Short Takes

    2018-12-04T12:10:05+00:00July 7th, 2016|2016, Digital India, India Investment Journal June/July Edition, Year|

    Italy to partner India’s Smart Cities Italy, in its own initiative for 100 smart cities for the next 20 years with an investment of $1.2 trillion, is keen to partner with India. Italy has the largest number of smart cities in Europe. Francesco Pensabene, Italian trade commissioner and director of its trade promotion office, said: "Italy can be a strong partner for smart cities in terms of design and technology. We are very attentive and focussed on India's smart cities. [...]

      A VC’s guide to Indian ecommerce success

      2018-12-04T10:43:41+00:00April 29th, 2016|2016, India Investment Journal April/May Edition, TechInnovate, Year|

      As a leading venture capitalist operating in the Indian arena, Kae Capital is well placed to offer some insights into how best to navigate the India’s booming ecommerce sector. If there is one sector that is impossible to keep away from the news, it must be ecommerce. For all the euphoria around the ubiquity of ecommerce today, not all of the news is particularly positive. Take the case of the Rocket Internet backed Jabong, reportedly unable to find buyers at [...]

        A tech provider’s journey with Digital India

        2018-12-04T11:08:58+00:00April 28th, 2016|2016, India Investment Journal April/May Edition, TechInnovate, Year|

        Lyn Duncan, chief Executive and co-founder of cloudBuy plc, takes a journey down memory lane to trace the explosion in the Indian ecommerce sector and what it has meant for their model aimed at helping small and medium enterprises (SMEs). How has cloudBuy grown in India since its launch? We opened our first Indian office in Jodhpur almost four years ago in 2012, originally to act as a back office for design and development but also to test the appetite [...]

        E stands for Ecommerce in India today

        2020-03-12T14:12:28+00:00April 27th, 2016|2016, India Investment Journal April/May Edition, TechInnovate, Year|

        India has emerged as the fastest growing ecommerce market in the world by all estimates. This decade of the 21st century is well on its course to be dubbed the ecommerce decade and the government’s Digital India programme will be the guiding light. Just look at the array of goods and services Indians buy online – from proposals for arranged marriages to home delivered restaurant meals to clothes, shoes, jewellery, mobile phones, laptops and even property. And that’s just an [...]

        B2B Ecommerce is India’s Route into the Global Supply Chain

        2018-05-18T13:07:04+00:00June 11th, 2015|2015, Digital India, India Investment Journal - V 3/I 2, Year|

        India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stated loud and clear that his country is “Open for Business” and that he wants to significantly increase international trade. Ecommerce technology will have a major role to play in achieving this, primarily by introducing the nation’s businesses in to global supply chains.