Data & Analytics Acquisitions in California

ScanmarQED has acquired MMM Labs, a U.S.-based startup that provides multi-engine marketing mix modeling (MMM) capabilities, to integrate its technology into ScanmarQED's PulseQED platform. The deal combines MMM Labs' speed and multi-engine flexibility with PulseQED's enterprise governance and scalability to offer marketers access to multiple open-source and proprietary MMM engines through a single interface.

LandGate Corp. has acquired Topos in an all-cash transaction to integrate Topos’ AI-powered insights for faster due diligence on battery storage, renewable energy and power projects into LandGate’s site-selection platform. The deal expands LandGate’s data and AI capabilities—reducing time-to-market for energy and infrastructure projects and strengthening its position serving developers, utilities, ISOs and financial sponsors.

Carbon Direct has acquired climate-technology company Pachama, integrating Pachama’s data-driven monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) capabilities into Carbon Direct’s science-led carbon management advisory services. The deal brings Pachama’s technology and team into Carbon Direct to strengthen digital project diligence, MRV tools, and the company’s online client platform to better serve corporate climate and net-zero initiatives.

Zonda has acquired Eliant, a leader in customer experience (CX) management for the homebuilding industry. Zonda will integrate Eliant's feedback management, survey, and analytics capabilities with its TrustBuilder platform and NewHomeSource marketplace to provide a unified reviews and CX solution for homebuilders.

Istari Digital has acquired Dgraph, the open-source graph database, from Hypermode, Inc. The acquisition integrates Dgraph’s graph capabilities into Istari’s data sovereignty and engineering data fabric to strengthen AI-native workflows and enable cross-domain inference without centralizing data; terms were not disclosed.

Omni, a San Francisco–based business intelligence and embedded analytics platform, has acquired Explo, an embedded analytics company. Explo will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary with its founders and key team members supporting customers during a 12-month transition while Omni integrates Explo’s capabilities to accelerate its embedded analytics and AI-ready product offerings.

Communify, a provider of Financial AI and data solutions, has acquired Empaxis Data Management to integrate Empaxis’s investment data management and back-/middle-office expertise into Communify’s MIND AI platform. The deal is intended to remove data fragmentation for wealth and asset managers, enabling faster AI-driven client and portfolio insights by unifying custody and accounting data within Communify’s Knowledge Base.

Agentic AI company Neuralogics has acquired web data extraction platform Import.io. The acquisition will move Import.io onto Neuralogics’ Kapeta integration backbone and integrate it with Neuralogics’ Storm AI engine to modernize the platform and accelerate Neuralogics’ AI-native SaaS strategy.

Grow Therapy has acquired Neosync to integrate Neosync’s data anonymization and synthetic data capabilities into Grow’s mental health platform. The acquisition aims to strengthen Grow’s privacy-first analytics and anonymization tooling to better protect client data while advancing safe AI and research capabilities within mental health services.

SingleStore, a real-time database platform powering AI applications, has agreed to be acquired in a growth buyout led by Vector Capital with participation from institutional investors including J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (External Investing Group), and Lexington Partners. SingleStore's management and several existing investors (including GV, Dell Technologies Capital, IBM and REV Venture Partners) will remain invested as the company looks to accelerate product innovation, global expansion, and growth in AI-ready data infrastructure.

Fivetran has acquired Tobiko Data, the open-source transformation company behind SQLMesh and SQLGlot, to expand its data transformation capabilities within its managed data platform. The acquisition brings multi-engine transformation, semantic SQL understanding, and development environments into Fivetran’s platform to help customers deliver governed, AI-ready data at scale.

Datasite has acquired Sourcescrub, a California-based deal-sourcing data and workflow provider, from Francisco Partners. Sourcescrub's data and capabilities will be integrated into Grata to expand Datasite's private market intelligence and AI-powered sourcing solutions.

Zendesk has acquired HyperArc, an AI-native analytics platform known for its HyperGraph engine and real-time GenAI insights, to accelerate Zendesk's analytics roadmap and build next-generation customer intelligence capabilities. The acquisition will integrate HyperArc's technology and team into Zendesk's analytics offerings to deliver enhanced, GenAI-powered insights and automations for customers.

