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Ecommerce companies like Flipkart, Meesho, and Jumbotail are fixing the gender balance in supply chain roles through various initiatives. These include creche facilities, gender-balanced sourcing, partnerships with women’s campuses, and training programs. Recruitment firms have seen a surge in demand for female talent.

Jammu Tawi: Ecom Express Limited, a leading end-to-end technology-enabled logistics solutions provider, announces the launch of Same Day Delivery (SDD) services, a significant stride in expedited shipping across top 30 cities in India. This move comes at a time when the company is building its portfolio of D2C brands in online and offline commerce. The D2C

E-commerce marketplace Meesho has launched Valmo, a portmanteau of value and movement, in an effort to build a pan-India level logistics solution. By partnering with fulfilment centres across the country, Valmo aims to create a national logistics solution by eliminating entry barriers for local players and helping them grow their businesses, Meesho said in a statement.

Under Valmo, Meesho will aggregate several logistics providers and offer their services to its sellers. Unlike logistics services run by other ecommerce firms such as Flipkart and Amazon, Ekart and Amazon Transportation, respectively, Meesho will not invest in assets like trucks and warehouses.

Incorrect, incomplete, or ambiguous addresses are a huge drain on the countrys fast-growing e-commerce industry. While last-mile logistics companies have been using address-correction tools of some kind, the advent of generative AI can be a game-changer since it can reduce errors to a great extent.

Evify, an electric vehicle logistics firm, said it has raised USD 1.3 million in funding in a pre-series A round led by venture capital firms GVFL and Piper Serica Angel Fund.

Venture capital firms GVFL and Piper Serica Angel Fund, existing investors like We Founder Circle and IVY Growth, along with a few angel investors participated in the round

Evify, an electric vehicle logistics firm, said it has raised $1.3 million in funding in a pre-series A round led by venture capital firms GVFL and Piper Serica Angel Fund.

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This strategic move solidifies the companys commitment to the states economic development and follows an earlier agreement for investment of Rs 2,500 crore inked in 2021.