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Since last post we’ve seen 4 acquisitions, 1 fundraising rounds, 9 people moves & promotions, 3 roles, 1 article, and 1 newly added event.

M&A

• ComplyAdvantage acquired Golden (knowledge graphs).

• Finsight acquired T-REX (structured finance data infrastructure).

• Public acquired TradeApp (investment accounts) from Stocktwits.

• RIWI acquired CoolTool (survey and data collection platform).

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Fundraising

• Nominal (data analysis and infrastructure for industrial engineering) raised $20M in a Series A led by General Catalyst.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

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• Vinayak Bhat joined Charles River Development as SVP, Managing Director, Head of APAC.

• Janet Chambers joined With Intelligence as Head of Public Data.

• Paul Ellwood joined OpenAI as Head of Data Engineering.

• Julie Fawdington joined Intel as Director, Data Portfolio Management.

• John Kunkes joined Northern Trust as Head of Data Risk.

• Steve Martin was appointed Chair of the Board at Arbolus.

• Zina Papageorgiou joined Eagle Alpha as Commercial Manager.

• Gerald Toledano joined LSEG as Global Head of Alternatives and Custom Solutions, FTSE Russell.

• Kris Wood joined Dataiku as SVP & GM, EMEA.

Who’s Hiring

• Citi is hiring a Data Change and Execution Leader ($250K - $500K).

• Salesforce is hiring a Managing Director, Data & AI Business Innovation ($250K - $335K).

• T. Rowe Price is hiring a Head of Data Architecture.

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

What I’m Reading

• Information Services Insight by Raymond James.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• TDWI Modern Data Leader's Summit, April 29-May 1, Chicago

• Data Driven NYC with VAST, Cohere, Dust & Espresso AI, April 30, NYC

• Knowledge Graph Conference, May 6-10, NYC

• 2024 Investment Data & Analytics Symposium, May 7-8, Chicago

• Data Summit, May 8-9, Boston

• Battle of the Quants, May 9, NYC

• DataIQ 100 Summit, May 20-21, Miami

• BattleFin Discovery Day, May 21-22, NYC

• Finovate Spring, May 21-23, San Francisco

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

• Neudata Summer Data Summit, June 4, NYC

• SuperReturn International, June 4-7, Berlin

• FISD New York, June 6, NYC

• Substantive Research - Unbundling Uncovered, June 13, NYC

• *Vertical AI Summit, June 13, NYC

• 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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