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.
The IAB is forecasting that digital video will capture some 60% of total TV/video ad spend this year, a growth of 100% on its share five years ago. The new 2025 Digital Video Ad Spend & Strategy Report also notes that CTV saw a 16% increase YoY in ad spend growth. CTV and social video will be the top “must-buys” for advertisers in 2025.