CNN International Business featured EMVC portfolio company Niki and its mission to make the internet more accessible to the majority of Indians who don't speak English. The voice-enabled e-commerce platform provides a virtual assistant and fintech stack that lets people use voice commands to avail services and do their shopping, pay utility bills and buy insurance online.
The “Next Generations Payments” Discussion hosted by renowned business journalist Tamal Bandyopadhyay was part of a wide-ranging virtual event that celebrated India’s contribution to global fintech innovation.
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Read MoreEMVC portfolio company Niki was featured in Fast Company’s annual ranking of the most innovative companies in India and the world. Niki, India’s first voice- and vernacular-enabled e-commerce platform, was recognized for “converting voice commands into online orders, overcoming dialect barriers” expanding access to digital transactions for new internet users across India.
Read MoreNiki is on a mission to turn India’s 500 million new Internet users into transacting consumers. Niki has built Internet commerce in the style that’s most natural to these users: A local agent, whereby a user can replicate talking to a neighborhood human agent in their own language to access hundreds of services with seamless fintech and conversational voice AI.
Read More“… the financial sectors of countries across South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa are primed to leverage new Blockchain-based payments and commerce platforms over high cost and often-inconvenient legacy banking systems just as they went straight to mobile phones, leapfrogging home telephone lines.”
Read MoreIn conversation with PayU India CEO Rau and Medici CIO Goel, Frakman shared examples of the investments and ideas which propel EMVC’s work in empowering Indian entrepreneurs with capital, strategy, and global connectivity to drive exponential scale and leapfrog innovation.
Read MoreIndia’s UPI “opens up access to real-time by allowing payments to be directly integrated into external business applications.”
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