Berlin-based Customer Data Platform CrossEngage has raised €5 million ($5.8 million) to expand its growth. The company was founded in 2015 and so far has sold to clients in Europe. It does cross channel campaigns in addition to building a unified customer database. Here’s a review.

We live in crass times but the folks at location intelligence company Cuebiq are at least trying to use their data for non-commercial purposes. They just launched a “Data for Good” initiative that makes anonymous location information available to universities and other nonprofit organizations for things like improving quality of life and natural disaster response. Cuebiq gathers data on 61 million monthly active U.S. smartphone users through over 180 mobile apps.

Do not confuse Snow Software, which helps companies track IT costs, with Snowflake, a cloud database often used for CDP-ish solutions.   Do take note that Snow has just been sold to Flexera, which also helps companies optimize their return on tech investments.  It’s a helpful reminder that cost-conscious IT departments are more than happy  to “help” marketers who are doing a poor job of controlling tech spend.