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Since last post we’ve seen 1 merger & acquisition, 5 funding rounds, 9 people moves & promotions, 2 roles, 1 founding team opportunity, 1 speaking engagement, 2 articles, 2 podcasts, and 2 newly added upcoming events (+1 complimentary ticket).

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M&A

Check out the It’s Pronounced Data Deal Tracker for full M&A and funding rounds.

• Legal Benchmarking Group acquired The Lawyer (legal industry intelligence) for £43M. PR

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

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Funding

• Arch (private markets infrastructure platform) raised $52M in a Series B led by Oak HC/FT.

• Metal (AI for private equity) raised $5M in a round led by Base10 Partners.

• Pascal AI (agentic investment research) raised $3.1M in a Seed round led by Kalaari Capital.

• Sphinx (AI data and analytics) raised $9.5M in a Seed round led by Lightspeed.

• Syncari (master data management) raised a Series B led by Escape Venture Investing.

Founding Team

Are you a product-oriented engineer who loves building data products? A friend is building a new data platform and looking for a founding engineer to lead all data management and software engineering. If this is you, please fill out this link. If not you, but you know someone good, please reply to this email.

Complimentary Tickets

BattleFin is providing a few of my buyside readers with a complimentary ticket to the upcoming NYC Data Discovery Day. Continuing their tradition of hosting at awesome venues, this must-attend event is October 9th at the iconic New York Athletic Club. To request a complimentary ticket, click here.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Jonny Azern joined Model ML as Head of UK Sales.

• David Courtier-Dutton joined Fundpath as Chief AI Officer.

• Nick Fallon was promoted to Chief Strategy & Development Officer at Financial Times.

• Spiros Giannaros joined Confluence as CEO.

• Sonia Kim joined GHGSAT as Chief Product Officer.

• Michael Kovacs joined CreditSights as Head of Product Strategy, Leveraged Finance.

• Charles Poliacof joined Finster AI as Chief Commercial Officer.

• Rob Shaw joined Stocktwits as COO.

• Markus Vapaavuori was promoted to Head of Business Operations at Inven.

As I’m enroute to the HR Tech conference, this one cracked me up…

Who’s Hiring

Check out the It’s Pronounced Data job board for full listings. This week’s additions are below.

• Inex One is hiring a Enterprise GTM Lead.

• OpenAI is hiring a Analytics Engineer, People Data ($220K).

*salaries only listed where provided by the company and may vary based on location and other factors. See links for specific salary details.

What I’m Reading

• From Electricity And Oil To Data: Why Every New Age Demands A Liquid Commodity by Kirk McKeown in Forbes.

• Synthetic Data is Transforming Market Research by James Butcher.

What I’m Listening To

• Curiosity Code Podcast: The Invisible Infrastructure Behind Expert Calls, featuring me in conversation with Alex Khomyakov.

• theCUBE + NYSE Wired Mixture of Experts: Making data work across platforms featuring Jake Graham at Bobsled in conversation with John Furrier.

Speaking Request

There is one more open slot to present at Fintech Dev Night - Quant x AI on September 25th in NYC. If you have a tech, data, or AI offering focused on quant funds, please reply to this email if interested in presenting, and I can forward it to the organizer for review.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• AI Pathfinder - Private Equity AI Strategy Day, Sep 16, London

• *Low-Key Data Happy Hour, Sep 17, NYC

• Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, Sep 17, NYC

• *Alternative Data Happy Hour, Sep 18, NYC

• Neudata Traditional and Market Data Summit, Sep 18, London

• Data Management Summit, Sep 18, NYC

• Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan 2025 Future of Finance & Ai Conference, Sep 19, NYC

• Market Research Society B2B Research Conference, Sep 24, London

• Big Data LDN, Sep 24-25, London

• The 21st Quantitative Finance Conference, Sep 24-26, Palermo, Italy

• Web Data Extract Summit, Sep 24-25, Austin, TX

• Fintech Dev Night - Quant x AI, Sep 25, NYC

• ESOMAR Congress, Sep 28-Oct 1, Prague

• BattleFin Discovery Day, Oct 9, NYC

• Women in Research (WIRe) Executive Leadership Summit, Oct 20-23, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

• Stocktwits Stocktoberfest, Oct 20-22, Coronado, CA.

• The Private Markets AI Summit, Oct 28, NYC

• World of DaaS Summit, May 7, 2026, Washington D.C.

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