Weekly DaaS Roundup for August 29

DaaS Never Sleeps

NEWS, READS AND MORE

With earning season wrapped up, we went through the earnings calls of publicly traded DaaS small caps. Cool to see AI start making an impact on the bottom line.

Will AI finally fix the flaws that have plagued data marketplaces for far too long?

The whack-a-mole game of content owners vs LLMs continues. “While close to 25% of the world’s most popular websites now block GPTBot, only 2% are blocking Meta’s new bot”...for now.

Criteo seeks new CEO by Ronan Shields (Digiday)

The company is one of the Q2 earnings standouts, their stock $CRTO is up 84% YTD. That’s a tough act to follow.

🎧THE LATEST WOD PODCAST 🎧

Economist and writer Bryan Caplan brings the heat with some contrarian (but data backed) thoughts like:

📉 education has bad ROI for society

🚁 parenting isn’t that important

🔑 there’s a simple process for success

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

Data infrastructure startup Cribl raises $319M at a $3.5B valuation

Cribl, a startup developing data management and orchestration tools, has raised $319 million in a Series E funding round led by GV that values the company at $3.5 billion.

nOps lands $30M to optimize AWS customers' cloud spend

nOps, a startup building tools to optimize AWS customers' cloud spend, has raised $30 million in a new funding round.

Lightcast Acquires Talent Intelligence Provider Stratigens

Lightcast, a provider of trusted global labor market data, analytics, acquires UK-based talent data provider Stratigens.

BONUS: COOL DATA SETS

Docsend has been aggregating stats on how many pitch decks are created, how long people look at them and more. If you’re sending decks to investors today, as of last week - the average time that’s spent reading them is a few seconds north of 2 minutes. In years prior that figure was closer to 3.5 minutes. Power of brevity?

RANDOM ART(TIFICIAL HALLUCINATION) OF THE WEEK

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