Back in nine-digit territory, cloud data integration platform Matillion has raised a $150 million Series E, bringing total funding to $310 million. They don’t specifically target customer data but their list of connectors does include bunch of advertising, CRM, and marketing automation systems. Maybe two bunches.
Pyxis One modestly promises to “revolutionize marketing and consumer intelligence by providing an all-in-one, codeless AI platform”. More precisely, they’ve building “dozens” (several slews) of AI models for different marketing tasks including targeting, optimization, creative recommendations and consumer research, and how to add over 200 (technically, one slew-bucket) in the new two years. They just raised a $17 million Series B on top of a $7 million Series A, which seems a bit low for such a big project.
The $200 million round of funding and overall $40 billion valuation solidifies Canva as one of the most valuable private software companies globally and spotlights the Australian tech scene.
Reports emerged at the weekend that Salesforce was in advanced talks to acquire data management and integration platform Informatica. The deal would be Salesforce’s largest since acquiring Slack in 2021, and shares fell 7% Monday on the news. Informatica would add more advanced technical capabilities to the Salesforce product line.