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Sidenote: unlike in Tagalog, Kita means “day-care facility for children” in German, so names like Kita Capture and Kita Credit Agent could carry unintended conn
by wumms 6mo ago
Sidenote: unlike in Tagalog, Kita means “day-care facility for children” in German, so names like Kita Capture and Kita Credit Agent could carry unintended connotations.
- andxor 6mo agoLuckily Germany is not an emerging market :)
- fakedang 6mo agoSince when did Germany victimize itself into emerging market category? I would be even more worried by the fact that it resembles Keeta, a delivery brand owned by Meituan, which actually operates in a bunch of large emerging markets.
- wumms 6mo agoGermany (~5% of SMEs underfunded [0]) isn’t underbanked; it’s just bureaucratically annoying; so more of an UX problem (which Kita helps address) with a somewhat similar outcome. The US ("63M underbanked businesses") are already targeted: "Automate document review for business loan applications so you can fund more enterprises without scaling your back office." https://www.usekita.com/united-states https://www.usekita.com/united-states [0] https://www.eib.org/files/publications/20230340_econ_eibis_2023_germany_en.pdf https://www.eib.org/files/publications/20230340_econ_eibis_2...
- krisknez 6mo agoIn Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian, kita is a derogatory word...