Clutch builds an integrated customer database and uses it for customer analytics and personalized marketing. It just bought Persio, a specialist in mobile marketing messages. Price wasn’t announced. Clutch does predictive modeling but doesn’t mention machine learning or artificial intelligence. These days, that’s noteworthy.
Paris-based Eulerian Technologies has raised $5.3 million to accelerate its growth. Eulerian assembles unified customer profiles from on- and off-line sources; provides Web analytics, attribution, and segmentation; and connects with more than 250 partners for analytics, personalization, and execution. In other words, it’s a CDP. The company was founded in 2002 and now has 50 employees at offices in France, Canada, and Spain. It serves more than 130 clients in 35 countries.
Velocidi gathers marketing spend and performance data and makes it available to brands and agencies for analysis. It’s building a unified database and can append demographic, competitive, and brand data and even consumer comments. But it’s not tracking behavior of individual consumers. The company just raised $12 million in Series A financing.
It’s deal-making time for generative AI model builders and publishers who can provide them with quality data. Germany publishing giant Axel Springer is trading access to its data for Microsoft adtech, AI, and Azure hosting solutions. Meanwhile, The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI to license its content with attribution of summaries and quotes.