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M&A
Argus acquired Mercaris (sustainable agriculture prices & analytics).
Blend360 acquired Montevideo Labs (data consultancy)
Databricks acquired MosaicML (generative AI tools) for $1.3B.
IBM acquired Apptio (technology business management software) for $4.6B.
Thoughspot acquired Mode (business intelligence) for $200M.
*transactions have been announced but may not be closed
Fundraising
Alpine Formula 1 (vroom vroom) raised €200M from an investor group formed of Otro Capital, RedBird Capital Partners, Maximum Effort Investments, Ryan Reynolds, Michael B. Jordan, and Rob McElhenney. What does this have to do with data? Read on about data in F1 here or spend an hour with me and it will certainly come up in conversation.
Cyera (data security) raised $100M in a Series B led by Accel.
Interrodata (decision analytics platform) raised £2.2M in a round led by Fuel Ventures.
Parabola (process automation) raised $24M in a Series B led by OpenView.
Raincoat (climate insurance solutions) raised $6.5M in a Seed round led by Two Sigma Ventures.
Redpanda (streaming data platform) raised $100M in a Series C led by Lightspeed, GV and Haystack VC.
Seeds Investor (personalized investing) raised $2M in a Seed round led by Blank Ventures.
Versori (data infrastructure) raised $3.5M in a round led by Stage 2 Capital.
People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments
Benjamin Barker joined Apollo Global Management as Principal, ESG Portfolio Integration.
Jason He joined Office Hours as Head of Sales.
David Iudica joined Citi as SVP, Research and Insights, Retail & Wealth.
Jesse Krieger joined Bobsled as Director of Sales.
Charles Poliacof joined ModuleQ as Chief Revenue Officer.
Lisa Regan was promoted to Head of Customer LSEG-Microsoft Partnership at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG).
Pascal Sauve was promoted to Head of Emerging Technologies - Platform at NielsenIQ.
Peter Weiss joined S&P Global in Content Acquisition & Rights Management.
Who’s Hiring
ArborKnot is hiring a VP of Data & Analytics.
dbt Labs is hiring a Senior Manager, Product Marketing.
MarketReader is hiring for Institutional Sales.
Walmart Data Ventures is hiring a Strategy and Business Development Manager III.
What I’m reading
The Rollup, a new Beehiiv newsletter by Matt Ober.
Ask Ethan, a new Substack newsletter by Ethan Aaron.
From Data To Profit: How Businesses Leverage Data to Grow Their Top and Bottom Lines, a new book by Vin Vashishta.
De-Risking The Assessment Of Alternative Data Supply: ”It’s Never Been Easier To Find the Wrong Data by Niall Hurley at Eagle Alpha.
Survey Sampling: Comparing Targeted Outreach and Online Panels by Max Friberg at Inex One.
LinkedIn Changed Its Algorithms — Here's How Your Posts Will Get More Attention Now by Jason Feifer in Entrepreneur Magazine.
What I’m Listening To
The Insights Factory, a new podcast from Seek.
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