Weekly DaaS Roundup for June 27

the trusted news feed on Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) companies and products

June 27, 2024

AI ANTHROPOMORPHISM

While this publication will continue to be written exclusively by deeply flawed humans, we’ve been experimenting with the major AI models for other tasks. Our initial impressions are summed up in this highly scientific tweet:

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READ OF THE WEEK

Data Quality in an AI World by Mikiko Bazeley

“Data is the new gold!” has to be one of the most overused analogies of the past decade, but all these grizzled data miners forget that the most important driver of gold value is karats not ounces.

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NEWS AND READS

63% of CIOs were reporting directly into their CEOs as of Feb of this year, up from 41% in 2015. Huh..turns out data strategy is important!

We can automate more things than ever, but is the 30 hours spent perfecting a process worth the 3 minute efficiency gain? Some guidelines.

The future of privates markets by Michael Sidgemore

"Private markets will be greater than three times its current size today, growing to $42-45T+ by 2040" - will technology make the markets more accessible and liquid? (hint our latest guest has some takes on this too⬇️)

🎧THE LATEST WOD PODCAST 🎧

Auren and Ben talk public/private market convergence, real estate tech, future of office + commercial, recession forecasting, and much more!

the World of DaaS channel continues to grow on YouTube - we’re now 20k strong!

M&A AND FUNDING

Datos Acquires Wise Insights

Datos Insights, a leading global provider of data and advisory solutions to the financial services, insurance, announced the successful acquisition of Wise Insights, a prominent research and data firm servicing leading bank wealth managers, trust companies and multi-family offices throughout the United States.

LiveEO secures €25M to analyse climate data from satellites

Aggregated satellite data can monitor the effects of climate change, spot evolving vegetation patterns and identify system movements.

CData, which helps orgs use data across apps and build AI models, snaps up $350M

CData builds connectors that enterprises can use to stitch together data from different sources – and locations, not just in the cloud – more easily.

Book authors get a startup to help them deal with AI companies

Created by Humans raised more than $5 million from backers like David Sacks and Walter Isaacson.

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RANDOM ART(TIFICIAL HALLUCINATION) OF THE WEEK

prompt: grizzled old gold prospector looking for data

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