Grocery delivery unicorn Instacart filed privately to go public yesterday, a long-awaited event for the well-known private company. During its startup days, Instacart raised huge amounts of capital and grew rapidly. […]
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Back to news homeHow social commerce is bridging Southeast Asia’s infrastructure gaps
Amit Anand Contributor Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. More posts by […]
As Instacart looks to cut its valuation, will it kick off a trend?
Instacart is not done making news. Earlier this week, the well-known grocery delivery unicorn announced a software suite as part of a self-described third act. Today, Bloomberg reported that Instacart […]
New data underscores a slowing e-commerce market
Back in 2020, Ashwin Ramasamy, a founder at PipeCandy, asked on TechCrunch if the “e-commerce shift” the world was seeing as COVID-19 shook up the global economy would last. The […]
It’s pivot season for early-stage startups
Late-stage tech startups are facing a changing public market environment, but their early-stage counterparts are in a different world altogether. The cohort has had access to ample capital in recent […]
What’s worth more: Unicorns or the biggest US tech companies?
New data collected by Crunchbase News indicates that the value of global unicorns has crested the $4 trillion mark. The valuation milestone is notable not merely for its scale, but […]
11 ways to make personalized shopping more effective and profitable
Vitaly Alexandrov Contributor Vitaly Alexandrov is a serial entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Food Rocket, a rapid grocery delivery service. Since customer-centric digital strategies are now the norm […]
Black Friday data adds to evidence e-commerce growth is slowing
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, e-commerce has been on a tear. Lockdowns, a move to remote work and other impacts of COVID pushed a great number of global […]
4 strategies for setting marketplace take rates
Tanay Jaipuria Contributor Tanay Jaipuria is a product manager and angel investor who writes a weekly newsletter on business and technology. Every marketplace or platform startup has to decide how […]
A wave of LatAm fintechs are laying down new global commerce rails
João Del Valle Contributor João Del Valle is the co-founder and CEO of EBANX, a Brazilian fintech unicorn that serves as the gateway to Latin America through its payments platform […]