If you’re fascinated by martech investment, or money in general, you’ll be interested that sales enablement platform Highspot has raised a $248 million Series F, bringing total funding to $648 million. Highspot helps salespeople to deliver appropriate content to their prospects. There’s plenty of AI mixed in, if that piques your interest.
We have something for everyone today, Dear Reader. For those who still doubt that retail media is a Big Thing, customer data agency dunnhumby announced an “end-to-end retail media platform”. The new offering will make it easy for retailers to monetize their customer data without having to develop the underlying systems from scratch. Appearance of packaged products is a normal stage in market development, indicating a concept has been well enough defined for developers to understand common requirements.
Or maybe you’re just worried about the collapse of civilization in general. Our friends at Edelman will scratch that itch with news that trust levels in major institutions are lower than ever. “Government and media feed cycle of division and disinformation for votes and clicks,” says Edelman, leaving “NGOs and business pressured to take on societal problems beyond their abilities.” Have a great day!
Customer engagement platform Twilio has integrated with OpenAI’s Realtime API to enable Twilio customers and developers to build AI-powered conversational apps. The integration will support the creation of speech-to-speech voice conversations featuring AI agents. This is an expansion of existing Twilio/OpenAI integrations.