To increase the internet penetration rate in Africa to 51% by 2025, The Smart Africa Alliance, a group of primarily 32 African countries, has teamed up with Japanese technology giant, SoftBank, on the use of non-terrestrial connectivity to spread internet access to underserved regions on the continent.
Super.mx provides the emerging Latin American middle class with insurance that is easy to buy – it can be bought on a cell phone in minutes – and that pays quickly with no adjusters. It’s an MGA, or managing general agent, meaning they handle the entire user experience just like a direct-to-consumer carrier, but with the breadth of product choice offered by an aggregator. The company just raised a $7.2 million Series A from ALLVP Venture Capital, who are convinced that insurtech is the “next frontier” in financial inclusion in... Read More >
Kenya’s leading telecoms company, Safaricom, has launched its long-awaited M-Pesa Super App, which comes with an offline mode and a mini-app functionality.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.