Big Data

Since last post we’ve seen 8 mergers & acquisitions, 10 funding rounds, 4 new companies, 18 people moves & promotions, 6 roles, 2 articles, 1 podcast, and 1 newly added upcoming event.

M&A

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

• Acuity Knowledge Partners acquired Ascent (AI-powered digital transformation). PR

• BlueMatrix acquired the RMS Partners (financial research authoring and modeling) business from FactSet. PR

• FE fundinfo acquired AlphaOmega (fund regulatory reporting). PR

• Genius Sports acquired Sports Innovation Lab (sports fan data). PR

• Innovaccer acquired Story Health (specialty care digital health). PR

• Insight Partners acquired Solovis (portfolio monitoring and analytics) from Nasdaq. PR

• RiskConcile acquired Fitz Partners (fund fees and expense data). PR

• Verve acquired Captify (search intelligence). PR

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Funding

• Alphastream (private credit data management) received a strategic investment from Intapp.

• Catena (telematics and logistics data) raised $5M in a Seed round led by Floating Point.

• Centari (deal intelligence) raised $14M in a round led by Sentinel Global.

• Earthmover (tensor data platform) raised $7.2M in a Seed round led by Lowercarbon Capital.

• F2 AI (AI platform for private markets investors) raised $10M.

• InCountry (data protection for AI) raised $10M in a round led by Arbor Ventures.

• LendOS (private credit operations) raised a Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments.

• Moby (investment research) raised $5M in a Seed round led by IA Capital Group.

• PostSig (AI-powered contract and document intelligence) raised $4.1M in a Seed round led by Differential Ventures.

• Veezoo (agentic analytics) raised $6M in a Series A led by ACE Ventures.

New Company Alerts

F2 AI is an AI platform for private markets investors. F2 turns messy, unstructured deal materials into structured, audit-ready insights in minutes. The company spun-out of Arc and announced a $10M funding round. F2 is founded by Don Muir (prior Arc, Apollo, Onex) and Emre Kazdagli (prior Arc, LinkedIn).

Clavana is an M&A origination and deal sourcing firm. Clavana provides deep market coverage, qualified introductions, and proprietary pipelines to PE firms, portfolio companies, and corporations. The firm is founded by Clive Cooper (prior Finquest, SourceScrub) and Lara Hughes-Francis (prior Finquest, Guidepoint).

DealAnalysis provides AI solutions to PE/VC firms and investment banks to enable efficient deal analysis and financial modeling/forecasting. Built over the past 4 years, the company recently announced their launch. DealAnalysis is founded by Stuart Fotheringham (prior Rothschild, Remarqua) and Kevin Fletcher (prior Rothschild, Vanora Capital).

Enlightn is a market research tool improving panelist matching and survey targeting. The company combines open-ended profiling with semantic search via API. Enlightn is founded by Adrien Vermeirsch (prior Potloc).

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Chris Andrews joined Finster AI as COO.

• Viny Bodhani joined QuantHouse as Sales Director.

• Lauren Briggs joined Blueflame AI as Head of Partnerships.

• Das Dasgupta joined McDonald’s as Global Chief Data Analytics & AI Officer.

• Kumar Doshi joined Consumer Edge as CMO.

• Magnus Einmo joined Prime Insights as VP of Product.

• Anna Galati was promoted to Senior Director, AI & Automation Business Transformation at Boomi.

• Rich Hill joined Tunnl as VP of Client Experience & Insights.

• Jason Howard joined the Board of Directors of Dialectica.

• Jack Killea was promoted to Head of Data & Analytics at Maiden Century.

• Michelle Lenzo joined DISQO as SVP of Sales.

• Vijay Mayadas joined Rimes as President & CEO.

• Eli Moore joined Burke as VP, Data Strategy.

• Dan Spector joined Foresight as CTO.

• Daniel Tempesta joined Norstella as CFO.

• Chris Tourre joined Datassential as VP, Sales.

• EJ White joined Brightwave as Founding Growth Lead.

• Paul Zwillenberg joined Kantar as CEO.

Who’s Hiring

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

• AlphaROC is hiring a Head of Go-To-Market (Wall Street Focus).

• Bloomberg is hiring a Content Relationship Manager - Research Data ($120K - $170K).

• Fidelity is hiring a Head of Data Analytics.

• Grata is hiring a VP of Sales (£250K - £280K).

• Maatra Ventures is hiring a Chief of Staff Fellow.

• phData is hiring a Principal Solution Owner - Data Platforms and AI.

*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

• Everything is a Data Business - on Kroll-StepStone Private Credit Benchmarks by Asymmetrix.

• The Evolution of AI Agents in Finance - From intelligence to derived data. From chatting interface to API by Didier Lopes.

What I’m Listening To

• Data Gurus Podcast: Solving Data Quality Challenges featuring Dyna Boen at Escalent, Jon Kay at Intuit, Bob Dawson at Data Quality Co-Op, and Steven Snell at Rep Data in discussion with Sima Vasa.

[LAST CHANCE] 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.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• 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

• *FINOS Open Source In Finance Forum, Oct 21-22, NYC

• The Private Markets AI Summit, Oct 28, NYC

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

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