Ninjacart, an Indian AgriTech startup backed by Walmart and Tiger Global, has expanded by launching the Ninja Global platform for agricultural import-export businesses in the United Arab Emirates and Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) countries. The goal of the platform is to bolster the import-export market...
Pan-African cryptocurrency exchange Yellow Card Financial on Monday (Sept.19) announced the close of a $40 million Series B funding round led by Polychain Capital. Other participants in the round included Valar Ventures, Third Prime Ventures, Sozo Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, Fabric Ventures, DG Daiwa Ventures, The...
Indian offline-to-online commerce platform DotPe has reportedly raised $58 million in a Series B round and said it plans to add B2B financial services to its offerings. The company also said it plans to use the new investment to triple the number of merchants using...
Unbanked Nigerians and those using a feature phone in the country will soon have access to eNaira banking services through an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) channel. Communications-Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) firm Clickatell is partnering with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to launch a USSD channel...
The corner bank branch — the brick-and-mortar kind — may be giving way to a digital one embedded in our phones. We’re seeing the rise of banking done electronically, 24/7, on the smallest of screens. And the report “How Consumers Use Digital Banks,” a collaboration...
Automotive and consumer electronics provider VOXX International has launched an eCommerce platform, the Orlando-based company announced Monday (Sept. 19). According to a news release, the first customer to use the platform is VOXX’s subsidiary Premium Audio Company, which operates brands that include Klipsch, Jamo, Onkyo,...
Last week, FedEx’s announcement that package volumes are declining around the world, that revenues would be below expectations and that it would idle some operations sent shockwaves through the stock markets. As of Monday morning (Sept. 19), markets seemed headed into another day of rocky trading,...
Grocery technology company Instacart has announced a bundle of six new, modular technologies that grocers will be able to add to the existing Instacart Platform offerings to provide their customers with an experience that combines the best of online and in-store shopping. The bundle, which...
Finance super app for businesses Flexbase is now offering B2B merchants a buy now, pay later (BNPL) solution called Flexbase Pay. With this product, merchants can get paid immediately while also giving their business customers the option to get 60 days of interest-free financing, according...
