The people are movin'

^Matt Turck on fire with the candor lately.

M&A

• FNZ acquired YieldX.

• KKR acquired S&P Global’s Engineering Solutions Unit.

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

• Alveo (data-as-a-service) received a majority investment from Symphony Technology Group.

• MarketReader (financial market analytics) raised $3.1M in a Seed round from angel investors.

• Fable Data (consumer spend) raised an investment from Octopus Ventures.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Duane Bray joined Groopit as Chief Product Officer.

• Chrissy Brogan joined Glow as US Market Development Director.

• Jenny Chen joined BMLL as Head of Sales, Americas.

• Betsy Daitch joined Canoe as VP of Marketing.

• Natalie DiTomasso joined YipitData as Chief of Staff.

• Channing Ferrer joined Semrush as Chief Sales Officer.

• David Hill joined Aiera as a Strategic Advisor.

• Dave Kasouf joined SVP Private as Head of Capital Markets.

• Nazed Mannan joined BMLL as Senior Product Manager.

• Matt Nagle joined Datos as SVP, Sales & Business Development.

• Kerry Pearce joined Placer.ai as VP, GTM, New Product Launches.

• Rob Ranges joined Colmore as SVP, Head of Americas Sales.

• Vikas Shah joined 7RIDGE as Managing Director.

• Michael Wu joined Maiden Century as VP, Client Success.

Who’s Hiring

• Abbott is hiring a Director of Product Management, Partnerships, Data & Cloud.

• Walmart is hiring Manager, Strategy and Business Development - Walmart Data Ventures. Reports to my friend Jeremy Baksht!

• Vertical Knowledge is hiring a Graph Data Scientist/Ontology Specialist.

What I’m Reading

• The mirage of dry powder by Anna Heim at TechCrunch (paywall).

• Vinoo Ganesh’s new Substack, Efficiently.

• Lucas Smith’s new Substack, Summate.

What I’m Listening To

• Live presentations at the Eagle Alpha NYC and BattleFin Miami conferences this week and next!

Data buyers and sellers leading up to BattleFin next week…