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📰 This Week in Data
Databricks closed a $5B round led by Coatue, with Blackstone, MGX, and T. Rowe Price participating — the company's second raise this year as it scales its AI/data platform against Snowflake.
Standard Metrics — Raises $20M Series B for AI Portfolio Management (Industry)
The AI-driven portfolio management platform for VC/PE raised $20M led by 8VC, with Salesforce Ventures and Spark Capital participating; it now supports 10,000+ portfolio companies and 150 firms managing $400B+ in assets.
Databricks Ventures made a strategic growth investment in UK-based consultancy Advancing Analytics alongside Tercera — its first investment in a UK-headquartered consulting firm.
🎙️ Worth Watching
The best voice models now listen, adapt, and resolve too.
Most CX platforms don't own the voice. They orchestrate a workflow, then call a third party for speech and transcription. Every hop adds latency, and latency is what turns a frustrated customer into a churned one.
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You keep full control. Plug in any LLM, connect tools, webhooks, and MCP servers, and ground every answer in your knowledge base. Launch in minutes, A/B test with Experiments, enforce Guardrails, and version every change.
More resolved conversations, less infrastructure stitching. Pricing is transparent and flat at $0.08 per minute.
