Oh Look, A Map!

Last week’s post smashed the prior readership record! Since last post we’ve seen 3 acquisitions, 8 funding rounds ($220.6M raised), 1 survey, 1 special event, 18 people moves & promotions, 8 roles ($199K average salary), 2 articles, 4 podcasts, and 6 newly added upcoming events. The biggest news though, the updated market map crowdsourcing effort just kicked off. Be sure to add your company in the comments here.

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M&A

• CoreWeave acquired Weights & Biases (MLOps and LLMOps).

• GlobalData acquired Ai Palette (CPG insights).

• Morningstar acquired Lumonic (private credit portfolio monitoring) and DealX (CMBS and CLO data).

• Publicis acquired Lotame (data collaboration platform).

• https://www.aipalette.com/

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Funding

• Aaru (AI-powered prediction engine) received an investment from Accenture.

• Conveo (AI video interviewer) raised $5.3M in a Seed round.

• Datacity (industry classifications and UK economy mapping) raised £2M at a £19M valuation from Oxford Economics.

• LlamaIndex (AI knowledge assistants) raised $19M in a Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners.

• Ocean Ledger (geospatial analytics for coastal risk assessment) raised $900K in a round led by Ananda Impact Ventures and Silverstrand Capital.

• Quantexa (AI risk management and fraud detection) raised $175M at a $2.6B valuation in a Series F led by OTPP’s Teachers’ Venture Growth.

• Skyfora (weather intelligence) raised €4M in a round led by Ugly Duckling Ventures and LUMO Labs.

• Zocks (AI for financial advisors) raised $13.8M in a Series A led by Motive Partners.

More M&A and Funding News

• Bain and WPP to break up research company Kantar.

Survey (please contribute)

My friends at PostSig have launched a survey on data acquisition and management. If you have a few minutes, please contribute here. Contributors will get access to the results when the study is complete.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Magnus Almqvist was promoted to CEO at Exberry.

• Jack Benedict joined Thomson Reuters Ventures as Principal.

• Matthew Birzon joined Maiden Century as VP, Enterprise Sales.

• Natalie Clancy was promoted to COO at Veridata Insights.

• Nikki Darré was promoted to President at Fieldwork.

• Mark Flamini joined Finbourne as Head of Sales, Americas.

• Glenn Fleischman joined aytm as Chief Revenue Officer.

• Zach Fong joined Unique as Manager, Gen AI Customer Consulting.

• Isabella Garcia-Camargo joined Conviction as an Investor.

• Kate Long joined Crunchbase as VP, Marketing.

• Kristin McDonald was promoted to Partner at Eniac Ventures.

• Andy Pickens joined MGX as MD, Operating Partner, AI Product Lead.

• Zoë Ruffels joined the Board of Verve.

• Steve Sharman was promoted to Global Head of AI Technology at Third Bridge.

• William Wagner joined Semrush as CEO.

• Adam Waite joined Citizens as MD, Financial Technology Investment Banking.

• Jon Whitmore joined the Board of Verve.

• Jonathan Wolf was promoted to MD, Collaboration Product Sales at Snowflake.

Who’s Hiring

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

• Angel City FC is hiring a Senior Director, Consumer Insights and Data Strategy ($100K - $120K).

• Antenna is hiring a Manager, Insight Analytics ($110K - $150K).

• BlackRock is hiring a Global Head of Product Strategy, Private Market Solutions - Managing Director ($270K - $350K).

• Bloomberg is hiring a Team Leader - Content Acquisition Relationship Manager - Research.

• FactSet is hiring a Head of Product Management, Enterprise Solutions & Intelligence ($190K - $240K).

• ProSapient is hiring a Senior Data Scientist.

• Snowflake is hiring a Data Cloud Product Partner Development Manager, Financial Services ($193K - $269K).

• Statista is hiring a Director of Corporate Development.

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

Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2025 Ranking

Congrats to the expert networks and data insights companies (reach out if I missed your name on the list) on the FT1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2025 Ranking:

What I’m Reading

• The Invisible Dictatorship of Corporate Data - How Information Fiefdoms Are Sabotaging Your Digital Transformation by Wendy Turner-Williams.

• This post from Rameez Tase about the value of data.

What I’m Listening To

• From Researcher to Investment Banker featuring Kristin Luck of Oberon Securities in discussion with Katie Gross of Suzy on the Insights & Innovators Podcast from MRII.

• The Knowledge Project episode featuring Josh Wolfe of Lux Capital in discussion with Shane Parrish.

• A.U.M., a new podcast from FinChat.

• Talking Market Data, a podcast launched in January by David Anderson.

Special Event

My company, AggKnowledge, is hosting a Data Night Out with People Data Labs on March 26th at a very cool venue in NYC. We’re about at capacity but with a few spots left, wanted to share this here. If you’re a data buyer or user at a fund, expert network, or market research firm, and interested in attending, fill out this form or reply to this email (include your name and company if it’s not obvious in your email address).

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• InvestOps, March 10-12, Orlando

• Fintech Meetup, March 10-13, Las Vegas

• Quant Strats, March 11, NYC

• SampleCon, March 17-19, Pasadena, California

• *Low-Key Data Happy Hour, March 19, NYC

• *Shift Left Data Conference, March 27, Virtual

• *Momentum AI, April 28-29, NYC

• IIEX North America, April 30 - May 1, Washington D.C.

• World of DaaS Summit, May 8, Washington D.C.

• *GLG Alumni Reunion, May 13, NYC

• *Sohn Investment Conference, May 14, NYC

• *BattleFin Alternative Data Experience at Sohn, May 14, NYC

• KIMRA: Knowledge & Information Management, Research & Analysis, June 4, London

• Data Disrupt, June 4-5 2025, NYC

This isn’t even a meme. I went to look for a good market map meme and turns out #1 and #3 on Google are my prior memes!

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