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Dr. Sourav Ray is the marketing chair for Guelph

Dr. Sourav Ray is the marketing chair for Guelph

Sourav Ray named Lang Marketing Chair. Ray knows B2B marketing, distribution and pricing. Ray was a McMaster marketing professor. Dr. Sourav Ray is the Lang Chair in Marketing at Guelph’s Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics. Ray, an expert in business-to-business marketing, distribution channels, pricing, new technologies, and technology-intensive industries, will join the … Read more

Bazaar raises $70 million in Series B round

bazaar

KARACHI: Bazaar, a Karachi based B2B ecommerce and fintech startup, has raised $70 million in a Series B round led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Tiger Global, a statement said. The round that came just six months after Bazaar’s $30 million Series A was also joined by existing investors, including Indus Valley Capital, Defy.vc, Acrew … Read more

SNGPL agrees to wave of 66% ‘Take or Pay’ clause: minister

SNGPL

ISLAMABAD: The board of directors of the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) has agreed to waive 66 per cent “Take or Pay” clause for the government-owned liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants, a senior government official said. “In the long run, this will help reduce the capacity payments that the government has to pay to … Read more

FPCCI concerned over ECO’s minimal intraregional trade share

KARACHI: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has expressed his dissatisfaction over the fact that the 10-country alliance of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) has an intraregional trade share of only 8 per cent, whereas, the border and land-based trade accounts for more than 70 per cent among the geographically contiguous … Read more

China’s Hisense expands its B2B footprint in Middle East

China’s Hisense

CAIRO: Chinese electronics manufacturer Hisense has expanded its footprint in the B2B sector in the Middle East, a statement revealed. It focused on intelligent Smart City solutions, interactive displays and 138-inch all-in-one business solution screens during its participation in the GITEX Technology Week 2021. “The introduction of our B2B expansion marks an exciting milestone in … Read more

TMA deploys My Falcon Eye to strengthen business operations

TMA

KARACHI: The Towel Manufacturing Association of Pakistan (TMA) has organised a Business-2-Business (B2B) match-making event for better connectivity between TMA members and buyers at TMA House, a statement said. Recently, TMA has deployed a digital B2B Marketplace “My Falcon Eye” on their web. ‘My Falcon Eye’ has been designed to strengthen the business operations and … Read more

Blockchain of Pakistan startup increased by $38 million

Blockchain

Pakistan has perceived a substantial flow in interest concerning a newly launched blockchain-powered B2B marketplace known as Bazaar Technologies.

The startup of the blockchain new Series A funding round succeeded to secure about $30 million, becoming the leading funding round in the state’s history.

The firm only announced the end of the campaign, providing a little information along the way. For instance, the funding round was controlled by the Silicon Valley-headquartered firm, Defy Partners, together with Singapore-based Wavemaker Partners.

Several others have also joined but to some extent, the firms include LinkedIn, Endeavor, and Japan-based Saison Capital. There were also some present investors, like Alter Global and Indus Valley Capital.

As per Bazaar’s report, the firm is the foremost B2B marketplace platform for Pakistan’s minor traders. It presently serves over 750,000 small businesses across 400 different towns and villages. The majority of these are so-called “mom-and-pop” food stores, known as “kiryana.” These firms have found the platform to be quite helpful in buying merchandise from a variety of sellers.

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E-commerce startup Bazaar raises $30 million Series A funding

KARACHI: After Airlift’s $85 million, a business-to-business marketplace, Bazaar, has raised $30 million in a Series A round, which takes the total investment in Pakistan’s startup space to over $250 million, a statement said on Tuesday. Analysts believe the successive financing rounds have laid the foundations of a new era in Pakistan where technology startups … Read more

SEZs set up under CPEC open to Chinese, third-party investment: official

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NINGXIA: The Special Economic Zones (SEZs) under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) are not limited to the Chinese enterprises alone and all the industrial corporation ventures under the CPEC are open to third-country participation, as well. “We look forward to your high-quality investments in Pakistan, while enhancing B2B and P2P cooperation,” Fareena Mazhar, secretary of the … Read more