Data Platform stories

Auckland agritech firm Hectre raises NZD $12m in an oversubscribed Series A to scale its AI-powered fruit data platform globally.

LIV Golf has unveiled Fan Caddie, an AI ‘second-screen’ assistant offering real-time stats, replays and shopping while fans watch live.

Experian integrates Aperture Data Studio with Snowflake AI Data Cloud to run in-platform data quality, governance and compliance workflows.

Cloudera posts surging FY26 growth as enterprises embrace governed hybrid AI, fuelling expansion, fresh hires and multi-cloud innovation.

AI agents are rapidly transforming sales teams in Australia and New Zealand, slashing grunt work and reshaping how sellers prospect and close deals.

Aerospike Database 8 now embeds default dynamic data masking, tightening PII protection while easing compliance and operational overhead.

Mailchimp expands eCommerce tools and AI-driven automation, rolling out SMS to 34 new EMEA markets to boost small business marketing ROI.

TRENDS taps Boomi to unify 50+ systems, tackling complexity as revenue surges from NZD $10 million to NZD $130 million in a decade.

BigHammer.ai debuts AI agents to replace complex data stacks, promising up to 70% cost cuts and faster delivery for analytics teams.

Grab Finance taps FICO data tech to automate credit checks across six Southeast Asian markets and boost eligibility by nearly 50%.

Maestra’s US customer base jumps 144% as DTC brands abandon Klaviyo for a single platform spanning email, personalisation and paid media.

Informotion appoints Shane Parsons as CEO to spearhead a deeper Microsoft AI and cloud pivot, targeting regulated and public sector demand.

United Rentals deploys a Snowflake-powered AI data agent to let frontline staff query governed financial and operational metrics in plain English.

Snowflake unveils AI coding and semantic tools and inks a multi-year OpenAI partnership worth USD $200m to power its Cortex AI platform.

Sigma has launched an Asia Pacific and Japan hub in Sydney, naming veteran sales leader Bede Hackney as regional vice president.

Snowflake launches Postgres and new governance, sharing and backup tools to keep enterprise data ready for production AI workloads.

Etleap launches a unified Iceberg data pipeline platform, promising simpler, scalable management of Apache Iceberg table operations.

VEON will use MindBridge AI to scrutinise all financial transactions in real time, replacing traditional sample-based internal audits.

Dynatrace launches Intelligence platform with agentic AI, deeper cloud hooks and next-gen RUM to tackle escalating data and ops complexity.

Dynatrace unifies real user monitoring, AI tracing and developer tools on one platform to streamline cloud-native, AI-assisted software delivery.