A Roaring Kitty

^not sure this has aged well since originally drafting this newsletter.

Since last post we’ve seen 5 acquisitions, 11 fundraising rounds, 12 people moves & promotions, 22 companies hiring, 4 articles, and 4 newly added events. Read on for some new sections as well.

M&A

• Crisp acquired Lumidata (point-of-sale analytics).

• Crisp acquired SetSight (retail data).

• Cube acquired Thomson Reuters’ Regulatory Intelligence and Oden products (RegTech).

• S&P Global Commodity Insights acquired World Hydrogen Leaders (hydrogen industry knowledge and networking).

• Toggle AI acquired Atom Finance (financial analysis tools).

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Last Call For Complimentary Tickets

The BattleFin team is offering a limited number of complimentary tickets to new data users in the space who haven’t previously been to a BattleFin event. The event is next week (May 21-22) on the Intrepid Battleship in NYC. I’ll be speaking on Wednesday on a panel on expert networks and transcript libraries.

Fundraising

• Aerial (corporate information management) raised $2M in a Pre-Seed round led by Fuse.

• Archive Intel (communications compliance) raised $1M in a Seed round led by Social Leverage.

• Electricity Maps (electricity data) raised €5M in a round led by Transition and Revent.

• Enspired (Ai-driven power trading) raised €25.5M in a Series B led by Zouk Capital.

• Fairgen (survey AI) raised $8M in a Seed round led by Maverick Ventures Israel.

• Grasp (AI assistant for finance) raised $1.9M in a round led by Yanno Capital.

• Greenboard (compliance tools) raised $4.5M in a Seed round led by Base 10 Partners.

• Linnovate Partners (asset servicing) raised $40M in a round led by SeaTown Holdings International.

• Metaplane (data observability) received an investment from Snowflake Ventures.

• Sigma Computing (cloud analytics) raised $200M in a Series D led by Spark Capital and Avenir Growth Capital.

• WEKA (data platform) raised $140M at a $1.6B valuation in a Series E led by Valor Equity Partners.

Something New

As we continue to build our data community, It’s Pronounced Data would like to help founders or soon-to-be founders of data businesses get their ideas off the ground. Submit your data business idea here and we will share with a curated group of data industry veterans to provide feedback and leverage our network of investors, advisors, operators, and data professionals.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Wendy Batchelder joined Centene Corporation as Chief Data Officer.

• Bob Coletti joined Exegy as Sales Director.

• Bastien Durand joined Dataiku as Director, Data & AI Business Transformation.

• Charlotte Ellis joined Klarus as Partner, ESG.

• Jie Gao joined Capital Fund Management as Data Sourcing Associate.

• Yoni Nachmany joined Zeus AI as Head of Data Engineering.

• Thet Naing joined Brightwave as Founding Machine Learning Engineer.

• Gregory Petrossian joined OmniData as Commercial Lead, AI & Data Solutions.

• Jing Sima joined BCA Research as VP, China Investment Strategist.

• Ryan Sullivan joined J. Goldman & Co. as Head of Data.

• Dan Twomey joined Anywhere Real Estate as Senior Product Manager, Data Platform.

• Yuan Yao joined Delinea as Director of Data Science & Analytics.

Who’s Hiring

On Wednesday I posted on LinkedIn asking who is hiring. Check out the post and comments here and summary below.

• Bespoke Intel is hiring for a Sales / Business Development role. Contact PJ Gorynski

• Bridgewater Associates is hiring a Data Associate, Data Engineers, and Client Service Research Associates. Contact Jason Koulouras.

• Databento is hiring a Associate Director of Marketing.

• DoTadda is hiring a Full-Stack Developer. Contact Andrew Meister.

• FinChat.io is hiring a Account Executive II.

• FirstParty is hiring a Senior Director, Engineering and a Director, Growth Initiatives. Contact Alex Nephew.

• Grata is hiring for multiple roles including a VP of Engineering (not posted). Contact Nevin Raj.

• Google is hiring a Director, Growth Strategy, External Intelligence, Knowledge and Information.

• GovSpend is hiring a Chief Technology Officer.

• Guidepoint is hiring a Client Success Manager, Insights.

• InnovateMR + Ivy Exec is hiring Business Development Professionals. Contact Chris Young.

• LSEG is hiring a 3rd Level Lead Support Engineer, Release Engineer, and a Lead Software Engineer (C++).

• People Data Labs is hiring for 4 Engineering roles.

• Placer.ai is hiring a Strategic Customer Success Manager - Finance.

• Sparta Commodities is hiring for 5 roles.

• Third Bridge is hiring for multiple sales roles. Contact Danielle Ford.

• Vertice is hiring for 30 roles.

• Bob Bernikow is working with clients hiring for sales talent.

• Simon Burton is working with a life sciences data and consulting firm hiring a Commercial Development Manager.

• Dylan Curtis is advising multiple companies looking for Sales Professionals.

• Zach McClure is working with multiple clients hiring.

• Jared Shapiro is working with 3 hedge funds and 1 fintech hiring Data Engineers.

*salaries only listed where provided by the company. See links for specific salary details.

There’s A Data Company For That

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What I’m Reading

• Top Questions ahead of Battlefin Discovery Day New York, 2024 by Jason DeRise.

• How To Price A Data Asset by Abraham Thomas.

• Startup Mafias by Travis May.

• Scientists Imaged and Mapped a Tiny Piece of Human Brain. Here’s What They Found by Will Sullivan in Smithsonian Magazine.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• DataIQ 100 Summit, May 20-21, Miami

• BattleFin Discovery Day, May 21-22, NYC

• Finovate Spring, May 21-23, San Francisco

• *AI x Wall Street, May 22, NYC

• Asia Financial Information Conference (AsiaFIC), May 28-29, Singapore

• Placer.ai's Geolocation Data on Exabel, May 30, Virtual

• Low-Key Data Happy Hour Sponsored by Portable, Metaplane, RudderStack, and Keboola, June 3, San Francisco

• Neudata Summer Data Summit, June 4, NYC

• SuperReturn International, June 4-7, Berlin

• *Alternative Data Happy Hour, June 5, NYC

• FISD New York, June 6, NYC

• *Women at the Forefront of Financial Services Innovation, June 10, Boston

• Substantive Research - Unbundling Uncovered, June 13, NYC

• Vertical AI Summit, June 13, NYC

• *TWIF x Silicon Valley Bank Happy Hour, June 20, Boston

• Knowledge & Information Management, Research & Analysis (KIMRA) - Generative AI Conference, July 3, London

• The Quirk’s Event, July 17-18, NYC

• Boston Fintech Week, September 16-20, Boston

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