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ThoughtSpot also sells tools to data miners. Their special power is letting users query cloud databases in natural language. They just brought their total funding to $674 million with a $100 million Series F at a $4.2 billion valuation.

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Aqfer offers a suite of highly-scalable SaaS tools that include a data collection tag, customer database, real-time data access, and identity graph manager. It sells these to integrators, agencies, data compilers, and other firms that want to control their own system rather than buying a packaged CDP. They just raised an $11 million Series A to help explain it more clearly than I just did.

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Netherlands-based Spotler Group has been buying email providers across Europe for several years now. They just added Pure360-parent Purepromoter to the list. Spotler bought Dutch CDP Squeezely back in August.

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Finally, a quick romp through the data monetization garden. Stor.ai, a digital commerce platform for grocers, has added an analytics suite that lets retailers share (or sell) their data with packaged good manufacturers. Knoema, which helps companies sell their data on the Snowflake Data Marketplace, has a deal for consulting firm Alternative Data Analytics to assist its clients. Meanwhile, the IAB reports that 75% of Connected TV and Over the Top TV companies say they sell personal information but there’s no consensus on how they’ll comply with California’s CCPA privacy... Read More >

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Treasure Data has launched a unified platform for privacy, consent management, compliance and security controls on personal data. The new suite, Trusted Foundation, provides central control over data access, ensures that all activations comply with consent requirements, and monitors data use through log audits and anomaly detection. Treasure Data isn’t the first CDP to add privacy management, but it’s still not common.

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Zeta is the latest CDP to hop on the Snowflake bandwagon. They’ve launched Zeta Connect, which simplifies integration of Snowflake data with the Zeta CDP, which includes activation capabilities, and Zeta Enrich, which connects Snowflake data with Zeta’s identity graph, data hygiene and enrichment tools. Go ahead: call it an avalanche.

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Would automated text generation platform Narrative Science make the Snowflake-avalanche connection? Maybe you can ask your Salesforce rep, since Salesforce just purchased Narrative Science for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will extend Tableau’s data explanation capabilities, so newsletter writers seem to be safe for now.

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The Malaysian government has unveiled its plan to rebrand and improve MSC Malaysia 2.0 (MSC 2.0) as the catalyst for the growth of the country’s digital economy, said an article from New Straits Times. No further details have been outlined regarding the rebrand.

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Globe’s corporate venture builder, 917Ventures, has launched a new portfolio company, iNQUiRO, to help SMEs make data-driven decisions in their operations.

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Global merchants have not caught up with regional e-commerce giant MercadoLibre, which continues to lead in Latin America, pushing past a market cap of more than $90 billion earlier this year. In a Nasdaq analysis of MeLi’s most recent earnings report, writer Will Healy describes some crucial advantages for LatAm’s current e-commerce leader, including its investments in both shipments and payments, and its “secret weapon” in Mercado Pago to facilitate electronic payments in its cash-dependent markets.

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Houm offers an online service that helps homeowners rent and sell properties “up to 10 times faster,” it claims, than traditional methods. Houmers make money each time a home they worked on is sold or rented. The startup had used its seed capital to expand and consolidate in Bogota, Colombia, and Mexico City. (It began operations in Bogota in mid-2020 and in Mexico City in January 2021.) Houm has seen its revenue grow by over 11x in the last year, a metric that exceeded its own expectations.

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Tunisian start-up company; iCompass is using artificial intelligence to help companies across Africa and the Middle East communicate with their customers in their own languages. Founded in 2019 by Ahmed Nouisser and Hatem Haddad, iCompass specialises in natural language processing (NLP) products using the latest deep learning and reinforcement learning technologies to develop speech transcription services, automatic voice generation, and chatbot and voicebot products.

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