Constant Ventures raising $100M fund for West African investments
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.
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.
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.
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.
Disney has agreed to license more than 200 characters, costumes, and environments (but not voices or talent likenesses) to OpenAI for Sora, its gen AI video platform. This is highly unusual for Disney, which generally sues AI models for copyright infringement; in fact, it sued Google for that a day before announcing the OpenAI deal. Disney will also invest $1 billion in OpenAI, nicely illustrating how very eager they are to join the AI party.