Next up: Treasure Data has completed its previously-announced separation from Softbank-owned Arm, which purchased it in 2018. Treasure Data will now be in the Softbank Vision Fund 2 portfolio, gaining more independence and easier access to capital. Treasure Data founding leaders Kazuki Ota, Hironobu Yoshikawa and Dan Weirich are also rejoining the company.
Lots of CDP news today, Dear Reader. Let’s start with a $100 million Series D announcement from Amperity. The deal brings their total funding to $187 million and values the company at over $1 billion.
Acquia, whose CDP is based on its 2019 Agilone acquisition, has announced several product enhancements. These include a unified user interface among its Marketing Cloud components, which include the CDP; streamline campaign management; and a unified machine learning dashboard. Acquia also announced improvements to its Drupal cloud and expanded managed services within China.
Salesforce has reversed course on its bid to acquire data management and integration platform Informatica a source has told Reuters. Informatica itself said that it is not in talks to be acquired. Salesforce stocks rose on this latest news while Informatica’s fell.