The SVB won't let me be

M&A

• Bloomberg acquired Broadway Technology (execution management).

• BWG Strategy acquired OTR Global (investment research).

• Silver Lake and CPP Investments announced a deal to acquired Qualtrics (surveys & experience management) for $12.5B.

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

• Adept (AI workflows) raised $350M in a Series B led by General Catalyst and Spark Capital.

• Gener8 (data control & monetization) raised £5.1M in a round led by Chris Gayle, Simon Clegg, Shane Ryan, and Tony Ryan.

• Grip Security (security) received an investment from The Syndicate Group.

• Masttro (wealth-tech) raised $43M in a Growth Equity round led by FTV Capital.

• Monitaur (AI governance) raised $4.6M in a round led by Cultivation Capital.

• Monnai (consumer insights infrastructure) raised $6.5M in a Series A led by Tiger Global.

• Pitchly (data enablement & content generation) raised $7M in a Series A led by Homegrown Capital.

• Securiti (unified data controls) announced investment from Capital One Ventures and Citi Ventures.

• Vermiculus Financial Technology (trading microservices) raised $5.5M from L4 Venture Builder.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Christopher Behnke joined DeepBench as COO.

• Goulven Charlès was promoted to CIB Chief Data Officer at BNP Paribas.

• Andrew Cinquina joined Point72 as Head of Compliance Technology.

• Aarti Desai joined NewtonX as RVP, Financial Services.

• Irene Fusco was promoted to Global Head of Strategic Partners at Rimes Technologies.

• Virginia Gambale joined the Board of Directors of Consumer Edge.

• Brendan Hearn launched No Fret Data.

• Gabriella Lehrer was promoted to Principal Sales Manager, Investor Vertical at Similarweb.

• Lydia Monnington joined Stuart as Head of Analytics.

• Karen Moran joined Crux as CFO.

• Dan Nkemontoh joined Coalesce.io as Sales Director.

• Todd Schmucker joined Walleye Capital as Director of Data Strategy.

• David Sensenich joined Cognaize as SVP, Global Head of Sales.

• Molly Simpson joined Psyma as VP, Strategy & Insights.

• Mackenzie Worley joined Business Talent Group as Senior Director, Client Development.

Who’s Hiring

• AbbVie (pharma) is hiring a Director, RWE Data Strategy.

• Baker Tilly (accounting & advisory) is hiring a Director of Data Monetization and Governance.

• Choreograph (advertising & marketing) is hiring a VP, Data Strategy.

• KBRA (ratings agency) is hiring a Global Head of Data and Research, KBRA Analytics.

• Lord Abbett (investment management) is hiring a Global Head of Investment Platforms.

• Penske Truck Leasing (transportation & logistics) is hiring a Director, Connected Data.

• Scholastic (publishing) is hiring a Director, Strategic Data Projects.

• Schonfeld (investment management) is hiring a Head of Business Analytics.

What I’m Reading

• Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI by Reid Hoffman with GPT-4

• The Failure of SVB Financial by Sean Ryan at FactSet.

• Founder Q&A: Finding Problem-Solution Fit for Data Products with Brad Schneider at Nomad Data and Anthony Cosgrove at Harbr.

• Predictive Analytics Could Be The Future, But We Must Solve The Data Problem First by Mohit Lad at Cisco ThousandEyes in VentureBeat.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Gartner Data & Analytics Summit - March 20-22, Orlando

• Portable Low-Key Data Conference - March 22, Virtual

• Neudata London Data Summit - March 30, London

• Alternative Data Happy Hour - March 30, NYC

• *A-Team Insight - Data Management Summit London - March 30, London

• Corinium CDAO Spring - April 25-26, San Francisco

• FIMA US Financial Data Innovation - April 25-26, Boston

• The Knowledge Graph Conference - May 8-12, NYC

• WatersTechnology North American Financial Information Summit - May 16, NYC

• Spatial Data Science Conference - May 17-18, London

• BattleFin Discovery Day New York - May 17-18, NYC

• Neudata New York Summer Data Summit - June 1, NYC

• Eagle Alpha UNBOUND New York - June 6, NYC

• Substantive Research Unbundling Uncovered - June 14, NYC

• FinTech Connect North America - June 27, NYC

SVB Meme Drop

Thank you Brendan Gay for helping with the curation.