To achieve its goal of deploying 12,000 of its fixed-wing UAVs in Sub-Saharan Africa over the next half decade, Wingcopter has announced a $42 million funding round bringing the company’s raise above $60 million to date.
Ghanaian startup eCampus has created a mobile and web application that gives learners 24/7 access to teaching notes, podcasts, video lessons, audiobooks, tests, and a topic-based discussion forum, putting the classroom in the palm of the user. The platform also provides intelligence for teachers or learning facilitators, helping them to know the strengths and weaknesses of students, and allowing them to provide tailored teaching to the specific needs of every student or learner.
E-commerce platforms are now the fastest growing medium for digital ads in India. India’s digital ads market is expected to touch $35 billion at the same time-period and e-commerce platforms will be one of the biggest contributors enabling this upward spiral.
Salesforce is buying Airkit.ai, which builds low-code, AI-powered e-commerce customer service agents. You might have thought Salesforce could already do that, but presumably Airkit does it better. It doesn’t hurt that the company founders sold a previous business to Salesforce, the company was partly funded by Salesforce Ventures, and the product is already listed on AppExchange. Price was not announced.