Mexico City-based Kolors connects intercity bus users with independent bus drivers. Kolors, which had raised $20 million in pre-Series B, has now spent US$12M to acquire Urbvan, a shared van service.
Malaysia’s e-government services provider MY E.G. Services Berhad (MYEG) has teamed up with China’s state-owned entity Guangxi Beitou IT Innovation Technology Investment Group Co., Ltd. (Beitou IT Innovation), to spearhead international digital identity credentials service on Zetrix blockchain.
With a pre-seed round of USD $600,000, Databits aims to strengthen its presence in Mexico by increasing the range of courses and programs it offers on data science and AI. Databits, born in Ecuador in 2019, has focused on revolutionizing how professionals in Latin America use their knowledge of Data and Artificial Intelligence to become more efficient, productive and innovative.
Salesforce’s Dreamforce mega-conference is next week and the company’s publicity elves are already working overtime. In the first of what are sure to be daily announcements this week, the company announced 100+ industry-specific prompts, data models, and AI capabilities across its fifteen industry clouds. It also launched an AI Use Case Library to house its industry-specific AI offerings.