Research
Research is foundational to our approach to partnering with founders and their teams who are changing commerce.
Our dedicated research team works hand-in-hand with our investment team to explore the biggest challenges in commerce and identify the companies solving them.
Automation
Towards the AI Agent Ecosystem
A Technical Guide for Founders & Operators Building Agents
Foundational Models
Tool Aggregators
Multi-Modal Data Stores
B2B Commerce
The Dominoes are Starting to Fall
Why B2B Commerce is the $100 Trillion Market Technology Hasn’t been Able to Crack – Until Now
B2B Checkout
Embedded Finance
Fintech Data Infrastructure
All Research
Towards the AI Agent Ecosystem
A Technical Guide for Founders & Operators Building Agents
The Next Chapter of Embedded Finance
A Guide for How and Where to Play - to Win
The Future of Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
Why the next generation TMS won't be a TMS at all
Why Using Internal Tools to do More with Less Matters Today
No-Code and Low-Code
Why Hyperautomation Will Unlock a More Efficient Future
Our deep dive report on the race to control corporate chaos
Every Company Will Be a Logistics Company
A key lesson from the last few years of pandemic life is that every company needs to start thinking like a logistics company, even become one themselves
Check this Out - Part 2
A Deep Dive on Checkout Challengers
Check this Out - Part 1
There’s never been a truly digital checkout experience in B2B commerce, but that’s changing
The Dominoes are Starting to Fall
Why B2B Commerce is the $100 Trillion Market Technology Hasn’t been Able to Crack – Until Now
About Activant Research
The Research team, based in Cape Town, covers Activant’s core sectors – fintech, supply chain, and automation – from the pre-seed through to the public markets
Research Associate
Data enthusiast unraveling insights to fuel informed decision-making in the ecosystem
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