Ecommerce marketing automation platform Klaviyo is no slouch when it comes to fund-raising, notching $358 million to date. But their latest news is benchmarks that let clients compare measures including average order value, open rates, click-throughs, and abandoned carts against average results for similar companies within Klaviyo’s 65,000+ client base. They’ve also added “conversational” SMS.
Switching gears: the Marketing AI Institute (no relation) reports that AI is still an aspiration for most companies: just 17% of marketers said it’s deployed widely at their company, although 80% think more than a quarter of their tasks will be automated five years from now. Lack of training was by far the most common barrier (70%); poor technology and data were far down the list at 35% and 31%, respectively.
6sense, which unifies B2B account engagement for marketing and sales teams, has raised a $125 million Series D, bringing total funding to $226 million. The system relies heavily on machine learning to build a unified data layer, predict next best action per account, and orchestrate customer journeys. We’ve never called them a CDP but they probably qualify.
Databricks is highlighting its interest in marketers through out-of-the-box integrations with partners including Adobe, Braze, Salesforce, MessageGears, and Tealium. All will be able to run campaigns using information in the Databricks data intelligence platform without data syncing or copying.