Rocketlane, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) startup from Chennai, India, is banking on customer onboarding as a way to accelerate B2B growth, according to a Sunday (April 10) report from the Economic Times of India. According to CEO Srikrishnan Ganesan, it’s “critical,” especially for B2B companies selling...
The news that Fast, the startup focused on one-click checkout, would cease operations brings that old business aphorism to mind: You’ve got to spend money to make money. And sometimes, the spending money — the cash burn — becomes too much to sustain operations. In...
Two years after its launch, online checkout startup Fast is out of business. “After making great strides on our mission of making buying and selling frictionless for everyone, we have made the difficult decision to close our doors,” CEO Domm Holland wrote in an announcement...
FinTech startup NextPay plans to debuting more financial tools and services to help micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) this year, including a planned entry into cryptocurrency, GMA News wrote Sunday (March 20). NextPay’s services can reportedly help out with things like handling payroll, sending...
Swedish startups, by all accounts, had a good year in 2021, having collectively raised €7.8 billion, according to a new report from Dealroom. That’s an increase of 2.4x from the previous year. According to the February report, the boost came largely from late-stage funding rounds,...
In even the best of times, food waste is a huge problem for restaurants and grocery stores’ bottom lines. With inflation sending food prices skyrocketing, the issue is even more pressing than usual. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that 30% to 40% of...
There are now 1,000 companies that can be considered “unicorns,” meaning startups now worth $1 billion or more, according to a Bloomberg report Wednesday (Feb. 9). Per data from CB Insights, the 1,000th on record is Productboard, a California product management company which recently got...
Indian automotive lending startup Kuwy has launched a Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) platform to let customers purchase new and used cars. “KuwyLaaS will jump start the journey of online car retailing in India,” Kuwy CEO and co-founder B. Ganesh Kumar told India’s Free Press Journal Thursday (Feb....
Barclays has announced that it will help FinTech founders around the world grow and develop their companies. As part of a strategic partnership with corporate venture builder Rainmaking that was announced in a Thursday (Feb. 3) press release, Barclays will launch a new suite of...
