Zeraki, a Kenyan edtech that has built digital learning and school data analytics platforms, has raised $1.8 million seed funding in a round led by Acumen Fund, for product catalog growth and regional expansion.
Chilean foodtech, NotCo, known for its plant-based alternatives to animal products, has just announced a US$70 million Series D extension. NotCo claims that this financing will allow it to boost its new B2B unit, aimed at enabling other CPG brands to benefit from its technology. From its origins, NotCo claims that a proprietary platform called Giuseppe, which uses artificial intelligence, is responsible for finding the elements and formulas for its products.
Taeillo, a Lagos-based startup innovating around the issues relating to time, quality, and cost via its online furniture e-commerce store, has raised $2.5 million in “expansion” funding from Aruwa Capital, a Nigeria-based early-stage growth equity and gender-lens fund.
In a follow-up to their January report, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority raised the number of concerns they have with Privacy Sandbox to 79. Among other issues, they adopted the privacy concerns raised by another U.K. regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office. Google’s recent decision to shift third-party cookie deprecation to next year might mean they saw this coming.