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Meet Prediko, a new startup that sits at the intersection of e-commerce, fintech and software as a service. If you're manufacturing items or even just buying and reselling finished goods, chances are inventory management is one of the biggest pain points when it comes to running your business.

Before fintechs became the standouts of the African tech ecosystem, it was startups in the online logistics and transport space in Africa linking on-demand apps to move people and goods around the continent that was all the rave. For the online logistics space, it's not difficult to see why inv

In a world full of mass messages, trying to be different and send out 20,000 personalized messages can be pretty daunting. Maverick Lab, a business-to-business personalized video messaging startup, aims to help e-commerce entrepreneurs send more personalized messages using deepfakes.

The wheels of global commerce continue to turn, through wars, pandemics and economic downturns; and today a startup taking a new tech approach to improve the workings of one of the more antiquated aspects of that industry — shipping — is announcing a big round of funding to double down

In the vast and varied lands between Patagonia and the Rio Grande, a region entrepreneurs and investors like to call “LatAm,” there are 38 different countries using 39 different currencies. Only 19% of Latin American adults own a credit card, and 70% of credit cards in Brazil, Argentina and Chi

Alima, a Mexico-based supply chain startup, raised $1.5 million in new funding to continue developing data-driven tools for businesses to source the produce they need and have it delivered directly to them. The procurement process today in Latin America is complicated and expensive, co-founder and

Amazon has made a string of startup acquisitions over the years to build out its robotics business; now, the e-commerce leviathan is taking an interesting turn in that strategy as it expands its industrial warehouse capabilities. Amazon is acquiring Cloostermans, a company out of Belgium that is a

Iconic department store Bloomingdale's is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a new virtual store, designed by Emperia, that will go live during New York Fashion Week, which starts September 9. Virtual department stores aren't a new concept. You might recall eBay doing something similar

Misfits Market is acquiring Imperfect Foods in an all-stock deal, Misfits Market founder and CEO Abhi Ramesh told technewss. Both online grocery platforms, Misfits Market raised nearly $530 million since being founded in 2018, most recently a $200 million Series C round in 2021 that put its valuat

Retail tech startup Daalchini, which offers smart vending machines to hundreds of brands in India, has raised $4 million as it works to establish autonomous smart stores and vending machines in every 200 meters of habitable area in the country. The Noida-based startup provides a range of food and b

Why work with brands like Hollister and Dunkin’ Donuts when you can just sell your own clothes and coffee? For most influencers, that’s not a serious consideration — you need quite a bit of capital and a dedicated audience to churn out high-quality products that sell well. But the

Amazon is lagging its chief rival Flipkart in India on several key metrics and struggling to make inroads in smaller Indian cities and towns, according to a scathing report by investment firm Sanford C. Bernstein. The American e-commerce giant's 2021 gross merchandise value in the country, wher

The process of sending and receiving payments in a $1.5 trillion B2B payments market in sub-Saharan Africa is one where merchants commonly use manual invoices and inefficient processes that burden merchants and make them struggle with their businesses. Duplo, a B2B payments startup that solves thes

There’s been a lot of hype about “web3”, but the reality is that it’s still a largely nascent and fragmented concept, and that has led to web3 startups building platforms to engage with it more easily getting a lot of attention. In the latest development, a startup called th