New Year, Same iPhone

Finally cut down my caffeine intake. Transaction volume at Dunkin has not changed (keeping my card data folks abreast to panel changes), just doing half caff and decaf.

Since last post we’ve seen 3 acquisitions, 9 funding rounds, 14 people moves & promotions, 1 Legal, Regulatory & Compliance matter, 1 article, 5 roles, and 4 memes (Themes: Vests, Excel).

M&A

• Confluent acquired WarpStream (data streaming platform).

• LSEG acquired the Veris post-trade processing business from Axoni.

• Vaisala acquired Speedwell Climate (climate and environmental risk transfer).

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Fundraising

• Catena Clearing (universal data connector for supply chain) raised $2M in a Seed round led by Teamworthy Ventures and Shaper Capital.

• Datassential (food and beverage intelligence) received a growth investment from New Mountain Capital and Endicott Capital.

• Gestalt (data ecosystem for lenders) raised $5.9M in a Seed round led by Alpha Edison and Yamaha Motor Ventures.

• Novatus Global (regulatory technology) received a $40M growth investment from Silversmith Capital Partners.

• Protege (AI training data) raised $10M in a Seed round led by CRV.

• Purple Transform (incident data analytics) raised £4.5M in a round led by Mercia Ventures.

• Ren Systems (relationship intelligence) raised $3.5M in a round led by JLL Spark Global Ventures.

• Strider (strategic intelligence) raised $55M in a Series C led by Pelion Venture Partners.

• Wealth.com (estate planning technology) raised $30M in a Series A led by GV (Google Ventures).

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

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• Alexandra Boyle joined Etched as Head of Financial Services.

• Colin Brown joined DDN as VP of Revenue Operations.

• Iyran Clunis joined Allvue Systems as EMEA Head of Sales.

• Jonathan Eliot joined Vanda Research as SVP.

• Adam Goldman joined Affinity.co as CFO.

• Chad Horner joined Pogo as Solutions Lead.

• Adam Ilkowitz was promoted to Sell-Side Research Strategy Lead at FactSet.

• Jonathan Kurzner joined BWG Strategy + OTR Global as CEO.

• Julia Lauer joined Rogo as Chief of Staff.

• Weihua Li joined Bloomberg News as Data Reporter, Finance.

• Michael Maloof was promoted to VP, Head of Marketing at Earnest Analytics.

• Varun Rao joined Northwell Health as Lead Data Engineer.

• Ben Swerdlik joined Alias Intelligence as Director of Data Sourcing Strategy.

• Natalie Wolf joined People.ai as SVP, Customer Success.

For the record, I own none of these vest brands. #vestedoptions

Legal, Regulatory & Compliance

• Court Rules That Scraping of Public Data by Competitor Constitutes Trade Secret Misappropriation by Jeffrey Neuburger at Proskauer.

*Nothing in this section should be construed as an opinion of the author. This is just to highlight news and articles related to data privacy, legal, regulatory, and compliance matters.

What I’m Reading

• The Next Big Data Gold Rush: Why Vertical AI Needs Specialized Data Providers Now by Sebastiaan Vaessen at Coalition Capital.

Who’s Hiring

• Axial is hiring a Director of Marketing ($200K - $275K).

• Casdin Capital is hiring a Senior Director, Technology & Data ($250K - $325K).

• FactSet is hiring a Director of Product Management - Deep Sector ($156K - $170K).

• FanDuel is hiring a Data Strategy Senior Manager ($142K - $178K).

• Senior Care Action Network (SCAN) is hiring a Head of Cloud Modernization and Data Governance ($177K - $284K).

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

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Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Applied AI strategies for private markets: Boston happy hour, September 18, Boston.

• Big Data LDN, September 18-19, London

• Neudata San Francisco Data Summit, September 26, San Francisco

• Bits & Pretzels Investor Summit, September 29 - October 1, Munich

• Open Source Data Summit, October 2, Virtual

• Eagle Alpha Data Week, October 7-11, NYC

• Eagle Alpha UNBOUND Alternative Data Conference, October 9, NYC

• Web Data Extract Summit, October 9-10, Austin

• Boston Fintech Week, October 14-18, Boston

• Insight Innovation Exchange (IIEX) AI, October 15-16, Virtual

• BattleFin Corporate Discovery Day, October 15-16, Chicago

• StockTwits Stocktoberfest, October 20-22, Coronado, CA

• Battle of the Quants, October 23, London

• Neudata Paris Data Day for Investors, October 30, Paris

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