Boom! Roasted

disclaimer: no sell-side research analysts were harmed in the making of this meme.

Since last post we’ve seen 9 acquisitions, 7 fundraising rounds, 17 people moves & promotions, 8 roles, 1 upcoming roast, and 1 newly added event.

M&A

• Accenture acquired Parsionate (data consulting).

• Boomi acquired APIIDA (federated API management).

• Boomi acquired Mashery (API management) from TIBCO.

• Corlytics acquired Deloitte UK’s regtech platform.

• Cube acquired Reg-Room (regulatory intelligence).

• Hexaware acquired Softcrylic (data consulting).

• Intain acquired IN-D (automated document processing).

• Privateer acquired Orbital Insight (geospatial data).

• With Intelligence acquired Highworth Research (family office data).

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Fundraising

• Alphastream.ai (credit market data) raised a Seed round led by Motive Partners.

• Daloopa (AI-powered financial data) raised $18M in a Series B led by Touring Capital.

• Danti (earth data search) raised $5M in a Seed round led by Shield Capital.

• Indicium (data consulting) raised $40M from Columbia Capital.

• Privateer (space data) raised $56.5M in a Series A led by Aero X Ventures.

• Stonal (real estate data management) raised €100M from Aeron.

• United Fintech (Fintech digital transformation platform) received an investment from Danske Bank.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

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• Assaf Amitay joined Privya.AI as CEO.

• Dave Blair was promoted to CEO at Ridgeline.

• Lou Bridda joined Atheneum as Head of Commercial for Consulting, Americas.

• Graham Brown joined AlphaSense as Head of Broker Relations, Americas.

• Mark Coriarty joined Cmind as an Advisor.

• Gary Cottrell joined HG Insights as GM & Chief Product Officer.

• Tom Feeley joined BattleFin as SVP of Sales.

• Jerry Ferrara joined Benzinga as CEO.

• Michael Morrissey joined Seek AI as CTO.

• Mary Ann Packo joined Ipsos North America as CEO.

• John Peterson joined Alkymi as Strategic Accounts Director.

• Stewart Plumb joined Bigeye as VP, Head of Sales.

• Nick Scott was promoted to Head of Content, EMEA at GLG.

• Eric Stern joined Tiger Global Management as CTO.

• Bala Subramanian joined Alphastream.ai as COO.

• Vincent Tomaselli joined Clarista as Global Head of Sales.

• Chris Ucko joined Alphastream.ai as Chief Revenue Officer.

Who’s Hiring

• Axial is hiring a Business Operations Associate, GTM Enablement ($85K - $125K).

• Gartner is hiring a Chief Data & Analytics Officer (240K - 315K).

• Measurabl is hiring a Revenue Operations Director ($126K - $219K).

• NewtonX is hiring a Senior/Principal Product Manager ($160K - $180K).

• State Street is hiring a Head of Product Innovation & Third Party Relationships, State Street Global Advisors, SVP ($225K - $337K).

• ValidMind is hiring a Senior Sales Executive, New Business ($120K - $175K).

• VC Platform is hiring a Head of Community.

• Caroline Pellatt is hiring engineers with backend and cloud experience for a new AI project.

*salaries only listed where provided by the company. See links for specific salary details.

Special Event

Inspired by the Roast of Tom Brady, Jason Taylor will join Chris Tabb on the Data Value Show for The Roast of Data Monday, May 13th at 12pm ET. While I’m not an official writer for the show, we did have some good laughs on Wednesday on the #meandatastreets.

What I’m Listening To

• An expert network employee explaining what she does to stand-up comedian Gabby Bryan.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• DataIQ 100 Summit, May 20-21, Miami

• BattleFin Discovery Day, May 21-22, NYC

• Finovate Spring, May 21-23, San Francisco

• Asia Financial Information Conference (AsiaFIC), May 28-29, Singapore

• *Placer.ai's Geolocation Data on Exabel, May 30, Virtual

• Low-Key Data Happy Hour Sponsored by Portable, Metaplane, RudderStack, and Keboola, June 3, San Francisco

• Neudata Summer Data Summit, June 4, NYC

• SuperReturn International, June 4-7, Berlin

• FISD New York, June 6, NYC

• Substantive Research - Unbundling Uncovered, June 13, NYC

• Vertical AI Summit, June 13, NYC

• Knowledge & Information Management, Research & Analysis (KIMRA) - Generative AI Conference, July 3, London

• The Quirk’s Event, July 17-18, NYC

• Boston Fintech Week, September 16-20, Boston

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