SuperAwesome is truly devoted to privacy, having started its kid-safe digital media ecosystem in 2013. They just raised $17 million from Microsoft’s M12 venture fund, bringing total funding to $58 million.
Here’s a sign of the times: SECURITI.ai positioned itself as a privacy vendor instead of an AI vendor when it could have chosen either one. They just raised a $50 million Series B for a collection of tools that uses AI to automatically find personal data in a company’s systems, track consent, and fulfill data access requests. The company has also just launched freemium and self-service portals.
Surely it’s no longer cool to sell companies location history that they can tie to individual records? Au contraire. Location data vendor Factual recently announced a product that does exactly that, matching on devices. The company promises that all data is acquired with proper consent or was acquired before current consent rules such as CCPA took effect.
CDP and marketing cloud vendor Zeta Global announced an agreement to purchase LiveIntent, which helps companies do email-based advertising. The deal will let Zeta expand its identity graph, enter the publisher monetization business, and accelerate its mobile and retail media products. Zeta will pay $77.5 million in cash and $172.5 million in common stock, with potential for additional payments based on performance.