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[Forbes India] ApnaKlub: Uplifting kirana, one brand at a time

ApnaKlub is stepping up its kirana play across tier 2 and beyond by rolling out a slew of its own brands. Will the gambit of a B2B wholesale platform for FMCG pay off? By Rajiv Singh, Forbes India Staff Originally posted on Forbes India For years, Badrinath Gupta endured a...

[The New Indian Express] Why Investors Should Support Founders’ Mental Health

Originally posted on The New Indian Express Entrepreneurial journeys are challenging. There are peaks of extreme happiness and moments of utter despair and hence entrepreneurs draw on a special kind of mental energy. They go after the impossible. As a founder, if you’re not training for a marathon, you may...

[Forbes India] Why ApnaKlub Shruti doesn't mind being an angry young woman

The cofounder and CEO of of the B2B wholesale FMCG platform channelises her anger to defy norms, discard labels and fight gender bias By Rajiv Singh, Forbes India Staff People kept stoking her anger. And it started early in Shruti’s life. “Such a sad thing. The poor guy has three...

[Forbes India] This is me: Indian women founders are taking up space by being unapologetic

By Rajiv Singh, Forbes India Staff An army of new-age founders is scripting a bold story, moving away from the clichéd gender narrative. What’s helping them is their valuable higher education, a sizeable corporate stint, and the courage to be unapologetic New York, December 2017 “When the sharpest words wanna...

Women Making History in Fintech

There has never been a better or more exciting time to be a woman in fintech.

[Bizz Buzz News] ApnaKlub ropes in new investors to increase total Series-A funding to $16 million

ApnaKlub, a B2B wholesale platform for fast-moving consumer goods, has raised an additional funding of $6 million in its Series-A round. It had earlier raised $10 million in the round. The latest round brings the Series-A total to $16 million. ApnaKlub, a B2B wholesale platform for fast-moving consumer goods, has...

[Flourish Conversations] The Corner Shop Isn't Dead: How Fintech and Embedded Finance Are Giving Them Extra Power

New research shows the corner shop is here to stay and poised to go digital. A $900B+ industry worldwide, fintechs are now serving corner shops across the retail value chain, developing low-cost, easy-to-use, online tools for sourcing, logistics, business management, sales, and financial services. Flourish Managing Partner, Arjuna Costa sits...

New Research Finds Corner Shops are Faring Well Against Big Box Stores in Emerging Markets, but Digital Challenges Remain

Flourish Ventures Research Reveals Shopkeepers in Brazil, Egypt, India and Indonesia are Reporting Strong Customer Traffic but Risk Falling Behind if They Don’t Become More Tech Savvy Today, Flourish Ventures released a new research report showing that corner shops are doing better than predicted despite protracted supply chain issues and...

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[Inc42] Wholesale Ecommerce Startup ApnaKlub Raises $10 Mn From Tiger Global To Take Its Platform To 20K Partners

Originally posted on Inc42 By Gunja Sharan Since 2020, ApnaKlub has welcomed more than 5,000 partners on its platform and is planning to expand its reach The startup raised about $4 Mn in funding from Sequoia India’s Surge, Blume Ventures, Whiteboard Capital and Flourish Ventures in August 2021 With ApnaKlub,...

Women Entrepreneurship in India

[Flourish Conversations] Women Entrepreneurship in India - What Does it Take to Succeed?

Flourish Conversations: Frank discussions with fintech leaders and ecosystem partners on what it takes to build financial health and a more equitable global economy In this lively, informative and timely discussion, investment director Anuradha delves deep with four successful women entrepreneurs to discover what’s working, what’s not in creating a...

Celebrating Female Fintech Mavericks

We’re halfway through March Women’s History Month and in the spirit of this year’s theme #breakthebias we reached out to Female Fintech Mavericks and asked…

September 01, 2021

Why We Invested In Apnaklub: Digitally Connecting India’s Retailers to Goods and Wholesalers

By Anuradha Ramachandran and Harsh Gupta Embedded Finance Platform Apnaklub Digitally Connects India’s Retailers, and Kiranas to Consumer Goods and Wholesale Partners India’s unwieldy consumer goods supply chain…