{"id":33277,"date":"2023-09-05T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insidebigdata.com\/?p=33277"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:42:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T23:42:22","slug":"above-the-trend-line-your-industry-rumor-central-for-9-5-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidebigdata.com\/2023\/09\/05\/above-the-trend-line-your-industry-rumor-central-for-9-5-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAbove the Trend Line\u201d \u2013 Your Industry Rumor Central for 9\/5\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Above the Trend Line: your industry rumor central<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;is a recurring feature of insideBIGDATA. In this column, we present a variety of short time-critical news items grouped by category such as M&amp;A activity, people movements, funding news, industry partnerships, customer wins, rumors and general scuttlebutt floating around the big data, data science and machine learning industries including behind-the-scenes anecdotes and curious buzz. Our intent is to provide you a one-stop source of late-breaking news to help you keep abreast of this fast-paced ecosystem. We\u2019re working hard on your behalf with our extensive vendor network to give you all the latest happenings. Heard of something yourself? Tell us! Just e-mail me at: daniel@insidebigdata.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the dog days of summer wind down, we&#8217;re seeing a rise of heat in the industry! Let&#8217;s start with new funding news &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/rockset.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rockset<\/a>, the search and analytics company, announced it has raised $44 million bringing the company\u2019s total capital raised to $105 million. The round was led by Icon Ventures, with participation from new investors Glynn Capital, Four Rivers, K5 Global, and existing investors Sequoia and Greylock &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightup.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lightup<\/a>,&nbsp;developers of a modern no-code data quality monitoring platform, announced that it closed $9 million in Series A funding to further empower organizations to democratize data quality checks for 100% coverage across enterprise operations. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Newlands, with participation from Spectrum 28 Capital, Shasta Ventures, Vela Partners, and Incubate Fund. Lightup will use the infusion of capital to enhance its core technology, grow its team to tap into global opportunities and expand its partner ecosystem to serve a broader customer base &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/conversight.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ConverSight<\/a>, a unified decision intelligence solution provider, has raised $9M in Series A funding. The round was led by&nbsp;Surface Ventures&nbsp;with participation from&nbsp;Techstars,&nbsp;Augment Ventures,&nbsp;Elevate Ventures&nbsp;and existing investors. ConverSight plans to use the new funding to fuel its go-to-market teams in addition to continuous product innovation and feature expansion &#8230; Increasing competition and the viral popularity of ChatGPT is spurring businesses to launch AI apps but they face time and budget constraints in rolling these out. Helping businesses solve this bottleneck,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/portkey.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Portkey.ai<\/a>&nbsp;is today announcing a $3m seed funding round empowering engineering teams to build and launch generative AI apps faster &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dynamofl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DynamoFL, Inc.<\/a>&nbsp; announced that it has closed a $15.1 million Series A funding round to meet demand for its privacy- and compliance-focused generative AI solutions.&nbsp;Coming off a $4.2M seed round, the company has raised $19.3M to date. DynamoFL\u2019s flagship technology, which allows customers to safely train Large Language Models (LLM) on sensitive internal data, is already in use by&nbsp;Fortune 500 companies in finance, electronics, insurance and automotive sectors &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/datasaur.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Datasaur<\/a>, a leading natural language processing (NLP) platform that helps annotators train AI algorithms, announced the close of a $4 million seed funding round and launched a new feature, Datasaur Dinamic, allowing users to easily train custom NLP models. The round was led by&nbsp;Initialized Capital&nbsp;with participation from HNVR, Gold House Ventures, and TenOneTen, bringing Datasaur\u2019s total funding to date to $7.9 million. The latest investment will be used to democratize access to the latest advancements in NLP and LLM technology &#8230; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mindsdb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MindsDB<\/a><\/strong>, an artificial intelligence virtual database enabling the creation of the next wave of AI-centered applications, announced an investment from NVentures, NVIDIA&#8217;s venture capital arm, bringing total seed funding raised to&nbsp;$46.5 million. The latest round \u2013 which includes existing investors&nbsp;Benchmark,&nbsp;Mayfield, Y Combinator, OpenOcean and Walden Catalyst \u2013 will further advance MindsDB&#8217;s mission, making AI more accessible to all businesses by enabling the world&#8217;s 30 million software developers to implement AI capabilities in their products &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simondata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Simon Data<\/a>, a leading customer data platform (CDP), announced the successful completion of its Series D funding round, securing $54 million in investment. The funding round was led by Macquarie Capital with participation from several existing investors, including Polaris, .406, and F-Prime, underscoring their confidence in Simon Data&#8217;s vision and its ability to set a new standard for personalized, cross-channel marketing globally &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.languageio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Language I\/O<\/a>&nbsp;(LIO), a leader in real-time, business-accurate translation technology, announced its&nbsp;$8M&nbsp;Series A1 funding round led by Joint Effects, a Venture Capital firm based in Boston, MA. The largest investor in the round was the&nbsp;Wyoming Business Council\u2019s Wyoming Venture Capital (WYVC) Fund.