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M&A

• Carlyle Group acquired a majority stake in Anthesis (sustainability consultancy).

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

• DataGalaxy (data governance) raised $10M in a Seed round led by AV8 Ventures.

• Flywheel (medical imaging data and AI platform) raised $54M in a Series D led by Novalis LifeSciences and NVentures (Nvidia).

• Speakeasy (API infrastructure) raised $7.6M in a Seed round led by GV.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Jeff Camarra was promoted to Executive Director, Client Development - Private Equity at Business Talent Group (BTG).

• Clark Langille joined LightBox as VP, Partnerships & Commercial Policy.

• Yogita Mehta joined SIX as Commercial Product Director, Corporate Actions.

• Niranjan Pedanekar joined Sony Research India as Head of Data Science.

• Séverine Raymond Soulier was promoted to Head of EMEA and Americas Sales at Symphony.

• Dines Selvig was promoted to Director, Data Science at Matter.

• Kevin Shaver joined Charles Schwab as Director, Data & Analytics.

• Omri Shtayer was promoted to Director & GM, Head of DaaS at Similarweb.

• Martin Stromback joined Argus Media as VP of Customer Success, EMEA.

• Janelle Veasey was promoted to Group Head of Partners at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG).

• Sarah Venning joined Merlin Entertainments as Chief Digital and Data Officer.

• Matt Vodicka was promoted to SVP, Senior Director of Product at FactSet.

Who’s Hiring

• Bloomberg is hiring a Enterprise Data - Head of Strategic Alliances, Tokyo.

• Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is hiring a Chief Data Officer.

• Demandbase is hiring a Head of Data Science.

• Fidelity Investments is hiring a Director Data Strategy - Private Assets & Alternatives.

• Franklin Templeton is hiring a Lead Data Steward, Investment Management.

• Liberty Mutual is hiring a Senior Director, Head of Data Strategy.

• Moderna is hiring a Director, Decision Science - Data Strategy.

• Nextdoor is hiring a Head of Data Science and Analytics.

• S&P Global is hiring for a number of senior roles:

  • Global Head of Advanced Analytics & Automation

  • Global Head of Marketing, S&P Global Ratings

  • Head of US Equity Product Management

  • Head of Cloud and Platforms

  • Head of MENA Insights and Analysis, Global Intelligence & Analytics

  • Samantha Reiss Gibson is hiring a Director, Technical Product Manager and Associate Director, Technical Product Manager.

• UnitedMasters is hiring a Executive Group Data Strategy Director.

What I’m reading

• The Network Expert, a new Substack newsletter for the expert network industry.

• At Hedge Funds, Private Market Investments Continue to Languish by Stephen Taub in Institutional Investor.

• As AI Booms, Are VCs Rushing to Another Tech Bubble? by Benjamin Pimentel in SF Examiner.

• Synthetic vs Real Data: Why Do Models Perform Worse When Trained On Synthetic Data? by Alexandra Barr in the Superfast AI Newsletter. Thanks Jeremy Baksht for the share.

• This Post by Kevin Jurovich on LinkedIn highlighting the impact of a disorganized cap table.

What I’m Listening To

• Guiding Assets: Unlocking Alpha by Harnessing Alternative Data and Modern Technology in Investment Strategies, a CFA Institute podcast episode featuring Kai Wu of Sparkline Capital interviewed by Paul Andrews of the CFA Institute.

• Synthetic Data Protects Data Privacy in Regulated Sectors a discussion between Supreet Kaur of Morgan Stanley and Deborah Lorenzen of State Street in CDO Magazine.

*New Product Alert*

Expanded panels in the transaction data space:

Consumer Edge announced a significant expansion of Transact US Prime, a consumer transaction dataset tailored for sophisticated investors and corporate decision-makers. This Transact US Prime enhancement introduces nearly 30M new active debit cards to the already extensive dataset of 63M+ debit and credit cards. For more information, check out the announcement here.

Earnest Analytics launched an enhanced transaction data panel called Vela Velorum. The panel incorporates new debit card data, increasing the total number of accounts from ~60M to ~100M with history back to 2018. For more information, check out the announcement here.

Infographic of The Week

Created by Genuine Impact. Found on Chuck Brooks LinkedIn.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Low-Key Data Conference - July 12, Virtual

• Low-Key Data Happy Hour - July 13, NYC

• AWS Summit NYC - July 26, NYC

• Big Data LDN - September 20-21, London

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

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

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