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March 30, 2023

M&A

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

  • Edited (retail intelligence) raised $15M in a round led by Delta-v Capital and Wavecrest Growth Partners.

  • FedML (collaborative AI) raised $6M in Seed and Pre-Seed rounds led by Camford Capital.

  • Hex (data collaboration) raised $28M in a round led by Sequoia.

  • Markerr (real estate analytics) raised $6.6M in a Series B led by RET Ventures.

  • Quorus (personalized investing) raised $1.5M in a Pre-Seed round led by New Stack Ventures.

  • Stratyfy (ML solutions for credit and risk) raised $10M in a round led by Truist Ventures and Zeal Capital Partners.

  • Techspert (expert network) raised venture debt from Western Technology Investment.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

  • Madison Ball joined Nimble Gravity as Director, Data Products.

  • Sam Cantor joined CME Group as Product Manager, Data Platforms.

  • Corey Cederquist joined Barclays as Head of Data Science, Modeling & Analytics for Global Consumer Bank & Payments COO Shared Services.

  • Fredrik Dahlqvist was promoted to Global Co-Leader of the Private Equity & Principal Investors Practice at McKinsey.

  • Connor Emmel was promoted to Director, Financial Institutions at Apptopia.

  • Ziad Ismail joined Xembly as COO.

  • Thomas Jardine joined BMLL as Client Facing Data Scientist.

  • Ryan Magner joined Stout as Director, Business Development.

  • Erik McBain joined BMLL as Director, Growth - Americas.

  • Michael Price joined HundredX as Head of Product, Investor Business.

  • Dmitri Sedov joined LSEG as Group Head, Global Data Platform.

  • Peter Serenita joined Element22 as Advisory Partner.

  • Randal Skipper joined Sigma Ratings as SVP of Sales.

  • Lei Wang was promoted to Head of Quant Data Sales at Euronext.

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