South Africa’s Revio, a payment orchestration platform that helps merchants optimise their order to cash lifecycle, is making waves in addressing payment failures across Africa, and is planning major expansion after banking US$5.2 million seed funding. Revio is a Africa-focused payment orchestration platform that minimizes the complexity, cost, and risk of payment operations, to help merchants reach and retain more customers.
Nigerian startup Renda is providing access to the end-to-end fulfillment infrastructure that enables e-commerce businesses and major brands to easily grow, scale and expand across Africa. Launched in January 2021 by co-founders Ope Onaboye and Bimbo Onaboye, Renda allows businesses to access on-demand flexible storage across Africa, track and manage their inventory across all locations, process large volumes of orders for same-day delivery, manage and track all deliveries in real-time, and also manage and reconcile cash collections.
IQVIA, a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions and clinical research services to the pharmaceutical and broader life sciences industry announced that Sanofi will use the IQVIA OCE platform in select countries across Africa and the Middle East. OCE delivers best-in-class CRM for life science companies that is built and maintained on the latest Salesforce technology.
ChatGPT-4o is the latest model released by OpenAI and available to all (including free) users. The “o” stands for “OMNI,” reflecting the model’s capabilities for voice and image as well as text. For marketing teams, this might mean one source for genAI capabilities rather than switching between LLMs and solutions specifically focused on visuals.