Aampe describes itself as “the AI-native user engagement platform,” so they clearly think AI is still cool.  The system combines real-time tracking of user behavior with automated testing of message attributes to generate personalized app content for each individual and adjust the content after every user action.  They just raised $7.5 million in Pre-Series A funding, bringing their total to $9.3 million.

Zeta Global announced a bevy of product enhancements at its recent annual conference. New and enhanced features include its data clean room, data governance controls, enhanced connectivity management, AI-generated solutions to marketing problems, enhanced forecasting and predictions, marketing mix models, and improved media activation and attribution.  As always, Zeta is particularly proud that it can provide its own data to supplement a client’s own sources.

CDP mParticle is being acquired by ecommerce platform Rokt for a price of $300 million.  It’s the third acquisition of a leading independent CDP in a little over one month, following Uniphore’s purchase of ActionIQ and Contentstack’s purchase of Lytics. All three buyers offer some type of customer-facing technology; apparently they’ve decided that adding real-time profiles from CDP will give them a competitive edge.  (See this blog post for more analysis.)