Australia’s Canva raises $200M to hit $40B valuation
The $200 million round of funding and overall $40 billion valuation solidifies Canva as one of the most valuable private software companies globally and spotlights the Australian tech scene.
The $200 million round of funding and overall $40 billion valuation solidifies Canva as one of the most valuable private software companies globally and spotlights the Australian tech scene.
Back in nine-digit territory, cloud data integration platform Matillion has raised a $150 million Series E, bringing total funding to $310 million. They don’t specifically target customer data but their list of connectors does include bunch of advertising, CRM, and marketing automation systems. Maybe two bunches.
The Outdoor Media Association has issued its first neuroscience study on the impact of Out of Home (OOH) signs, finding them as impactful as a 30-second radio commercial or 15-second tv ad spot.
If you still think that MCP stands for Male Chauvinist Pig, well, the 1970’s want their disco ball back. Today’s hep cats know that MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, a new-but-widely supported standard that lets large language models access structured data as context for their prompts. Early adopters include Salesforce and Adobe, and search platform Algolia is now using it to feed their data to customer-facing real-time AI agents.