Meme Week 2024

Since last post we’ve seen 3 acquisitions, 8 fundraising rounds, 14 people moves & promotions, 13 roles, 2 new firm launches, 2 articles, 1 podcast, 1 exciting partnership, and 9 newly added events.

M&A

• Cohesity acquired Veritas’s data protection business.

• Growth Catalyst Partners acquired Data Society (data science and AI workforce training and development) and formed Data Society Group (Data Society + The Data Lodge + CDO Magazine)

• KKR acquired a stake in Cotiviti (healthcare analytics).

Fundraising

• Aegir (offshore wind intelligence) raised €8.5M in a Series A led by Seaya Andromeda.

• Architect Financial Technologies (brokerage and trading technology) raised $12M in a round led by BlockTower Capital and Tioga Capital.

• Artie (database replication) raised $3.3M in a Seed round led by Exponent Founders Capital.

• Exponential Markets (financial instruments and indices) received a strategic investment from Citi.

• Motif Analytics (sequence analytics) raised $5.7M in a Seed round led by Felicis and Amplify Partners.

• Nasdaq Private Market (secondaries) raised $62.4M in a Series B led by Nasdaq.

• Perigon (contextual intelligence) raised $5M in a Seed round led by LiveOak Ventures.

• Truflation (economic data) raised $6M in a round led by Laser Digital and Red Beard Ventures.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Ran Ding was promoted to General Partner & Co-Head of Growth Equity at Norwest Venture Partners.

• Mike Ehrenberg was promoted to CTO at Barchart.

• Chris Harrison was promoted to Chief Product Officer at Barchart.

• Eric Levinson joined BlueFlame AI as Head of Sales.

• Amanda Markert Block joined Neudata as Head of Account Management.

• Seth McGuire joined the Board of Directors of Stocktwits.

• Kimberly Miller joined Alkymi as Strategic Accounts Director.

• Ameer Muhammad was promoted to VP/GM of Commercial Accounts at CB Insights.

• Jeff Russel joined Eisler Capital as Head of Fundamental Equity Long-Short.

• Colleen Sheeren was promoted to CMO at Barchart.

• James Stickland joined the Advisory Board of CCData.

• James Uzzalino joined ETR as VP, Institutional Sales & Service.

• Andrew Ward joined Barchart as Head of Commodity Sales.

• Camilla Yang was promoted to VP of Operations at Exabel.

Who’s Hiring

• Andreessen Horowitz is hiring a Chief of Staff, Growth ($220K-259K).

• Capital Fund Management is hiring a Data Sourcing Expert.

• Dataplor is hiring a Director of Strategic Partnerships.

• Department of the Treasury is hiring a Senior Policy Advisor ($163K-$191K) and Policy Advisor ($68K-$107K) in the Office of Capital Markets.

• EMI Research Solutions is hiring a Director of Insights.

• Female Founders Fund is hiring a Chief of Staff ($100K-$140K).

• Grata is hiring a Content & Research Lead ($90K-$120K).

• Guidepoint is hiring a General Manager, Qsight ($170K-$200K).

• NBCUniversity is hiring a Counsel, Data, Strategy & Business Operations ($140K-$170K).

• Third Bridge is hiring a Head of Account Management - Credit and Equity USA ($200K).

• Uber is hiring a Data Strategy and Architecture Lead ($176K-$196K).

• WGSN is hiring a Head of Strategy & Insights.

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

New Launches

Norias Research Group is a long-short equity platform combining deep fundamental research with systematic portfolio construction and execution. The firm was founded by Doug Haynes, former President at Point72 and Senior Partner at McKinsey, and has a target launch of April 1st.

Coalesce Capital is a private equity firm investing in human capital-driven and technology-enable services companies. The firm was founded by Stephanie Geveda, former Partner & Head of the Business Services Group at Warburg Pincus and Principal at Silver Lake Partners. Coalesce announced the close of its inaugural fund with $900M in total capital commitments.

What I’m Reading

• The Data Revolution in Venture Capital by Ryan Hoover and Vedika Jain.

• Creating Data & Analytics businesses from Consultancies by Alex Boden (thanks for the shoutouts).

What I’m Listening To

• Data Sharing Across Business and Platform Boundaries featuring Andy Jefferson, CTO of Bobsled, in discussion with Tobias Macey.

Partnership Corner

Gulp Data partnered with Snowflake to help companies revolutionize their approach to data monetization. Using Gulp’s data valuation app, companies can determine the market value of their data right in their Snowflake environment, without the need to move or provide external access to the data.

To learn more about the partnership, check out the press release here.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• VC & PE Happy Hour, February 20, NYC

• *Fin Capital Demo Day: AI in Financial Services, February 20, Virtual

• IFRS Sustainability Symposium, February 22, NYC

• *Alternative Data Happy Hour, February 22, NYC

• *Data Careers Summit, February 23, Virtual

• Neudata Data Day for Investors, February 29, Boston

• *Databricks Financial Services Forum, March 6, NYC

• Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, March 11–13, Orlando

• BattleFin Discovery Day, March 20-21, Singapore

• *FISD, March 21, Boston

• Skiers in Data (SKID) by LEIT Data, March 24, Verbier Switzerland

• 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

• Data Universe, April 10-11, NYC

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

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

• *Knowledge Graph Conference, May 6-10, NYC

• *DataIQ 100 Summit, May 20-21, Miami

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