Mexico City-based lending platform R2 has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round. The round, led by Wen-Wen Lam of Google’s venture fund Gradient Ventures, will allow R2 to conduct more hiring in the areas of engineering, product, data and risk, finance, compliance...
Walmart is partnering with autonomous vehicle company Nuro to launch a new pilot program that will test autonomous grocery delivery in the Houston market, Walmart announced in a press release Tuesday (Dec. 10). The service, which will begin testing next year, will use R2 —...
As of 2015, it is no longer really controversial to name data and its successful use as one of the key arrows in any retailer’s quiver. Retailers are almost always on the hunt for new and better ways to capture and leverage the data –...
Retail 101 for today’s basic retailer means having the tools to keep customers engaged, and making them want to come back. And, of course, it means attracting new consumers to drive new sales. Retail 202, however, gets a little more advanced. And in today’s high-tech, data-driven world,...
July 27, 2023
Rappi, a Latin American delivery app backed by SoftBank, is partnering with FinTech R2 to provide loans to restaurants in Mexico and Colombia. Restaurants selling via the app for at least three months will be eligible for these loans, which will be repaid through their sales on the app, Bloomberg reported Thursday (July 27). Rappi aims to provide $60 […]
September 02, 2022
Mexico City-based lending platform R2 has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round. The round, led by Wen-Wen Lam of Google’s venture fund Gradient Ventures, will allow R2...
December 10, 2019
Walmart is partnering with autonomous vehicle company Nuro to launch a new pilot program that will test autonomous grocery delivery in the Houston market, Walmart announced in a press release...
