Weekly DaaS Roundup for November 14

DaaS Never Sleeps

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World of DaaS
November 14, 2024

NEWS, READS AND MORE

As uncertainty about regulations and a cookiless world continues to swirl, is more collaboration on the horizon?

While nobody is sure, a few topics will certainly dominate. At a glance, businesses can likely expect more continuity than disruption in the continued development of privacy laws and practices.

Meta is trying to find loopholes as European privacy regulation pressure grows. The implications go far beyond Meta’s data collection.

Commercial real estate vacancy rates are expected to peak in 2026 at 24%. New data center provider EdgeNebula has an idea what do with all those empty buildings. Blade Runner here we come!

The healthcare data ecosystem has a foundational layer that to date hasn’t been properly incorporated. Will any of that make the treadmill any less tedious? Probably not.

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M&A AND FUNDING

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Conduktor secures $30M Series B to simplify streaming data management

Data management and automation are key in productizing disparate data.

Polar announces $18M Series A to restore marketing signals for DTC brands in the post-cookie era

As the LiveRamp/Criteo partership shows - the need for reliable first-party data isn’t going away.

Abu Dhabi Investment fund acquires “significant minority stake” In Qlik

The $1bn investment by ADIA values the data integrator at roughly $10bn.

Private equity firm buys consumer data provider Alliant

Instead of buying the data set, the investor bought the entire shop.

German data analytics firm big xyt secures €10M

Trade data analytics at scale.

Conflixis raises $4.2M seed funding to transform healthcare conflicts-of-interest management

Healthcare is an opaque industry - Conflixis is bringing data to make it more transparent.

Data mapping provider Lume raises $4.2M in funding

The promise of “Never manually map data again!” sounds nice…

Deckmatch raises $3M to build structured data out of messy private investment data

You heard it before. If data is the new oil, then unstructured data is the new shale. Deckmatch is working to bring structure to the messy world or private investing.

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