Why international DFIs are looking to African startups to scale impact investing efforts
Even as VC funding dries up across the world, development finance institutions (DFIs) are looking to African startups to deploy their dry powder.
Even as VC funding dries up across the world, development finance institutions (DFIs) are looking to African startups to deploy their dry powder.
South African mobile gaming startup Carry1st has raised a US$27 million funding round to develop, license, and publish new games, as well as further expand Pay1st, its monetization-as-a-service solution.
The U.S. Department of Justice yesterday filed its second big anti-trust lawsuit against Google. This one targets Google’s digital advertising business, while the 2020 lawsuit focused on search marketing. The 155-page complaint offers a step-by-step history of Google’s ad-related activities and demands that Google divest its ad server and ad exchange businesses.
Just over one-third of marketers plan to either buy a new CDP (21%) or replace an existing one (13%) this year, according to this Optimove survey. Unfortunately, it doesn’t report how many have a CDP already in place, which would put the other values in perspective. It does seem that CDPs are a relatively low priority: they rank sixth on the list of new systems and eighth on the list of systems to replace.