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Dan Entrup
June 16, 2025

The tech bros are gonna be livid about this one. “BUt WiTH Ai…”

Missed a week of posting - been slammed with conferences, client onboarding, speaking engagements, and cleaning up a lot of bad data. Did anything happen? Are Donald and Elon still going to carpool to my birthday? Did you figure out who The Terminalist is yet?

Since last post we’ve seen 13 acquisitions, 19 funding rounds ($1.05B raised), 1 new company, 20 people moves & promotions, 13 roles ($200K average salary), 4 articles, 2 podcasts, 1 Intern SZN poll, and 1 newly added upcoming event.

M&A

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Funding

  • Aiera (AI-powered investment research) raised $25M in a Series B.

  • AlphaROC (predictive insights) raised a Seed round.

  • AgentSmyth (AI agents for equity analysis) raised $8.7M in a Seed round led by FinTech Collective.

  • Compyl (GRC insights platform) raised $12M in a Series A led by Venture Guides.

  • Cyera (data security) raised $540M at a $6B valuation in a Series E led by Georgian, Greenoaks, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

  • Dataplor (location intelligence) raised $20.5M in a Series B led by F-Prime.

  • Delpha (AI agents for data quality) raised $2M in a Seed round led by 50 Partners.

  • Farsight (AI for financial institutions) raised $16M in a Series A led by SignalFire.

  • Filament Syfter (private markets data and workflows) raised $4.8M in a Series A led by FINTOP Capital.

  • Matterworks (biological data) raised a Series A led by Lewis & Clark Partners and OMX Ventures.

  • Mind (data loss prevention) raised $30M in a Series A led by Paladin Capital Group and Crosspoint Capital Partners.

  • Octaura (syndicated loan and CLO trading solutions) raised $46.5M in a round led by Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Moody’s.

  • Outset (AI-moderated research) raised $17M in a Series A led by 8VC.

  • Rally (user research platform) raised $11M in a Series A led by Canapi Ventures.

  • Shovels (building insights and analytics) raised $5M in a Seed round led by Base10 Partners.

  • Speedata (processors for data analytics) raised $44M in a Series B.

  • Thread AI (composable AI infrastructure) raised $20M in a Series A led by Greycroft.

  • Wealthbox (financial advisor CRM) received a $200M strategic investment from Sixth Street Growth.

  • Yieldstreet (private markets investment platform) raised $45M in a Series D led by Tarsadia Investments, Mayfair Equity Partners, and Edison Partners.

New Company Alert

Acqwired is a deal sourcing operating system that emerged from stealth last week. The platform helps private equity investors identify and engage with high-fit acquisition targets more efficiently. By automating time-intensive manual tasks, the system enables investment professionals to focus on building relationships and closing deals rather than managing databases and CRMs.

Acqwired is founded by Dan Herr, former VP at Serent Capital and Co-Host of the Deal Sourcery Podcast, and Irfan Durmus, former Chief Software Architect at ESG Capital. For more info, check out the launch announcement here.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

  • David Asermely joined ValidMind as VP, Global Business Development & Growth Strategy.

  • Sandeep Burugupalli joined AstraZeneca as Head of Data Science, BioPharmaceuticals R&D.

  • Nicholas Cattle was promoted to Director of Product Management at Evaluate.

  • Hilary DeCamp joined Interpret as EVP, Research Design & Analytics.

  • Paul Dodd joined the Board of Directors of Wealthbox.

  • Julia Farhat joined Inex One as Partnerships Manager.

  • Anton Gorshkov joined Genesis Computing as Head of Engineering.

  • Jeff Greenspoon will join Kantar as CEO, Americas, effective August 4, 2025.

  • Dan Kennedy joined TRG Screen as Head of Sales, North America.

  • Jan Larsen joined ValidMind as Chief Revenue Officer.

  • Dean McIntyre was promoted to Chief Commercial Officer at SimCorp.

  • Chris McLeavey joined Jump Trading as Data Strategist.

  • Jeremy Payne joined FactSet as Director, Fundamentals.

  • Roshan Punjabi joined FT Partners as Managing Director.

  • Aman Soni joined MSCI as Executive Director, Private Assets.

  • Taki Thaler joined Anomaly Capital Management as Data Strategist.

  • Meera Vaidyanathan joined SurveyMonkey as Chief Product Officer.

  • Sanoke Viswanathan will join FactSet as CEO, effective September 2025.

  • Andrew Zloto joined Anthropic as Head of Capital Markets and Corporate Development.

  • Jan Zürcher was promoted to Head of Market Data, SIX Exchanges at SIX.

Who’s Hiring

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

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

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