Klaviyo had its own funding event recently, a $100 million investment by Shopify. Today’s item is less pleasant: a data breach involving an unspecified amount of consumer data. The breach apparently resulted from a phishing attack, as did the Twilio breach we reported yesterday. It’s possible the same attackers are to blame.
Cordial also bucked the funding trends last month with a $50 million raise. Today they’re back in the news with integrations with CDPs Amperity, mParticle and Segment. While Cordial itself qualifies as a CDP, its focus is primarily on cross-channel engagement. Connections between data-focused CDPs and engagement-focused CDPs are more common than many people realize.
There’s lots of interesting data in this Ascend2 report on multi-channel marketing, but what stood out for me was that measurement was cited as essential for success by far more respondents (61%) than other factor. Next highest was integrated technology at a meager 43%, and unified data was last at 27%. Now you know we write so much about measurement products.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.