Gorgias develops customer service tools for ecommerce companies, and sells them for as little as $60 per month. You won’t be surprised that they grew very quickly during the pandemic, reaching over 10,000 clients. They just raised a $30 million Series C, bringing total funding to $72.4 million.
Northbeam collects first-party data and uses it to help companies optimize ecommerce and direct-to-consumer ad campaigns while they’re running. It’s a fairly crowded field but Silversmith Capital Partners thinks there’s enough more room left to justify giving Northbeam a $15 million Series A.
Let’s pay some attention to data engineering today, Dear Reader. Observability vendor Monte Carlo Data finds that quality issues impact most or all business decisions at 47% of companies, and 26% of revenue is impacted by poor data quality. The average data engineer spends two days a week dealing with data quality incidents – and 58% say the number of incidents has increased in the past year.
Google lashed out at the Department of Justice’s threat to break up the company, calling the proposals “radical.” Among other things, Google says the proposals would threaten users’ privacy, stifle innovation and break Android and Chrome. Given the appeals process, it will likely be years before we know whether Google will stay in one piece.