It’s downhill from here. We have a S-1 from ZoomInfo, but it’s their second since going public in June, and a $210 million Series D from AppsFlyer, but it’s just an extension of a round from January. So let’s go with ORO, which gets the Full Speed Ahead Award for launching all-in-one event planning software during an event-blocking pandemic.
The U.S. Thanksgiving holiday has been accompanied by the traditional news famine, so we’re reduced to rumors. At least we have the juicy one that Salesforce is in talks to acquire messaging platform Slack. It would be another move for Salesforce beyond its stronghold in customer-facing systems.
Biometrics and machine learning may be a boon to business – a big threat to kids.
Digital advertising platform PubMatic’s new partnership with GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, will enable the delivery of AI-powered cohort modeling to advertisers. Using a distributed AI model developed by Resolve, the collaboration aims to generate privacy-compliant audience segments across multiple publishers simultaneously. Not only does the targeting not rely on third party cookies, it also eradicates the need for user data to be moved or shared during the ad buying process.