Early Bird Special

More than enough content to publish early this week (probably too much content as Substack is telling me this is too long for email). Standby for something big coming later this week. And a huge welcome to my hundreds of new subscribers from the LinkedIn post yesterday. Scroll down for Who’s Hiring which I bumped up in the order this week. A new referral program, 21 companies hiring, 3 acquisitions, 16 fundraisings, 22 people moves, 5 articles, 1 podcast, 1 new product/service, and 5 upcoming events.

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Who’s Hiring

• Anomolo is hiring a Senior Sales Engineer. Contact Landon Meyer.

• Ares is hiring a VP, Investment Systems.

• Ascential Alternative Data is hiring a Consumer Sector Equity Research Analyst. Contact James Griffiths.

• Aumni is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Data, Product Manager, and Data Engineer, Business Intelligence. Contact Haley Bryan.

• Carlyle Group is hiring Data Scientists. Contact Elizabeth Coleman.

• Danske Bank is hiring a Head of Data Technology and Head of Data Science.

• First Resonance is hiring across data engineering, ML, and more. Contact Taylor Lockwood.

• Fountain is hiring a Staff Data Engineer. Contact Elena Solodow

• GE Healthcare is hiring a Chief Data Officer.

• J. Goldman & Co. is hiring a Director of Alternative Data.

• J.P. Morgan is hiring a VP, Data Science Strategy.

• Moody’s is hiring a Global Head of Commercial Product Management.

• Polar Asset Management is hiring a Software Developer. Contact Om Patri.

• Primary Insight is hiring a Director of Business Operations.

• Ridgeline is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Market Data, Staff Software Engineer, Data & Connectivity, and Technical Product Manager, Data Engineering. Contact Lauren Manchester.

• Ritual is hiring a Director, Data and Analytics.

• State Street Global Advisors is hiring a COO.

Headhunters & Exec Search

• Brainworks is searching for data science and analytics roles. Contact Guy Gomis.

• CB Resourcing is searching for a Strategic Research Analyst - Law - London. Contact Simon Burton.

• Cuesta Partners is searching for a Data / BI Engineer. Contact Marcus Wong.

• Open Systems Technologies is searching for a Data Analytics Director and Data Analytics Manager for a financial firm in NYC. Contact Jared Shapiro.

M&A

• AirDNA acquired Arrivalist (location intelligence).

• Ares Management acquired Crescent Point Capital (private equity).

• THL Partners acquired a majority stake in Standish Management (fund administration).

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

• Anduin (investor relationships) raised $15M in a Series B led by 8VC.

• Causaly (drug discovery AI) raised $60M in a Series B led by ICONIQ Growth.

• Cognaize (intelligent document processing) raised $18M in a Series A led by Argonautic Ventures.

• Hammerspace (data orchestration) raised $56.7M in a round led by Prosperity7 Ventures.

• Huq Industries (mobility intelligence) raised £4M in a round led by 24 Haymarket.

• Optalysys (data security through Fully Homomorphic Encryption) raised £21M in a Series A led by Lingotto, imec.xpand, and Northern Gritstone.

• Phrase (localization and translations) raised €12M in debt financing from CIBC Innovation Banking.

• PrivacyHawk (personal data protection) raised $2.7M in a round led by ffVC.

• Prospective (analytics and visualization) raised $6M in a Seed round led by Point72 Ventures.

• Readout.ai (clinical trial analysis) raised a Pre-Seed round led by Meridian Street Capital.

• SAP announced strategic direct investments in Aleph Alpha, Anthropic, and Cohere.

• Sourcetable (spreadsheet platform) raised $3M in a Seed round led by Michael Berolzheimer.

• Sylvera (carbon credit ratings) raised $57M in a Series B led by Balderton Capital.

• Wing Cloud (cloud programming) raised $20M in a Seed round led by Battery Ventures, Grove Ventures, and StageOne Ventures.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Bruno Aziza joined CapitalG as a Partner.

• Ashish Bansal was promoted to Principal ML Research Engineer at Vanguard.

• Jake Beeman joined Quantbot Technologies as Head of Business Development & Relationship Management and CEO, Quantbot Ventures.

• Ramon Chen joined Acceldata as Chief Product Officer.

• Drew Cronin was promoted to Head of Go-To-Market, Investment Intelligence at Nasdaq.

• Paul Daly joined Floodbase as Head of Business Development.

• Dessa Glasser was appointed Chair of the Board of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF).

• Keely Goody joined Octaura as VP of Marketing.

• Catrina Harding joined FactSet as Chief People Officer.

• Ana Higgs joined Preqin as Chief Talent Officer.

• Anthony Jones joined INRIX as Director, Enterprise & Financial Services.

• Aditya Kandala joined ESG Data & Solutions as Sales Director.

• David Leigh joined the Board of Directors of Third Bridge.

• Andrew McLennan joined Nuveen as MD, Global Head of Technology, Products & PropTech for Private Alternative Real Assets.

• Josh McNutt joined Yahoo! as VP, Consumer Analytics & Data Science.

• Elizabeth Moses was promoted to Vice President, CEO and Go-To-Market at Bespoke Partners.

• Alexandra Mysak joined the Board of FINOS.

• Ken Napolitano joined Preqin as Chief Revenue Officer.

• Benjamin Rogojan joined Estuary as an Advisor.

• Mike Sleightholme was promoted to President, International at Broadridge.

• Chris Weber joined GitLab as Chief Revenue Officer.

• Mike Welch joined Captify as CEO.

What I’m reading

• So, You Raised a Series A — Now What? I Interviewed 8+ Founders to Find Out by Gillian O’Brien in Entrepreneur’s Handbook.

• Welcome to the new venture normal by Alex Wilhelm in TechCrunch.

• It’s official: Silicon Valley’s entire business model is a scam by Adam Rogers in Insider.

• Data Standards & The Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA) a research paper published by XBRL US.

• Farm-to-Table: Rationalizing Data Preparation as a Part of Technology Strategy by Scott Parent on his new Substack: Datalus’ Labyrinth.

What I’m Listening To

• Thoma Bravo's Behind the Deal episode featuring Orlando Bravo interviewed by Andrew Almeida. This is a great open and honest interview with one of the most legendary investors. Orlando goes through an Associate interview process!

New Products, Services & Partnerships

• Melius Research, an independent research, data analytics, and investment firm, launched tech coverage led by Ben Reitzes (former Moelis, Barclays) who joined the firm in April. Initial launch covers over $9T in market cap, and includes , , , , , , , , , , , and .

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• AWS Summit NYC - July 26, NYC

• *Eagle Alpha: Quant & Fundamental Data Providers Discuss Use Cases and Fresh Features - July 27, Virtual

• Big Data LDN - September 20-21, London

• BattleFin Discovery Day London - September 26-27, London

• Neudata San Francisco Data Summit - September 28, San Francisco

Views here are my own and not of my current or former employers.