Snowbricks and Dataflakes

Be a lot cooler if you did

October 26, 2023

This week 3 acquisitions, 4 fundraising rounds, 10 people moves & promotions, 1 article, 7 roles, 2 podcasts, 1 new event, and 2 memes.

M&A

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

  • Aleph (financial planning & analysis tools) raised $11.5M in a Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures.

  • Castellum.AI (risk & compliance data) raised $4M in a Seed round led by Spider Capital.

  • Prism Data (financial transaction data) raised $5M in a Seed round led by Obvious Ventures.

  • Ternary (cloud financial intelligence) raised $12M in a Series A led by Jump Capital.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

  • Lou Dare joined 13D Research as Director, Marketing & Production.

  • Abhishek Gandotra was promoted to VP of Product Management at Green Dot Corporation.

  • Liz Grausam joined Acumity as an Advisor.

  • Jin Gu joined Fitch Solutions as Director, Strategic Partnerships.

  • Oliver Hunt was promoted to Chief Product Officer at Limeglass.

  • Frank Kelly joined Virtual Incentives as Market Research Practice Lead.

  • John Nathenson joined Catalytics Data International as VP, North America.

  • Mohammed Shaalan joined Consumer Edge as Chief Data Officer.

  • Mario Silva joined Eisler Capital as Director of Data Management.

  • Troy Toman was promoted to SVP, Software Engineering at Planet.

Who’s Hiring

What I’m reading

What I’m Listening To

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

And another for good laughs…

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