The Chief Eagle

Since last post we’ve seen 2 acquisitions, 16 funding rounds ($227.9M raised), 17 people moves & promotions, 7 roles ($221K average salary), 1 article, and 1 newly added upcoming event.

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M&A

• BlueMatrix acquired Street Context (capital markets email intelligence and analytics). PR

• Innovaccer acquired Humbi AI (actuarial intelligence). PR

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Funding

• Axoflow (security data curation) raised $7M in a Seed round led by EBRD Venture Capital.

• Clay (GTM development environment) raised $40M at a $1.25B valuation in a Series B Extension led by Meritech.

• Degree Analytics (campus spatial data) raised $5M in a round led by LiveOak Ventures.

• Doti AI (enterprise internal knowledge) raised $7M in a Seed round led by F2 Venture Capital.

• FileCloud (content collaboration and data governance) received a strategic growth investment from Level Structure Capital.

• Fundment (financial advisor tech) raised £45M in a round led by Highland Europe.

• Method (financial account connectivity) raised $42M in a Series B led by Emergence Capital.

• Optable (identity management and data collaboration) raised $20M in a Series A led by TELUS Global Ventures.

• Orennia (energy transition analytics) raised a Series C led by Decarbonization Partners.

• Precog (AI-powered ETL) received an investment from Venture Guides.

• Revenue Vessel (importer databased) raised a Pre-Seed round led by Saga Ventures and Teamworthy Ventures.

• Riley (data-driven product insights) raised $3M in a Seed round led by Vertex Ventures US.

• Sightline (market intelligence for climate transition) raised $5.5M in a Seed round led by The Westly Group and Molten Ventures.

• Tive (supply chain visibility) raised $40M in a Series C led by World Innovation Lab and Sageview Capital.

• Workera (skills intelligence) received an investment from Accenture.

• xNova International (market intelligence for exporting) raised €1M in a Seed round led by Abac Nest Ventures.

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People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Susan Aitkin was promoted to VP of Global Partnerships at TVEyes.

• Rachel Escott joined FIS as Head of Customer Success for Enterprise Data & AI.

• David Feldman joined Guidepoint as VP, Operations, Primary Research & Automation.

• Sameer Gupta joined Apollo Global Management as Chief Data and Analytics Officer.

• Alan Jacobson joined Flexor as a Strategic Advisor.

• Tony Jaros joined Darcy Partners as CEO.

• Sujit Kaza joined Slalom as Director, Data & Analytics.

• Darragh Keenan was promoted to Head of APAC Revenue, Capital Access Platforms at Nasdaq.

• Kieran Kennedy was promoted to Global Head, Data Cloud Product Partners at Snowflake.

• Brandon Prado joined Fundwave as Senior Sales Director, North America.

• Shahriar Rafimayeri joined GLG as Chief Information Officer.

• Mark Risis joined Omnicom Media Group as Managing Director.

• Justin Wexler was promoted to General Partner at WndrCo.

• Gerard Williams joined New York Life Insurance Company as Head of Analytics, Wealth Management Solutions.

• Jason Wu joined HSBC as Director, Head of AI and Data Science Asia, Markets & Securities Services.

• Vladimir Zhukov joined Point72 as Head of Technology - AI, ML, Data.

• Jonathan Zhukovsky joined Hillspire as CTO.

Who’s Hiring

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

• ALT Sports Data is hiring a Motorsports Program Director ($110K - $120K).

• Barclays is hiring a Head of Research Data Platform.

• InnovateMR is hiring a Director, Field Operations (Online Research).

• McKinsey & Company is hiring a Director, AI and Analytics ($237K - $286K).

• OpenAI is hiring a Product Partnerships, Head of B2B ($300K - $400K).

• The New York Mets are hiring a Director, Consumer Insights ($122K - $163K).

• Visa is hiring a Director, Data Partnerships ($194K - $282K).

*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

• Making Markets in Time: Silicon Valley and the Invention of Temporal Arbitrage by Abraham Thomas.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• IPEM PE & Wealth, January 28-30, Cannes

• FISD New York, February 6, NYC

• *Alternative Data Happy Hauer (see what I did there), February 11, NYC.

• Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, February 12, NYC

• Winter Data Conference, March 7, Zell am See, Austria

• IIEX North America, April 30 - May 1, Washington D.C.

• World of DaaS Summit, May 8, Washington D.C.

• KIMRA: Knowledge & Information Management, Research & Analysis, June 4, London

• Data Disrupt, June 4-5 2025, NYC

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