Mobile messaging platform Attentive has also raised more than $100 million, although it took a $70 million Series C to push them over the mark to $124 million total. They also doubled their headcount and tripled their revenue last year. But, being at the enterprise end of the spectrum, they have well under 1,000 clients.
We have a clutch of acquisition news today, Dear Reader. Dentsu Aegis Network’s Merkle agency alone accounts for two items: purchase of data services technology company 4Cite and of B2B marketing consultancy Digital Pi. https://www.merkleinc.com/news-and-events/press-releases/2020/dentsu-aegis-network-builds-out-merkles-b2b-services 4Cite is especially interesting, since it aggregates first party information for its retail clients to understand customer intent and improve identity resolution. It’s another way to compensate for the expected demise of third party cookies.
Digital transformation is another project that can often feel more like a burden than a benefit. Infosys confirms that progress has been slow, with the proportion of companies at the most advanced stage of “visionary” remaining at 22% in the past three years. The most successful firms focus on empowering employees and improving customer experience rather than operational efficiency.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.