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Since last post we’ve seen 3 acquisitions, 5 fundraising rounds, 15 people moves & promotions, 8 roles, 1 article, 1 partnership, 1 podcast, 1 CNBC interview, and 4 newly added events.

M&A

• Bain & Company acquired PiperLab (AI/ML solutions).

• BetterCloud acquired G2’s Track product (SaaS cost management).

• Daasity acquired Red Fox Analytics (retail and CPG analytics).

Fundraising

• Louisa (AI sales enablement) raised $5M in an initial funding round.

• Ocient (data analytics solutions) raised $49.4M in a round led by Greycroft and OCA Ventures.

• Pienso (no-code AI) raised $10M in a round led by Latimer Ventures.

• Unstructured (AI data readiness) raised $40M in a Series B led by Menlo Ventures.

• Velou (product data enrichment) raised $4M in a Seed round led by Animo Ventures.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Marla Bermack joined 3i Members as Managing Director.

• Raz Besaleli was promoted to VP of AI Research at Seek AI.

• Sam Bottomley joined Addepar as Senior Director, Regional Head of Latam.

• Tim Cleary was promoted to Head of Partnerships & Business Development at Vendia.

• Philip Coady joined Dataiku as Chief Revenue Officer.

• Marc Coppens joined VaultSpeed as CFO.

• Amir Husain joined WorldQuant Predictive as Chairman of the Board.

• Michael Ingvar Roenning joined ValidMind as Director of Solution Architecture.

• Larry Leibowitz joined the Board of Directors of Forge.

• Stephan Leithner was appointed CEO of Deutsche Boerse, effective October 1, 2024.

• Timothy Nobles was promoted to Chief Commercial Officer at Integral.

• Simon Ringrose joined EventVestor as Director of Sales.

• Romit Sevani was promoted to Director, Partner Growth at Exabel.

• Matthew Shapiro joined Horizon Engage as Senior Director.

• Asset Tarabayev joined Beacon Platform as Chief Product Officer.

Who’s Hiring

• AllianceBernstein is hiring a Data Strategy Lead.

• Arc Worldwide is hiring a VP, Data Intelligence (Analytics and Product Development) ($159K - $200K).

• Forerunner Ventures is hiring a Research Associate.

• LinkUp is hiring a Director of Capital Markets Data Sales.

• LSEG is hiring a Global Head of Investment Management Solutions ($222K - $413K).

• Novartis is hiring a Director, Data Strategy, Acquisition and Contracting ($201K - $302K).

• Snowflake is hiring a Data Cloud Principal, Data Clean Rooms ($203K - $283K).

• Uber is hiring a Data Strategy and Architecture Lead ($180K - $200K).

*salaries only listed where provided by the company. See links for specific salary details.

What I’m Reading

• Data Becomes the New Oil: Businesses Have a Unique Opportunity to Monetize Content and Information as Fuel for AI Models by Solomon Partners.

Partnerships

• DealRoom and Grata announced a strategic partnership to help customers streamline dealmaking and increase pipeline management efficiency and effectiveness. To learn more check out the announcement here. The companies are also hosting a joint webinar on March 15 at 11am EST.

What I’m Listening To

• A Data Quality Discussion with Karine Pepin of The Research Heads on the Intellicast podcast.

• Alex Karp on CNBC talking about short sellers and their coke 🤣

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• BattleFin Discovery Day, March 20-21, Singapore

• FISD, March 21, Boston

• Enterprise Data World, March 24-29, Orlando

• Data Council No Bullsh*t Data Conference, March 26-28, Austin

• New York FinTech Week, April 8-12, NYC

• FinTech Sandbox Demo Days, April 9 and 11, Virtual

• *FISD Alternative Data Council: In the Weeds, Compliance and Generative AI 2.0, April 9, NYC

• Data Universe, April 10-11, NYC

• *AWS Capital Markets Financial Data Forum, April 11, NYC

• VC Platform Global Summit, April 15-17, Miami

• Insight Innovation Exchange (IIEX), April 17-18, Austin

• World of DaaS Summit, April 18, Washington D.C.

• *MIT: Forging the Future of Business with AI, April 18, Cambridge

• TDWI Modern Data Leader's Summit, April 29-May 1, Chicago

• Knowledge Graph Conference, May 6-10, NYC

• Data Summit, May 8-9, Boston

• *Battle of the Quants, May 9, NYC

• DataIQ 100 Summit, May 20-21, Miami

• Asia Financial Information Conference (AsiaFIC), May 28-29, Singapore

• SuperReturn International, June 4-7, Berlin

• The Quirk’s Event, July 17-18, NYC

• Boston Fintech Week, September 16-20, Boston

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