Kenyan startup Kyosk has developed a digital-first, data-led distribution platform that revolutionises the way small retail outlets, farmers, and their communities in Africa connect with high-quality and affordable goods and services through digitised value-chains.
Rwandan startup Kasha, a digital platform for last mile access to health. has raised a US$21 million Series B funding round to help it expand across the continent. Launched in 2016, Kasha is a digital retail and last mile distribution platform for pharmaceuticals and fast-moving consumer goods serving consumers, resellers, pharmacies, hospitals and clinics.
Africa’s leading provider of identity verification solutions, Smile Identity, announced its company-wide rebranding as Smile ID. Over the past few years, Smile ID has revolutionised African identity verification, conducting over 75 million identity verifications and building Africa’s most robust KYC/AML suite of products.
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.