Lovelytics Acquires Nousot to Form 500-Person Databricks Consulting Leader

Databricks Ventures and Interlock Equity Invest in Lovelytics

June 15, 2023

Data & Analytics

Databricks Ventures and Interlock Equity have made a strategic growth investment in Arlington, Virginia–based data engineering and business intelligence consultancy Lovelytics to accelerate hiring and expand capabilities in enterprise data environments, AI/LLMs, BI, data science, and cloud infrastructure. Lovelytics' founder and leadership team retain significant ownership and will continue to lead the business; Canaccord Genuity served as exclusive financial advisor.

Databricks Acquires Lilac to Strengthen Data Quality for Generative AI

March 19, 2024

AI & Machine Learning

Databricks has acquired Boston-based Lilac, an applied research startup that builds tools to explore, cluster and curate unstructured text datasets for generative AI workflows. Lilac's team and technology will be integrated into Databricks' Mosaic AI and data intelligence platform to improve dataset quality, monitoring, and preparation for RAG, fine-tuning and pre-training of LLMs; terms were not disclosed.

TA Associates Invests in Nous Infosystems

March 17, 2025

IT Services

TA Associates has completed a strategic growth investment in Nous Infosystems, a global provider of AI-powered product and data engineering and digital transformation services. The minority growth investment will help Nous expand capabilities, scale operations, pursue new verticals (notably BFSI) and accelerate growth including strategic M&A; financial terms were not disclosed.

Sia Partners Acquires Notion Consulting

January 23, 2024

Consulting

Sia Partners has acquired Notion Consulting, a US-based strategic leadership and organizational change consultancy of about 25 experts. The deal expands Sia Partners' change management and organizational capabilities in the United States and strengthens its coast-to-coast business transformation offering.

Contentstack Acquires Lytics

January 8, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

Contentstack acquired Lytics, a real-time customer data platform, in a deal that closed in December 2024 to add first‑party data activation, audience insights and profile management to Contentstack's composable DXP. The combination aims to enable real‑time personalization at scale for brands and creates a combined business that the company says includes over 500 customers and more than 500 employees.

Databricks Acquires MosaicML

June 26, 2023

AI & Machine Learning

Databricks has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MosaicML, a generative AI platform, for approximately $1.3 billion (inclusive of retention packages). The MosaicML team and technology — known for the MPT family of LLMs and model-training optimizations — will be integrated into the Databricks Lakehouse to expand Databricks' generative AI and model-training capabilities.