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Since last post we’ve seen 6 acquisitions, 11 funding rounds ($391.2M raised), 12 people moves & promotions, 5 roles ($198K average salary), 1 chart of the week, 1 special report, 2 articles, 3 podcasts, and 1 newly added upcoming event.

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M&A

• AlertMedia acquired Pyrra (social media monitoring and intelligence).

• Aryza acquired RiskLogix (GRC solutions).

• Futures Platform (foresight analysis) and Statzon (market intelligence) merged.

• Similarweb acquired The Search Monitor (brand and ad monitoring).

• WPP acquired InfoSum (data collaboration platform)

• Zema Global acquired cQuant (energy and commodities analytics).

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Funding

• Cyberhaven (data security) raised $100M in a Series D led by StepStone Group.

• Ethic (sustainable asset management platform) raised $64M in a Series D led by State Street Global Advisors.

• Experial (AI-powered customer insights) raised €2M in a Pre-Seed round led by Capnamic.

• Hubble (expert insights) raised $800K in a Pre-Seed round.

• Hydrolix (data lake) raised $80M in a Series C led by QED Investors.

• Northwind Climate (data platform for the climate economy) raised $1M in a Pre-Seed round.

• Redpanda (real-time data platform) raised $100M in a Series D led by GV.

• smartTrade (electronic trading and payments) received a strategic investment from TA Associations.

• Sourcetable (AI spreadsheets) raised $4.3M in a Seed round led by Bee Partners.

• Turbine (data-driven liquidity platform) raised $13M in a Series A led by Alpha Edison and TTV Capital.

• WeeFin (ESG data platform) raised €25M in a round led by BlackFin Capital Partners.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Erik Abbott joined Uzabase SPEEDA as Executive Officer, Head of Global Business.

• Jeevan Balani was promoted to CEO at Besitos.

• Denver Brown joined Arbolus as EVP, Head of Americas.

• Floyd D’Souza was promoted to Manager, Data and Technology Operations at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

• Eric Goldstein joined Crux as Chief Revenue Officer.

• Matthew Greninger joined Gresham as GM, Data Automation Solutions.

• David Hardoon joined Standard Chartered as Global Head of AI.

• Mitchell Ison joined Labelbox as Managing Partner of Frontier AI.

• Justin Llewellyn-Jones was promoted to CEO at Trading Technologies.

• Jamie Seltzer was promoted to Global Chief Data and Technology Officer at Havas Media Network.

• Arnav Tripathy joined Arbol as Head of AI.

• Dan Williams was promoted to Global Head of Digital Marketing & Demand Generation at FactSet.

Who’s Hiring

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

• Addepar is hiring a Senior Market Data Product Manager - Feeds and Entitlements.

• Experian is hiring a VP, Business Data Strategy ($200K - $300K).

• Foresight is hiring a Sales Director ($200K - $300K).

• Stripes is hiring a Analyst, Research & Growth Strategy ($110K - $125K).

• Verition Fund Management is hiring a VP, Data Strategy & Sourcing ($150K - $200K).

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

Chart Of The Week

Special Report

TP ICAP’s Burton-Taylor released their Financial Market Data/Analysis: Global Share & Segment Sizing 2025 report. Global spending on financial market data and news grew modestly in 2024, with revenues jumping 6.4% to $44.3B. The report can be purchased here.

What I’m Reading

• The Myth of the Data Moat in Vertical AI by Andreas Hauri.

• Microsoft turns 50: How it’s remained essential, based on my 27 years there by Soma Somasegar.

What I’m Listening To

• Behind The Curtain: The Self-Inflicted Barriers to CDO Success featuring Kyle Winterbottom in discussion with Steve Green, Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) on the Driven By Data podcast. h/t John Farrall for sharing this in Alternative Data Weekly.

• B2B Research - The Full Service Provider Perspective featuring Stephen Bairfelt, MD of Prevision Research and Chair of the MRS B2B Network in discussion with Pete Mullarkey, Insights Network Manager at B2B International on the new B2B Network Podcast.

• The Most Data-Driven Formula for Success: Formula 1 featuring Rob Smedley, Founder & CEO of Smedley Group on the Harvard Data Science Review Podcast.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Data Council No Bullsh*t Data Conference, April 22-24, Oakland, CA

• Restecher Capital Markets Day, April 28, NYC

• Momentum AI, April 28-29, NYC

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

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

• GLG Alumni Reunion, May 13, NYC

• Sohn Investment Conference, May 14, NYC

• BattleFin Alternative Data Experience at Sohn, May 14, NYC

• *FactSet Developer Days, May 15, Virtual

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

• Data Disrupt, June 4-5 2025, NYC

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

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