&nbsp;Key participants also included Gutbrain Ventures, PBJ Capital and Omega Venture Partners. This investment will help expand the LIO machine learning (ML) team and platform that integrates generative AI to improve real-time translation quality and to ultimately generate language-specific, LLM-powered chatbots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In new M&amp;A activity we learned &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IFS<\/a>, the global cloud enterprise software company, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire <a href=\"https:\/\/falkonry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Falkonry, Inc.<\/a> a California-based Industrial AI software company that provides automated, high-speed data analysis to the manufacturing and defense industries.&nbsp;The AI-based, self-learning solution continuously monitors large volumes of data for assets, machines, systems, and industrial processes to discover and analyze unusual behavior and causes of failures &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/insightsoftware.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insightsoftware<\/a>, a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions,  announced it acquired&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/vizlib.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vizlib<\/a>, a UK-based software company that builds powerful value-added products for Qlik Sense. With this deal, insightsoftware can provide Qlik users with powerful new capabilities to supercharge operational planning, reporting, and analytics. It also complements insightsoftware\u2019s previous&nbsp;acquisition of Power ON, and extends&nbsp;write-back: the ability to update source data in enterprise databases directly onto the Qlik platform &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springml.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SpringML<\/a>, a technology services company with leading cloud, data engineering, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, announced its merger with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/egen.solutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Egen<\/a>, a cloud migration, application modernization and platform engineering provider. The combination of Egen&#8217;s cloud and platform engineering expertise with SpringML\u2019s data, analytics and AI capabilities creates a provider with end-to-end capabilities across the cloud, data, analytics, AI, and platform engineering spectrum. The combined business will have all the capabilities necessary to increase the value and accelerate the timeline of the data-driven digital journeys of private and public sector clients. Egen and SpringML together will represent one of the largest independent players in the Google Cloud ecosystem, with deep expertise across the most critical aspects of cloud and data transformation &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apica.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apica<\/a>, a leader in synthetic monitoring and observability, announced its agreement to acquire observability data fabric startup&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/logiq.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LOGIQ.AI<\/a>. Apica also announced it has raised $10M in funding from existing investors&nbsp;Industrifonden, SEB Foundation, and&nbsp;Oxx. With the acquisition and the new financing, Apica plans to continue delivering affordable and flexible observability innovations and develop new capabilities in the coming months for enterprise customers &#8230; IBM (NYSE:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/investor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IBM<\/a>)&nbsp;announced it has completed its acquisition of Apptio Inc. after receiving all required regulatory approvals. The acquisition gives clients the ability to derive additional value through the&nbsp;powerful combination of Apptio and IBM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the people movement category we heard &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diffusiondata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DiffusionData<\/a>, a leader in real-time data streaming and messaging solutions, announced that&nbsp;Scott Fink, previously an Executive Director Site Reliability Engineering at&nbsp;CME Group, as its new Managing Director for the Americas. Scott will be responsible for all customer and partner engagements for DiffusionData Inc across the US, Canada and Latin America &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alteryx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alteryx, Inc.<\/a>&nbsp;(NYSE: AYX), the Analytics Cloud Platform company, announced the appointment of Scott Van Valkenburgh as Senior Vice President, Global Alliances and Channels, to lead Alteryx\u2019s global partner strategy and execution &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vectra.