GreetEat Corporation (OTC: GEAT) has acquired WallStreetStats.io, a financial analytics platform that uses AI-driven sentiment analysis to monitor social media and support trading decisions. The acquisition expands GreetEat's digital and AI capabilities, integrating real-time market sentiment tools across web and mobile channels.

LightBox has acquired UrbanFootprint to expand its location-intelligence platform with UrbanFootprint's geospatial analytics, scenario-based modeling, and climate- and infrastructure-focused data layers. The acquisition adds UrbanFootprint's product, engineering, and customer-success teams and will integrate its models across LightBox's platform to enhance site intelligence, underwriting analytics, and benchmarking for real estate, finance, infrastructure, and government clients.

Diskover, a provider of metadata-driven unstructured data tooling, has acquired data intelligence and orchestration platform CloudSoda and closed a $7.5 million seed round featuring investments from Snowflake Ventures, NetApp, Park Partners, and The Hive. The deal (terms undisclosed) and new partnerships with Snowflake and NetApp aim to strengthen Diskover's usability, natural-language AI capabilities, and integrations for enterprise AI data pipelines.

Salesforce completed its acquisition of Informatica in an $8 billion equity deal (approximately $25 per share), bringing Informatica's cloud data management, integration, and MDM capabilities into Salesforce's platform. The purchase is intended to accelerate Salesforce's Agentforce/Agentic AI initiatives by embedding Informatica's data catalog, governance, and integration technology across Data 360, MuleSoft, Tableau, and Customer 360.

3Cloud, the largest pure-play Microsoft Azure services firm, has acquired San Francisco-based DesignMind, a two-decade data and analytics services provider. The add-on strengthens 3Cloud's Data & AI expertise as it scales its Azure-focused delivery capabilities; 3Cloud is PE-backed by Gryphon Investors.

Yext has acquired Places Scout, a location intelligence and local search analytics platform, to deepen its competitive intelligence, benchmarking, and AI-driven insights for multi-location brands. The deal integrates Places Scout’s proprietary local search and reputation data into Yext’s digital presence platform to enhance visibility, benchmarking, and action-oriented recommendations at national and local levels.

Qlik has acquired Upsolver, a specialist in real-time data ingestion and Apache Iceberg optimization, to integrate low-latency streaming and adaptive Iceberg optimization into Qlik's data integration and analytics platform. The deal strengthens Qlik's open lakehouse capabilities, aiming to accelerate access to timely data, reduce infrastructure costs, and support AI-driven analytics for enterprise customers.

Technosylva has acquired KatRisk to combine wildfire simulation and catastrophe risk modeling capabilities into an integrated platform for multi-peril risk assessment. The deal expands Technosylva’s product offering for electric utilities, insurers, financial institutions, and government agencies by adding KatRisk’s flood, hurricane and other catastrophe models to Technosylva’s wildfire modeling solutions.

Optimizely has signed a definitive agreement to acquire NetSpring, a Redwood City-based warehouse-native analytics platform, to integrate warehouse-native product and customer-journey analytics into Optimizely's digital experience platform. The acquisition is intended to allow customers to run analytics directly on cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift) and to tie experimentation to business outcomes; the deal is expected to close in Q4 2024 subject to customary conditions.

Datavant has acquired Apixio's AI-powered Connected Care platform and value-based care solutions to expand its healthcare data and analytics capabilities. The deal brings Apixio's AI and value-based care tooling together with Datavant's health data network to accelerate actionable insights for payers and providers and support the shift to value-based care.

OpenAI has acquired Rockset, a real-time analytics database provider, to integrate Rockset's retrieval and data-indexing technology into OpenAI's product suite; terms were not disclosed. Members of Rockset's team will join OpenAI and current customers are expected to be transitioned off the standalone Rockset platform over time.

