South African startup, TallOrder, a developer of advanced cloud-based point of sale (POS) solutions for the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market, is working on expansion to Europe and the United States (US) after banking US$3.1 million in funding in January.
Egyptian startup Pylon, an infrastructure management platform aimed at transforming electricity and water companies in emerging markets, has raised a US$19 million seed funding round to accelerate its expansion, including into new markets.
Kenyan startup, Wowzi, has developed an online marketplace that “democratizes influence”, connecting everyday social media users with big brands, and enabling nano and micro creators to earn money by spreading brand messages via social media.
Digital advertising platform PubMatic’s new partnership with GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, will enable the delivery of AI-powered cohort modeling to advertisers. Using a distributed AI model developed by Resolve, the collaboration aims to generate privacy-compliant audience segments across multiple publishers simultaneously. Not only does the targeting not rely on third party cookies, it also eradicates the need for user data to be moved or shared during the ad buying process.