Sorry about yesterday’s newsletter. We don’t know who gave Jamie the password. Back to real news. Here’s a $16.5 million Series A funding from Nift, which helps local businesses help each other by providing customers of one business with gift cards for another near-by business. If you squint hard enough, you can see this as part of the trend towards rewarding customers directly for use of their data.

Worried you won’t be able to target individuals based on their data? Relax; that future isn’t here yet and, in fact, the options are growing. TiVo, whose cute little boxes quietly track TV viewing in more than 2 million households, just announced it will share the information with Tru Optik’s OTT Marketing Cloud, allowing advertisers to build custom segments based on TV viewing habits and even to retarget TV ads at specific households.

Tofu has raised $12 million in Series A funding to support the ongoing development of its AI-powered unified marketing platform. Identifying worsening “martech bloat” as a problem for GTM teams, Tofu is proffering its platform as an integrated marketing solution with gen AI embedded. This intended to avoid the adoption of multiple AI-related tools with overlapping functionality.