Tag: eCommerce
Cadeera is doing AI visual search for home decor
In recent years we’ve seen a whole bunch of visual/style fashion-focused search engines cropping up, tailored to helping people find the perfect threads to buy online by applying computer vision and other AI technologies to perform smarter-than-keywords visual search which can easily match and surface specific shapes and styles. Startups…
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Forget winning, can Amazon survive in India?
During a visit to India in 2014, Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos made a splashy announcement: His firm was investing $2 billion in the South Asian nation, just a year after beginning operations in the country. Amazon’s announcement underscored how far India had come to open up to foreign firms.…
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Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021
The Matrix Fintech Index weighs public markets, liquidity and a new e-commerce trend Jake Jolis Contributor Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. More posts by this contributor 4-year founder vesting is dead 2019 saw a…
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Melio raises $110M on a $1.3B valuation to bring B2B payments for SMBs into the 21st century
Payments for consumers have made a huge shift to the online world in the last year, a time when they have moved more of their purchasing to the internet to minimize in-person transactions in the midst of a virus-based health pandemic. Today, a startup that has built a similar kind…
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End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business
Roger Lee Contributor Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. More posts by this contributor Keys to ascending the consumer-internet throne How to communicate with your board in tough times Justin…
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Hims, the telehealth startup, saw its shares slip in their trading debut — and that’s fine with its CEO
Hims & Hers, a San Francisco-based telehealth startup that sells sexual wellness and other health products and services to millennials, began trading publicly today on the NYSE after completing a reverse merger with the blank-check company Oaktree Acquisition Corp. Its shares slipped a bit, ending the day down 5% from…
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