6sense, which unifies B2B account engagement for marketing and sales teams, has raised a $125 million Series D, bringing total funding to $226 million.  The system relies heavily on machine learning to build a unified data layer, predict next best action per account, and orchestrate customer journeys.  We’ve never called them a CDP but they probably qualify.

Over here!  Zip!  Crownpeak found 94% of marketers and IT pros say speed and agility are important to digital experience management.  Too many big words.  Marketers want more speed.  Zip!

Social media management platform Hootsuite has purchased Heyday, a system that embeds human and AI-based chat in ecommerce, CRM, and other customer-facing systems.  Price was $48 million.  Heyday launched in July 2020 and had raised $6.7 million Don’t confuse them with Heyday.co the marketplace acceleration platform, which has raised $245 million.