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Since last post we’ve seen 5 mergers & acquisitions, 6 funding rounds ($65.5M raised), 9 people moves & promotions, 2 roles, 1 article, and 2 newly added upcoming events (+ 1 complimentary ticket).

Resources

• Deal Tracker - updated with YTD investors and acquirers

• Job Board - 58 open roles with an average $235K salary

• Compensation Study - added in data tab where you can see anonymized rows. Participate to receive the results link. If you already participated and can’t find the results link, respond to this email or email [email protected] and I’ll send it over (please don’t take the survey again)

M&A

Check out the It’s Pronounced Data Deal Tracker for full M&A and funding rounds.

• Eurasia Group acquired PRISM (geopolitical risk analysis). PR

• FDM acquired CCS Insight (technology market research). PR

• Fivetran acquire Tobiko Data (data transformation). PR

• Prominence Advisors acquired Tegra Analytics (life sciences analytics consultancy). PR

• Rogo acquired Subset (AI spreadsheets). PR

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Funding

• Allocate (private markets platform) raised $30.5M in a Series B led by Portage Ventures.

• D•engage (customer experience data platform) raised a round led by TIBAS Ventures.

• Dispatch (wealth client data management) raised $18M in a Series A led by Brewer Lane Ventures.

• Fiveonefour (developer tools for analytics) raised $17M in a round led by Dimension Capital.

• Juniper Square (private markets technology) received a strategic investment from Nasdaq Ventures.

• Tangible Markets (private market liquidity solutions) received a strategic investment from iCapital.

Complimentary Tickets

BattleFin is providing a few of my buyside readers with a complimentary ticket to the upcoming NYC Data Discovery Day. Continuing their tradition of hosting at awesome venues, this must-attend event is October 9th at the iconic New York Athletic Club. To request a complimentary ticket, click here.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Diego Cruz joined Fenics Market Data as Head of Sales, EMEA.

• Noelle de Noue was promoted to COO at FirstParty.

• Michael Dionne joined Allvue Systems as Chief Commercial Officer.

• Alex LeClair was promoted to President, Americas at AlphaSights.

• Tim Morris joined FirstParty as VP, Product.

• Andrew Seinfeld joined Bolt Insight as Chief Growth Officer.

• Ben Walton was promoted to COO at Walr.

• David Werner joined LSEG as Head of Wealth Solution Sales, Americas.

• Archie Winesett joined Datavations as Sales Lead.

Who’s Hiring

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

• NewtonX is hiring a VP, Marketing ($180K - $210K).

• String AI is hiring a Founding Engineer ($170K - $220K).

*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

• Internet 3.0: Architecture for a Web-of-Agents with it's Algorithm for Ranking Agents by Rajesh Krishnamachari and Srividya Rajesh.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Insights Association Corporate Researchers Conference, Sep 9-11, Chicago

• *AI Pathfinder - Private Equity AI Strategy Day, Sep 16, London

• Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, Sep 17, NYC

• Neudata Traditional and Market Data Summit, Sep 18, London

• Data Management Summit, Sep 18, NYC

• Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan 2025 Future of Finance & Ai Conference, Sep 19, NYC

• Market Research Society B2B Research Conference, Sep 24, London

• Big Data LDN, Sep 24-25, London

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

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

• *Fintech Dev Night - Quant x AI, Sep 25, NYC

• ESOMAR Congress, Sep 28-Oct 1, Prague

• BattleFin Discovery Day, Oct 9, NYC

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

• Stocktwits Stocktoberfest, Oct 20-22, Coronado, CA.

• The Private Markets AI Summit, Oct 28, NYC

• World of DaaS Summit, May 7, 2026, Washington D.C.

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