Thot Leadership

Okay, seriously. What is going on with content on LinkedIn lately? LinkedInfluencing has gotten out of control with telling others how to run their business. Even crazier is the post about the CEO who slept with the guy’s wife (you can google that one).

Since last post we’ve seen 1 free market map, 4 acquisitions, 4 funding rounds, 11 people moves & promotions, 1 article, 1 video podcast, 5 roles, 3 newly added events, and 5 memes (Themes: LinkedInfluencing, job applying, PE in the NFL. I never got around to making a good data-related Oasis Reunion meme - maybe closer to the event if it actually happens).

Market Map

So in trying to build some extra engagement, I created too much homework for myself with 100K+ impressions and currently at 1,020 comments for the market map. Last week I hit LinkedIn’s weekly connection limit and many 429 errors (too many requests) while sending the map link. So, here it is in PDF and PNG format! No more blurry copy.

2024 Market Map

M&A

• Blue Sky API acquired the assets of IEX Cloud (financial data platform).

• Carbon6 acquired Junglytics (Amazon seller analytics).

• Lightcast acquired Stratigens (talent intelligence).

• Swiftly acquired Hopthru (transit data).

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Fundraising

• Cribl (data engine for IT and security) raised $319M in a Series E led by GV (Google Ventures).

• pgEdge (distributed PostgreSQL)

• Space and Time (decentralized data warehouse) raised $20M in a Series A led by Framework Ventures, Lightspeed Faction, Arrington Capital, and Hivemind Capital

• Stork (open data market) raised $4.7M in a Seed round led by Lightspeed Faction and Lattice.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

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• Channing Ferrer was promoted to President at Brandwatch.

• Will Hall joined Diskover Data as CEO.

• Oliver Hunt joined Macrobond Financial as Director of Product.

• Davina Kent joined Newton Research as a Strategic Advisor.

• Nicole Königstein joined the Board of Directors of FinNex.

• Oliver McDonald was promoted to Head of Business Development, Americas at proSapient.

• Femi Opeodu joined Nasdaq as Head of EMEA Data.

• Mike Pelliccia joined Wells Fargo as CIO, Application & Cloud Transformation.

• Jason Roberts joined CME Group as Director, Data Sales.

• James Uzzalino was promoted to EVP, Financial Services at ETR.

• Manoj Yerrasani joined NBCUniversal as VP, Global Platform Engineering, Data & Personalization.

What I’m Reading

• GPT-4 is judged more human than humans in displaced and inverted Turing tests by Ishika Rathi, Sydney Taylor, Benjamin Bergen, and Cameron Jones at UC San Diego.

Okay, this one just made me laugh

What I’m Listening To

• Market Mavericks - Discussing B2B Surveys featuring Anne Hunter, Michael Collins, and Andrew Jones in discussion with Ankesh Saxena.

Who’s Hiring

• Addepar is hiring a Head of EMEA Performance Marketing.

• Bain Capital is hiring a Market Data Associate.

• BlueFlame AI is hiring for sales.

• Disney is hiring a Executive Director – Data & Analytics Operations (Disney Entertainment) ($253K - $339K)

• JPMorganChase is hiring a AI Strategy Director. ($180K - $200K).

*salaries only listed where provided by the company. See links for specific salary details.

Data Ideas

As we continue to build our data community, It’s Pronounced Data would like to help founders or soon-to-be founders of data businesses get their ideas off the ground. Submit your data business idea here and we will share with a curated group of data industry veterans to provide feedback and leverage our network of investors, advisors, operators, and data professionals.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• *Low-Key Data Happy Hour, September 4, NYC

• Cornell Financial Engineering - Future of Finance & AI Conference, September 13, NYC

• FISD World Financial Information Conference, September 15-18, Austin

• Boston Fintech Week, September 16-20, Boston

• Applied AI strategies for private markets: Boston happy hour, September 18, Boston.

• Big Data LDN, September 18-19, London

• Neudata San Francisco Data Summit, September 26, San Francisco

• *Bits & Pretzels Investor Summit, September 29 - October 1, Munich

• Open Source Data Summit, October 2, Virtual

• Eagle Alpha Data Week, October 7-11, NYC

• Eagle Alpha UNBOUND Alternative Data Conference, October 9, NYC

• Web Data Extract Summit, October 9-10, Austin

• Insight Innovation Exchange (IIEX) AI, October 15-16, Virtual

• BattleFin Corporate Discovery Day, October 15-16, Chicago

• StockTwits Stocktoberfest, October 20-22, Coronado, CA

• *Battle of the Quants, October 23, London

• Neudata Paris Data Day for Investors, October 30, Paris

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