Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia backs cross-border payments startup Tazapay

February 10, 2023

The rise in open banking and payment services like India’s UPI and Singapore’s PayNow means lower costs for businesses, as well as new payment options for hundreds of millions of customers in emerging markets who don’t own credit cards. Tazapay was created to combine both card and real-time payment methods as a full-stack service for […]

Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia backs cross-border payments startup Tazapay by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Jendaya raises funding to scale its Africa-focused luxury e-commerce platform

February 10, 2023

Fashion items are among the most — if not the most — sought after on many e-commerce platforms. In Africa, for instance, fashion has held the top spot in Jumia for the largest category of items sold over the years. This means there’s no shortage of demand for fashion items across the continent, and the […]

Jendaya raises funding to scale its Africa-focused luxury e-commerce platform by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

Low-code database APITable is another Airtable challenger

February 10, 2023

Airtable’s whopping $11 billion valuation attained in late 2021 has lured a raft of ambitious entrepreneurs into the low-code database space. They covet even just a small slice of the pie enjoyed by the decade-old American juggernaut. While SaaS has long been a proven business model in the U.S., in emerging markets, and even in […]

Low-code database APITable is another Airtable challenger by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch