Nowports, a Mexican logistics company from Monterrey, Nuevo León, has secured a US$150 million Series C investment, making it the new Mexican unicorn.
Nowports is focused on automating warehouses and shipments with sensors, tracking shipments in real-time. It seeks to be the logistics intermediation option for its clients, who move between 10 and 15 ocean containers per month and come from the retail, automotive, and manufacturing industries.
Omnistream, a Singapore-based data-empowered solutions company for the retail industry, said it has raised $7 million in Series A funding led by SIG Venture Capital, the Asian venture capital arm of Susquehanna International Group (SIG). It also said that the new funding will allow Omnistream to rapidly scale to address the needs of retail clients globally and will result in the addition of more than 50 new roles to the team by the end of 2022.
The insurance startup presents itself as the first social unicorn in Latin America as it is the only one with a B Corp certification, granted to companies that create value not only for their shareholders but also for their employees, the community, and the environment. It gives companies life insurance for their workers, whose coverage grows as they register greater healthy habits. They must do this through an app that offers them telemedicine, psychology, nutritionist, fitness, and other benefits.
It’s deal-making time for generative AI model builders and publishers who can provide them with quality data. Germany publishing giant Axel Springer is trading access to its data for Microsoft adtech, AI, and Azure hosting solutions. Meanwhile, The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI to license its content with attribution of summaries and quotes.