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Thailand’s Beam simplifies checkout for social commerce • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on November 16, 2022Posted in beam, Sequoia Capital India, social commerce, StartupsNo Comments

The social commerce market is already worth more than $13 billion in Southeast Asia, but the checkout process is filled with friction. Many sellers don’t have online storefronts and instead use social media and messaging apps, which means payment is made by switching to banking apps or wallets. This means low conversion rates, say the […]

Eric Schmidt backs former Google exec’s digital family office platform in $90 million funding • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on November 2, 2022Posted in Caesar Sengupta, Coatue Management, Eric Schmidt, Fintech, Ribbit Capital, Sequoia Capital India, Sequoia India, StartupsNo Comments

Caesar Sengupta has worked on, and overseen, several category-defining projects in the past decade and a half. As a product lead at Google, he was in charge of ChromeOS, the company’s desktop operating system. He then headed the Android-maker’s Next Billion Users initiative that made products such as Google Pay in India to serve and […]