Not a Nvidia Earnings Report

Since last post we’ve seen 5 acquisitions, 9 fundraising rounds, 4 people moves & promotions, 6 roles, 1 new firm launch, 1 competition, 2 articles, and 8 newly added events.

M&A

• Accordion acquired OperationsRx (operational consulting).

• Archer acquired Compliance.ai (RegTech and risk management).

• Inflexion acquired Marlowe’s Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) assets for £430M.

• S&P Global acquired Visible Alpha (industry and segment consensus data and models).

• Signal AI acquired Social 360 (reputation intelligence monitoring).

Fundraising

• Alembic (marketing analytics) raised $14M in a Series A led by WndrCo.

• Clara Analytics (insurance claim intelligence) received an investment from Nationwide Ventures.

• Clumio (data backup and recovery) raised $75M in a Series D led by Sutter Hill Ventures.

• Dili (due diligence automation) raised $3.5M in a Seed round.

• Dub (portfolio replication and copy-trading) raised $17M in a Seed round led by Tusk Venture Partners.

• Napier AI (financial crime compliance solutions) raised £45M from Crestline Investors.

• Qloo (consumer preference and behavioral analytics) raised $25M in a Series C led by AI Ventures.

• Rogo (enterprise AI for financial services) raised $7M in a Seed round led by AlleyCorp.

• Synthesized (data access and provisioning) received an investment from UBS Next.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Wendy Ehrlich joined the Advisory Board of MarketReader.

• Danilo Antonino Giannone joined Gener8 as Senior Quantitative Research.

• Robert Longwell joined Exabel as VP of Sales.

• Sagar Nikam was promoted to Head of Products, Data & AI at CKDelta.

Who’s Hiring

• Enigma is hiring a Senior Account Executive.

• Equity Data Science is hiring a Account Manager.

• Exabel is hiring a Equity Analyst.

• Google is hiring a Head of YouTube Analytics, Music and Media ( $216K-$317K).

• Measurabl is hiring a Senior Account Executive, Capital Markets ($90K-$115K).

• Morningstar is hiring a Director, Data Licensing.

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

BattleFin is hosting a contest to identify and showcase the top data providers in Asia with a great set of awards. Submissions are open until Friday, February 23rd and judges will pick winners in on March 1st. Apply Here

Challenge Winner - Participation at Discovery Day Singapore 2024 + Gold Level Sponsorship ($30,000 USD Value) at Discovery Day New York, May 21st-22nd 2024 or future event.

Top 3 Finalists - Opportunity to present during the Data Provider Showcase at Discovery Day Singapore, March 20-21st 2024.

7 Runner-Ups - Innovation zone participation and event ticket to Discovery Day Singapore 2024.

What I’m Reading

• The Great VC Race to Become Data Driven by Joe Perkins.

• The Rise and Stall of Data Marketplaces: A Critical Look by Brad Schneider.

New Firm Launch

Barn Ridge Partners is a new NYC-based private equity firm focused on control investments across the B2B and B2C services sectors. The firm is founded by Garrett Werner, former VP at Palladium Equity Partners and Alexander Peskind, former VP at Blackstone.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Alternative Data Happy Hour, February 22, NYC

• Data Careers Summit, February 23, Virtual

• Neudata Data Day for Investors, February 29, Boston

• *Fintech Meetup, March 3-6, Las Vegas

• Databricks Financial Services Forum, March 6, NYC

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

• *BWG Strategy and OTR Global - Future of AI Conference, March 14, NYC

• BattleFin Discovery Day, March 20-21, Singapore

• FISD, March 21, Boston

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

• *Enterprise Data World, March 24-29, Orlando

• 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

• *VC Platform Global Summit, April 15-17, Miami

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

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

• *TDWI Modern Data Leader's Summit, April 29-May 1, Chicago

• Knowledge Graph Conference, May 6-10, NYC

• DataIQ 100 Summit, May 20-21, Miami

• *Asia Financial Information Conference (AsiaFIC), May 28-29, Singapore

• *SuperReturn International, June 4-7, Berlin

• *The Quirk’s Event, July 17-18, NYC

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