The funding round was led among others by Wale Ajisebutu, Chairman and CEO of 21st Century Technologies.

“One differentiator between a good and great opportunity, in my experience, is when a founding team has worked together, engaged with a problem before, and executed a solution, and Enabld has! The cloud communication space is an enormous new frontier forcing sudden changes for nearly every Communication and Telco companies and millions of users worldwide. As a telco and communication veteran and investor, I’m excited to back these founders in defining the future of communication. Enabld’s founding team brings close to 50 years combined of experience and tons of relevant insights and experience in execution.” said Wale.

“The future of communication is here,” said Enabld’s CRO Carlos Villanueva. “This investment is a strong commitment and show of confidence in our vision to change access to the CPaaS market for small and medium Communication Service Providers as well as large Telco and enterprises.”

“CMI is our first key partner in the Philippines for TeLavi this year. We see the big potential to engage with them because of their rich relationship with the cable operators nationwide,” GLC President and Chief Executive Officer Erwin Co said.

“This is not to mention their rich telco portfolio where we can attach not only TeLavi but our very own solution offerings as well,” he added.

“The collaboration is seen to benefit CMI as they go to the market faster while GLC expands its reach to CMIs customer base in an accelerated pace as well,” the company noted.

“Brazil right now is experiencing a tremendous growth in e-commerce and we are determined to help local players meet their goals and see their digital marketing campaigns skyrocket. With offices in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, we have been operating in the country since 2008, meeting mobile marketing demands with the main mobile operators and other companies from segments like education, banks and public agencies. Now our main focus is e-commerce, as we see great potential in terms of growth”, said Dimitris Maniatis, Upstream’s CEO.

Speaking on the occasion, Raymond Ho, CEO at Vietnamobile said, “We have been investing significantly in digital for the past few years to build an integrated customer experience. Our partnership with Comviva shall help us add deep level of personalization and enable us take full control of engagement across the entire customer lifecycle”.

Commenting on the partnership, Manoranjan (Mao) Mohapatra, Chief Executive Officer at Comviva said, “Digital has become an all-important bond between customers and businesses. We are thrilled to partner with Vietnamobile in their customer experience journey and are confident that MobiLytix shall go a long way in helping them deliver personalized and seamless experiences to their customers.”

Sandeep Singh, Mavenir’s Digital Business Enablement, said the MVNO had 15 million customers buying fixed broadband, mobile and TV services. When it bought 5G spectrum in Germany’s recent auction it gained the impetus to transform into an MNO with its own Access, Core and IT infrastructure. This is where Mavenir stepped in to provide the ‘heart transplant’. While MVNOs may have digital engagement channels and light BSS and customer management modules, they lack a core and an access infrastructure, which is a barrier to operating with passion and independence, according to Singh.

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This partnership will help companies measure marketing performance across disparate online and offline channels, including the walled garden and television ecosystems. It enables Neustar to leverage Adverity Connect’s automated data integrations and data management capabilities for advanced marketing analytics modeling powered by Neustar Optimizer.

“Data management is a critical first step in the journey to data-driven marketing,” said Mike Finnerty, senior vice president of global services at Neustar, in a statement. “By partnering with Adverity, our clients can now easily organize and structure their marketing data and then use that data for advanced marketing analytics, saving significant time in the process.”

“User-friendly payment features will allow users to effortlessly connect, engage, and transact inside and across borders without ever leaving their preferred messaging platform.

“Viber’s world-class security and privacy-protection joined with the high standards of premium payment service partners, like Rapyd, creates a simple and secure app-based alternative for conducting personal and business transactions.”