A petty consistency may be the hobgoblin of small minds but I’ll give you a third funding item regardless. Points, which uses AI to assign credit risk to people without bank accounts, has raised $8 million seed funding. Points says it’s claims to be the “the first truly scalable blockchain data collaboration protocol for better credit scoring and inclusive finance” a claim that narrow enough to be true. Blockchain!
Legacy system integration, unexpected costs, and implementation delays head the list of challenges faced by marketing cloud users, according to a Forrester report. Just 45% agreed that a single vendor can provide all capabilities they need even though 61% felt most functionality should come from one vendor.
Account-based marketing system Terminus Software has little to do with enterprise data management but they were so quiet about their $11 million Series C that it’s worth mentioning because you might have missed it. The new round brings their total funding to $30.6 million per Crunchbase.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.