Weekly DaaS Roundup for August 22

DaaS Never Sleeps

TOP NEWS

A mix of good intentions, governmental overreach and poor execution can really alter the state of the data economy. The cobra effect 2.0?

NEWS, READS AND MORE

The C suite of Similarweb on how they went from offering free data to multi-million dollar clients, what good margins in DaaS look like and much more. Learning from the best.

Envestnet published a 63 page disclosure about a potential buyer that was willing to buy the business at 11% higher and why ultimately they settled for the lower bid. Sadly, Yodlee was a sticking point.

DaaS companies struggle to cut through the noise to announce their new releases. Initial Data Offering is solving via an elegantly simple solution.

🎧THE LATEST WOD PODCAST 🎧

Auren sat down with Oleg of People.ai to learn about:

🦾 future of AI agents

📈 valuing data in an AI sales world

📱 govt super apps

🇺🇦 understanding the Ukraine war

World of DaaS is now officially a 30K+ sub channel on YouTube! We started the year 7K strong. Who knew there were so many data nerds enthusiasts out there!

M&A AND FUNDING

Story raises $80M at $2.25B valuation to build a blockchain for the business of content IP in the age of AI

An IP blockchain to ensure that data providers are compensated properly for their data.

Root raises €8M Seed Round

The company aims to bring carbon data to the agricultural supply chain.

BONUS: COOL TWEETS

RANDOM ART(TIFICIAL HALLUCINATION) OF THE WEEK

prompt: the cobra effect in the digital era

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