Cannes we please

M&A

• Dreamscape acquired Mediaocean’s global media planning tool, Lumina. Dreamscape also rebranded to Guideline.

• Informatica acquired Privitar (data security and privacy).

• Kynetec acquired Systematics International (machinery data).

• Nasdaq acquired Adenza (risk management and regulatory software) for $10.5B.

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

• Beaconcure (clinical data) raised $14M in a Series B led by NewVale Capital.

• OneVest (wealth platform) raised CAD $17M in a Series A led by OMERS Ventures.

IPOs

• Infollion Research Services debuted on the NSE India Emerge platform.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Darin Clemente joined Entromy as Chief Revenue Officer.

• Megan Goett was joined Cboe Global Markets as SVP, Chief Marketing Officer.

• Jonah Goodhart joined the Board of Directors of Attain.

• Raveena Kumari joined ICON Corporate Finance as an Investment Banking Associate.

• Nicole LoRusso joined Bain Capital Ventures as Customer Development Manager.

• Terri Morgan joined Orbit Financial Technology as Commercial Lead, Data & Analytics.

• Karim Rajwani joined Sigma Ratings as Chief Product Officer.

• Heidi Schmidt joined Truthset as Head of Customer Success.

• Noah Schwartz joined Postman as Head of Developer Engagement.

• Dan Smith joined Consumer Data Industry Association as President & CEO.

• Kamlesh Talreja joined Capital One as Divisional CIO & SVP, Financial Services.

• John White founded Watchdog Data Services.

• Graham Whitelaw joined Datafold as Head of Sales.

Who’s Hiring

• ADP is hiring a Head of Innovation and Insights, Data Solutions.

• CFRA is hiring a GM, Wealth Business Segment.

• Cybersyn is hiring a Data Science Lead.

• Equilar is hiring a Senior Account Executive.

• Glassdoor is hiring a VP, Data.

• Kroll is hiring a Managing Director, Data Insights and Forensics.

• Robinhood is hiring a Head of Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

• ShopriteX is hiring a Senior Legal Advisor.

What I’m reading

• No time this past week. Welcoming recommendations for this week.

What I’m Listening To

• Compounders: The Anatomy of a Multibagger - Episode: The Underappreciated Power of Data Companies with Thomas Li, Co-Founder and CEO of Daloopa

*New Product Alert*

J.P. Morgan announced the launch of Sustainable Investment Data Solutions, enabling institutional investors to extract value from sustainable investment data supplied by providers through technology-enabled normalization, management, calculation, and screening capabilities.

The new solution is available on Fusion, J.P. Morgan’s cloud-based data management, analytics, and reporting platform. It incorporates partnerships with Bloomberg, Equileap, FactSet, ISS ESG, MSCCI, RepRisk, Revelio Labs, S&P Global, and Sustainalytics.

Key Capabilities of Sustainable Investment Data Solutions:

• Consistency: Fusion supports sustainable investment data cross-compatibility across providers. Data is enriched with common identifiers and delivered in standardized formats to allow easy joining between datasets.

• Multi-hierarchy support: Investors can load and manage multiple company hierarchies. They can define their data propagation rules, which are used to generate new datasets.

• Custom screening criteria: Investors can create and manage the inclusion and exclusion criteria for their investable universes. They can run screens on pre-defined schedules.

• Metric calculation: Investors can calculate customized metrics which are then made available for hierarchy propagation and screening.

For more information, visit https://fusion.jpmorgan.com/solutions/sustainable-investment-esg

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• *Low-Key Data Happy Hour - June 20, London

• BCC Group: Market Data in the Cloud - June 22, NYC

• *Neudata - Building Data Products That Scale - June 22, Virtual

• Snowflake Summit - June 26-29, Las Vegas

• Databricks Data + AI Summit - June 26-29, San Francisco

• *Low-Key Data Happy Hour by Portable, Metaplane, RudderStack, Brooklyn Data Co., Striim - June 26, Las Vegas

• FinTech Connect North America - June 27, NYC

• *Data Marketplace Happy Hour by Revelate, Bobsled, Immuta - June 28, San Francisco

• *Alternative Data Happy Hour - June 29, NYC

• Low-Key Data Conference - July 12, Virtual

• Low-Key Data Happy Hour - July 13, NYC

• Something New (hint: expert networks)

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