Sun Valley Recap

Attended Sun Valley - here’s what it taught me about B2B sales (and AI). Didn’t get my own pic walking in, but was able to find 1 where I’m in the background.

Since last post we’ve seen 5 acquisitions, 10 funding rounds ($949.1M raised), 10 people moves & promotions, 3 roles ($221K average salary), 3 articles, 1 song, and 3 newly added upcoming events.

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[INSERT] Of The Week

An overview where I highlight an activity from each major section

Deal - GlobalData acquired Stylus, a global trend forecaster as part of its consumer innovation intelligence offering. Stylus was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in London. This is GlobalData’s 6th acquisition in the past 12 months, and is synergistic with the prior acquisition of AI-powered consumer insights platform, Ai Palette. GlobalData is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange (LON: DATA).

Funding Round - Sundial, a San Francisco based AI-powered analytics platform announced it raised a total of $23M, including a $16M Series A led by GreatPoint Ventures Partner DJ Patil. The company provides smart dashboards, analytics, and notebooks all in one platform. Sundial was founded in 2020 by Chandra Narayanan (prior Sequoia Capital, Facebook) and Julie Zhuo (prior Facebook.

People Move - Ben Coupe joined Oxford Data Plan (ODP) as Sales Director. A perk of this newsletter is that I get to highlight the career advancements of some of my former colleagues turned closest friends. Prior to joining ODP, Ben has experience at data-driven research firms including ETR, YipitData, and like me he started his career in the expert network space at AlphaSights where our desks were across from each other. ODP is a data platform providing daily estimates on company KPIs for over 200 listed companies globally. The company recently closed their Series A led by Smedvig Ventures with participation from TX Ventures. Congrats Ben!

Job - Point72 Ventures is hiring an AI Engineer. Point72 Ventures is the private investing side of Point72, one of the most sophisticated and successful hedge funds. Portfolio companies familiar to this audience include Brightwave, DriveWealth, Massive, and ValidMind.

M&A

Check out the It’s Pronounced Data Deal Tracker for full M&A and funding rounds.

• Alpaca acquired WealthKernel (digital investing infrastructure). PR

• Didomi acquired Sourcepoint (data privacy). PR 

• GlobalData acquired Stylus (trend forecasting). PR

• Ipsos acquired InMoment’s German healthcare division (healthcare market research). PR

• Lightcast acquired Rhetorik (B2B data intelligence). PR

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Funding

• Chloris Geospatial (forest carbon data) raised $8.5M in a Series A led by Future Energy Ventures.

• Clear Capital (real estate data) received an investment from GTCR.

• iCapital (investment management solutions) raised $820M at a $7.5B valuation in a round led by T. Rowe Price and SurgoCap.

• LGND (earth data) raised $9M in a round led by Javelin Venture Partners.

• Moment (fixed income platform) raised $36M in a Series B led by Index Ventures.

• OllyGarden (telemetry data and observability) raised $1.6M in a Pre-Seed round led by DIG Ventures.

• Quant Insight (macro data analytics) raised a Series A led by 7RIDGE.

• Ryft (cloud data management) raised $8M in a Seed round led by Index Ventures.

• Sundial (AI-powered analytics platform) raised $16M in a Series A led by GreatPoint Ventures.

• Virtru (data security) raised $50M at a $500M valuation in a Series D led by ICONIQ.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Itamar Abramovich joined Similarweb as Senior Director of Product Management.

• Ben Coupe joined Oxford Data Plan as Sales Director.

• Richard Ferris joined Clarivate as VP, Data Analytics.

• Frédéric Mathieu joined FullEnrich as Chief Marketing Officer.

• David Miller was promoted to Head of Sales at Standard Metrics.

• Chris Stevens was promoted to Chief Sales Officer at CUBE.

Who’s Hiring

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

• Affinity is hiring a Principal Product Manager, Relationship Intelligence ($105K - $164K, adjusted to USD)

• Point72 Ventures is hiring a AI Engineer ($175K - $225K).

• Visa is hiring a VP, Head of Consumer Data & Analytics ($231K - $426K).

*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 Reading

• Finance's OceanGate moment - The AI adoption disaster waiting to happen by Didier Lopes.

• JPMorgan Tells Fintechs to Pay Up for Customer Data Access by Evan Weinberger and Paige Smith.

• Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing: The Hidden Crisis of Inauthentic Leadership in the Not The Boss newsletter. Not data related, but this one resonated with a lot of poor leadership behavior I’ve seen over the years.

What I’m Listening To

• E.B.I.T.D.A. by Clipse, Pharrell Williams, Pusha T, Malice

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Esri User Conference, Jul 14–18, San Diego

• Value Creation Summit, Jul 16, Virtual

• *Alternative Data Happy Hour, Jul 24, NYC

• Insights Association Corporate Researchers Conference, Sep 9-11, Chicago

• *Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, Sep 17, NYC

• Neudata Traditional and Market Data Summit, Sep 18, London

• Data Management Summit, Sep 18, NYC

• *Big Data LDN, Sep 24-25, London

• The 21st Quantitative Finance Conference, Sep 24-26, Palermo, Italy

• Web Data Extract Summit, Sep 24-25, Austin, TX

• Women in Research (WIRe) Executive Leadership Summit, Oct 20-23, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

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