Brazil’s delivery heavyweight is turning takeaway habits into a business in groceries, payments and restaurant software. Its next test is making that convenience pay for everyone involved.
The Buenos Aires-born travel company survived the dot-com bust, regional currency shocks and a pandemic. Now, inside Prosus, it is stitching flights, beds, credit, loyalty and AI into one Latin American checkout.
It started as two programmers fixing a broken internet for coders. Eighteen years and 83 million answers later, Stack Overflow is betting its human-checked knowledge is the one thing the AI boom can't fake.
Fundamental Research Labs (formerly Altera) is a San Francisco applied AI research company building autonomous, socially intelligent agents - what it calls 'digital human beings.' Founded by former MIT computational neuroscientist Dr. Robert Yang, the company ships consumer and prosumer products including Shortcut (a superhuman Excel agent) and Fairies (a general-purpose AI assistant), and raised a $33M Series A in August 2025 led by Prosus Ventures.