Buy The Dip?

Or just the tip? (of the iceberg)

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Dan Entrup
February 09, 2026

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Since last post we’ve seen 5 M&A deals, 3 funding rounds, 32 people moves & promotions (we’re gonna need a bigger boat), 4 roles, 6 articles, and 1 newly added upcoming event. Plus, last edition’s top clicked link (congrats Evan!)

The past week was huge for personal publishing milestones. I posted on LinkedIn some words of encouragement to help people out in their career search and pay it forward. It resonated way more than I thought, with over 400 likes and 70,000 impressions. Also posted highlighting the work we’re doing at AggKnowledge. Then Anna Faelton at EY-Parthenon posted the firm’s B2B Data and Information Services Deals Newsletter, with a nice surprise to me that they cited my work alongside Asymmetrix, MergerMarket, Pitchbook, and CapIQ. Lastly, I posted Are You a Software Company or a Data Company (Hint: You’re Not Both) and have been flooded with emails and texts with all sorts of feedback and longer stories of debates that ensued (screenshots below). This is something I had been working on writing for some time, and was not a result of the market dip in info services last week, though one could say that contributed to being my most read newsletter yet.

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M&A

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Funding

  • Allocation Strategy (asset allocation analytics) raised £1.6M in a Seed round led by Fuel Ventures.

  • Beesy (behavioral-science market research) received an investment from Denali Growth Partners.

  • Fundamental (large tabular models) raised $255M at a $1.2B valuation in a Series A led by Oak HC/FT, Valor Equity Partners, Battery Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

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  • Meredith Binder joined Novata as Chief Product & Marketing Officer.

  • Joe Boo joined Arcana as Sales Director, Client Accounts.

  • Kelly Carter was promoted to MD, Global Head of Revenue, Markets as S&P Global.

  • Greg Chambers joined FIS as Senior Sales Director, Capital Markets.

  • Tony Chidiac joined Diskover Data as Chief Revenue Officer.

  • Michael Collins joined Alias Intelligence as Managing Director.

  • Morgan French was promoted to Managing Director at Stifel.

  • Boris Fuks was promoted to Head of Data & AI at S&P Global.

  • Shriram Ganesh joined Statista as Chief Product Officer.

  • Dave Gordon joined Savanta as Chief Commercial Officer.

  • Alex Hallberg was promoted to VP of Business Development at Walr.

  • Adam Kelly joined Clear Street as MD, Strategy & Corporate Development.

  • Riley Kinser was promoted to Head of Applied AI, Equities Business Development at Citadel.

  • Peter Lake joined 67 Bricks as a Board Advisor.

  • Tom Luker joined smartTrade Technologies as Head of Corporate Development.

  • Craig Marthinsen joined HedgeID as Chief Revenue Officer.

  • Hamilton Matthews joined Actum Group as Chair.

  • Jason Maynard joined Qualtrics as CEO.

  • Braxton McKenzie was promoted to Data Science Lead at Citadel.

  • Stephen Mirasolo joined Databricks as Director, Financial Services.

  • John Molesphini joined Archive Intel as Head of Sales.

  • Jenny Paurys joined Dow Jones as SVP, Head of Research, Consulting & Community.

  • Samir Saied joined Singletrack as Chief Customer Officer.

  • Steven Semel joined BNY as SVP, Third Party Applications & Market Data.

  • James Setzer joined BlueMatrix as Head of Marketing.

  • Scott Smith was promoted to EVP, Head of EMEA Institutional Business Development at Guidepoint.

  • Chris Tierney joined ExodusPoint as Head of Data Science.

  • Brandon Turner joined Koyfin as Head of Engineering.

  • Mark Vaughan was promoted to Head of Global Strategic Accounts at Consumer Edge.

  • Anita Watkins was appointed CEO of Insights Association.

  • Julia White joined Full Circle Research as Director, Sales.

  • Alexis Zheng joined G2 as Chief Product & Technology Officer.

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

Who’s Hiring

*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

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