Chart of the Year

^Chart of the Year from BattleFin Corporate Discovery Day yesterday. Some of the most robust, real-time data indicating that the people have spoken! N = a million (probably)

This week 10 acquisitions, 7 fundraising rounds, 20 people moves & promotions, 3 articles, 13 roles, 1 podcast, and 6 new events.

M&A

• Apax Partners acquired WGSN (trend forecasting) for £1.4B.

• Crisp acquired Atlas (CPG data) from Advantage Solutions.

• Green Street acquired Local Data Company (UK retail and leisure location data).

• HubSpot acquired Clearbit (company data).

• Inflexion and Endicott Capital acquired aosphere (legal tech) from Allen & Overy for more than £200M.

• MediaRadar acquired Vivvix (advertising intelligence) from Kantar.

• Omnicom acquired Flywheel Digital (digital commerce and analytics) from Ascential for $825M.

• Treehouse acquired Origins (NFT analytics)

• Wilshire acquired Lyxor Asset Management (investment advisor) from Amundi.

• With Intelligence acquired FolioMetrics (IR and research management tools).

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

• Accelex raised $15M in a Series A led by FactSet.

• Arteria AI (documentation infrastructure) raised $30M in a Series B led by GGV Capital.

• CModel Data (decision intelligence tools) raised an investment from Alabama Futures Fund.

• ESG Flo (ESG data infrastructure) raised $5.25M in a Seed round led by Rho Ignition and Tola Capital.

• GlassFlow (data streaming platform) raised $1.1M in a Pre-Seed round led by High-Tech Gründerfonds, Robin Capital, TinyVC, and Roosh Ventures.

• Real Estate Business Analytics (real estate data platform) raised growth funding from Decathlon Capital Partners.

• TRAFiX (order and execution management software) raised growth funding from Marlin Equity Partners.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Jack Benedict joined Citi Ventures as an Investor.

• Dimitri Casvigny was promoted to VP Corporate Development, ESG, IR at Aiven.

• Mark Charnock joined MarketReader as a Senior Advisor.

• Abhijit Chaudhary joined Pagaya as Chief Product Officer.

• Olivier Collart launched Intangiable.

• John Curaba joined Placer.ai as Director of Sales, Finance.

• Matthew Evans joined Oil Brokerage Ltd as Co-Head of Market Data.

• Brittany Franco joined The TCW Group as AVP, Sourcing & Procurement.

• Steven Lau was promoted to Interim CEO at WorldQuant Predictive.

• Nadege Martig-Grasmuck joined CCData as Index Commercial Lead.

• William McIvor joined the Board of Directors of Abacus Insights.

• Justin Moore was promoted to Chief of Staff at FactSet.

• Cory Pykiet joined Demyst as Account Director

• David Sasaki joined OpenAI has Head of Analytics.

• Chris Schenkkan joined FactSet as Director, Content.

• Harleen Thethy joined Barclays as VP, Digital Analytics & Marketing.

• Mishelle Weinerman joined Aux Insights in Product Management.

• Simon Whitear joined Citadel Securities as Global Head of Infrastructure.

• Brendon Whymark joined EDF Trading as Market Data Manager.

• Mickey Yawn joined Polygon.io as Director of Engineering.

Who’s Hiring

• BMLL is hiring a Senior Sales Director (Hedge Funds).

• Bristol Myers Squibb is hiring a Senior Manager, External Data Acquisition.

• Capital One is hiring a Senior Director, Product Management - Enterprise Data Products & Standardization.

• Columbia University is hiring a Adjunct Lecturer - Big Data & Political Strategy.

• Datos is hiring a Senior Sales Engineer and a Sales Development Representative.

• Koch Industries is hiring a Data Program Manager.

• Liberty Mutual is hiring a Head of Global Data Strategy & Alignment, a Director II, Data Products, Liberty Mutual Investments, and a Head of Investment Data Content Management.

• Mondelēz International is hiring a Senior Director, Data Management & Data Products.

• Selby Jennings is recruiting for a Managing Director / Director for an investment bank’s product research team.

• My friends at Endicott Capital (see M&A section for their latest deal and one of their portcos, MediaRadar’s acquisition) launched a new jobs site with postings from across their portfolio companies. They invest exclusively in information services and data business, so lots of great opportunities here.

What I’m reading

• Privacy will die to deliver us the thinking and knowing computer by Darrell Etherington in TechCrunch.

• Turning 6 Days into $20M - How Operational Processes Drive Investment Alpha and Corporate Profits by Rich Brown on LinkedIn.

• Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence by President Joseph Biden.

What I’m Listening To

• Why good governance matters to investors - Susan Divers discusses with Bruce Karpati of KKR on the LRN Principled Podcast.

New Fund Alert

Snowflake announced the launch of the Powered by Snowflake Funding Program, which intends to invest up to $100 million dollars toward the next generation of early stage startups building Snowflake Native Apps. The Powered by Snowflake Funding Program features leading venture capital firms Altimeter Capital, Amplify Partners, Anthos Capital, Coatue, ICONIQ Growth, IVP, Madrona, Menlo Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Snowflake Ventures.

As part of the Powered by Snowflake Funding Program, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will further fuel growth and innovation by providing up to $1M in free Snowflake credits on AWS over four years to startups building Snowflake Native Apps.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Women in Fintech 6th Anniversary Event, November 9, NYC

• Beryl Elites Alternative Investments & Data Revolution, November 6-7, NYC.

• SuperReturn North America, November 6-7, NYC

• Substantive Research Unbundling Uncovered, November 8, London

• Tegus Converge, November 8, Virtual

• Market Data in the Cloud, November 9, London

• Alternative Data Happy Hour, November 9, NYC

• *Low Key Data Happy Hour - Westchester Edition, November 10, NY Suburbs

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

• *With Intelligence - Private Markets US COO Summit, November 15, NYC

• Open Source Data Summit, November 15, Virtual

• *Low Key Data Happy Hour - Miami Edition, November 16, Miami

• *Tactics for Managing External Data Risk, November 16, Virtual

• FIMA Data Tech Innovation Day, November 27, London

• FIMA Europe, November 28-29, London

• *12 Days of Data 🎁 - Happy Hour, December 6, NYC

• *Battle of the Quants, December 6, Hong Kong

• The Fintech Formal, December 8, NYC

• Skiers in Data (SKID) by LEIT Data, March 24, Verbier Switzerland

And another for good laughs…

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