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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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... Read More
Oracle Health is betting big on artificial intelligence. The company has launched the Oracle AI Center of Excellence for Healthcare, a resource hub designed to help hospitals and health systems cut through the complexity of AI adoption and put generative intelligence to work in clinical care, operations, and research. The pitch: healthcare organizations get not... Read More
Progress Software, long known for its enterprise-grade infrastructure and digital experience tools, is planting a bold flag in the generative AI space with the launch of Progress® Agentic RAG. The SaaS platform is designed to democratize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)—a method that grounds large language model (LLM) answers in real business data—by stripping away the complexity... Read More
Eagleview, best known for its aerial imagery and AI-driven property intelligence, is giving its drone inspection platform a major lift. The company just announced new feature upgrades to Eagleview Assess™, aimed squarely at contractors, insurers, and property managers tackling complex, large-scale roofs—think churches, triplexes, and sprawling apartment buildings. “We heard customers asking for commercial project... Read More
OnviSource is expanding its global footprint with a new strategic partnership in South Africa, teaming up with Square Root Data Analytics to sharpen enterprise visibility into customer experience, workforce behavior, and operational processes. The collaboration merges Square Root’s business intelligence expertise with OnviSource’s AI-powered interaction analytics—think multichannel call monitoring, desktop behavior tracking, and customer touchpoint... Read More