No-code data connectors are easy compared with getting a computer to understand sales conversations. That’s what Chorus.ai does, going beyond transcription to writing summaries and pulling out highlights. They just raised a $45 million Series C, making their total $85 million.
BigID is a privacy vendor that specializes in finding where personal data is hiding in company systems. That’s one small corner of the privacy ecosystem, so it makes sense that they’ve launched an app marketplace for products that provide other privacy functions. They get buzz-points for fitting into the hot platform/app model but missed a trick in not calling it “no code”.
The Customer Data Platform industry continued to grow in the first half of 2020, but at a slower pace as cautious buyers absorbed pandemic-related budget cuts and assessed new entries from enterprise software vendors. The CDP Institute’s semi-annual Industry Update found a record number of new vendors entered the industry but that growth in employment and funding was the lowest in two years.
Another day, another CDP offering data warehouse integration. Today’s subject in mParticle, which has introduced Warehouse Sync to share data with cloud data warehouses like Snowflake. Like other CDP vendors with similar offerings, mParticle sets itself up to provide the data warehouse with unified profiles they lack and to feed profiles to downstream applications using its existing connectors.