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Since last post we’ve seen 4 acquisitions, 8 funding rounds ($179M raised), 7 people moves & promotions, 1 new company, 6 roles ($105K average salary), 3 articles, and 1 newly added upcoming event.

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M&A

Check out the It’s Pronounced Data Deal Tracker for full M&A and funding rounds.

• Collibra acquired Deasy Labs (unstructured data management). PR

• Datasite acquired Blueflame AI (agentic Al solutions for investment and financial services). PR

• HData acquired Insight Engine (energy regulatory intelligence). PR

• TA Associates acquired KX (real-time time series analytics). PR

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Funding

• Capitalize (commercial real estate data) raised a Seed round.

• Harmonya (product data enrichment and insights) received an investment from W23 Global.

• Julius (AI-powered data analysis) raised $10M in a Seed round.

• Keye (AI for private equity) raised $5M in a Seed round.

• Makersite (product data and lifecycle intelligence) raised €60M in a Series B led by Lightrock and Partech.

• Poseidon (data layer for AI training) raised $15M in a Seed round led by a16z Crypto.

• Quartr (public markets research) raised $10M in a round.

• Yieldstreet (private markets investing platform) raised $77M in a round led by Tarsadia Investments.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Danny Claeys joined Walleye Capital as Director, External Relationship Management.

• Josh Haecker was promoted to SVP & GM, Geopolitical Risk at Dow Jones.

• Paul Heywood was promoted to Co-CEO at IPinfo.

• Ryan Joy joined The Continental Exchange as Chief Information Officer.

• Connor McCarthy was promoted to Strategic Account Director at Placer.

• John Peterson joined Alter Domus as Sales Director.

• Zora Senat joined Cuebiq as Chief Commercial Officer.

New Company Alert

SwapData.ai ingests and organizes publicly available (but difficult to manage) interest rate swap transaction data from Swap Data Repositories, delivering a real-time, polished, and filterable interface for exploring trade activity by currency, product type, package, tenor, etc. The company is founded by Mike Kirby (prior RTX, Tradition, CME)

Who’s Hiring

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

• AC Milan is hiring a Head of Data (Business & Commercial).

• Finastra is hiring a Head of Data Governance.

• Grata is hiring a Customer Success Manager ($100K - $110K).

• Longaeva Partners is hiring a Investment Coordinator.

• Semrush is hiring a Senior Data Scientist, Financial Markets.

• SlashExperts is hiring a Founding Account Executive.

*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

• The Future Is Local for Research Funding by Thomas Lehrman and George Gilder.

• Data is actually not a great VC-backed business by Auren Hoffman.

• Securities and Exchange Commission Open Data Plan 2025

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Insights Association Corporate Researchers Conference, Sep 9-11, Chicago

• Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, Sep 17, NYC

• Neudata Traditional and Market Data Summit, Sep 18, London

• Data Management Summit, Sep 18, NYC

• Big Data LDN, Sep 24-25, London

• The 21st Quantitative Finance Conference, Sep 24-26, Palermo, Italy

• Web Data Extract Summit, Sep 24-25, Austin, TX

• Women in Research (WIRe) Executive Leadership Summit, Oct 20-23, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

• *The Private Markets AI Summit, Oct 28, NYC

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