CrowdStrike Falling From The Coconut Tree

Since last post we’ve seen 5 acquisitions, 8 fundraising rounds, 16 people moves & promotions, 2 articles, 10 roles, 1 newly added upcoming event, and an updated market map.

Maps on Maps on Maps

Earlier this week we released an updated market map with 146 new logos for a total of 584 companies. Coming up next is a double click on private markets data and tools (and no, there won’t be a 7-day free trial for that one - so something to consider before you cancel that subscription after downloading the general map).

M&A

• Clarivate acquired Rowan Patents (patent solutions).

• Dow Jones acquired A2i Systems (retail fuel, EV, and c-store pricing analytics).

• Fintel acquired RSMR (fund ratings and research).

• KKR acquired Janney Montgomery Scott (financial services).

• Informa acquired Ascential (events) for £1.2B.

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Fundraising

• Allium (blockchain data platform) raised $16.5M in a Series A led by Theory Ventures.

• Cypris (AI research for R&D) raised $5.3M in a round led by Vocap Partners.

• FDM (telecom insights) received an investment from Inflexion.

• Elly Analytics (marketing analytics platform) raised $1M in a Seed round led by Altair Capital and PTV Ventures.

• GeoWealth (turnkey asset management platform) raised $18M in a growth round led by BlackRock

• Powder (AI for wealth management) raised $5M in a Seed round.

• Quantum Commodity Intelligence (commodity data and PRA) raised £12.5M in a growth round from Elephant.

• Strive (financial services) raised $30M in a Series B led by Cantor Fitzgerald, Deason Capital Services, and Narya Capital.

^ but don’t we always look that way at PC using large companies?

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

Powered in partnership with Live Data Technologies. Who else is changing jobs? Get the latest data for the companies that matter most to you for free: http://www.livedatatechnologies.com/trial

• Tim Baker joined the Board of Directors of Nuvolos.

• Adam Bhatti was promoted to Senior Associate at Concertiv.

• Dean Bryen joined LSEG as Head of Cloud Engineering

• Michelle Cameron joined Morningstar Sustainalytics as Commercial Executive.

• Harper Cullen joined Above Data as Head of Data Sales.

• Thomas Elliott joined Intangia as Head of Product.

• Javier Flores joined SS&C Technologies as Director, Solutions Management Genesis Data Platform.

• Alden French joined Grata as Relationship Management Lead.

• Jon Keegan joined Sherwood News as Tech Reporter.

• Matthew Leaney joined GLG as Global Head of Commercial Operations

• Patrick Lynch joined AKAnomics as Director, Account Management.

• Akhil Parekh joined Nielsen as Chief Solutions Officer, Digital.

• Sydney Sloan joined G2 as Chief Marketing Officer.

• William Spencer joined MarketAxess as Head of Client Solutions, Product Management.

• Luis Vinke joined YipitData as GTM Leader.

• Mirko von Schroeder joined UBS as Head of Portfolio Tooling, Reporting & Data Analysis

What I’m Reading

• Will the data industry continue to consolidate? by Jason DeRise. Thanks for the shoutout!

• FTC Issues Orders to Eight Companies Seeking Information on Surveillance Pricing

Something Cool

My friends at Live Data Technologies (who help power the people moves section) put together a really cool interactive graphic on recent people moves across companies on the updated market map. Check out the custom landing page to look up headcount trends across the data world.

Who’s Hiring

• GCM Grosvenor is hiring a Product Manager, Data Enablement.

• Hyatt is hiring a Director of Data and AI Governance.

• IDC is hiring a Research Director, Data Management ($140K - $170K).

• InnovateMR is hiring a Senior Manager, Business & Client Development.

• Millennium is hiring a Senior Quant Developer - Equities PM Tools, Quant Strategies ($175K - $250K).

• Neuberger Berman is hiring a Data Analytics and Solutions Lead ($140K - $160K).

• Nvidia is hiring a Corporate Development Manager ($120K - $230K).

• Point72 is hiring a AI Product Lead, Investment Services ($400K).

• Squirro is hiring a CFO.

• Starbucks is hiring a Director, Starbucks Data Office ($170K - $267K).

• Tailored Brands is hiring a Director, Data Strategy & Campaign Operations ($153K - $230K).

• Voloridge Investment Management is hiring a Health Research Data Acquisition Specialist.

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

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Low Key Data Happy Hour - Westchester, July 26, Westchester NY

• *Low Key Data Happy Hour, July 31, NYC

• FISD World Financial Information Conference, September 15-18, Austin

• Boston Fintech Week, September 16-20, Boston

• Neudata San Francisco Data Summit, September 26, San Francisco

• Open Source Data Summit, October 2, Virtual

• Eagle Alpha UNBOUND Alternative Data Conference, October 9, NYC

• Web Data Extract Summit, October 9-10, Austin

• BattleFin Corporate Discovery Day, October 15-16, Chicago

• StockTwits Stocktoberfest, October 20-22, Coronado, CA

• Neudata Paris Data Day for Investors, October 30, Paris

Views here are the author’s own and not of any employers or companies. The author may be compensated for pieces in this newsletter.