Lots of CDP news today, Dear Reader. Let’s start with a $100 million Series D announcement from Amperity. The deal brings their total funding to $187 million and values the company at over $1 billion.
Nigeria’s most populous City, Lagos has introduced a technological-driven device called: the Traffic Management Solution Device (TMS), aimed at ensuring that the residents comply with traffic law. The TMS is a handheld device, would allow for real-time capture of picture and video evidence of road traffic and vehicle compliance violations as they occur.
Next up: Treasure Data has completed its previously-announced separation from Softbank-owned Arm, which purchased it in 2018. Treasure Data will now be in the Softbank Vision Fund 2 portfolio, gaining more independence and easier access to capital. Treasure Data founding leaders Kazuki Ota, Hironobu Yoshikawa and Dan Weirich are also rejoining the company.
Salesforce’s Dreamforce mega-conference is next week and the company’s publicity elves are already working overtime. In the first of what are sure to be daily announcements this week, the company announced 100+ industry-specific prompts, data models, and AI capabilities across its fifteen industry clouds. It also launched an AI Use Case Library to house its industry-specific AI offerings.