That's That Me Espresso

^Came across this meme this weekend. I have never felt so called out.

Since last post we’ve seen 1 free market map, 3 acquisitions, 8 fundraising rounds, 5 people moves & promotions, 3 articles, 7 roles, and 3 newly added events.

Market Map Monday

2024 data map (free)

M&A

• Adelaide acquired Rita Data (consumer data control and monetization).

• Lumivero acquired Risk Decisions (risk intelligence).

• Revnest acquired Hungry Robots (short-term rental data).

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Fundraising

• Adelaide (media quality measurement) raised $1.4M in a Seed-extension round led by AperiamVentures.

• BeyondMath (AI engineering simulation) raised $8.5M in a Seed round led by UP.Partners. Some cool F1 stuff here!

• DealPotential (investment intelligence) raised $1M in a Seed round.

• Grid Status (energy grid data) raised $8M in a round led by Energize Capital.

• MIAX (financial exchange) received a $100M investment from Warburg Pincus.

• Reliant AI (biopharma AI) raised $11.3M in a Seed round led by Tola Capital and Inovia Capital.

• Siepe (software and services for private credit and CLO managers) raised $30M in a Series B led by WestCap.

• Space Intelligence (environmental mapping data) received an investment from AzurX Space Ventures and Intercontinental Exchange.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

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• Marisa Grossfeld was promoted to Head of Global Client Solutions, Public Markets and Growth at GLG.

• Charles Holive joined PepsiCo as SVP, AI Solutions & Platforms.

• Atte Lahtiranta joined Citadel as Head of Core Engineering.

• John Madsen was promoted to CTO at Goldman Sachs.

• Mitja Raubach joined Appinio as Managing Director, UK.

Data Ideas

As we continue to build our data community, It’s Pronounced Data would like to help founders or soon-to-be founders of data businesses get their ideas off the ground. Submit your data business idea here and we will share with a curated group of data industry veterans to provide feedback and leverage our network of investors, advisors, operators, and data professionals.

What I’m Reading

• AI Financial Analysts by Kai Wu at Sparkline Capital.

• Data Marketplaces in a LLM World by Alex Izydorczyk at Cybersyn.

• How Kroger Is Using Data And AI To Drive Innovation In The Grocery Industry by Randy Bean in Forbes.

Who’s Hiring

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

• BWG Strategy is hiring a VP/SVP, Enterprise Sales.

• CVS Health is hiring a Executive Director, Chief of Staff - President, Chief Data and Analytics Officer ($175K - $334K).

• Datarade is hiring a Head of Sales - New Business, B2B SaaS.

• Fidelity is hiring a VP Data Science ($124K - $262K).

• Lloyds Banking Group is hiring a Head of Data and AI Ethics (£140K - £164K).

• Vanguard is hiring a Head of Data Science & Machine Learning, Personal Investor.

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

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• VC & PE Happy Hour, August 28, NYC

• *Alternative Data Happy Hour, August 28, NYC

• World of DaaS in DC, August 29, Washington D.C.

• Cornell Financial Engineering - Future of Finance & AI Conference, September 13, NYC

• FISD World Financial Information Conference, September 15-18, Austin

• Boston Fintech Week, September 16-20, Boston

• *Applied AI strategies for private markets: Boston happy hour, September 18, Boston.

• Big Data LDN, September 18-19, London

• Neudata San Francisco Data Summit, September 26, San Francisco

• Open Source Data Summit, October 2, Virtual

• Eagle Alpha Data Week, October 7-11, NYC

• Eagle Alpha UNBOUND Alternative Data Conference, October 9, NYC

• Web Data Extract Summit, October 9-10, Austin

• *Insight Innovation Exchange (IIEX) AI, October 15-16, Virtual

• BattleFin Corporate Discovery Day, October 15-16, Chicago

• StockTwits Stocktoberfest, October 20-22, Coronado, CA

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

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