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Happy earnings season to those who celebrate. Since last post we’ve seen 3 acquisitions, 12 funding rounds, 14 people moves & promotions, 2 articles, 15 roles (should call this ‘the jobs report’), 1 preliminary survey result, and 3 memes.

M&A

• Cloudflare acquired Kivera (cloud and data security).

• QuestionPro acquired Tactix (qualitative video research).

• Zeta Global acquired LiveIntent (identity graph and marketing solutions).

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Initial survey results from The Sunday Edition. I guess I don’t have many subscribers in New Jersey (yeah, I said it). Shoutout to the Corneliani, Maurizio Baldassari, Peter Millar, Arc’teryx gang.

Fundraising

• Centaur Labs (health data annotation) raised $16M in a Series B led by SignalFire.

• Chartbeat (media and content analytics) received an investment from Bain Capital Private Credit.

• Distributional (AI testing and evaluation) raised $19M in a Series A led by Two Sigma Ventures.

• EvenUp (legal claims intelligence) raised $135M in a Series D led by Bain Capital Ventures.

• Green Cabbage (spend analytics) received an investment from Sorenson Capital.

• Kiva AI (data labeling) raised $7M in a Seed round led by CoinFund.

• Lightdash (open-source business intelligence) raised $11M in a Series A led by Accel.

• Noetica (deal term benchmarking) raised $22M in a Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

• Quartr (investment research tools) raised $6M in a round led by Altos Ventures.

• Relyance AI (AI-powered data governance, privacy, and security) raised $32M in a Series B led by Thomvest Ventures.

• Truthset (marketing and measurement data) raised $5M in a Series A led by Data Point Capital.

• Vectorize (data prep for AI) raised $3.6M in a Seed round led by True Ventures.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

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• Bruno Aziza joined IBM as Group VP, Data Analytics, BI & AI.

• Jared Bochner joined OurCrowd as Manager, Institutional Investments.

• Nick Chan joined Millennium as Data Content Specialist.

• Andrew Eisen joined Hum Capital as CEO.

• Bruce Fador joined the Advisory Board of Speech Craft Analytics.

• Prasanna Gopalakrishnan joined ADP as Global Chief Product and AI Officer.

• Saira Kazmi joined NobleAI as Senior Director, Machine Learning.

• Julie Martin was promoted to Senior Manager, Product at Haptiq.

• Ahay Oziel joined Explorium as Data Partnerships Manager.

• Alexandra Rodrigues joined Watershed as Climate Advisor.

• Steve Schlesinger rejoined Sago as CEO.

• Kash Sheth joined Preqin as Sales Director, Global Banks.

• Adam Steinhaus joined SimCorp as Head of Business Development, Americas.

• Maryana Stepanova joined Nielsen as Director, Client Solutions.

What I’m Reading

• Are these the sellside’s best-ever puns? by FT Alphaville.

• How we consume data will shape the future featuring Carbon Arc’s Kirk McKeown in World of DaaS.

Credit: Euardo Ordax. H/T Ethan for sharing.

Who’s Hiring

• Bloomberg is hiring a Product Manager - Private Markets Strategic Partnerships ($140K - $295K).

• Bristol Myers Squibb is hiring a Associate Director, External Data Acquisition.

• College Board is hiring a Executive Director, Data Strategy ($152K - $220K).

• Concentrix is hiring a VP, Data & Analytics.

• Fitch is hiring a Global Head of Sales, Fitch Ratings Research and Data ($250K - $325K), and a Director, AI Data Product Manager ($170K - $190K).

• Guidepoint is hiring a Director of Research, Insights.

• IDC is hiring a Director of Strategic Partnerships, Data and Analytics ($187K - $250K).

• InnovateMR is hiring a Senior Business Development Manager.

• McKesson is hiring a Senior Director, Data Strategy ($153K - $256K).

• People Data Labs is hiring a Customer Success Manager ($100K - $120K).

• Similarweb is hiring a Head of Sales Management, Investors ($133K - $206K).

• Tutor Perini is hiring a Chief Data Officer ($175K - $240K).

• Worldpay is hiring a Account Executive, Data Commercialization ($105 - $176K).

• YipitData is hiring a Head of Data Feeds ($230K).

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

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• 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

• Product Analytics Leaders Meetup, October 22, NYC

• Battle of the Quants, October 23, London

• NYSE Wired AI Lunch (ft. Arcee.ai), October 24, NYC

• Beryl Elites Alternative Investments & Data Revolution, October 28-29, NYC

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

• Substantive Research Unbundling Uncovered, November 6, London

• AI4F Workshop on LLMs and Generative AI for Finance, November 14, NYC

• Data Disrupt, June 4-5 2025, NYC

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