Getting to know you

I’m trying to get to know my subscriber base better. Please take 3-5 minutes to fill out the brief survey here. This will be tremendously helpful for planning content and programming, sponsorships, events, and a few other ideas in the pipeline.

This week, 1 acquisition, 11 fundraising rounds, 6 people moves & promotions, 4 articles, 2 podcasts, 6 roles, and 2 new events.

And shoutout to everyone at the Data Nerds Antisocial (DNA) meetup tonight. Serious fomo that I can’t be there.

M&A

• Insightsoftware acquired Vizlib (data visualization solutions).

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

• Apollo.io (sales intelligence) raised $100M at a $1.6B valuation in a Series D led by Bain Capital Ventures.

• Aily (decision intelligence) raised €19M in a Series A led by Insight Partners.

• Bonfire Analytics (healthcare analytics) raised $1M in a Pre-Seed round.

• Datavations (consumer durables data) raised $4.3M in a Seed round led by Nevcaut Ventures and Sage Venture Partners.

• FlashIntel (sales intelligence) raised $10M in a Seed round.

• Hugging Face (open-source AI platform) raised $235M at a $4.5B valuation in a Series D led by Salesforce Ventures.

• Modular (AI infrastructure) raised $100M in a round led by General Catalyst.

• Reveal Mobile (campaign measurement and attribution) raised $690K in a round.

• Rockset (search and AI applications) raised $44M in a round led by Icon Ventures.

• SatSure (satellite data) raised $15M in a Series A led by Baring Private Equity Partners and Promus Ventures.

• Seeds Investor (personalized investing) raised $2M in a Seed Extension led by Blank Ventures.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Nadia Batchelor was promoted to COO, Wealth Management at Jefferies.

• Clifford Cook was promoted to Head of Fixed Income Trading at ExodusPoint Capital Management.

• Jason DeRise joined Liberty Mutual Investments as Head of Data and Analytics Products.

• Gregory King was promoted to Head of Wealth Management Business Unit at FactSet.

• Steven Paul Sanderson joined the Advisory Board of DoTadda.

• Barkha Saxena joined McKinsey as Global Chief Data Officer.

What I’m reading

• How Weather Startups Are Holding Up In A Dryer Funding Climate by Joanna Glasner in Crunchbase News.

• The Price of Data in the Age of Prediction by Jeremy Baksht on Linkedin.

• How 'consent farms' turn one click on a website into an open invitation for spammers to blow up your phone with robocalls by Jack Newsham in Insider.

• Using Alternative Data a white paper by Tomas Dvorak at Oxford Economics.

What I’m Listening To

• Smarter Markets episode featuring Ted Merz interviewed by David Greely.

• Snowflake: Unlocking The Data Vault featuring Veronika Durgin interviewed by Steve Hamm.

Who’s Hiring

• AirDNA is hiring a Senior Director of Growth Marketing.

• Moët Hennessy is hiring a VP, Insights, Data & Analytics.

• Morning Consult is hiring a CFO.

• Sensible Weather is hiring a VP of Marketing.

• Underdog Fantasy is hiring a VP of Data.

• Weights and Biases is hiring a Head of Data.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• New York Venture Summit, September 6-7, NYC

• FinovateFall, September 11-13, NYC

• FISD London at Google, September 19, London

• Data Meetup by LEIT Data and MotherDuck, September 19, London

• TechCrunch Disrupt, September 19-21, San Francisco

• *Glacier - Data Risk Roundtable, September 20, NYC

• Bloomberg Law In-House Forum - Unlocking the Power of Data: Aiming for Privacy and Cyber Stewardship, September 20, Virtual

• FinJS, September 20, Toronto

• Big Data LDN, September 20-21, London

• Market Minds Summit, September 21-24, Las Vegas

• Data Careers Summit, September 22, Virtual

• Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan's 2023 Future Of Finance Conference, September 22, NYC

• The Executive Briefing by Pitchly - Data Enablement to Empower Your Organization for Growth & Success, September 26, NYC

• Sohn San Francisco Investment Conference, September 26, San Francisco

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

• Financial Times Future of Asset Management North America, September 27-28, NYC

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

• FISD New York at Societe Generale, September 28, NYC

• Snowflake Data Cloud World Tour, October 2, NYC

• Eagle Alpha London Alternative Data Conference, October 12, London

• FinTech Sanbox's Boston FinTech Week, October 10-13, Boston

• The Market Research Event (TMRE), October 23-25, Denver

• Neudata Dubai Data Day For Investors, November 1, Dubai

• BattleFin Corporate Discovery Day, November 2, NYC

• SuperReturn North America, November 6-7, NYC

• *Substantive Research Unbundling Uncovered, November 8, London

• Benzinga Fintech Deal Day & Awards, November 13, NYC

• FIMA Data Tech Innovation Day, November 27, London

• FIMA Europe, November 28-29, London

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