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Study on Data Monetization and Marketplaces sponsored by 1486 Labs, CDOIQ, CDO Magazine, Dama International, Databricks, Dataversity, EM360, Gulp Data, Immuta, Nomad Data, Revelate, and West Monroe.
Part II of my LinkedIn poll on data distribution. Part I results are at the bottom of this email.
M&A
VettaFi acquired ROBO Global (indexes).
*transactions have been announced but may not be closed
Fundraising
1upHealth (health data cloud) raised $40M in a Series C led by Sixth Street Growth.
AlphaSense (market intelligence and search) raised $100M at a $1.8B valuation in a Series D led by CapitalG.
Clear Street (capital markets infrastructure) raised $270M at a $2B valuation in a second tranche of a Series B led by Prysm Capital.
Cybersyn (data-as-a-service) raised $63M in a round led by Snowflake.
Honeycomb (observability) raised $50M in a Series D led by Headline.
Portrait Analytics (AI-powered investment research) raised $3M in a Pre-Seed round led by .406 Ventures.
People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments
Jason Chambers joined Qonsent as VP of Data Strategy and Architecture.
Andrew Foster joined M&T Bank as Chief Data Officer.
Austin Goldberg was promoted to Director, Key Enterprise Accounts at Axiom.
Franck Gossieaux joined LSEG as Group Head of Strategic Accounts.
Bronson Green joined State Street as MD, Chief Administrative Officer.
Judy Kimball joined YipitData as Senior Director, Investor Marketing.
Ethan Koh joined PEI as Head of Global Research Operations.
Jess Larson joined Bespoke Partners as SVP, Private Equity.
Andrew Little joined Floodlight as SVP of Asset Management.
Michael Maloof was promoted to Senior Director at Earnest Analytics.
Svetla Marinova joined Bloomberg as Global Cloud Alliances Partner.
Julie Martin joined Frayt as Senior Product Manager.
Peter Moylan joined BMLL as Senior Sales Director.
Patrick Patel was promoted to VP of Sales at Verity.
Ana Price was promoted to Head of Surveys at Inex One.
Eli Reisman joined IFRS Foundation as Director of Product.
Danielle Simms was promoted to Senior Director, Financial Services at AlphaSense.
Matthew Sommi joined Bespoke Partners as VP, Private Equity.
Nathan Wolaver was promoted to Chief Revenue Officer at Alveo Technology.
Who’s Hiring
Abbvie (pharmaceuticals) is hiring a Senior Director, Bioinformatics.
AB InBev (food & beverages) is hiring a Global Director, Core Insights and Foresight.
American Century Investments (financial services) is hiring a Director, Data Technologies.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (non-profit) is hiring a Director, Enterprise Data Solutions.
Coca-Cola (food & beverages) is hiring a Director, Data Engineering & Analytics.
J.P. Morgan (financial services) is hiring a Executive Director of Real-Time Analytics Data Science.
Snowflake (technology) is hiring a Head of Customer Data Workload.
What I’m Reading
Consumer spending data to give ‘outsized informational edge’, finds investor survey by Tim Human in IR Magazine.
20 Years On: How Technology Transforms Research by Michael Mayhew at Integrity Research Associates.
What I’m Listening To
The theme is “new podcast”
I See Data People, a new podcast from Evan Schidman of Outrigger Group and Omri Shtayer of SimilarWeb. The latest episodes feature Anju Marempudi of EventVestor and Ed Lavery of SimilarWeb. Also check out the first episode. That guy looks familiar ;)
Hedgineer - Alternative Data & AI, a new podcast from Michael Watson of Hedgineer. The latest episode interviews Sachin Kulkarni of Monarch Alternative Capital.
Partner Path, a new podcast from Laura Hamilton of Spring Mountain Capital and Wil Hagen of Apax Partners. The latest episode features Nevin Raj of Grata.
Data Nation, a podcast from MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS).
Upcoming Events
*new events added since last newsletter
Low-Key Data Meet - April 18, London
FirstMark Capital - Data Driven NYC, April 18, NYC
Low-Key Data Happy Hour - April 25, NYC
*Nomad Data - Data [insert buzzword]: How to maximize value from your data investments - April 25, Virtual
Corinium CDAO Spring - April 25-26, San Francisco
FIMA US Financial Data Innovation - April 25-26, Boston
Navigating the Gray Areas: Hear from the Experts on MNPI Compliance and Alternative Data - April 26, NYC
*HFM Billion Dollar Leaders Summit - May 8-9, Montauk
The Knowledge Graph Conference - May 8-12, NYC
OpenFin FinJS - May 9, NYC
*Battle of the Quants - May 10, NYC
*AWS Capital Markets Financial Data Forum - May 11, NYC
WatersTechnology North American Financial Information Summit - May 16, NYC
Maiden Century Data Partner Summit - May 16, NYC
Spatial Data Science Conference - May 17-18, London
BattleFin Discovery Day New York - May 17-18, NYC
Neudata New York Summer Data Summit - June 1, NYC
Datatechvibe Velocity Data and Analytics Summit - June 5-7, Dubai
Eagle Alpha UNBOUND New York - June 6, NYC
Substantive Research Unbundling Uncovered - June 14, NYC
FinTech Connect North America - June 27, NYC
Results from last week’s LinkedIn poll (n=57)