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Earlier this week, Matt Turck and the team at FirstMark dropped the 2023 MAD (Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Data) Landscape. This year they’ve included an interactive version in partnership with CB Insights and Gotta Go Fast followed by the annual state of the union post. The landscape has a total of 1,416 logos appearing. For comparison, there were 139 in the first version in 2012.

Link to Interactive Version

M&A

• Kochava acquired Machine Advertising (app marketing).

• Lukka acquired Venato (Web3 blockchain analytics).

• S&P Global acquired Market Scan Information Systems (automotive payments).

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

• Advertiser Perceptions (media & advertising intelligence) received a significant investment from Eureka Equity Partners.

• CommandK (sensitive data security) raised $3M in a Seed round led by Lightspeed.

• Kern AI (NLP development platform) raised €2.7M in a Seed round led by Seedcamp and Faber.

• Metomic (sensitive data security) raised $20M in a Series A led by Evolution Equity Partners.

• NewsWhip (media monitoring) raised $13M in funding from AshGrove Capital.

• Veridion (formerly Soleadify) (firmographic intelligence) raised $6M in a Seed round from LAUNCHub Ventures, OTB Ventures, Underline Ventures, and existing investors Day One Capital and GapMinder Venture Partners.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Mitch Barns joined the Board of Directors of Consumer Edge.

• Michelangelo D'Agostino joined Tegus as VP of Machine Learning.

• Bridget Gleason joined Util as Chief Revenue Officer.

• David Greenfield launched Gen AI Partners.

• Alex Kayyal joined Lightspeed Venture Partners as Partner on the Enterprise Team.

• Dinah Koehler joined FactSet as Head of ESG Research.

• Kelly Koscuiszka was promoted to Co-Chair of the Investment Management Regulator & Compliance Group at Schulte Roth & Zabel.

• Elianne Marcus-Kiejdan was promoted to Director of Marketing at SafeGraph.

• DJ Patil joined GreatPoint Ventures as General Partner.

• Caroline Ritter joined TPG as Senior Advisor, Commercial Excellence.

• Dorothy Ruderman joined FirstParty as Director of Solutions.

• Nadine Scott joined TRG Screen as Global Head of Managed Services.

• Scott Shugrue joined Comscore as VP of Growth.

• Kevin Stone joined Seek AI as Product Lead.

• Stacy Tan joined Brevan Howard as Senior Data Sourcing Strategist.

• Andy Williams joined Ito World as Chief Product Officer.

Who’s Hiring

• Docker (containers) is hiring a Director, Business Data.

• Morgan Stanley (financial services) is hiring a Global Market Data - Exchange Data Sourcing Specialist.

• Ogilvy (advertising) is hiring a Associate Director of Data Strategy.

• Overstock (eCommerce retail) is hiring a Director, Data Intelligence.

• Unlearn (healthcare technology) is hiring a Lead, Data Partnerships.

• Zanbato (private markets) is hiring a Head of Data Sales.

What I’m Reading

• Data Collateralization: How to Decide the Value of This Intangible Asset by Douglas Laney at West Monroe in CDO Magazine.

• Aspiring for Intelligence by Vivek Ramaswami and Sabrina Wu at Madrona on Substack.

• Survey Details Data Officers’ Priorities, Challenges for 2023 by Sara Brown at MIT Sloan.

• The Impact of Machine-Generated Emails on Data-Driven Marketing, a whitepaper by Lockr.

• How Do Expert Networks Operate? by Max Friberg at Inex One.

What I’m Listening To

• Myself reading aloud names from the MAD 2023 Landscape.