Not Another Coldplay Post

Since last post we’ve seen 6 acquisitions, 11 funding rounds ($272.8M raised), 17 people moves & promotions, 10 roles ($229K average salary), 2 articles, and 1 salary study. No Coldplay concert memes from me today - the internet already won that game.

Okay, fine, jk, here’s one for the data folks…

Salary Study

Participate in the first It’s Pronounced Data Salary Study. There are a bunch of these studies for the buyside, banking, general sales roles, and now it’s time to create something similar for the data space. Results will all be aggregated and anonymized - like actually anonymized, not like a bunch of the companies in this industry say ;)

Please participate in order to receive a copy of the results.

M&A

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

• Dig Insights acquired OneCliq (consumer insights). PR

• Regnology acquired Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Regulatory Reporting business unit. PR

• S&P Dow Jones Indices acquired ARC Research (investment performance benchmarking) from ARC Group. PR

• SS&C acquired Calastone (global funds network) for £766M. PR

• Stocktwits acquired Thematic (AI-powered investment research). PR

• Talos acquired Coin Metrics (crypto data). PR

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Funding

• Amperon (energy forecasts) received a strategic investment from Acario.

• BondCliq (corporate bond pricing data) raised a round led by FactSet.

• Collate (agentic data intelligence) raised $10M in a Series A led by Venrock.

• Datavations (building materials and home improvement data) raised $17M in a Series A led by Forestay Capital.

• Heka (web intelligence) raised $14M in a Series A led by Windare Ventures.

• Heron Data (workflow automation, data extraction and enrichment) raised $16M in a Series A led by Insight Partners.

• Hootology (AI-powered market research) raised $1.1M in a Pre-Seed round.

• Nuqleous (retail analytics) received a strategic investment from Rubicon Technology Partners.

• OpenEvidence (AI-powered medical search) raised $210M at a $3.5B valuation in a Series B.

• Science Machine (bioinformatics) raised $3.5M in a Pre-Seed round led by Revent and Nucleus Capital.

• Streamforge (influencer market intelligence) raised $1.2M in a round led by AQC Capital.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Sabrina Albert was promoted to Partner at Madrona Venture Group.

• David Cho joined CNBC as Editor In Chief.

• Ben Cronin joined Nuqleous as CEO.

• Neale Deeley joined ALT Sports Data as SVP of Sportsbook.

• Saurabh Gupta joined Daloopa as Head of India.

• Becky Harris joined Konovo as SVP, Head of Product.

• Chris Hoffman joined Fuel Cycle as Director, Customer Success.

• Michael Hutto was promoted to Senior Sales Manager, Private Equity at Carta.

• Jason Joiner joined YipitData as Senior Director of Revenue Operations.

• Nazar Kurdoba joined The Carlyle Group as VP, Investment Data Scientist.

• Ranger Mack joined Training The Street as Chief Revenue Officer.

• Matthew Mann was promoted to Partner at Fin Capital.

• Pavlé Sabic

• Paul Smith joined Anthropic as Chief Commercial Officer.

• Jonathan Tice joined Outset as a Strategic Advisor.

• Kiet Tran joined Lukka as CEO.

• Kathryn Van Nuys joined Google Cloud as Global Director of Venture Capital and Private Equity.

Who’s Hiring

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

• Blackstone is hiring a Data Platform Engineer, AVP - Data, Cloud & Developer Experience ($125K - $190K).

• DBtune is hiring a Head of Sales.

• ETR (Enterprise Technology Research) is hiring a Senior Account Manager.

• Fin Capital is hiring a Investment Analyst.

• ICE is hiring a Product Manager, Global Data Delivery Platforms.

• JPMorganChase is hiring a Chief Data and Analytics Office Strategy, Executive Director ($213K - $300K).

• M&T Bank is hiring a Head of Enterprise Data Engineering ($201K - $335K).

• Old Well Labs is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Data.

• Respondent is hiring a Head of Engineering.

• West Monroe is hiring a Advisory Lead - Data/AI Due Diligence ($199K - $270K).

*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

• Avoiding Common Sense Pitfalls: How Many Alternative Data Products Fail Simple Sanity Checks by Jason DeRise.

• State of U.S. Insights & Analytics Report by the Insights Association.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Alternative Data Happy Hour, Jul 24, NYC

• Insights Association Corporate Researchers Conference, Sep 9-11, Chicago

• Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, Sep 17, NYC

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

• Data Management Summit, Sep 18, NYC

• 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

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

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