Kenyan e-health startup MyDawa has raised US$20 million from private equity investor Alta Semper Capital to expand its regional reach and product offerings with the aim of becoming an all-in-one health platform for users.
Nigerian startup Zuvy, an invoice financing and software company, has secured US$4.5 million in debt and equity funding to scale across the country. Just out of stealth mode, Zuvy is an invoice discounting company that provides software for vendors and their buyers to settle invoices and manage payment schedules.
Japanese IT infrastructure and services company NTT has launched a hyperscale data centre in Chennai. With the launch of its Chennai 2 DC campus, NTT’s DC footprint in India has grown to 16 facilities, encompassing 3.1 million sq ft and 205 MW of IT power. The company already has a small DC facility in the city.
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.