Frontline workers make up 80% of the global workforce, yet hiring for those roles remains one of HR’s biggest headaches. Talent acquisition software giant iCIMS wants to fix that—and it just bought Apli to help.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s workforce is on the cusp of a massive digital skills shift—230 million jobs will demand digital know-how by 2030, according to the World Bank. Yet less than 20% of workers currently get formal training. Nairobi-based fintech giant Craft Silicon and U.S. AI startup MindHYVE.ai think they have a fix.
Marketing agencies aren’t supposed to act like software companies—but Position2 thinks they should. The AI-first growth marketing agency announced this week that it has added two heavyweight names to its board of directors: Jon Miller, co-founder of Marketo and Engagio, and Kumar Ganapathy, serial entrepreneur and Managing Partner at 3iPartners.
B2B marketing has long suffered from stale lead lists, clunky automation, and bloated processes. Demand AI Group thinks it’s time for a reset—and it just banked $2.5 million to make it happen.
Profusa, a digital health company known for its Lumee™ biosensor platform, is teaming up with NVIDIA to build what could become one of the most ambitious AI-powered health data systems yet: a continuous biochemistry monitoring portal designed to link real-time patient chemistry with electronic medical records (EMRs). The goal? To fill what Profusa CEO Ben…
