Happy Honda Days

This week 2 acquisitions, 3 fundraising rounds, 16 people moves & promotions, 2 articles, 2 roles, an important poll, and 2 new events including 1 special event announcement.

M&A

• Justtag acquired Relevant Audience (advertising data).

• ParkerGale Capital acquired Gap Intelligence (market intelligence) and Deep.ad (market intelligence software).

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

• Eilla AI (deal workflow solutions) raised $1.5M in a Seed round led by Eleven Ventures.

• Kythera (healthcare data & analytics) raised $20M in a round led by BIP Ventures and CIBC.

• Protecto (data privacy) raised $4M in a Seed round led by Together Fund.

Special Event Alert

Neudata’s New York Winter Data Summit 2023 is back on December 7, 2023. This will be Neudata’s largest industry event to date, and as such, it promises an unmatched platform for investment, data, and operations teams.

On the agenda are exclusive content, thought-provoking speakers and valuable networking opportunities, shaping the future of alternative data.

As a subscriber to this newsletter, you can request one of a limited number of complimentary tickets for investment-side attendees.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Annalisa Amadio joined Triple Private Equity as Director of Value Creation.

• Steve Bagdasarian was promoted to Chief Commercial Officer at Comscore.

• Ben Coupe joined Concertiv as Sales Director.

• Ethan Courville joined Oxford Economics as VP of Sales, US Real Estate.

• Ann Marie Dumais joined Argyle as an Advisor.

• Lachlan Fogarty joined MDX Technology as VP, Sales.

• Kevin Hodges joined FirstParty as Chief Revenue Officer.

• Simon Howe was promoted to Director, Research Operations at Magnolia Innovation.

• Simon Maisey joined OpenYield as a Strategic Advisor.

• Jade Mandel was promoted to Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.

• Daniela Melato was promoted to Head of Group Data Services at Euronext.

• Greg Munves joined Gap Intelligence as CEO

• Jason Saline joined AlphaSense as Head of Sales - Energy & Industrials.

• Taylor Sessions joined Snowflake as North America Sales Leader, Telco.

• Robert Tomlinson joined proSapient as SVP, Americas.

• Steve Zamsky joined OpenYield as a Strategic Advisor.

Who’s Hiring

• Point72 is hiring a Strategy Analyst and Strategy Associate.

• Two Sigma Ventures is hiring a Investment Associate / Senior Associate.

Poll

What I’m reading

• The Pivotal Role of Alternative Data in Hedge Fund Strategies by Matthew Bernath on LinkedIn.

• Build Your Data Idea for Under $100 by Kevin Kerr on Medium.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Low Key Data Happy Hour - Westchester Edition, November 10, NY Suburbs

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

• With Intelligence - Private Markets US COO Summit, November 15, NYC

• Open Source Data Summit, November 15, Virtual

• Low Key Data Happy Hour - Miami Edition, November 16, Miami

• Tactics for Managing External Data Risk, November 16, Virtual

• FIMA Data Tech Innovation Day, November 27, London

• FIMA Europe, November 28-29, London

• 12 Days of Data 🎁 - Happy Hour, December 6, NYC

• Battle of the Quants, December 6, Hong Kong

• *Neudata Winter Data Summit, December 7, NYC

• The Fintech Formal, December 8, NYC

• *Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, March 11–13, Orlando

• Skiers in Data (SKID) by LEIT Data, March 24, Verbier Switzerland

And another for good laughs…

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