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vectra AI<\/a>, a leader in AI-driven cyber threat detection and response, announced the appointment of Scott Dussault as chief financial officer (CFO). An accomplished executive with a proven track record of driving financial performance and creating shareholder value, Dussault will lead Vectra AI\u2019s financial operations as the company enters its next stage of growth &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoughtspot.com\/\">ThoughtSpot<\/a>, the&nbsp;AI-Powered Analytics&nbsp;company, announced that Jeff Depa has joined the company as its Chief Revenue Officer. In this role, Depa will contribute to ThoughtSpot\u2019s strategic growth and revenue goals by maximizing profit through go to market strategies that operationalize outcomes across the entire customer lifecycle &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarwinds.com\/?cmp=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SolarWinds<\/a>&nbsp;(NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, announces database and cloud migration expert Kevin Kline has been appointed Senior Staff Technical Marketing Manager. After a brief hiatus, Kline has returned to the SolarWinds team to serve as a subject matter expert on a variety of data management systems &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zilliant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zilliant<\/a>, the software platform for price and revenue optimization and management, announced that Chris Lee has joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataiku.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dataiku<\/a>, the platform for Everyday AI, announced that it has appointed JY Pook as Senior Vice President &amp; General Manager of Asia Pacific &amp; Japan (APJ), further solidifying its commitment to the APJ region. Pook is a seasoned executive with an extensive background in leading digital transformations and go-to-market strategies in the APJ technology sector. He joins Dataiku from Tableau at Salesforce after almost 12 years as Senior Vice President &amp; General Manager of APJ. Pook will leverage his experience to elevate Dataiku\u2019s presence, strengthen AI adoption across diverse industries, drive growth, and empower local teams in the APJ region &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.protegrity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Protegrity<\/a>, a leader in data security and privacy, announced Dante Malagrino has been appointed Chief Product Officer (CPO), and Christian Carnell has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Reporting to Protegrity CEO Paul Mountford, Malagrino and Carnell will take on their new executive leadership roles in August to lead Protegrity\u2019s next phase of growth.\u202f&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the new partnerships, alignments and collaborations department we have &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/seeq.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Seeq Corporation<\/a>, a leader in advanced analytics for manufacturing, announced a partnership with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.databricks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Databricks<\/a><\/strong>, the data and AI company, that brings a native integration between each company&#8217;s platform to\u00a0simplify access to high quality asset and process data, unify IT and OT data processing and accelerate AI\/ML adoption across the industrial manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and energy sectors &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deloitte<\/a> announced an expansion of its strategic alliance with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NVIDIA<\/a><\/strong> to help enterprises around the world use generative AI to reinvent how they conduct business. Deloitte will use NVIDIA AI technology and expertise to build high-performing generative AI solutions for enterprise software platforms to help unlock significant business value &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyxtera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cyxtera<\/a>\u00a0(OTC:\u00a0CYXTQ),\u00a0a global leader in data center colocation, interconnection services,\u00a0and digital infrastructure, announced its collaboration with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpe.com\/us\/en\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hewlett Packard Enterprise<\/a>\u00a0(HPE)\u00a0to help customers simplify their IT operations, improve agility, and realize significant cost savings. As an HPE Partner Ready service provider, Cyxtera is now offering its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyxtera.com\/enterprise-bare-metal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enterprise Bare Metal<\/a>\u00a0solution supported by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpe.com\/us\/en\/greenlake.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HPE GreenLake<\/a>\u00a0platform. With HPE ProLiant servers on Cyxtera Enterprise Bare Metal, customers can benefit from the operational flexibility of the cloud with the performance, control, cost-predictability, and security of dedicated infrastructure running in Cyxtera\u2019s global data centers &#8230; Rackspace Technology<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0(NASDAQ: RXT) \u2014 a leading end-to-end, multicloud solutions company, announced a partnership with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aible.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aible<\/a>\u00a0to enable enterprise-scale data analysis and data storytelling while providing deep insights through a proprietary conversational interface. Foundry for AI by Rackspace (FAIR\u2122) is dedicated to accelerating the secure, responsible, and sustainable adoption of AI and data solutions in enterprises across all industries, and through this partnership will be powered by Aible &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/xponentl.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">XponentL Data <\/a>(XponentL), a leading data products solution provider, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tamr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tamr, Inc.