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September 14, 2023

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This week, a new company launch, 2 acquisitions, 14 fundraising rounds including 3 9-figure raises, 21 people moves & promotions, 2 articles, 2 podcasts, 8 roles, and 2 new events.

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M&A

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

  • BMLL (order book data and analytics) secured an investment from Snowflake Ventures.

  • Databricks (data lake) raised $500M at a $43B valuation in a Series I led by T. Rowe Price.

  • Denodo (data management) raised $336M in a Series B from TPG Growth.

  • Gable.ai (data contracts and collaboration platform) raised $7M in a Seed round led by Zetta Venture Partners, Crane Venture Capital, and Essence Venture Capital.

  • GHGSat (greenhouse gas emissions monitoring) raised $44M in a Series C1.

  • Hadrius (AI-powered SEC and FINRA compliance) raised $2M in a Seed round.

  • Happy Cabbage Analytics (cannabis retail optimization) raised $2M from Delta Emerald Ventures.

  • Ontopical (government opportunity intelligence) raised $3.3M in a Seed Extension led by Rhino Ventures and Graphite Ventures.

  • Site Technologies (property intelligence) raised $10M in a Series A led by Prologis Ventures.

  • Sonera (neural data) raised $11M in a Seed round led by Amplify Partners.

  • SQream (GPU analytics and databases) raised $45M in a Series C led by World Trade Ventures.

  • Treasury4 (treasury data) raised $20M in a Series A led by WestCap.

  • Treefera (forest and conservation data platform) raised $2.2M in a Pre-Seed round led by Concept Ventures.

  • VideoAmp (advertising data and measurement) raised $150M in a Series G led by Vista Credit Partners.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

  • Mike Baradas joined Sterling Trading Tech as Product Manager.

  • Michael Cafra joined NetworksX as Head of Software Development.

  • Nicholas Cirella joined Fin Capital as General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer.

  • Kayvan Dastgheib joined Tegus as Global Head of Revenue Strategy & Operations.

  • John Farrall joined Vertical Knowledge as Account Executive.

  • Raymond Feng joined Ascential as Director of Research for Ascential Alternative Data, Asia.

  • Keith Fox joined Databento as Director of Sales.

  • Peter Gu joined Balyasny Asset Management as Senior Investment Data Analyst.

  • Lee Hansen was promoted to Director Specialist, Data & AI at Microsoft.

  • David Havlek joined the Board of Directors of Happy Cabbage Analytics.

  • Samantha Lippitt joined Arteria AI as Strategic Account Director.

  • William Merchan was promoted to Chief Revenue Officer at Sensor Tower.

  • Neasa NicDhonaill joined Genesis Global as SVP, Strategic Accounts.

  • Scott Parent joined Eleanor Health as Senior Analytics Manager

  • Austeja Petroskeviciute joined Norges Bank Investment Management as Senior AI/ML Engineer.

  • Karthik Rao was promoted to CEO at Nielsen.

  • Anju Sharma was promoted to Senior Director, Head of Inbound Market Data Operations at S&P Global.

  • Rich Taylor joined Seek AI as VP of Marketing.

  • Richard Thornton joined the Board of Directors of Potloc.

  • Arun Veluswamy was promoted to Global Director - Pricing, Reference, and Benchmark Data Solution Sales at FactSet.

  • Nick Katzaroff joined Ascential as Head of Alternative Data Investment Research, US and Europe.

Who’s Hiring

What I’m reading

What I’m Listening To

*New Company Alert*

Gable.ai Unveils Data Collaboration Platform Set to Transform Analytics and AI Workflows

Gable is a B2B data infrastructure SaaS that provides a collaboration platform to author and enforce data contracts. The company helps organizations improve data quality at scale by fostering communication between data producers and consumers via data contracts. The platform enables organizations to:

  • Create data contracts

  • Prevent breaking changes

  • Scale developer communication

Gable was founded by Chad Sanderson (CEO), Adrian Kreuziger (CTO), and Daniel Dicker (Founding Engineer), who all previously worked together in data leadership roles at Convoy. In addition to the launch, the company also announced a $7M Seed round led by Zetta Venture Partners, Crane Venture Capital, and Essence Venture Capital. More information can be found in the VentureBeat article With ‘GitHub for data,’ Gable.ai wants to connect software engineers and ML developers, by Sharon Goldman.

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