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Credit: Bhav Patel. Thank you Wendy Batchelder for sharing this gem^

This week 3 acquisitions, 13 fundraising rounds, 14 people moves & promotions, 1 survey, 3 articles, 2 podcasts, 3 roles, and 1 new event.

M&A

• Datavant acquired Healthjump (health data exchange).

• Marex acquired the prime brokerage and outsourced trading business from Cowen.

• Titan Cloud acquired Leighton O'brien (fuel data and analytics).

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

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Fundraising

• AlphaSense (market intelligence and search) raised $150M at a $2.5B valuation in a Series E led by BOND.

• Canvs AI (consumer insights platform) raised $15M in a round led by Fulcrum Equity Partners.

• Nextdata (data mesh) raised $12M in a Seed round led by Greycroft and Acrew Capital.

• Pexapark (renewable energy market intelligence tools) raised $21M in a Series C led by Telstra Ventures.

• Pliable (insurance data) raised $2.5M in a round led by Resolute Ventures.

• Pontoro (infrastructure finance platform) raised $4.6M in a Seed round led by Ulu Ventures.

• PortX (open banking and core integration) raised $16.5M in a Series B led by FUSE and Curql.

• Revefi (enterprise data platform) raised $10.5M in a Seed round led by Mayfield.

• Secoda (data management) raised $14M in a Series A led by Craft Ventures.

• Traydstream (trade finance) raised $21M in a Series B led by Pivot Investment Partners and E& Capital.

• Tune Insight (encrypted data collaboration) raised $3.4M in a round led by 14Peaks Capital.

• Upslide (MS office productivity tools) raised an investment from Partech.

• Vega (wealth management platform) raised £5M in a Seed round led by Motive Partners.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Kimon Apostolidis joined Kneip as Chief Commercial Officer.

• Matthew Creedon joined Valt as Chief Commercial Officer.

• Dan Dortana joined AlphaSense in Investor Sales.

• Vincent Dulhoste joined Rimes as Global Head of Professional Services.

• Anthony El-Khoury was promoted to Head of Alternative Data at Antipodes.

• Brian Kabinoff joined Janus Henderson Investors as Digital Asset Manager.

• Kunal Kapoor joined Genpact as VP, Sales and Digital Growth.

• Joe Kringdon joined DOOR Ventures as Head of North America.

• Sahil Malhotra was promoted to Product Owner at Mind-Alliance.

• Gerard Miller joined Hedgineer as a Partner.

• Andy Sieg joined Citi as Head of Wealth.

• Aditya Thatte joined Vendia as Principal Product Manager.

• Stephen Wisnefski joined Investopedia as Executive Editor of News.

• Thomas Zawacki was promoted to President, Enterprise Solutions at Data Axle.

*Attention Experts*

Earlier this week I posted a survey on LinkedIn asking experts/consultants about their status on expert networks. If you currently or previously consulted through expert networks, please take the 1 question survey here.

Who’s Hiring

• Chartbeat is hiring a Head of Sales, North America.

• Royal Caribbean is hiring a VP, Advanced Analytics - Growth & Personalization.

• Visa is hiring a SVP, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

What I’m reading

• The ascent of primary research by Joshua Maxey in CFA Society.

• Peak Pod: The Industrialisation of Alpha by Marc Rubinstein on Substack.

• Web Scraping Legal Context by Andrea Squatrito on Substack.

What I’m Listening To

• I See Data People episode featuring Richard Hoffmann of Datarade.

• The Joe Reis Show: The Divides in the Data Space, Fighting Dumpster Fires, and More featuring Jason Taylor of Automated Data Inc.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Snowflake Data Cloud World Tour, October 2, NYC

• Corinium CDAO Fall, October 4-5, Boston

• Eagle Alpha London Alternative Data Conference, October 12, London

• FinTech Sanbox's Boston FinTech Week, October 10-13, Boston

• FISD Alternative Data Council: Compliance and Generative AI, October 17, NYC

• Battle of the Quants, October 18, London

• Seek AI Happy Hour: NYC TechWeek, October 20, NYC

• The Market Research Event (TMRE), October 23-25, Denver

• Neudata Dubai Data Day For Investors, November 1, Dubai

• BattleFin Corporate Discovery Day, November 2, NYC

• SuperReturn North America, November 6-7, NYC

• Substantive Research Unbundling Uncovered, November 8, London

• *Tegus Converge, November 8, Virtual

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

• FIMA Data Tech Innovation Day, November 27, London

• FIMA Europe, November 28-29, London

And a non-data meme, just for laughs…

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