How to bring the unbanked into financial Inclusion? Interview with Mayank Sharma, founder of cashless micropayment startup Nearex
Despite all the challenges involved in the financial inclusion of the unbanked population, Singapore-based Nearex has still managed to emerge as a startup with payment hardware specially geared towards the rise of micro-merchants. Its goal is to bring everyone into financial inclusion. It has successfully tested its products in developing countries such as Zimbabwe […]
Key Insights from Cards and Payments Asia 2016 / Seamless
Cards and Payments Asia 2016 presented an enthralling look into the future of the digital finance space in Asia and beyond. It covered a range of areas from financial inclusion to e-commerce as well as changes in payment processes. Re-branding itself as Seamless next year, the conference pushed for a change in approach, adopting its […]
Key Insights from Indonesia StartUp Insights 2016: Ecommerce Domination and the Supremacy of Niche Demands
As we attended Indonesia Startups Insight 2016 last week, we got the opportunity to meet promising startups from Indonesia and to understand better this huge but still mysterious market. The event was organized by KinerjaBisa, a company supporting SMEs to expand through Singapore. Some major insights really caught our attention during the event, which are: […]
Meet us at Indonesia StartUp Insights 2016!
Innovation Is Everywhere is looking forward to attend Indonesia StartUp Insights 2016 on the 4th of June 2016, at EcoWorld Gallery @ Singapore. Following up their last year’s huge success of Indonesia StartUp Night 2015, Indonesia StartUp Insight 2016 is now held as the biggest Indonesia start up event in Singapore. It is a platform […]
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 […]
Corporate innovation @ InnovFest Unbound: of survival and growth
Visiting InnovFest Unbound, a technology conference, was again a great way to gain insights on how large companies entered, or re-entered, the field of innovation. The theory is now well established: multi-national companies have long been lazy to change their minds, and by sticking to the good old, long, process ridden R&D, they let open […]
Julien de Salaberry: “Every piece of the healthcare value chain is impacted by the IoT” [ HealthTech ]
Having begun his career in healthcare in 1997, Julien de Salaberry founded The Propell Group (Propell), a venture investor and advisory firm based in Singapore and focused on seed investment in healhtech startups, in 2012. Propell’s portfolio includes 14 Healthtech startups to date. He’s one of the co-writers of the book iDisrupted (published in November […]
Meet us, along with a varied panel of innovators at InnovFest unBound! Here is why we will be there this year again…
Innovation Is Everywhere is looking forward to attend the InnovFest unBound event again this year on the 17th and 18th of May 2016 at Marina Bay Sands. These 2 days of conferences, startups competitions and exhibition is organized by NUS Enterprise and unBound Media, in partnership with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore. It’ an […]
Meet us at Cards & Payments Asia 2016: Updates from the frontline of retail and ecommerce in Asia
It’s an exciting time for E-Commerce and FinTech in Asia. China surpassed the USA in 2013 as the world’s largest e-commerce market. Chinese online sales counted for 12.9% of total social retail sales in 2015, and the market is dominated by two giants JD.com and Alibaba’s Tmall. But all eyes are now on the Indian […]
Meet KIC Shanghai, a leading community of startups
In Shanghai, a player of the startup scene not to miss is Knowledge and Innovation Community, as known as KIC.