayflyer — which has […]
  Topics: big, loans, 16b, spin, techcrunch, million, customers, valuation, raises, supply, merchants, wayflyer, data, providing, startup, ecommerce.
• What is a Business Plan? Definition, Tips, and Templates - In an era where more than 20% of small enterprises fail in their first year, having a clear, defined, and well-thought-out business plan is a crucial first step for setting up a business for long-term success.
  Topics: plans, startup, plan, goals, company, business, financial, investors, templates, needs, tips, market, definition.
• When should your B2C startup enter a new market? - The toughest questions most entrepreneurs face will involve international expansion. Whether to, when to, where to and how to expand all involve a wealth of complex considerations.
  Topics: b2c, market, strategy, business, startups, international, sales, enter, youre, techcrunch, demand, expansion, customer, startup.
• Why Delivery Hero is acquiring a majority stake in Spanish delivery company Glovo - How should we think about the importance of geographic spread — sprawl? — when it comes to on-demand companies?
  Topics: stake, wolt, startup, spanish, acquiring, delivery, techcrunch, number, glovo, hero, majority, transaction, deal, company.
• With founders hailing from Colombian unicorn Rappi, payments startup Yuno raises $10M from a16z and LatAm VCs - As the Latin American startup scene has matured, founders and executives of multibillion-dollar companies in the region have started to move on to new ventures. On Wednesday, TechCrunch reported on Mara, a São Paulo-based startup that aims to “reinvent” the grocery shopping experience for the underserved in Latin America, and its $6 million raise. One […]
  Topics: startup, raises, vcs, rappi, companies, pain, payments, solution, unicorn, experience, latam, yuno, hailing, payment, latin, techcrunch.
• Wonnda has raised 1 million euros - Berlin-based startup Wonnda has raised 1 million euros in a pre-seed round. The product sourcing platform will use the capital injection to expand its network of manufacturers. It is also planning to incorporate more partners. Wondda was founded in early 2022. In June last year, the company launched the beta-version…
  Topics: brands, startup, raised, suppliers, platform, product, products, wants, euros, wonnda, million, company, sourcing.
• YC-backed Namibian startup JABU gets $3.2M for its B2B e-commerce and retail play - Namibian business-to-business e-commerce startup JABU confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised a $3.2 million financing round. The seed round, which was closed last year, welcomed investors such as Afore Capital, Y Combinator, FJ Labs, Quiet Capital, Kli Capital, Pareto Capital and unnamed angels. As a last-mile distribution e-commerce company, JABU joins a list of […]
  Topics: company, b2b, play, ycbacked, startup, startups, capital, namibia, techcrunch, retail, platform, jabu, merchants, namibian, gets, ecommerce.
• Your Startup Guide For Selling Wholesale to Other Retailers - Is selling wholesale worth it as a small business? A $10 trillion industry, wholesale can be a profitable sales channel for any retailer. Learn how to set up your channel and start selling wholesale items today with this guide.More
  Topics: retailers, order, startup, shopify, selling, customers, store, product, payment, guide, business, products, wholesale.
• ZMO.ai secures $8M led by Hillhouse to create AI generated fashion models - With breakthroughs in machine learning, it’s no longer uncommon to see algorithmically generated bodies that can move and talk authentically like real humans. The question is now down to whether startups offering such products can achieve a sustainable business model. Some of them have demonstrated that potential and attracted investors. ZMO.ai, founded by a team […]
  Topics: zmo, ecommerce, humans, working, sales, secures, techcrunch, led, virtual, hillhouse, fashion, create, generated, startup, companies, models, zmoai, customers, ai.
• Zepto, a 10-minute grocery delivery app in India, raises $100 million - Zepto, a Mumbai-based startup that operates a 10-minute instant grocery delivery service, has more than doubled its valuation to $570 million from $225 million less than two months ago as it expands into newer cities. Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund led the $100 million Series C round in Zepto, the two said Monday. Glade Brook, Nexus, […]
  Topics: palicha, india, zepto, raises, million, execution, months, techcrunch, delivery, instant, app, startup, 10minute, round, grocery.
• Zepto, a 10-minute grocery delivery app in India, raises $60 million - Two 19-year-old entrepreneurs, who previously collaborated on a number of projects including a ride-hailing commute app for school kids and left Stanford last year to pursue a new startup, said on Sunday they have raised $60 million to disrupt India’s overcrowded and highly-competitive grocery delivery market. Glade Brook Capital led Zepto’s first institutional financing round, […]
  Topics: grocery, india, zepto, techcrunch, penetration, delivery, 10minute, startup, stores, online, startups, million, raises, palicha, today, app.