The Account Aggregator Hackathon, hosted by Sahamati, is India’s inaugural ecosystem event for developers building in this emerging infrastructure space.
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One of the first and fastest-growing cards for digital young Indians, Slice continues to expand the reach of its omni-channel, innovative credit product. Techcrunch discusses the company’s story and plans ahead.
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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 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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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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EMVC’s Melissa Frakman discussed India’s tech venture ecosystem and its possible lessons for African markets on the NewThink Podcast with Africa Investment Advisor and Atlantic Council Fellow Aubrey Hruby and W. Gyude Moore, Policy Fellow at the Center for Global Development and former Minister of Public Works of Liberia, along with Lucy Parry, Co-Founder of Carry1st in Nigeria.
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These leaders’ deep experience at the intersection of technology, venture investment, and financial services operations — as well as founder-centered ethos — will help accelerate the firm’s portfolio company growth in India and internationally.
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In a letter to the U.S. Federal Reserve, Google praised India’s payments system as a model for global digital payments adoption. “After just three years, the annual run rate of transactions flowing through UPI is about 19 percent of India’s Gross Domestic Product, including 800 million monthly transactions valued at approximately $19 billion. UPI was thoughtfully planned and critical aspects of its design led to its success,” said the letter.
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Niki 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.
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EMVC Managing Partner Melissa Frakman joined Canada's Consul General in Mumbai Annie Dubé for a live interview on fintech innovation and why EMVC is investing in India's digital finance growth story, building inroads for India's most innovative early-stage companies with leaders in financial hubs around the world including Toronto.
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“As this digital transformation unfolds, it will create significant economic value for consumers, businesses, microenterprises, farmers, government, workers, and investors - particularly in newly digitized sectors like financial services,” says the recently released report.
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