Acasa is a proptech company that uses the “buy before you sell” model in Latin America. Its counterparts in the US include Knock, Orchard, Fly Homes, and Homeward. The company makes it easy for homeowners to purchase a new home without needing to sell their old property by making down payment loans, signing up for the new mortgage, and handling the sale of the old house.
Sayurbox, an Indonesia-based business to consumer (B2C) and business to business (B2B) e-grocery startup, announced its oversubscribed Series C round of $120 million led by Northstar and Alpha JWC Ventures, with participation from new investor International Finance Corporation (IFC). The new funds will be used to accelerate e-Grocery penetration in new and existing cities and extend Sayurbox’s end-to-end supply chain nationwide.
Muni has operations in Colombia, Mexico and Brazil, and over 15,000 community leaders utilize the service, which has grown 20% month over month since its launch in June 2020. Community leaders centralize the orders by sharing a link to the WhatsApp online store, then neighbors put in their orders of everyday essentials, and the supplier drops off the orders with Muni, which picks and packs them and leaves them with the community leader to take care of the last-mile delivery and collecting the cash payments.
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 According to the company, it replaces the “now-outdated copilots and chatbots” with agents “operating autonomously, retrieving the right data on demand, building action plans for any task, and executing these plans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.”