Egypt’s WayUp Sports, an e-commerce platform specialized in performance-based sports gear, has secured a seed round of funding to help it expand regionally, launch a private brand, and enhance user experience over its application and website.
Kenya’s Ed Partners Africa, a non-banking financial institution that specializes in providing loans to affordable private schools, has announced the commitment of a US$10 million loan guarantee facility from the United States’ Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to help it expand access to affordable education.
South African fintech startup FinMeUp has partnered with consulting firm Decusatio Human Capital Solutions to launch a digital financial consumer education solution that allows organizations of different sizes to onboard staff and beneficiaries as part of their B-BBEE and human capital development strategies to improve financial literacy.
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.