Databricks has agreed to acquire Tabular, the data management startup founded by the original creators of Apache Iceberg, in a deal reported to be for over $1 billion. The acquisition brings Iceberg expertise into Databricks to accelerate interoperability between Delta Lake and Iceberg (via Delta Lake UniForm) and strengthen Databricks' open lakehouse strategy; the deal is expected to close in Databricks' second fiscal quarter subject to customary conditions.

Maui, Hawaii–based space situational awareness company Privateer has acquired Palo Alto–founded geospatial data analytics firm Orbital Insight. The acquisition will integrate Orbital Insight's TerraScope analytics platform with Privateer's Wayfinder data engine to provide combined sea-to-space intelligence and expanded capabilities for government and commercial customers.

Cleartelligence, a data & analytics consultancy backed by Align Capital Partners, has acquired Winter Sun, a data and digital transformation consulting firm founded by Owen Frivold. Owen Frivold is joining Cleartelligence as President to lead growth and help expand the company’s data, digital transformation and CX capabilities as part of its add-on acquisition strategy under ACP ownership.

Descartes Labs acquired all operating assets of Geosite, a YC-backed SaaS provider of geospatial intelligence for property and casualty insurers. The deal brings Geosite's Ascend product and insurance-focused capabilities into Descartes Labs to accelerate growth and expand into the insurance risk management market.

Clearlake Capital and Insight Partners have completed the acquisition of Alteryx, Inc., taking the company private after stockholder approval. The deal (previously announced December 18, 2023) will support Alteryx's AI and cloud analytics product innovation and provide resources for continued growth.

Sensor Tower has acquired market intelligence and mobile app analytics provider data.ai for an undisclosed amount, combining the two companies' data assets and product suites to create a broader digital intelligence offering. Bain Capital Credit led financing for the transaction with follow-on investments from Riverwood Capital and Paramark Ventures; the deal is intended to expand Sensor Tower's product capabilities, APAC presence and enterprise customer base.

Apica has acquired Circonus and will integrate Circonus' IRONdb and Passport products into Apica's Ascent platform. The announcement coincided with a new funding round for Apica led by Riverside Acceleration Capital, with participation from Industrifonden, SEB Foundation, Oxx, and Leo Capital, to support expanded observability and telemetry data-management capabilities for enterprise customers.

LiveRamp has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Habu, a data clean-room and data collaboration software provider, in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $200 million (about $170 million cash at closing). The acquisition expands LiveRamp’s cross-cloud clean room, measurement and data collaboration capabilities to accelerate global data connectivity, measurement and AI initiatives for brands, publishers and media partners.

Contentsquare has completed its acquisition of product analytics provider Heap, its largest deal to date, to combine product-level and digital experience analytics into a single platform. The deal brings Heap's product analytics capabilities and customer base into Contentsquare's AI-powered digital experience platform to deliver broader, session-level and product-level insights for customers.

Argano has acquired the Profit Velocity profit-acceleration platform to expand its high-performance business operations capabilities. The platform brings time-based profit analytics and what-if planning to help clients optimize pricing, operations and investments across finance, sales and supply chain.

HubSpot, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Clearbit, a B2B data and intelligence provider, to integrate Clearbit's firmographic, technographic, and contact data into HubSpot's AI-powered customer platform. Upon closing, Clearbit will become a wholly owned subsidiary and its data capabilities will be integrated into HubSpot's marketing, sales and service offerings to provide richer customer intelligence and intent signals.

Databricks has agreed to acquire Arcion, a provider of real-time change data capture (CDC) and enterprise data replication technology, in a transaction valued at over $100 million. The acquisition will enable Databricks to provide native, low-latency ingestion and replication connectors from enterprise databases and SaaS applications into the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, expanding its data ingestion and real-time capabilities.

Technosylva has acquired Atmospheric Data Solutions (ADS) to integrate ADS's high-resolution atmospheric data and wildfire forecasting capabilities into Technosylva's wildfire risk mitigation platform. The deal strengthens Technosylva's offerings for electric utilities and fire agencies by expanding data, analytics, and forecasting capabilities to better predict and mitigate wildfire risk.

