Loft aims to serve as a “one-stop shop” for Brazilians to help them manage the home buying and selling process. Last year, Loft acquired a Mexico City-based startup, TrueHome, and entered that market in what it described as the “start” of its international expansion. The company had become the real estate e-commerce platform with the highest revenue in emerging markets outside China.
Prosperia, the Mexican startup that offers B2B services for pre-diagnosis through artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent illnesses caused by chronic diseases, raised US$2 million in a seed round. The company has focused on the prevention of blindness, which becomes a consequence of chronic diseases such as diabetes. The healthtech has two products: a risk calculator, which are intelligent questionnaires that patients can fill out online only. The other product is an eye health assessment analyzed on the platform with Prosperia’s AI algorithms.
Huawei South Africa has announced its $5.8 million (R100-million) Cloud Spark programme which the company claims will support more than 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) over the next 3 years.
Treasure Data will provide its system to free for companies that are stuck in contracts with other CDPs. The trade-up program is available to companies with roughly firms with $1 billion or more revenue, that already have a competitive CDP in place. There will still be some costs for services to make the conversion but Treasure Data says these are fairly small since it has considerable experience with such projects.