Posts by Melissa Frakman
The multilingual voice app helping Indians shop online: CNN

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.

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Banks to Customers: Let's Get Personal

EMVC is featured in a BAI industry report on the new era of financial product personalization. “In many ways, personalization at scale is a 21st-century approach to delivering what the banking industry lost many years ago: the ability to truly know customers, anticipate their needs, engage in a rich dialogue about their financial lives, and, as a consequence, foster loyalty that can last a lifetime”

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GramCover, India’s leading rural insurtech platform, announces that it has raised pre-Series A funding from EMVC, Flourish, Omidyar Network India, and Omnivore

GramCover is leveraging technology and its pan-India digital point of sale network to make insurance accessible for all. The company is creating a seamless ecosystem for delivery of insurance products that address the needs of rural India’s 800+ million population.

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Fast Company names Niki among most Innovative Companies in the World

EMVC 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.

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