The U.S International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has made equity investment to the tune of $25 million in a new fund by Pan-African venture capital firm Novastar Ventures, to back founders building agriculture and climate solutions.
Shuttlers, a Nigerian shared mobility company that allows individual and corporate passengers to take rides on multiple bus routes via an app, has raised $4 million in a new funding round led by Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (VKAV), a Pan-African focused venture capital firm.
The CDP Institute has released the second in its series of CDP-related online training courses, this one aimed at companies deciding whether to build, buy, or “compose” a CDP from packaged products. We think it’s a uniquely complete and balanced view of the topic, but we’re obviously biased. What we can say for certain is it’s free, thanks to funding from Lytics and mParticle, and you get a nifty Certificate of Completion when you finish.
If you still think that MCP stands for Male Chauvinist Pig, well, the 1970’s want their disco ball back. Today’s hep cats know that MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, a new-but-widely supported standard that lets large language models access structured data as context for their prompts. Early adopters include Salesforce and Adobe, and search platform Algolia is now using it to feed their data to customer-facing real-time AI agents.