Databricks Ventures and Interlock Equity Invest in Lovelytics

Lovelytics Acquires Nousot to Form 500-Person Databricks Consulting Leader

April 2, 2025

Data & Analytics

Lovelytics and Nousot have merged, with the unified firm operating under the Lovelytics name to create a 500-person Databricks-focused consulting firm. The combined company expands Lovelytics' Databricks capabilities, proprietary IP and scale to better support large enterprises on complex data and AI initiatives.

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 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.

Interlock Equity and Stellus Capital Invest in evolv Consulting

January 22, 2024

Data & Analytics

Los Angeles-based private equity firm Interlock Equity has made a strategic growth investment in evolv Consulting, a Dallas-based data-driven management and technology consultancy. Stellus Capital Management provided unitranche financing and an equity co-invest to support the transaction; the capital will be used to expand evolv's services, deepen industry expertise, broaden geographic reach and enable strategic add-ons.

Ness Digital Engineering Acquires Intricity

May 8, 2024

Data & Analytics

Ness Digital Engineering has acquired Intricity, a New York–based provider of data strategy, governance, modernization, and monetization solutions. The deal deepens Ness’s data strategy and advisory capabilities (including Intricity’s Snowflake and Databricks alliances) and will allow Ness, a KKR-backed platform, to accelerate data and AI offerings for large enterprise clients.

ECI Software Solutions Acquires Data Inventions and Lojic

August 9, 2022

Software

ECI Software Solutions acquired Data Inventions, Inc. (maker of the Alora manufacturing intelligence platform) and Lojic LLC (provider of visualization and data analytics for shop floor insights). The acquisitions (closed August 5, 2022) integrate Alora and Lojic with ECI's ERP offerings to expand ECI's manufacturing intelligence, analytics and real-time shop-floor visualization capabilities for SMB manufacturers.