Victory Farms, a Kenya-based aquaculture startup, has raised $35 million in a Series B round. The startup says it will use the funding to finance the expansion of its operations in Kenya and Rwanda and potential entry into Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania.
The world of media measurement is filled with intrigue and plot twists, although I suspect only insiders follow it in detail. If you happen to be one of them, you may be excited to learn that the Media Rating Council has revoked its accreditation of Comscore’ Media Metrix desktop digital audience measurement service, one of the pillars of the industry. Then again, if you follow it in detail, you probably knew that already.
Kenyan web3 platform Fonbnk has partnered with Tanda to launch a first-of-its-kind airtime trading marketplace across Tanda’s network of 40,000 agents. Through the partnership, Tanda agents and vendors across East Africa can act as airtime ‘market makers’ and access new revenue streams by buying and selling prepaid airtime for profit on Fonbnk’s distributed exchange.
Adobe is extending its Real Time CDP to support new data partners, look-alike audiences, and import audience segments from other systems. The announcements came at the company’s EMEA Summit. There were plenty of announcements about the company’s other Experience Cloud products, and of course new features powered by generative AI.