Highspot’s software helps sales people find the best-performing content to offer their prospects. It’s a niche solution but a common problem. They just raised a $15 million Series B, bringing total funding to $24.6 million. Investors include Salesforce Ventures, which has been intriguingly active recently.

Blueshift creates personalized messages for email, Web sites, and mobile apps. It partners with several Customer Data Platform vendors to help assemble the unified profiles that drive those messages. The company just launched an “AI-Powered Cross-Channel Visual Journey Builder” that runs manually-designed campaigns but uses AI to decide when to add customers to each campaign and to personalize the choice of products and contents offered within campaign messages.

Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation.  The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.