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Since last post we’ve seen 6 acquisitions, 12 funding rounds ($908.2M raised), 24 people moves & promotions, 15 roles ($221K average salary), 2 new firm launches, 1 article, 2 legal matters, and 1 newly added upcoming event.

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Table of Contents

• A Word From Our Sponsor

• M&A

• Funding

• There’s A Data Provider For That

• People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• New Firm Alerts

• Who’s Hiring

• What I’m Reading

• Legal, Regulatory & Compliance

• Upcoming Events

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M&A

• Clearwater Analytics acquired Enfusion (investment management technology) for $1.5B. PR

• Contentstack acquired Lytics (real-time customer data platform). PR

• GlobalData acquired Deallus (life sciences intelligence). PR

• H1 acquired Ribbon Health (healthcare provider data). PR

• Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) acquired American Financial Exchange (AFX). PR

• Moody’s acquired CAPE Analytics (geospatial and risk intelligence). PR

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Funding

• Dataships (data privacy and consent management) raised $7M in a Series A led by Osage Venture Partners.

• DDN (AI and data intelligence solutions) received a $300M investment from Blackstone.

• Fermata (agriculture data science) raised $10M in a Series A led by Raw Ventures.

• hc1 (lab data intelligence) raised $6.25M in a round led by A1 Health Ventures.

• Hippocratic AI (healthcare LLM) raised $141M in a Series B led by Kleiner Perkins.

• Innovaccer (healthcare intelligence and AI) raised $275M in a Series F.

• Metis Intelligence (law enforcement and public safety analytics) raised a round led by Tau Capital.

• Northern Light (competitive intelligence and market research platform) received a $23M growth investment from LoneTree Capital.

• Red Rover Health (healthcare EHR APIs and integration) raised $4M in a round led by NewShore Partners.

• RetailNext (retail store analytics) received a growth investment from Battery Ventures.

• SoSoValue (crypto data platform) raised $15M in a Series A led by HSG and SmallSpark.

• Xocean (ocean data) raised €115M in a round.

There’s A Data Provider For That

For those who would like to join me in donating funds or supplies, please check out these organizations:

• Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation

• Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

• California Community Foundation Wildfire Recovery Fund

Check out these data providers which help detect and monitor wildfires.

• Orora Technologies provides a wildfire detection & monitoring platform. The solution is designed to deliver the earliest detection of hotspots and allow users to monitor areas at risk of wildfires. The data is from 25+ satellite and ground sources with detection algorithms that help protect people, nature and assets.

• NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides imagery and data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), and Landsat Operational Land Imager (OLI).

• AirNow provides air quality data from air quality monitors and other sensors. AirNow is a partnership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Park Service, NASA, Centers for Disease Control, and tribal, state, and local air quality agencies.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Christo Barthel joined Potloc as Managing Director, UK.

• Jonathon Buck joined Argus Media as Chief of Staff.

• Joel Burnette joined BlueFlame AI as EMEA Sales Lead.

• Brenan Chiulli joined RepVue as Senior Account Executive.

• Daniel De Pinho was promoted to President, New Business Development, Financial Services, Government & Public Sector at Circana.

• Francis DeSouza joined Google as COO, Google Cloud.

• Jim Fiesel joined Exegy as Chief Revenue Officer.

• Steve Hahn joined the Board of Directors of H1.

• Alyssa Hollawell joined Augment as SVP, Capital Markets.

• Samuel Hyman joined SmartStream Technologies as Head of Sales and Account Management - Americas.

• Jay McNamara joined Masttro as CEO.

• Niels Neudecker joined Human8 as Managing Director, North America.

• Luke Nyland was promoted to Director, Investment Management at Coleman Research.

• Jon Petree joined Henon as Director, Financial Sponsors & Private Credit.

• Kevin Petrie was promoted to Head of Data Management Practice at BARC.

• Luca Pontone was promoted to Lead Software and Data Engineer at Lakestar.

• Dede Potts Siguler joined Glacier Network as Data Diligence Consultant.

• Chris Reilly joined Capstack Technologies as Head of Sales.

• Joerg Ruetschi joined Starmind as President & COO.

• Dines Selvig was promoted to CTO at Matter.

• Steven Schwartz joined Shutterstock as Global Head of Operations, Data & AI Business.

• Lauren Smart was promoted to Head of Sustainable1 at S&P Global.

• Chris Walters joined Finastra as CEO.

• Simon Young joined Bounce Watch as Head of Sales.

New Firm Alerts

Marathon Management Partners is a new venture capital firm founded by Michael Gilroy (prior Coatue, Canaan) and Gokul Rajaram (prior DoorDash, Square, Facebook).

Edward Jones Ventures is a new venture investing arm of financial services firm Edward Jones. The group is led by Greg Robinson, Partner, Head of Corporate Development at Edward Jones. More information is in the press release here.

Who’s Hiring

My company, AggKnowledge, is looking for a Data Engineer for a part-time or contract role. Interested? Drop us an email at [email protected] with your LinkedIn or resume, hourly rate, availability, location, and a 1-2 sentence hot take on your least favorite keyword in ANSI SQL. No recruiters please.

Check out the It’s Pronounced Data job board for full listings. This week’s additions are below.

• ADIA is hiring a Quantitative Researcher & Developer - Data Science.

• Datadog is hiring a Corporate Development Lead ($183K - $215K).

• Fintech Sandbox is hiring a Executive Director.

• Franklin Templeton is hiring a VP, Head of AI and Optimization Research ($225K - $325K).

• GoodRx is hiring a Director, Data Analytics ($169K - $361K).

• JPMorganChase is hiring a Product Manager, Fusion Data Management ($122K - $201K).

• Legal & General is hiring a Group Strategy Director - Digital, Data & Technology.

• RevenueBase is hiring a Data Success Strategist ($110K - $150K).

• Ridgeline is hiring a Head of Product Strategy ($250K - $350K).

• SimCorp is hiring a Head of Professional Services/Implementation, Americas ($228K - $343K).

• Similarweb is hiring a Senior AI & Data Product Manager.

• Simple Healthcare is hiring a VP of Strategy & Research.

• Sisense is hiring a Senior Product Manager.

• Trepp is hiring a Head of Data Strategy, Acquisition and Governance.

• Vevo is hiring a Director, Insights ($145K - $165K).

*salaries only listed where provided by the company and may vary based on location and other factors. See links for specific salary details.

What I’m Reading

• Old School BI vs AI BI, Corporate Burnout, and More by Joe Reis.

Legal, Regulatory & Compliance

• CFPB Approves Application from Financial Data Exchange to Issue Standards for Open Banking

• Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Data-Driven VC Hackathon, January 15, Paris

• BattleFin Discovery Day, January 22-24, Miami

• *IPEM PE & Wealth, January 28-30, Cannes

• Data Day Texas, January 25, Austin

• FISD New York, February 6, NYC

• Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, February 12, NYC

• Winter Data Conference, March 7, Zell am See, Austria

• IIEX North America, April 30 - May 1, Washington D.C.

• World of DaaS Summit, May 8, Washington D.C.

• KIMRA: Knowledge & Information Management, Research & Analysis, June 4, London

• Data Disrupt, June 4-5 2025, NYC

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