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Since last post we’ve seen 10 acquisitions, 3 funding rounds ($63.0M raised), 9 people moves & promotions, 12 roles ($246K average salary), 4 articles, 2 podcasts, 1 legal, regulatory & compliance matter, and 1 new resource.

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Resource Corner

• M&A and Funding

• Job Board and Recruiters

• Companies Offering Free Services To Job Seekers

• Karine Pepin at CASE4Quality rounded up the best news, articles, podcasts, webinars, and research on the market research space. Check out the list here.

M&A

• Addepar acquired Arcus (enterprise AI workflows). PR

• Alation acquired Numbers Station (AI agents for data workflows). PR

• BetaNXT acquired Delta Data (investment fund solutions). PR

• Cohere acquired Ottogrid (AI knowledge agent). PR

• Datassential acquired Brizo FoodMetrics (foodservice data and insights). PR

• Diginex acquired Matter (sustainability data and analytics). PR

• Nearmap acquired Itel (property claims data). PR

• Salesforce acquired Informatica (data management) for $8B. PR

• SOAX acquired Rampage Proxies (web data infrastructure). PR

• SPINS acquired Lucky Labs (retail data). PR

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Funding

• Catena Labs (AI-native financial institution) raised $18M.

• DataHub (metadata platform) raised $35M in a Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners.

• Seeds (personalized investing platform) raised $10M in a Series A led by Portage.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Idan Ben-Arieh joined Oasis Health Partners as Chief Data and Analytics Officer.

• Dean Berry joined MarketAxess as Group COO and CEO of EMEA & APAC.

• Keyur Desai joined Cetera Financial Group as Chief Data and Analytics Officer.

• Samuel Livingstone joined the Advisor Board of Quant Strats.

• Chris Lundgren joined Redi-Data as Senior Development Officer.

• Adam Nahari was promoted to Partner, Chief Data and AI Officer at Pinegrove Venture Partners.

• Philipp Rickenbacher joined the Advisory Board of Model ML.

• Charlie Schilling joined Macabacus as CEO.

• Zachary Zboralske was promoted to VP, Global Head of New Business, Financial Services at Consumer Edge.

Who’s Hiring

Check out the It’s Pronounced Data job board for full listings. This week’s additions are below.

• CBOE is hiring a Head of Market Data and Access Services, North America ($199K - $246K).

• Chime is hiring a Director of Strategic Insights ($198K - $281K).

• Citi is hiring a MD, Head of Enterprise AI ($250K - $500K).

• Datavant is hiring a Chief of Staff to the Chief Product Officer ($180K - $227K).

• DNAnexus is hiring a Head of AI.

• FullEnrich is hiring a Head of Growth ($120K - $220K).

• Hebbia is hiring a Engagement Manager, Public Equities ($140K - $230K).

• Inovalon is hiring a SVP, Sales - Insights Business Unit ($225K - $315K).

• NewtonX is hiring a Business Development Manager ($120K - $160K).

• Potloc is hiring a Managing Director USA ($350K - $500K).

• Tegna is hiring a VP, Audience Insights ($200K - $280K).

• Thread AI is hiring a Technical Account Executive ($150K - $325K).

*salaries only listed where provided by the company and may vary based on location and other factors. See links for specific salary details.

What I’m Reading

• The Knowledge Worker’s Dilemma: Brains Built for Insight, Systems Built for Chaos by Amy Brann in The Observer.

• AI Denialists are the Data Industry’s Flat Earthers by Joe Reis.

• One data vendor to rule them all. Really? A deep dive into why a single data vendor falls short in modern financial research by Didier Lopes.

• Analysts are almost always too optimistic about earnings: Forecasting is hard by Moses Sternstein. Chart of the Week from this newsletter post as well…

What I’m Listening To

• Trading Insights: All About Alternative Data featuring Mark Fleming-Williams of Capital Fund Management in discussion with Eloise Goulder on the J.P. Morgan Market Matters Podcast.

• The Alternative Data Podcast episode featuring James Griffiths of Flywheel Alternative Data in discussion with Mark Fleming-Williams.

Legal, Regulatory & Compliance

• The Discrimination Lawsuit Against Workday’s Job Screening AI Gets Bigger.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• FISD AsiaFIC, May 28-30, Singapore

• KIMRA: Knowledge & Information Management, Research & Analysis, Jun 4, London

• *The AI & Finance Conference 2025, Jun 6, NYC

• BattleFin Discovery Day, Jun 10-11, NYC

• DataSpace Summer Party, Jun 11, London

• Unbundling Uncovered, Jun 12, NYC

• Data Management Summit, Sep 18, NYC

• The 21st Quantitative Finance Conference, Sep 24-26, Palermo, Italy

• Web Data Extract Summit, Sep 24-25, Austin, TX

• Women in Research (WIRe) Executive Leadership Summit, Oct 20-23, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

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