Welcome to the latest edition of the World of DaaS Roundup.
This week, data showed up where it mattered most, catching Medicaid fraud in Florida, screening federal payments at the Treasury, and exposing a $100B gap in US-China trade data.
Plus: members making moves, and a new MoMA installation that might change how you think about wetlands. 👀
Here we go!👇🏻
📰 News & Reads
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT ⭐️
World of DaaS member Naftali Harris and his team helped flag synthetic identities and hidden ownership structures across 220+ terminated providers.
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT ⭐️
World of DaaS member Sara Fagen, CEO of Tunnl, is expanding how healthcare marketers reach audiences based on attitudes and behavior not just demographics.
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT ⭐️
World of DaaS member Tim Butchart leads OpenCorporates, now an official part of the federal government's fraud prevention infrastructure.
An Unexpected Data Read For Today.
China says it shipped $X to the United States last year. The US says it received something else entirely. The gap? Over $100 billion.
World of DaaS member Michael Kanko, CEO of ImportGenius, just exposed one of the most striking data quality problems in global trade: two governments measuring the exact same shipments and arriving at numbers that differ by $100 billion.
Trade policy, tariffs, and sanctions enforcement are all built on top of this data. The most powerful datasets aren't always the most accurate ones.
Where Data Meets Art
Photo: MoMa Floor 1, Garden Lobby
Next week, MoMA opens a living ecosystem built from ecological data.
Berl-Berl by Jakob Kudsk Steensen is a real-time simulation, not a recording, not a loop of Berlin's lost wetlands. Built from months of fieldwork, environmental field recordings, and archival research into Slavic folklore, the piece evolves continuously. With sound by Arca.
For anyone building data products: this is what it looks like when data stops being a number and becomes a world you can walk into.
Opens October 12 at MoMA, New York.
🔥 In Case You Missed It…
M&A Funding Roundup
Zeta Global acquired Digital Audience to extend its data cloud across the digital ecosystem.
ScraperAPI acquired Traject Data to build the web data layer for the AI era.
SignSplit raised $400M to build consent-based infrastructure for AI training data licensing.
Exa AI raised a Series C led by Felicis to scale its AI-native search and data retrieval platform.
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