Nowports, a Mexican logistics company from Monterrey, Nuevo León, has secured a US$150 million Series C investment, making it the new Mexican unicorn.
Nowports is focused on automating warehouses and shipments with sensors, tracking shipments in real-time. It seeks to be the logistics intermediation option for its clients, who move between 10 and 15 ocean containers per month and come from the retail, automotive, and manufacturing industries.
Omnistream, a Singapore-based data-empowered solutions company for the retail industry, said it has raised $7 million in Series A funding led by SIG Venture Capital, the Asian venture capital arm of Susquehanna International Group (SIG). It also said that the new funding will allow Omnistream to rapidly scale to address the needs of retail clients globally and will result in the addition of more than 50 new roles to the team by the end of 2022.
The insurance startup presents itself as the first social unicorn in Latin America as it is the only one with a B Corp certification, granted to companies that create value not only for their shareholders but also for their employees, the community, and the environment. It gives companies life insurance for their workers, whose coverage grows as they register greater healthy habits. They must do this through an app that offers them telemedicine, psychology, nutritionist, fitness, and other benefits.
Email and mobile personalization platform Movable Ink has announced a new integration between its Da Vinci content personalization solution and Adobe Journey Optimizer. Joint customers will be able to develop content assets aimed at each individual email recipient and bring them into Adobe Journey Optimizer for deployment. This builds on an existing integration between Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Campaign.