Weekly DaaS Roundup for June 5

DaaS Never Sleeps

June 05, 2025

NEWS, READS AND MORE

At Snowflake Summit 2025, Snowflake unveiled new agentic AI products and AI-ready data offerings on its marketplace, enabling enterprises to enrich AI applications with real-time, licensed content from providers like USA TODAY and Stack Overflow, while maintaining data governance and intellectual property protections.

As AI agents increasingly mediate consumer decisions, marketers must shift their strategies to effectively engage these machine intermediaries.

Bloomberg has incorporated Similarweb's web traffic analytics into its Terminal's ALTD<GO> platform, providing investors with near real-time digital performance data across 3,000 companies to improve forecasting and trend analysis.

Major companies like Meta, Duolingo, and Klarna are increasingly integrating AI to automate tasks traditionally performed by humans, prompting a significant shift in workforce structures and raising concerns about job security and service quality.

WORLD OF DAAS SPONSOR HIGHLIGHT

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🎧 THE LATEST WOD PODCAST 🎧

Jager McConnell is the CEO of Crunchbase, a leading business intelligence platform for startup and investment data, serving over 80 million users.

In this episode of World of DaaS, Jager and Auren discuss:

  • The polarized venture funding landscape

  • Why 'religion' beats 'truth' in data companies

  • Finding defensible moats in the AI era

  • Predicting acquisition targets at scale

M&A AND FUNDING

ClickHouse Raises $350M Series C to Accelerate Real-Time AI Analytics

ClickHouse raised $350M in Series C funding to expand its real-time analytics database for AI applications

Snorkel AI Secures $100M Series D to Advance Specialized AI Development

Snorkel AI raised $100 million in Series D funding at a $1.3 billion valuation to enhance its AI data development platform with new tools for evaluating and fine-tuning specialized AI systems.

Snowflake Acquires Crunchy Data to Enhance AI-Ready PostgreSQL Capabilities

Snowflake has agreed to acquire Crunchy Data, aiming to integrate enterprise-grade PostgreSQL solutions into its AI Data Cloud, thereby enabling developers to build and deploy secure, compliant AI applications with enhanced scalability and performance.

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