Indonesian B2B Marketplace Ula Raises M Series A Led By Quona, And B Capital Group

Indonesian B2B Marketplace Ula Raises $20M Series A Led By Quona,...

Jakarta-based wholesale e-commerce marketplace Ula has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by existing investor Quona Capital and B Capital Group. Existing...
Thabiso Wessie, Senior Specialist for Emerging Payments at Nedbank

Nedbank Direct EFT makes online shopping seamless, secure and convenient.

– In our current day-to-day activities the convenience of buying goods or paying for services online is as much a necessity as it is...
Egypt’s ExpandCart Raises .5 Million Series A to Help Merchants Build Online Stores

Egypt’s ExpandCart Raises $2.5 Million Series A to Help Merchants Build...

Cairo-based ecommerce enablement platform ExpandCart has raised $2.5 million in a Series A round, it announced today in a statement to MENAbytes. The round...
India Myntra Shores Up 3 Mn from Parent Entity Ahead of Festive Sale

India Myntra Shores Up $103 Mn from Parent Entity Ahead of...

Flipkart owned fashion and lifestyle platform Myntra has raised slightly over $103 million (Rs 755.93 crore according to current exchange rates) from Singapore registered...
Chinese Alibaba Invests USD 3.6 Billion to Take Control of Retailer Sun Art

Chinese Alibaba Invests USD 3.6 Billion to Take Control of Retailer...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) will spend approximately USD 3.6 billion for a controlling stake of brick-and-mortar retailer Sun Art Retail Group (HKEX:...
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Are Black Friday specials useful for growing a small online business...

Cape Town, – There’s no two ways about it – Black Friday is a shopping frenzy. Whether it’s in the malls or online, customers queue...
Pakistan’s MedznMore Raises .6 Million Seed for Its Online Pharmacy

Pakistan’s MedznMore Raises $2.6 Million Seed for Its Online Pharmacy

Karachi-based healthtech MedznMore has raised $2.6 million in a seed round, it announced in a statement today. The startup did not share the names...
YC-backed Super Raises USM To Grow Its Social Commerce Platform In Indonesia

YC-backed Super Raises US$28M To Grow Its Social Commerce Platform In...

Super, a social commerce platform serving second- and third-tier cities and rural areas in Indonesia, announced today it has completed a US$28 million oversubscribed...
Study shows more than 85% of surveyed South African shoppers say retailers need to get better at giving them the products, service and experience they want

Study shows more than 85% of surveyed South African shoppers say...

South Africans surveyed form part of a study of over 30,000 global online consumers from 18 countries.    The research, commissioned by Wunderman Thompson South Africa...
Indian Ecommerce Platform Hypd Bags Pre-seed Money From ScoopWhoop

Indian Ecommerce Platform Hypd Bags Pre-seed Money From ScoopWhoop

Ecommerce platform Hypd announced it has raised an undisclosed sum from Indian media portal ScoopWhoop in its pre-seed round.  Launched in November 2020 by Innov8 founding partners Ashwarya...
Google, Temasek Set to Invest 0m in Indonesian Tokopedia

Google, Temasek Set to Invest $350m in Indonesian Tokopedia

Google and Temasek Holdings Pte have agreed to invest about $350 million in PT Tokopedia, people familiar with the matter said, a major cash...
India Ecommerce Management Startup Assiduus Global Raises M in Series A Round

India Ecommerce Management Startup Assiduus Global Raises $1M in Series A...

Bengaluru-based ecommerce management firm Assiduus Global, on Thursday, raised $1 million in Series A funding for its India business. The round was led by...