DLF, India’s biggest listed real estate company, is set to construct a second data centre in Noida that has been pre-leased to Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres. The developer will invest about Rs 135 crore (US$17 million) to build the centre, which will be spread over 364,000 square feet. The facility is expected to be ready in two years.
Kippa, the Nigerian startup improving the lifecycle of small businesses across the country with its financial management and payments platform, has raised $8.4 million in an oversubscribed seed round.
LeadSquared, a Bengaluru-based leader of end-to-end sales, marketing, and onboarding automation solutions, has the opened a new office in Melbourne, Australia. As they expand internationally, Melbourne’s innovation culture, technology infrastructure, and talent will play a key role in supporting their efforts, not just from a market expansion perspective in the Oceania and APAC region, but also in leading their go-to-market training efforts globally.
Amperity has launched Lakehouse CDP, which delivers CDP functions within “lakehouse” data stores including Snowflake and Databricks. Amperity tools for data modeling, data quality, identity resolution, generative AI, segmentation, and performance measurement will send all results to a company’s own lakehouse rather than a separate Amperity-managed database. Modules can be used independently but the real benefit here is that Amperity is one of the few “composable” CDP vendors who offer a complete set of pre-integrated CDP functions.