Vodafone Venturing – Page 13
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Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone Germany, DE-CIX partners on Vodafone Company Net
Vodafone Germany partnered with interconnection provider Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) on Vodafone Company Net.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone Qatar swaps SAP for Oracle
Former OpCo Vodafone Qatar (VfQ) flagged it had extricated itself from the Group’s SAP-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, and onto rival Oracle’s software, following Vodafone’s exit from the operator in 2018.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone’s Lester Thomas: TM Forum can learn from Netflix
Vodafone’s Lester Thomas: TM Forum can learn from Netflix Source: TM Forum Lester Thomas, Chief IT Systems Architect at Vodafone, again suggested that industry body the TM Forum should move to a model of collaboration and development similar to those used by hyper-scalers such as Amazon and ...
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Venturing & Investments
Sendy raises $20m in Series-B funding
Package delivery platform (and Safaricom investment) Sendy raised $20m (£15.4m/€18.5m) in a Series-B funding round, led by Atlantica Ventures and Toyota Tsusho, the car manufacturer’s trading arm
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Venturing & Investments
Vodafone invests in Avellan’s US satellite upstart
Vodafone takes minority stake in US-based satellite venture AST & Science. Rare (and sizeable) outlay by Group’s Vodafone Ventures unit.
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Venturing & Investments
Vodafone regional CEO Badrinath visits Ethiopia amid ongoing Group interest in the African nation
Vodafone’s Rest of the World Region Chief Executive Vivek Badrinath was said to have paid a visit to Ethiopia, underlining ongoing Group interest in the country.
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Venturing & Investments
Vodacom increases stake in Vodacom Tanzania
Vodacom Group reportedly concluded a transaction to increase its shareholding in Vodacom Tanzania (VdT) to 75%.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Vodacom Group partners with Toyota on connected-car
Vodacom Group formed a connected-car partnership with Toyota South Africa Motors, the local subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, as part of its ongoing Internet of Things (IoT) drive.
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Venturing & Investments
Vodafone Ventures arm still on snooze as startups move on and up
Visions of tumbleweed continued to pervade around Vodafone’s rudderless venture capital unit, as its portfolio of past “strategic” investments was allowed to erode further.