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Harsh Gupta

[e27] Why kirana stores are central to India’s digital opportunity

Originally posted on e27 Image credit: 123rf-amberkhane1986 The COVID-19 pandemic showed us just how important kirana stores are in India. Rather than abandoning their neighbourhood shops in favour of online deliveries, Indian consumers told us they bought more groceries from these local shops during lockdowns. They also said they had...

As Flourish’s leading investor in India, Harsh’s approach to partnering with mission-driven founders is influenced by his belief that financial inclusion enables individuals with diverse backgrounds to be at a level playing field. Harsh actively works with his portfolio companies - including such rising fintechs as ApnaKlub, Aquaconnect, M2P, Mapan,...

[Flourish Focus] A One-on-One with Varun Tangri, Founder & CEO, QueueBuster

How to Get MSMEs in India to Go Digital Flourish’s India-based investor Harsh Gupta sits down with serial entrepreneur Varun Tangri to discuss how retail-focused superapp QueueBuster is helping corner shop owners replace the ‘nightmare’ of managing in-store operations using pen and paper with easy-to-use software. Mobile-based QueueBuster is a full stack PoS application...

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Embedded Finance

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Embedded Finance

February 15, 2022

Why We Invested In Brick: Seamlessly connecting consumers to embedded financial products with a single line of code

Why We Invested: Brick Southeast Asia is home to over half billion people with a rapidly maturing digital economy. Like the rest of the world,…

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Infrastructure

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…

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Embedded Finance

Why We Invested In Aquaconnect: An Online Platform Connecting Farmers and Customers

By Anuradha Ramachandran and Harsh Gupta Mobile adoption is on the rise among India’s fish and shrimp farmers. With half a billion smartphone users in…

Portfolio

Embedded Finance

[Flourish Conversations] Digital Acceleration - Opportunities in India

In this conversation, entrepreneurs in India talk frankly about the challenges, losses and successes of running a startup during a global pandemic. Not surprising, the nearly crippling economic losses forced them to reassess how they could—and should—pivot to new strategies to better their services and strengthen their companies and customer...