The twenty-one balloons

M&A

• Energy Aspects acquired OilX (energy analysis).

• Fastmarkets acquired Palm Oil Analytics (palm oil data)

• Leeds Equity Partners acquired TalentNeuron (human capital analytics) from Gartner.

• LexisNexis acquired Cipher (patent intelligence).

• Snowflake acquired LeapYear (differential privacy).

• The Riverside Company acquired EnAppSys (energy analysis) as an add-on to Montel AS.

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

• Acceldata (data observability) raised $50M in a Series C led by March Capital.

• Anthropic (AI safety) raised $300M from Google.

• Blockfenders (data sharing) raised $1.5M in a Pre-Seed round from VC firms and angel investors.

• Canoe (alternative investment data) raised $25M in a Series B led by F-Prime Capital.

• Fierce (personal finance app) raised $10M in a Seed round from a group of angel investors and investors, including Pendrell, AP Capital, Wheelhouse Digital Studios and Space Whale Capital.

• InfluxData (time series platform) raised $81M in a Series E led by Princeville Capital and Citi Ventures + debt provided by Silicon Valley Bank.

• Onehouse (data lakehouse) raised $25M in a Series A led by Addition and Greylock.

• Samooha (data clean rooms) raised $12.5M in a round from Altimeter Capital, Snowflake Ventures, and angel investors.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

Did someone say “tracking people moves”?!?!

• Paul Bodnar is joining the Bezos Earth Fund.

• Samantha Campbell joined CKDelta as Global Head of Data Monetisation & Management.

• Moshe Dayan joined North Rock Capital Management as Head of Data Strategy.

• Will Dean joined Citadel as Data Strategy, Global Quantitative Strategies.

• Jimmy Dembinski was promoted to Director, Product Management at BlackRock.

• Albert Eskenazi joined Goldman Sachs as Managing Director.

• David Kremski joined Henry Schein as Executive Director, Data Product.

• George Kursar joined Paragon Intel as Sales Director.

• Stephanie MacBurnie joined ETR as VP of Sales & Services, Enterprise.

• Iris Malone joined GeoQuant as Political Scientist.

• William Mellor was promoted to Head of Research, Americas Public Markets at GLG.

• Euan Menzies joined Singletrack as CFO.

• Dean Murphy was promoted to Commercial Director, Data Provider Products at Neudata.

• Tsveta Petrova joined GeoQuant as Political Scientist.

• Vera Shulgina joined Arcesium as VP, Data Strategy Lead.

• Joe Surgan joined Datos as VP of Commercial Sales.

• Timothi Trombetta was promoted to Head of Data & Business Development at Nasdaq.

• Shek Viswanathan joined Apollo.io as Chief Product Officer.

• Patricia Warrick joined Parameta Solutions as Head of Client Success.

Okay, that’ll be the last of the balloon memes. Had to get them all in by the end of the news cycle.

Who’s Hiring

• Accenture (consulting) is hiring a Responsible AI Governance Strategy Consulting Senior Manager.

• American Century Investments (asset management) is hiring a Director, Data Technologies.

• BlackRock (asset management) is hiring a Chief of Staff, COO Team.

• BlackRock (asset management) is hiring a Director, Data Operations.

• Blackstone (asset management) is hiring a Product Owner, Investor Portal.

• J.P. Morgan (financial services) is hiring a Executive Director, Head of Financial Data & AI Analytics & Transformation.

• Reorg (credit intelligence) is hiring a Head of New Business, US.

• Seeds (wealth tech) is hiring a Head of Customer Success.

• Warner Bros. Discovery (media) is hiring a Senior Data & AI Product Manager.

What I’m Reading

• Americans Don’t Understand What Companies Can Do With Their Personal Data — and That’s a Problem by Hailey Reissman at UPenn. The article highlights a report, Americans Can’t Consent to Companies’ Use of Their Data with research led by Joseph Turow, Professor of Media Systems & Industries at UPenn. Thanks Jesse Redniss for the share.

• Big Data is Dead by Jordan Tigani at MotherDuck.

• My 2023 Predictions for Chief Data Officers by Sunny Bedi at Snowflake.

What I’m Listening To

• Infutor’s The Marketing Rapport episode Protecting the Email Inbox with Keith Petri, CEO & Founder of lockr.

Here’s one for the VCs…