Weekly DaaS Roundup for September 5

DaaS Never Sleeps

NEWS, READS AND MORE

The most comprehensive overview of the DaaS industry we’ve seen to date. Largest exists, active investors, trends. This has it all! Standout fact: Lehi, UT is in the top 10 cities by $funding. That’s a lot per capita DaaS!

The facial recognition database company was fined for GDPR breaches. The company claims that it’s not subject to GDPR as it has no customers or business in the EU.

Over a dozen DaaS CEOs came together at a digital round table to discuss how to preserve data value in the ad-tech space.

In the words of Dwight Schrute, “Keep it simple stupid! Great advice, hurts my feelings every time.”

🎧THE LATEST WOD PODCAST 🎧

Alex Wirth is the cofounder and CEO of Quorum, a public affairs software platform. Alex and Auren discuss: 

  • How AI is affecting lawmaking 

  • The evolution of modern lobbying

  • Predicting policy outcomes statistically 

  • Building govtech companies

World of DaaS is now officially a 35K+ 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

Monda Raises $5M Seed Round to Help Companies Monetize Data and Fuel AI

Monda’s all-in-one data monetization platform is already used by over 150 DaaS companies creating more than 6,000 data products. Datarade veterans at it again.

Revefi seeks to automate companies' data operations

Revefi, co-founded by ThoughtSpot veterans, offers a set of tools that connect to databases and data stores and try to identify -- and fix -- issues.

BONUS: COOL DATA SETS (BACK TO SCHOOL EDITION)

Burbio has been aggregating tons of data about schools, their funding, plans and expenditures. If your kid’s superintendent (“Bye super nintendo Chalmers!”) is gone this year, Burbio can tell you why.

RANDOM ART(TIFICIAL HALLUCINATION) OF THE WEEK

prompt: a back to school scene but the school is designed by Gaudi

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