<\/a> a leading cloud-native data mastering solution, announced their strategic partnership aimed at delivering cutting-edge data product solutions. This collaboration brings together two industry-leading companies with a shared vision of empowering clients to unlock the full potential of their data &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussteel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United States Steel Corporation<\/a> (NYSE: X) and Google Cloud announced a new collaboration to build applications using Google Cloud\u2019s generative artificial intelligence (\u201cgen AI\u201d) technology to help drive efficiencies and improve employee experiences in the largest iron ore mine in North America. As\u00a0 a leading manufacturer engaging in gen AI with Google Cloud, U.S. Steel continues to advance its more than 100-year legacy of innovation. The first gen AI-driven application that U.S. Steel will launch is called MineMind\u2122, which aims to simplify equipment maintenance by providing optimal solutions for mechanical problems, saving time and money, and ultimately improving productivity. Underpinned by Google Cloud\u2019s AI technology like Document AI and Vertex AI, MineMind\u2122 is expected to not only improve the maintenance team\u2019s experience by more easily bringing the information they need to their fingertips, but also save costs from more efficient use of technicians&#8217; time and better maintained trucks. The initial phase of the launch will begin in September and will impact more than 60 haul trucks at U.S. Steel\u2019s Minnesota Ore facilities, Minntac and Keetac &#8230; \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyndryl.com\/us\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kyndryl<\/a>\u00a0(NYSE:\u00a0KD), the technology infrastructure services provider, and Microsoft announced a joint effort to enable\u00a0the adoption\u00a0of enterprise-grade generative AI solutions for businesses on The Microsoft Cloud.\u00a0Leveraging the partnership\u2019s Joint Innovation Centers, Kyndryl\u2019s growing patent portfolio in data and AI, and its access to Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure OpenAI Service and Microsoft Fabric, the two companies will rapidly design, develop and drive new generative AI innovations and solutions across their enterprises. To further the advancement of new AI capabilities, Kyndryl is also committing to utilize the Kyndryl University for Microsoft to educate thousands of Kyndryl employees on new Microsoft AI technologies &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/peakaio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PEAK:AIO<\/a>, a provider of a transformative software defined storage platform designed to meet the needs of artificial intelligence, announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Stormgrid, a provider of cutting-edge hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Together, PEAK:AIO and Stormgrid will offer state-of-the-art AI infrastructure providing enhanced performance and scalability for Stormgrid\u2019s burgeoning customer base &#8230; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ascend.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ascend.io<\/a><\/strong>, a leader in Data Pipeline Automation, announced that it will offer free data ingest services into the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, offered by Databricks, the data and AI company. The integration of Ascend&#8217;s data management capabilities with Databricks&#8217; Lakehouse Platform caters to the diverse needs of today&#8217;s data professionals while eliminating the cost of loading and syncing data &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Presidio<\/a>, a leading global digital services and solution provider announced an extensive partnership with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasuni.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nasuni Corporation<\/a>, a leading provider of file data services. Nasuni is optimizing AWS Cloud use and reducing OpEX with Presidio\u2019s Proactive Recapture into Savings Management (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidio.com\/services\/cloud-cost-optimization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PRISM<\/a>) program. In addition, Nasuni has signed a multi-year business agreement with Presidio to simplify how companies store, protect, and manage file data in hybrid cloud environments.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In customer wins news we heard &#8230; C3 AI (NYSE: AI), the Enterprise AI application software company, announced that the U.S. Air Force will adopt a C3 AI air logistics optimization application to conserve flight energy as a new order under&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/c3.ai\/department-of-defense-awards-c3-ai-500-million-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a previous U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) agreement<\/a> &#8230; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wallaroo.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wallaroo.AI<\/a><\/strong>, a leader in scaling production machine learning (ML) from the cloud to the edge, announced it has been selected by AFWERX (the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force) for a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract to address the most pressing challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF) &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qlik.com\/us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Qlik<\/a><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> announced that Social Innovation Company Hitachi, Ltd. has adopted Qlik analytics with additional services within its Hitachi Omika Works. 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