Not far behind, data connection company Starburst announced a $250 million Series D, for a total of $414 million. Starburst lets companies create write SQL queries that join data from different sources in a data lake, data warehouse, data mesh, or other data mess. It doesn’t do the complicated data preparation you’d want in a CDP.
Let’s chase some money today, Dear Reader. We’ll start with a $300 Series F funding for Branch, bringing total funding to $667 million. Branch lets marketers create links that point users on all platforms to specific locations within their app, and measures how different options are working. Sounds simple but it’s not.
Off in the distance, we see a mere $55 million Series C for Radar, which had raised $35 million previously. Barely seems worth mentioning but they’re a geofencing platform, which you may find interesting. Capabilities include alerts when people enter a defined area, tracking movement towards a destination, and applying geocodes. Fun, fun, and more fun.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.