Year-old startup Capiter announced last week that it raised a $33 million Series A to digitize Egypt’s traditional offline retail market. It’s looking to take a large pie in the budding e-commerce and retail play, where multiple startups are pulling their weight including Cartona, also a year-old startup out of Egypt. Today, Cartona is announcing that […]
Constructor finds $55M for tech that powers search and discovery for e-commerce businesses
One of the biggest problems in the world of e-commerce is the predicament of shopping cart abandonment: when shoppers aren’t getting to what they want fast enough — whether it’s finding the right item, or paying for it in a quick and easy way — they bounce. That singular problem is driving a wave of […]
“People like him love standard procedure”
Two short scifi/fantasy stories in which customer service folks get to reward customers who treat them well, or punish those who treat them badly. Dyce writes about an isolated refueling station: “Out-of-hours fuelling requires a prior appointment.” Ai…
Is India’s BNPL 2.0 set to disrupt B2B?
A specific vertical of BNPL products is gaining traction: one targeted toward small and medium enterprises (SMEs), also known as “SME BNPL.”
Extra Crunch roundup: China’s new data privacy law, fractional farming, debt vs. equity
China’s first data privacy laws go into effect on November 1, 2021. Will your company be in compliance? Modeled after the EU’s GDPR, the new regulations “[introduce] perhaps the most stringent set of requirements and protections for data privacy in the world,” writes Scott W. Pink, special counsel in O’Melveny’s Data Security & Privacy practice. […]
Customer experience startup Clootrack raises $4M, helps brands see through their customers’ eyes
Clootrack is a real-time customer experience analytics platform that helps brands understand why customers stay or churn
Too much of a good thing: Mourning the slow death of the retail game store
Remembering a time when games were rare, expensive, and physical.
垂直農法は世界を食べさせることができるか？：農業ヴェンチャーInfarmの挑戦（後篇）
瑞々しいレタスに香り高いバジル。いまや垂直農法は自動化や機械学習によって作物の糖度、酸性度、ビタミン、毒性、抗酸化物質を測定し、風味豊かな植物や新しい味を生み出そうとしている。従来の農法に比べわずかな土地や水しか使わない一方、地球上の食糧自給の解決策としてもビジネスとしても、まだまだ機能していない。真の自給自足へと挑戦を続ける農業ヴェンチャーの挑戦を追う後篇。
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垂直農法は世界を食べさせることができるか？：農業ヴェンチャーInfarmの挑戦（前篇）
スーパーマーケットの店内で栄養豊富な水とLEDの光に照らされてトレイに並ぶ新鮮な葉物野菜やハーブを選んで購入する──成長を見せる垂直農法を牽引するのがベルリン発の農業ヴェンチャーInfarm（インファーム）だ。従来の農業に比べて圧倒的に省資源で二酸化炭素排出量が少ない垂直農法は、果たして富裕層向けの付け合わせサラダから、大衆向けの持続可能な作物へと移行することは可能だろうか？
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D2C specs purveyor Warby Parker files to go public
Warby Parker has two main sales channels, largely attractive economics, falling losses and rising adjusted profitability. You could even argue it handled the pandemic well. So what’s it worth?