Weekly DaaS Roundup for April 10

DaaS Never Sleeps

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World of DaaS
April 10, 2025

NEWS, READS AND MORE

The UK Ministry of Justice is trialing a controversial data-driven system that analyzes personal information of convicted offenders to predict potential future violent crimes.

Global spending on financial market data reached a record $44.3 billion in 2024, fueled by AI and analytics demand, even as institutions pushed back on pricing and growth cooled from last year’s pace.

In a bold take on modern leadership, Auren makes the case that renting top-tier executives for strategic guidance is smarter and more scalable than hiring them full-time—because even super yachts are better borrowed.

At Advertising Week London, industry leaders urged marketers to ditch AI hype and lazy automation, embracing human creativity paired with AI as a powerful sidekick—not a soulless replacement.

🎧 THE LATEST WOD PODCAST 🎧

Martin Casado is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he focuses on AI and infrastructure investments. He previously co-founded Nicira which was acquired by VMware for $1.2 billion in 2012.

In this episode of World of DaaS, Martin and Auren discuss:

  • Economics of open source AI

  • Chinese AI innovation with DeepSeek

  • Model collapse and data moats

  • Regulatory challenges in AI

M&A AND FUNDING

Redpanda Achieves Unicorn Status with $100M Funding

Streaming data platform Redpanda raised $100 million in a funding round led by GV, doubling its valuation to $1 billion.

Hydrolix Secures $80M Series C to Enhance AI-Era Data Analytics

Hydrolix closed an $80 million Series C round to address escalating log data storage costs and boost analytics performance in the AI age.

WPP Acquires InfoSum to Bolster AI Capabilities

Advertising giant WPP acquired data collaboration platform InfoSum, integrating it into GroupM to enhance AI-driven marketing solutions.

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