Batting 1,000

Thank you all for helping me get to 1,000 subscribers in just 8 months! And a special shoutout to subscriber no.1000, Ed Socia. Ed is also in the people moves section this week as he recently joined datacenterHawk as Insights Director. As a prize, Ed has selected this fine data-themed mug pictured below from the DataSwagCo store.

This week, 3 acquisitions, 3 fundraising rounds, 9 people moves & promotions, 1 new firm launch, 2 articles, 2 podcasts, 4 roles, and 9 new events (29 total upcoming).

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M&A

• Datasite acquired MergerLinks (M&A deal data platform).

• Francisco Partners acquired The Weather Company (weather data) from IBM.

• Trading Technologies acquired Abel Noser Solutions (transaction cost analysis).

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

• Aperio (operational data quality) raised $9M in a Series A1 led by Momenta.

• Arcion (enterprise database replication) received an investment from Hewlett Packard Pathfinder.

• Ikigai Labs (generative AI for tabular data) raised $25M in a Series A led by Premji Invest.

*New Firm Alert*

Triple Private Equity is a new data and software focused investment firm. The firm invests off-market in small to mid-cap software and data businesses in the UK, Denmark, and the rest of Scandinavia, that underpin core services in finance, risk and compliance infrastructure with demonstrable customer traction, scalable technology, and top leadership talent (3 T’s, hence “Triple”). The firm is led by Founding Partners Mads Hansen, former Partner at Hg Capital, and Ben Shepherd, former Chief Product, Strategy, and M&A Officer at Refinitiv. The firm also has an Advisory Board, with leading executives including

• David Craig, former CEO of Refinitiv

• Nathalie Gaveau, Serial Tech Entrepreneur

• Waqas Samad, former CEO of FTSE Russell and Group Head, Investment Solutions at LSEG

• Johaan Wiggins, Senior Partner & Global Head of Digital at Oliver Wyman

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Bloomberg LP is promoting Vlad Kliatchko, Chief Product Officer, to CEO. JP Zammitt will be the company’s President and Patti Roskill will be CFO. Additionally, the company is appointing a new Board with former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney as Chair. Article from The Information.

• Christopher Bloechle was promoted to CTO at Third Point.

• Thibault Cousot joined Behaviorally as Head of Product.

• Ed Lavery joined Placer.ai as VP of Investor Intelligence.

• Bill Perkins joined S3 Partners as Head of EMEA.

• Edward Socia joined datacenterHawk as Insight Director.

What I’m reading

• Five Ways Customer Insights Teams Can Turn Demographic Data from Interesting to Actionable, a white paper by Consumer Edge.

• Introducing the 2023 TabbFORUM 40 Innovators in Financial Markets

What I’m Listening To

• The Alternative Data Podcast episode featuring Jason DeRise interviewed by Mark Fleming-Williams.

• Data Gurus: Purpose-Driven Data featuring Rob Pace interviewed by Sima Vasa.

Who’s Hiring

• Cloudflare is hiring a Director, Data Strategy & Governance.

• Comcast DataBee is hiring a Field Chief Data Officer.

• Seek AI is hiring a Data Engineer.

• Smithsonian Institution is hiring a Chief Data Officer.

Chart of the Week

The demand for ESG data is on the rise, according to a new Bloomberg and Adox Research survey of more than 100 portfolio managers, climate risk executives, and data management executives. The full report and results from the survey can be found here.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Tegus - Understanding Next Generation AI: Answering Venture Capital and Private Equity Investor’s Top Questions, August 30, Virtual

• Data Nerds Antisocial, August 31, NYC

• New York Venture Summit, September 6-7, NYC

• FinovateFall, September 11-13, NYC

• FISD London at Google, September 19, London

• *Data Meetup by LEIT Data and MotherDuck, September 19, London

• TechCrunch Disrupt, September 19-21, San Francisco

• *Bloomberg Law In-House Forum - Unlocking the Power of Data: Aiming for Privacy and Cyber Stewardship, September 20, Virtual

• FinJS, September 20, Toronto

• Big Data LDN, September 20-21, London

• *Market Minds Summit, September 21-24, Las Vegas

• Data Careers Summit, September 22, Virtual

• Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan's 2023 Future Of Finance Conference, September 22, NYC

• The Executive Briefing by Pitchly - Data Enablement to Empower Your Organization for Growth & Success, September 26, NYC

• *Sohn San Francisco Investment Conference, September 26, San Francisco

• BattleFin Discovery Day London, September 26-27, London

• Financial Times Future of Asset Management North America, September 27-28, NYC

• Neudata San Francisco Data Summit, September 28, San Francisco

• FISD New York at Societe Generale, September 28, NYC

• Snowflake Data Cloud World Tour, October 2, NYC

• *Eagle Alpha London Alternative Data Conference, October 12, London

• FinTech Sanbox's Boston FinTech Week, October 10-13, Boston

• The Market Research Event (TMRE), October 23-25, Denver

• *Neudata Dubai Data Day For Investors, November 1, Dubai

• BattleFin Corporate Discovery Day, November 2, NYC

• *SuperReturn North America, November 6-7, NYC

• Benzinga Fintech Deal Day & Awards, November 13, NYC

• *FIMA Data Tech Innovation Day, November 27, London

• *FIMA Europe, November 28-29, London

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