Founded in 2019, Klar is a fully digital bank in the vein of companies like California-based Chime. It plans to use its new capital of US $70 million to further push its banking-based model to the Mexican population (where an estimated 50% of the population is unbanked).
Planning to build your own data management infrastructure? Precisely has announced a Data Integrity Suite with SaaS modules for data integration, observability, governance, data quality, geo-addressing, spatial analytics, and enrichment. Old-timers will recall that Precisely was called Syncsort until 2020 and then regale you with tales from the days when mag tape was the hot new technology.
Mono, which as of March, had attracted more than 300 customers and achieved $1 million in total payment volume. Its workforce has grown to 25 employees, and the company expects to round out its senior leadership within the next year. To keep that momentum going, the company announced $6 million in seed funding led by Tiger Global. The new funds will enable Mono to plan for future expansion to other countries, like Mexico, Peru, Chile and Brazil.
Changes in marketing channels and data access have made advertising measurement more important, and challenging, than ever. Taking advantage of growing interest in the topic, Bain Capital is selling Kantar Group’s audience measurement division, Kantar Media, to global investment firm H.I.G. Capital for “approximately $1 billion”. Kantar Media accounts for 4,500 of Kantar Group’s 25,000 employees.