The Sunday Edition

Author

Dan Entrup
February 16, 2025

ICYMI

We had some M&A in the market research space with ACKWEST Group acquiring data and sample supplier, Precision Sample, and OpinionRoute acquiring survey programming platform Jibunu.

$294.4M raised across 8 funding rounds. No theme as companies are focused on a number of data and information services related segments. In keeping with the market research theme in M&A, AI-powered customer insights company GetWhys raised $2.75M in a Seed round led by Next Frontier Capital.

A new record 27 people moves & promotions, in particular at expert-based research firms, with Alexander Abreu-Lese promoted to Director, Operational Excellence and Jeremy Wells promoted to Director, Head of Global Survey at Coleman Research, Jared Majerle joining NewtonX as Principal, Justin Stepnowski promoted to EVP II at Guidepoint, and Hannah Turenshine promoted to Product Manager at GLG.

17 interesting roles with an average salary of $217K including BlueFlame AI hiring a AI Product Strategist - Private Equity, Fin Capital hiring a Chief of Staff, and JPMorganChase hiring a Global Research Modernization - Business Intelligence - Executive Director.

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About Last Night (Week)

Great time at the NYC Alternative Data Happy Hauer organized by Jordan Hauer on Tuesday. This one had a big turnout and was great to finally meet some folks live for the first time, including Isaac Esseku and Josh Schrenker. Always great chatting newsletter strategy with Jason DeRise, author of The Data Score, and chatting restaurants with Phil DeFrancesco, whose wife just opened one of the country’s hottest new restaurants, Maize.

On Wednesday I flew out to San Diego for a few days (writing this from the plane home). It wasn’t a business trip but I got plenty of data industry discussion in by meeting Matt Ober at Malibu Farm and walking the Seaport. Matt is a fellow newsletter writer, as author of The Rollup, founder of Initial Data Offering (IDO), and a venture investor at Social Leverage, with current portfolio companies including Beehiiv, FinChat, Pricing Culture, and Ribbon.

The Week Ahead

No public events planned. Just some new client onboarding for AggKnowledge and will be knee deep cleaning up datasets.

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