More about money and AI: Decibel has raised a $17 million Series B, bringing total funding to $26 million. Decibel uses AI to analyze the quality of users’ digital experiences, which they summarize in a Digital Experience Score.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) vendor Automation Anywhere has raised an impressive $290 million Series B, one year after an even more impressive $550 million Series A. The company makes it easy for non-technical users to create automated processes. They also just launched a Salesforce connector on AppExchange.
Linking customer IDs is just the start to building a unified customer view. Marketers also struggle to connect information across different data stores. Starburst just raised a $22 million Series A for its system, which enables SQL queries against multiple data stores. It’s based the open source Presto distributed query engine.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.