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Vivriti Capital Bags $30 Million From TVS Capital To Close Series C; Total Funding Reaches $200 Million
The funds will be utilised for business and technology expansion for customer acquisitions, product delivery and portfolio management, the startup said in a statement.
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- Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Implementing Effective Innovation Challenges: Three Lessons from the Last Mile Distribution Sector
Last mile distributors (LMDs) are key to bringing life-changing products to hard-to-reach consumers, and innovation is essential to their work. But as Emma Colenbrander and Charlotte Taylor at the Global Distributors Collective and Gerwin Jansen at Bopinc explain, these innovations are often not replicated, leading LMDs to spend time and resources reinventing the wheel. They explore how innovation challenges can foster greater replicability and inclusivity, and share three key insights for LMDs and other businesses and organizations working to support innovation at the last mile.
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- Technology
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Norebase Raises $1 Million to Allow Companies to Start, Scale, and Operate in Any African Country
Norebase allows founders and businesses to start and scale across several African countries at once or periodically.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Walmart and Flipkart Present a Roadmap for Indian Sellers to Export via Cross-Border E-Commerce
650 Sellers attend Seller Summit in New Delhi to explore the opportunity for export growth on Walmart Marketplace in the U.S.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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School Fees Payment Startup Zenda Raises $9.4 Million
Zenda was founded in June 2021 by Raman Thiagarajan and Haseeb Ahmed, alumni of McKinsey & Company. Thiagarajan and Ahmed had previously founded edtech startup Nexsquare in Dubai.
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- Education, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Opinion: If The US Is Serious About Climate Change, USAID Should Be Too
USAID, by failing to include a commitment to carbon neutrality in its programming, has missed an opportunity to seize the moment and mirror the Biden administration’s commitment to addressing the climate crisis.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Global
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Armada Brands Raises $1.3 Million Pre-Seed to Empower E-Commerce Entrepreneurs in Scaling Their Brands
Armada Brands, a Philippine e-commerce aggregator, raised $1.3 million in pre-seed funding to invest in e-commerce entrepreneurs looking to scale their brands.
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- Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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The Overlooked Needs of India’s SMEs: Why Knowledge, Emotional and Relationship Capital are Key to their Pandemic Recovery and Long-Term Competitiveness
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in India – and around the world – have been harshly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Samir Sathe at Wadhwani Advantage, these enterprises will need new sources of competitive advantage – including knowledge, emotional and relationship capital – if they hope to recover and grow. He explains why these alternative forms of capital are essential to running a small business, and explores how current learning and development efforts are falling short in meeting SMEs' unique needs.
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- Coronavirus
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