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Fintech startup Ayekart, undertakes a memorandum of understanding with Indo-American Business Chamber of SME – UP State. The MOU is signed in order to establish a strategic collaboration between both the parties in developing a partnership to help MSME’s, SME’s and Farmers community. Furthermore, the partnership enables the chapter to leverage the multiple services like finance, technology, upstream and downstream linkages, domestic as well as global trade opportunities and digital presence among others.
The MSMEs sector has become the major contributor to the socio-economic development of India. The sector contributes vastly to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country and exports. It has gained significant importance due to its contribution to entrepreneurship development especially in semi-urban and rural areas of India. As per IBEF (India Brand Equity Foundation) the number of MSMEs in India increased by a CAGR of 18.5 per cent from 2019 to 2020. MSME’s are rapidly adopting digitization. The rise in digital adoption further enhances the growth of the sector.
Explaining the objective of this MOU, Debarshi Dutta, Co-Founder & CEO, Ayekart said, “We are delighted to announce the signing of the MOU with AICOC. Here at Ayekart our ambition is to grow the business by assessing the MSMEs and agricultural sector at large. One of our key mottos is to digitize the supply and Agri value chain of India. This partnership will provide reliable assistance and support to small producers, entrepreneurs, merchants, retailers facing challenges due to fast changing business environment in the digital world. We are also providing tailored services, easily accessible resources and simplified network to traditional businesses and farmer community in India thus uplifting their productivity, efficiency and income.”
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The said will be leveraged through FPO’s, distributors and other stakeholders to improve the productivity as well as efficiency and various other linkages such as marketing, processing, finances and technology. Indo-American Business Chamber of SME – UP State a non- governmental trade organisation which focuses on strengthening the Indian industry and its ecosystem. The organisation pivots technological advancement, knowledge – based economy, improved industry standards and promotes domestic and international businesses.
Thus, the partnership between Ayekart and Indo-American Business Chamber of SME will also support the traditional businesses and agricultural sector by providing finances and offering tailored services in the new digital landscape.
Indo American Business Chapter of SMEs is dedicated towards strengthening entire SME ecosystem through technology advancement, improving industry standards, enabling ease of doing business and taking initiatives towards promoting domestic and global business.
Adding to this, The President of Indo-American Business Chapter of SME – Uttar Pradesh Chapter, D.P. Singh said, “The collaboration would be helpful in resolving the inherent issues of finance and technology that SMEs are grappling with in today’s competitive markets. Our partnership would be instrumental in tapping the domestic and global value chains, that SMEs are striving to operate in. Ayekart exemplifies the technology partner we would prefer to work with as they have a thorough understanding of the entire MSME ecosystem and their tech-solutions offer variety of services like access to finance, wider marketplace and connectivity for entire value chain through a single digital platform. We look forward to work as trusted partners in strengthening the MSMEs and traditional businesses in the years ahead.”
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This partnership opens up immense opportunities for the traditional businesses, MSMEs, Agri-Businesses, Farmer Collectives (FPOs/FPCs/Co-operatives, etc.) supported by SME Chapter as well as Ayekart. As a fast-growing PaaS, Ayekart brings an integrated digital platform as an end-to end and one-stop solution for plugging the gaps in the supply chain. With the tech-solution like Ayekart Hisab, B2B app, mini-ERP, B2C app, Ayekart paves the way for the traditional businesses in new digital landscape, providing them an opportunity to be at par with e-tailers and new age business by offering supply chain financing, tech-solutions to enter the digital landscape and connectivity to a larger network of buyers, suppliers, distributors, retailers and other stakeholders in the value chain.
