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How SA’s SpekTech uses e-commerce, AI to address climate crisis

South African startup SpekTech is utilising technologies such as e-commerce, artificial intelligence (AI) and remote sensing to help scale land restoration and climate impact initiatives. Founded by Ephraim Moss and Michalya Schonwald Moss in 2022, SpekTech wants to do its bit to address the climate crisis from Africa, and overcome challenges such as funding gaps, limited climate data, ineffective reporting and verification mechanisms and smallholder inclusion in the climate impact market.

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BluePeak Private Capital announces final close of USD$156M flagship fund

November 2, 2023

BluePeak Private Capital, an alternative asset manager firm supporting the growth of scalable businesses in Africa through privately-negotiated and structured debt-like instruments, has reached a final close of USD$156 million for its inaugural private capital fund, BluePeak Private Capital Fund SCSp. With a presence in Tunis, Nairobi, and London, BluePeak Private Capital is an alternative asset management firm established in 2019.

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Amperity Launches New Lakehouse Offering

May 17, 2024

Amperity has launched Lakehouse CDP,  which delivers CDP functions within “lakehouse” data stores including Snowflake and Databricks.  Amperity tools for data modeling, data quality, identity resolution, generative AI, segmentation, and performance measurement will send all results to a company’s own lakehouse rather than a separate Amperity-managed database. Modules can be used independently but the real benefit here is that Amperity is one of the few “composable” CDP vendors who offer a complete set of pre-integrated CDP functions.

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