Sastrify covers a mere 20,000+ solutions in its SaaS procurement platform. They offer a range of services to help small and mid-size companies catalog, track, select, buy, and monitor SaaS systems. Their news today is a $7 million seed round.
If you’re challenged by tracking 8,000 martech solutions, how would you feel about ten million? That’s how many technologies Iterate.ai has just announced it now covers, up from nine million a few months back. The company uses an AI engine to spot trends and grade start-up companies. They also offer a low-code platform with 465 pre-built modules that lets users assemble their own apps. Interesting.
Customer Data Platforms are the highest technology investment priority for traditional retail marketers, listed in the top 3 by 78% in this CommerceNext survey for Yotpo. Digital-first retailers, who struggle less with tech in general, rated attribution, messaging, and new ecommerce models ahead of CDP. The survey also covers business goals, privacy compliance, and other non-CDP topics if you have other interests.
ChatGPT-4o is the latest model released by OpenAI and available to all (including free) users. The “o” stands for “OMNI,” reflecting the model’s capabilities for voice and image as well as text. For marketing teams, this might mean one source for genAI capabilities rather than switching between LLMs and solutions specifically focused on visuals.