Minly, an Egypt-based creator economy platform, announced that it closed a $3.6 million seed round to allow stars across the MENA region to create authentic, personalised connections with their fans. The round, which Minly says was oversubscribed, was co-led by 4DX Ventures, B&Y Venture Partners and Global Ventures. It also included participation from unnamed regional […]
The Middle East’s largest online eyewear retailer, eyewa, said that it had raised $21m as part of its Series B funding round co-led by Kingsway Capital and Nuwa Capital. The deal was also joined by French Partners, Endeavor Catalyst, Derayah Ventures, Palm Drive, and Hardy Capital, and takes Eyewa’s total capital raised to date to […]
UK startup Stornaway.io released the world’s first game engine for YouTube, allowing filmmakers, game producers and YouTubers to make interactive films and Full Motion Video games on YouTube.com. The YouTube game engine is an extension of Stornaway.io’s editing platform for interactive experiences, which launched in 2020 and is being used by thousands of creators in […]
What do people really think of you? Big brands are always trying to find the answer to that question. Now a new method from researchers at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business makes getting a read on consumer sentiment easier and more accurate than ever. Maryland Smith’s Kunpeng Zhang and Wendy […]
Social networking app Instagram’s Head Adam Mosseri announced that they’ll begin testing new video features in the upcoming months to make the platform compete more directly with TikTok and YouTube. Instagram will no longer be just a ‘square photo-sharing app.’ “We’re no longer a photo-sharing app,” Mosseri said in a video posted on Twitter and […]
Buy now pay later (BNPL) player Postpay has raised $10 million from global buy now pay later leader Afterpay and Australia-based AP Ventures, it announced in a statement. Tariq Sheikh, founder and CEO of Postpay, said, “We are extremely grateful and excited to have Afterpay and AP Ventures as part of our investor-base. Afterpay is […]
VividQ has closed a new funding round of $15 million to establish our vision for the future of display with Computer-Generated Holography. It’s a new technology that is touted to turn consumer-grade displays into full-fledged holographic displays. This round is led by Innovation Platform (IPC) from the University of Tokyo, who are joined by Foresight […]
Blis launches its latest CPG retailer research, revealing key trends in consumer shopping behaviours, as well as strategies retailers are adopting for a successful omnichannel future. The research took place in May 2021 and surveyed 100 North American retail leaders in the CPG sector across the big box, retail pharmacies and grocery as part of […]
BillingPlatform announced several product enhancements to PlatformCloud and BillingCloud that will further increase its customers’ productivity and flexibility to help accelerate the quote-to-cash journey. BillingPlatform’s new features include new integrations, enhancements to existing connectors, and functionality to support new and improved billing and invoicing capabilities. BillingPlatform’s product releases are based on customer feedback, analysis of […]
TideSmart and Reveal announced they have partnered to offer Reveal’s enterprise-grade analytics solution, F2F.AI, to US-based companies. Reveal’s solution records face-to-face interactions between customers and employees for competitive intelligence, sentiment, compliance, training, bias management and other operational needs. Reveal is the leading analytics technology for face-to-face interactions and transactions – the blind-spot in the customer […]
