Keeta Raises $17 Million from Investors Including Eric Schmidt

Payments
Written By Rick Watson

Keeta is a new startup developing an instant and secure way to make cross-border payments.

Clearly the connection to Silicon Valley executive and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt makes this interesting.  Keeta has aspirations to make cross-border payments as easy as Venmo, which can’t make Paypal too happy to hear about.

Keeta claims that its solution is based on a proprietary payments ledger, which I took to mean not blockchain?  My how far crypto has fallen when Silicon Valley is avoiding all terms related to it.

TechCrunch: Eric Schmidt backs Keeta, a startup working to make cross-border payments ‘as easy as Venmo’

Rick Watson

Rick Watson founded RMW Commerce Consulting after spending 20+ years as a technology entrepreneur and operator exclusively in the eCommerce industry with companies like ChannelAdvisor, BarnesandNoble.com, Merchantry, and Pitney Bowes.

Watson’s work today is centered on supporting investors and management teams incubating and growing direct-to-consumer businesses. Most recently, in partnership with WHP Global, Rick was a critical resource in architecting the WHP+ platform, a new turnkey direct to consumer digital e-commerce platform that powers AnneKlein.com and JosephAbboud.com.

Watson also hosts a weekly podcast, Watson Weekly, where he shares an unbiased, unfiltered expert take on the retail sector’s biggest players.

In the past year alone, Rick has spoken at many in-person and virtual events as well as podcasts on topics ranging from retail/ecom to supply chain/logistics and even digital grocery including CommerceNext IRL, ASCM Connect, and Retail Innovation Conference.

https://www.rmwcommerce.com/
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