Data clean room provider Habu just raised a $25 million Series B, bringing total funding to $42 million. I don’t need to tell you that data clean rooms make it easier for companies to share data in a privacy-safe way, or that it’s a hot category. But they’re paying me by the word.
Data management vendor Informatica just launched a Cloud Data Marketplace, which may seem odd – why would they be selling data? But it’s just a marketplace for a company’s internal users, making it easier to share data sets and AI models with an “e-commerce-like experience”. I wonder if that includes retargeting – imagine being chased across the web by those hog belly futures you looked at last week.
Slow cooking is a thing, right, so how about some slow news? It only took one month for us to hear that journey orchestration vendor Pointillist had been acquired by contact center provider Genesys, as part of its project to be more than a contact center provider. Genesys also bought conversational AI platform Exceed.ai for the same reason.
RudderStack, which styles itself “the AI Data Cloud Native CDP”, has unveiled a suite of Data Apps running on its Customer 360 solution, which in turn runs within Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The apps support the fast delivery of data projects — for example, attribution data and propensity scores — from data teams to business stakeholders. They are now available to Enterprise Tier RudderStack customers on Snowflake.