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Consumer intelligence group NIQ has launched Growth Pathways, a new insights and analytics offering combining qual and quant research with its detailed retail measurement data to promise 'a connected view of how consumers think, feel and act.'
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Online narrative and threat monitoring specialist PeakMetrics has closed a $6 million Series A round of funding, with which to further development its product and drive expansion.
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San Francisco-based AfterQuery has completed a $30 million Series A fundraising round, valuing it at $300 million. The firm taps a network of nearly 100,000 experts from a range of professions, encoding their knowledge into a dataset for use by its customers, which include all the major AI labs.
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US company Prelaunch.com has launched a tool called Frank AI Researcher, offering to automate customer research at scale by conducting 'hundreds of deep customer interviews overnight,' and delivering actionable insights in customers' own words. More

Behavioral AI company Yobi is teaming up with Microsoft to offer US companies predictive consumer intelligence. The deal combines Yobi's consented consumer database - 'the largest in the US' - with delivery via the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. More

In Sydney, Australia, visual communication platform Canva has announced the acquisitions of Simtheory, an AI collaboration and agent management platform, and Ortto, a customer data and marketing automation company. Both companies were founded by Chris and Mike Sharkey. More

Creative effectiveness platform System1 has upgraded its Test Your Ad measurement tool with new AI-enabled capabilities; and says the new version will also provide smarter diagnostics and more intuitive reporting. More

Disrupt Insight has appointed Philippe Epailly as Research Director. He joins after a dozen years at research provider MTM, most recently as Head of the Quantitative Team. More
US-based full service custom insights firm MarketVision Research has appointed longstanding Kantar researcher Kerri Lehrhaupt as a Vice President in Client Partnerships. More
Manon Lloyd has joined Kubi Kalloo as a Junior Consultant, bringing around six months of experience in academic and agency-side market research at 2CV. In her new role she will support the Kubi team on projects across social and commercial sectors. More
StackAdapt has appointed former Trade Desk SVP Business Development Katy Friday as Vice President for its Central region, joining its revenue leadership team. More
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