Snapdeal's key to success – Interview with Badal Malick, VP of Omnichannel at Snapdeal
Snapdeal is one of the leading e-commerce platforms in India today, boasting a wide assortment of over 35 million products across more than 800 diverse categories. This includes an incredible collection of over 125,000 regional, national, as well as international brands and retailers. With millions of users and over 300,000 sellers, Snapdeal is the shopping […]
Hike Messenger founder (100M users) shares about the future of messaging in India
Kavin Bharti, the founder of the messaging app Hike Messenger has given interesting insights about the future of messaging in India during the Surge Conference in Bangalore this February. With 100 million users and a monthly messaging volume of over 40 billion messages, Hike is now “the largest Indian company in terms of local users” noticed Kavin. The […]
Startup Sourcing #3: With Ralali, buy tools and machines online on a new industrial e-commerce platform
1) Startup Profile : Ralali Who? The Indonesian startup Ralali transforms the procurement process to make it simpler and more transparent with its B2B e-commerce marketplace for industrial needs. What? Ralali is a B2B industrial e-commerce platform with a 50,000 unique product listing. It has 700 different categories of products, mainly for maintenance, repair and operational. Products […]
FinTech startups from emerging countries
Rather than fighting against the banks, lots of Fintech startups have addressed another market: the unbanked population. They represent about half of the world’s population, and are especially present in emerging countries from Asia and Africa. 40% of them has access to a mobile phone, which can provide the infrastructure to financial services such as […]
What impact will Fintech have on the banking industry in 2016?
According to Accenture’s recent report, investment in Fintech in APAC has more than quadrupled in 2015 compared to 2014. Fintech startups have popped up in the financial landscape with an estimation of 5000 to 6000 of them around the world. Will they disrupt the banking industry, like Amazon disrupted the retail industry or Uber disrupted the […]
The Innovation Mixer wrap-up: Disrupt or be disrupted
Before the internet, innovation used to be called R&D and was in the hands of large companies. But the digital has created a big bang in the business world, transforming all industries. None of them is safe from being disrupted by the young and inspired startups mushrooming around the world. How can corporates innovate like […]
8 Asian startups to watch for Retail Innovation
2015 has seen a lot of startups trying to tackle the challenge of the digital transformation of retail. We have listed 8 that we met during the InnovFest UnBound conference in Singapore in May 2015. The main concern of retailers today is how to improve the in-store customer experience, and how to provide them a seamlessly connected […]
Startup sourcing #2: With Dragon Law, you build your business legal documents in no time and for a cheap and transparent price
1) Startup Profile Who? The startup Dragon Law, created in Hong Kong, is transforming the painful legal paperwork involved when building business contracts, incorporating a business or protecting intellectual property by providing businesses a legal document builder solution that is “safer, 10 times faster and 5 to 10 times cheaper“, according to Karen Ng, regional director of […]
Startup Sourcing #1: with PayrollHero, let employees clock in with a selfie
1) Startup Profile Who? The Philippines startup PayrollHero has transformed the painful and unreliable HR management systems into an exciting and accurate consumer-friendly HR platform for web and mobile. What ? Clock in and out every day by taking a selfie Facial recognition ensure the right person is there at the right time Track […]
Moneero, the plumbers of the mobile payment system in Uruguay
We met the founders of Moneero, a mobile payment company, a while ago. They are currently working on a universal payment platform that reduces transaction costs dramatically, through internet and mobile phone, using new and open technologies like bitcoin and open transactions. Thanks to them, residents of Montevideo are already able to carry a whole […]