TPG Growth (TPG) agreed to invest $336 million in Denodo's Series B preferred equity, providing primary growth capital and participating alongside a secondary sale of shares by existing investor HGGC. The financing is intended to accelerate Denodo's global expansion and scale adoption of its data virtualization and data management platform.

Teradata has acquired Stemma Technologies, a cloud-native managed data catalog provider, to add AI-enhanced data discovery, metadata management and data lineage capabilities to its Vantage analytics platform. The acquisition brings Stemma's engineering and metadata expertise into Teradata to accelerate capabilities for AI/ML analytics; terms were not disclosed.

ThoughtSpot agreed to acquire Mode Analytics in a $200 million cash and equity transaction, making Mode a wholly owned subsidiary. The deal combines ThoughtSpot's AI-powered natural language search and generative AI capabilities with Mode's code-first BI and visualization tooling to expand ThoughtSpot's product portfolio and accelerate growth.

Bigeye, a San Francisco–based data observability platform, has acquired Data Advantage Group, maker of the MetaCenter metadata and data lineage platform. The acquisition adds comprehensive enterprise data lineage and metadata capabilities to Bigeye’s observability product, enabling automatic column-level lineage and deeper connector support across databases, ETL tools, and BI systems.

Brightflow AI has acquired CircleUp, adding CircleUp's Helio data and machine-learning insights to Brightflow's financial intelligence platform. The deal will integrate CircleUp's consumer market analytics with Brightflow AI's cash-flow and financial forecasting tools to create a broader offering for consumer and e-commerce businesses; terms were not disclosed.

Snowflake has acquired Neeva, a search company that built generative-AI powered search capabilities, to accelerate search and conversational data discovery within the Snowflake Data Cloud. Neeva's team and search technology will be integrated into Snowflake's platform to improve how customers query and discover data and insights.

Qlik has completed its acquisition of Talend, combining Qlik’s analytics and integration capabilities with Talend’s data transformation, quality, and governance solutions. The deal creates a broader, end-to-end data and analytics platform aimed at helping enterprises access, trust, and act on business-ready data.

Databricks announced it will acquire San Francisco-based Okera, a startup that builds no-code, AI-powered data governance tools for managing sensitive and personally identifiable data. Financial terms were not disclosed; the deal is expected to close later this month. Okera was last valued at $100 million in 2021 and had raised nearly $40 million, the company confirmed.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a business of RELX, has acquired Human API, a consumer-driven health data platform. The acquisition will combine Human API's health-data connectivity and consent capabilities with LexisNexis Risk Solutions' data and analytics to accelerate consumer consent management, improve care coordination and automate life insurance underwriting.

QUODD, a NewSpring Holdings platform company, has acquired Xignite, a provider of financial market data APIs, adding more than 500 market data APIs and expanding QUODD's cloud-native market data offerings. The deal strengthens QUODD's QUODD Fuel and Universe+ products and scales the combined firm's ability to serve banks, wealth managers and fintechs globally; financial terms were not disclosed.

S&P Global Mobility, a division of S&P Global, has acquired Market Scan Information Systems, a provider of automotive pricing and incentive intelligence and Automotive Payments as a Service. The acquisition integrates Market Scan's payment-calculation engine and datasets into S&P Global Mobility's automotive data and sales optimization products; financial terms were not disclosed and Market Scan CEO Rusty West will remain with the company.

Pre/Dicta has acquired Gavelytics, the pioneering state-court litigation analytics platform, in a deal with undisclosed terms. The acquisition brings Gavelytics’ state-court data, patents and customer relationships into Pre/Dicta to accelerate building nationwide predictive litigation tools and expand Pre/Dicta’s capabilities beyond federal courts.

Planet Labs PBC completed its acquisition of Salo Sciences, a San Francisco-based climate technology company that provides high-resolution forest monitoring and analytics. The deal brings Salo’s forest carbon, wildfire hazard and ecosystem-monitoring capabilities into Planet’s product suite to expand its climate and sustainability data offerings.