South African car subscription startup Planet42 has raised US$30 million in debt and equity funding to drive its international expansion, with its first cars already on the road in Mexico as it aims to provide a total of one million cars worldwide by 2025.
Kenyan startup Wowzi has raised a total of US$3.2 million across pre-seed and seed funding rounds to help it scale its influencer marketing platform across the continent.
Future Retail Ltd (FRL) is likely to approach various courts and tribunals including the Supreme Court, National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), bringing to their notice the latest order by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) that has put Amazon’s investment into a Future Group promoter company in limbo. The company is likely to ask the courts to ‘terminate’ all pending cases related to the sale of its retail assets to Reliance Retail, in the wake of the CCI order, two people familiar with the matter... Read More >
Bombora has launched Visitor Insights, a consent-based website tag that tracks the topics a device has consumed. It infers intent, job function, management level, and other information that B2B publishers can use for ad targeting and personalization. This Bombora report shows intent trends by industry: for example, media and advertising users show 70% more interest in Customer Data Platforms than they did last year.