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April 06, 2023

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M&A

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

  • Brizo Data (foodservice analytics) raised $12M in a Series A equity and debt funding led by Framework Venture Partners and BDC Capital.

  • Buxton (retail analytics) announced a strategic growth investment led by PSG.

  • Everstream Analytics (supply chain analytics) raised $50M in a Series B led by Morgan Stanley 1GT and StepStone Group.

  • Fourthline (KYC and AML) raised €50M in a round led by Finch Capital.

  • Impact Observatory (mapping and monitoring) raised $5.9M in a Seed round with Esri as an investor.

  • Quantexa (decision intelligence) raised $129M in a Series E at a $1.8B valuation led by GIC.

  • RealSage (real estate analytics) raised $1.6M in a round led by Golden Section and Plug and Play Ventures.

  • Sarna Finance (mobile investing platform) raised $2.5M in Pre-Seed and Seed rounds from Motivate Ventures, Simplex Ventures, and Wedbush.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

  • Christian Cifelli was promoted to Director of Product Management at FactSet.

  • Mercedes Diaz was promoted to Principal Product Manager, Tick History at FactSet.

  • Sonia Greenberg was promoted to Director of Product Management, Cloud & Managed Services at FactSet.

  • Kate Hodge joined Termgrid as VP of Marketing.

  • Thomas Larsen was promoted to VP, Head of BI, Data Management & Analytics at Novo Nordisk.

  • Bill Landes joined Convergency Partners as Partner.

  • James Nelson joined AlphaSense as VP Sales, Financial Services.

  • Viplav Nigam joined MarketAxess as Global Head of Data Technology.

  • Bill Shope joined Humane as CFO.

  • Jim Skelly joined MT Newswires as Director of Business Development, North America.

  • Jon Steinberg joined Future as CEO.

  • Jim Swift joined Buxton as CEO.

  • Chris Thomas joined Snowflake as Sales Director, Major Accounts.

  • Mark White joined Wealth Access as VP of Business Development.

Who’s Hiring

What I’m Reading

What I’m Listening To

*New Company Alert*

Vendori is a new CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote) platform where customers can easily configure and manage products, quotes, approval workflows, channel partners, commercial policies, discount programs, promotions and more – all without any external implementation consultants. The company is led by Ethan Garonzik and just emerged from stealth with my old colleague Phil Naess-Gross joining as Head of Sales. vendori.com

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