Surfeit of surveys? Plethora of polls? Rash of reports? Any way you slice it, we’ve been publishing a lot of research recently, so I’m glad to feature business news today instead. We’ll start with a new data clean room from AppsFlyer, the first product in their previously-announced Privacy Cloud.
Constant Ventures, a part of the Constant Group, is raising a US$100 million venture capital fund to invest across a range of technology startups in West Africa.
Next, we have a $25 million Series B for CreativeX, whose “creative data platform” analyzes brand images and video for quality, consistency, diversity, and regulatory compliance. The actual metrics are objective items like aspect ratio, video length, and subtitles, so it’s more about meeting standards than fostering creative genius. Which is fine: you need both.
Here’s a new buzzword for your Bingo card: “agentic AI”, which describes systems that act by themselves rather than in response to a prompt. Salesforce was all over the concept last week, announcing its Agentforce collection. According to the company, it replaces the “now-outdated copilots and chatbots” with agents “operating autonomously, retrieving the right data on demand, building action plans for any task, and executing these plans without requiring human intervention.”