Carrefour launches fund to invest in digital retail startups

PARIS – Carrefour, Europe’s largest meals retailer, is becoming a member of forces with enterprise capital agency Daphni to spend money on digital retail startups as a part of a world plan to step up e-commerce growth over the subsequent 4 years, it stated on Monday.

Their new enterprise capital fund, Dastore, will initially make investments 80 million euros ($88 million) by taking minority stakes in high-potential rising startups in France and globally to permit Carrefour “to remain near improvements and rising applied sciences”, the assertion stated.

Final November Carrefour pledged to spend 3 billion euros between 2022 and 2026 to step up digital growth, one of many pillars of the group’s technique to remain forward of Amazon on grocery deliveries and speed up its persevering with turnaround.

($1 = 0.9071 euros)

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