Another Week, Another 673 Companies Now "AI-powered"

Since last post we’ve seen 5 M&A deals, 6 funding rounds, 27 people moves & promotions, 1 new company, 11 roles, 1 compliance review, 3 articles, and 5 newly added upcoming events.

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M&A

• Bowmark Capital acquired a majority stake in InfraXmedia (B2B media, events and intelligence)

• Oakley Capital acquired a majority stake in Graphwise (graph databases)

• Providence Equity Partners acquired Hometrack (property data and intelligence)

• Rogo acquired Rivanna (AI-native due diligence)

• TriCarbs BidCo acquired Cint (market research technology) in a take-private transaction

_{*Deals are announced but may not be closed.}

Funding

• Advancing Analytics (data consultancy) received a growth investment from Databricks Ventures

• Finster AI (AI for financial services) received a strategic investment from UBS

• Model ML (AI for financial services) received an investment from HSBC Asset Management

• Quartr (public company events and IR infrastructure) raised $18M in a round led by Altos Ventures

• Silicon Data (compute market intelligence) raised $30.5M in a Series A led by Valor Atreides AI Fund

• Worldscape (data fabric and agentic AI platform) raised $10M in a Seed extension led by Scout Ventures

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Nathan Amery joined Zema Global Data Corporation as Chief Revenue Officer

• Sandy Balkin joined ProclaimRx as Board Advisor

• Jaime Beckel joined Intapp as Global Head of Financial Services Sales

• Chetan Bhat joined TD Securities as Head of AI and Data Technology

• Christopher Blake was promoted to Executive Director - Private Markets Product Management at S&P Global

• Daniel Conde joined Morgan Stanley as AI Product Lead, Global Capital Markets

• Bjoern Doehrer joined FE fundinfo as Chief Product Officer

• Josh Emington joined Strategex as Director, Private Equity Solutions

• Anett Galosfai joined Moody’s Analytics as Director, Strategy

• Alan Gibson joined Stardog as Chief Revenue Officer

• Ben Hall was promoted to Managing Director of Analysis at Cornwall Insights

• James Hollands joined KX as Chief Revenue Officer

• Necole Jackson-DeJoie joined Alvarez & Marsal as MD, Chief Product Officer - AI and Data

• Martin Koopman joined Hazeltree as Chief Product Officer

• Samuel Liu joined Great Hill Partners as Director of AI

• Billy McKeveny joined NewtonX as SVP, Head of Client Growth

• Jared Moretti joined Guidepoint as SVP, Strategic Partnerships

• Sameer Munshi joined Aaru as Head of Industry

• Brendan Nelson joined CB Insights as Chief Product Officer

• Kelly Noguchi joined Konovo as Director of Panel Growth

• Gil Refael joined Reflexivity as Head of Data

• Thomas Roland joined Rogo as Director, APAC

• Michael Santos joined the Board of Directors of Deal Engine

• Jessica Segarra joined Hazeltree as COO

• Tim Sista joined Zenith as VP, Data Governance

• Chai Suh was promoted to CFO, Industry Group at Bloomberg

• Jonathan Warrick was promoted to Head of dv01 at dv01

*may not have started roles, but roles are announced or updates provided online.

New Company Alert

Speek is an intelligent data integration engine for capital markets. The company offers a reliable and scalable integration pattern for vendor and bespoke applications, accessed through a common API. Speek is founded by Rishi Suchak who previously led client management at Orchestrade and Americas capital markets at Luxoft.

Who’s Hiring

• BCA Research is hiring a VP, Business Development

• Carlyle is hiring a VP, Data Strategist, Global Wealth ($200K)

• Estée Lauder is hiring a VP, Data & AI, Value Chain ($211K - $377K)

• Legora is hiring a Senior Director of Data Analytics and Business Systems and a Legal Data Strategy Director

• People Inc. is hiring a SVP, Data Operations ($315K - 375K)

• RBC is hiring a MD, Data Product Lead - COO Group ($300K - $400K)

• Regeneron is hiring a Executive Director, Enterprise Data ($255K - $424K)

• Rogo is hiring a Director, Content and Data Partnerships

• TKO is hiring a SVP, Head of Enterprise Data ($251K - $335K)

• Verizon is hiring a Chief Data Strategist ($176K - $339K)

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

Legal, Regulatory & Compliance

• Truth API: US and UK compliance by Glacier Network

What I’m Reading

• Detriments to Data Quality, A Matter of Perspective by Jon Bremer

• Buy the Rumor, Sell the News: When Is News Priced In? a white paper by Alireza Kargarzadeh, Nariman Khaledian, Navid Parvini, Sid Ghatak, Arman Khaledian

• Buy-Side Insights: Top 10 Takeaways from Battlefin Montauk! by Doug garber

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• *Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, Sep 10, NYC

• *Corporate Researchers Conference, Sep 15-17, Chicago

• *FISD New York, Sep 17, NYC

• Boston Fintech Week, Sep 21-25, Boston

• *BattleFin Discovery Day, Oct 1, London

• Collingwood Value Creation Summit, Oct 7, London

• World Financial Information Conference (WFIC), Oct 11-14, Copenhagen

• *BattleFin Discover Day, Oct 29, NYC

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