Strategic Strategery

Since last post we’ve seen 5 M&A deals, 6 funding rounds, 23 people moves & promotions, 2 roles, 1 article, and 1 podcast.

AggKnowledge Healthcare

Last week, we announced AggKnowledge Healthcare, helping expert networks and survey panels enrich their existing clinician and healthcare-professional communities with advanced structured data across affiliations, prescriptions, diagnoses, procedures, clinical trials, publications, and congresses.

The data is brought in from multiple best-in-class data partners and then further made usable with the appendage of robust taxonomies, libraries, and medical languages.

AggKnowledge Healthcare complements our already industry-leading professional work experience data, which for life sciences projects, can help identify pharma and biotech, hospital, and payer executives, and more.

It continues our mission to provide the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and complete data on people, companies, vendor-relationships, and now industry-specifics.

Want a health check (pun intended) on your data? Let us show you what we can do. Reply to this email and we can send you some sample data or run a pilot.

And thank you to The Data Commenter for the write-up. If you’re not familiar with TDC, be sure to check it out for news related to data markets and the AI data economy.

M&A

• Chainalysis acquired Finisterra Labs (structured data layer for humans and AI)

• FeltonBuford Partners acquired Zeldis Research Associates (market research)

• RealPage acquired Cherre (real estate data intelligence)

• STOXX acquired Scientific Beta (index solutions)

• Wayflyer acquired Conjura (eCommerce analytics)

_{*Deals are announced but may not be closed.}

Funding

• Databento (market data) raised $97M in a Series B led by NEA

• EquiLibre (AI trading research lab) raised a Series A led by Creandum

• Grace Investment Machine (AI-native investment technology) raised $20M in a Series A led by Hony Capital

• Integral (privacy layer for real-world data) raised $18M in a Series A led by

• LinqAlpha (AI-powered investment research) raised $22M in a Series A

• SSImple (SSI data management) received a strategic investment from S&P Global

• StirlingX (multi-sensor data intelligence) raised $20M in a Series A led by Ventura Capital and RCM Private Markets Master Fund (Rokos)

• Oxylabs (web data collection infrastructure) raised $130M at a $3.6B valuation from Warburg Pincus

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Katherine Adams joined Office Hours as Chief of Staff

• Danny Claeys joined Finster AI as GTM Lead - Americas

• Rachel Clemo joined 9fin as Head of Corporate Development

• Stephane Degroote joined Premialab as Chief Revenue Officer

• Nick Donohue joined Bridgewater Associates as Data Ranger Associate

• Huw Griffiths joined Outfront Media as Chief Data Officer

• Georgene Huang joined PEI Group as Chief Product Officer

• Timothy Karpoff joined Motive Partners as and Industry Partner

• Raelen Lambert joined Templum as Chief Commercial Officer

• Eran Lefler joined Similarweb as COO

• Pramit Mallik joined micro1 as Founding Lead, Data Partnerships

• Gerard Miller joined FactSet as SVP, Agentic Strategy

• Sally Moore was promoted to EVP, Chief Client Officer & Co-Head of Market Intelligence at S&P Global

• Valeria Morozovsky Girimonte joined 9fin as a Senior Advisor

• Gourav Nayak joined Inex One as Head of Insights

• Stephen Pendrell joined Full Circle Research as MD, UK & Europe

• Ryan Probasco joined Office Hours as Head of Engineering

• Harriet Roberts joined LSEG as Group Head of Corporate Strategy

• Darren Thomas was promoted to EVP, Co-Head of Market Intelligence, Enterprise Solutions at S&P Global

• Prasad Uddaraju joined MUFG as Chief Data and AI Officer

• Avi Upreti joined Hebbia as MD for Investment Banking

• Weston Walker was promoted to Global Head of Sales and Partnerships at MT Newswires

• Erol Yayboke was promoted to CEO at Filterlabs.ai

*may not have started roles, but roles are announced or updates provided online.

Who’s Hiring

• KKR is hiring a Data Operations - Enterprise Market Data Strategy Lead ($185K - $230K)

• New Balance is hiring a Director, Data Products ($198K - $317K)

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

What I’m Listening To

• How Alternative Data and AI Are Predicting Market Moves Before Everyone Else featuring Pouya Taaghol in discussion with Stan Altshuller

What I’m Reading

• Own The Data Loop by Sabrina Albert and Vivek Ramaswami

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• BattleFin Montauk, Aug 10-11, Montauk, NY

• Boston Fintech Week, Sep 21-25, Boston

• World Financial Information Conference (WFIC), Oct 11-14, Copenhagen

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