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Omnistream, a Singapore-based data-empowered solutions company for the retail industry, said it has raised $7 million in Series A funding led by SIG Venture Capital, the Asian venture capital arm of Susquehanna International Group (SIG). It also said that the new funding will allow Omnistream to rapidly scale to address the needs of retail clients globally and will result in the addition of more than 50 new roles to the team by the end of 2022.

Nowports, a Mexican logistics company from Monterrey, Nuevo León, has secured a US$150 million Series C investment, making it the new Mexican unicorn. Nowports is focused on automating warehouses and shipments with sensors, tracking shipments in real-time. It seeks to be the logistics intermediation option for its clients, who move between 10 and 15 ocean containers per month and come from the retail, automotive, and manufacturing industries.

The insurance startup presents itself as the first social unicorn in Latin America as it is the only one with a B Corp certification, granted to companies that create value not only for their shareholders but also for their employees, the community, and the environment. It gives companies life insurance for their workers, whose coverage grows as they register greater healthy habits. They must do this through an app that offers them telemedicine, psychology, nutritionist, fitness, and other benefits.

South African startup Nooksy is connecting far-away family members with children through Storytime and has also built the world’s first “impact” literature children’s library. The startup has developed a mobile app that facilitates video calls between children and, say, far-away grandparents, and allows them to select a book to read in an online reading room.

Egyptian startup Tactful AI, which provides a cutting-edge intelligent customer experience platform, has been acquired by Dstny, a Belgium-based business communications company. Tactful is a unified customer experience platform that provides businesses with a single dashboard through which to manage, engage, augment, and understand customers’ journeys across various touch points.

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.

New Ipsos report for the World Economic Forum looks at consumer familiarity with VR, AR and metaverse, the gender attitude towards them and use cases. The report surveyed adults across 29 countries and found 52% overall are familiar with the metaverse, compared to 44%  in Australia.

Convo Ink offers a smart content marketing engine designed to connect marketers, content producers and publishers in order to deliver branded content to audiences. The new seed funds will be used to expand content platform capabilities and further invest in the recently launched attention measure, the Quality Attention Score.

Australian broadcast giant ABC has reported that learning software providers were slurping up data of students during the pandemic without clearly indicating they were doing so, but failed to disclose that both its iview service and its news website do something quite similar.

Global cloud communications company Infobip has inked a partnership with Data Cohorts, a company specializing in customer communications management and business process outsourcing, to offer the financial services and insurance industries a unified communications platform to enhance customer service experience through digital solutions.

PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia Tbk, the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia, announced its financial results for 1Q22 and FY 2021, with a 53% growth in gross revenue.

Mexican unicorn Konfío, a fintech that offers credit and financial solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises, received a $10 million loan Citibanamex, the DFC, and the Ford Foundation, to strengthen its offerings to SMEs in financially excluded communities or traditionally underserved communities.