Very Demure

Since last post we’ve seen 3 acquisitions, 8 fundraising rounds, 15 people moves & promotions, 3 articles, 1 podcast, 1 legal & regulatory matter, 4 roles, and 6 newly added events.

Market Map Monday

Stay tuned later today on LinkedIn.

M&A

• Experian acquired NeuroID (behavioral analytics).

• Prytek acquired a majority stake in TipRanks (investment research) for $200M.

• Stellex Capital and Communify acquired Fincentric (financial digital solutions) from S&P Global.

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Fundraising

• Boosted.ai (investment management AI) received a $10M growth investment from CIBC Innovation Banking.

• Consensus (AI-powered scientific search engine) raised $11.5M in a Series A led by Union Square Ventures.

• Definity (data application observability) raised $4.5M in a Seed round led by StageOne Ventures.

• Denominator (human capital and ESG data) raised a round led by Scale Capital.

• Encord (data development platform) raised $30M in a Series B led by Next47.

• Kiteworks (secure data sharing) received a $456M growth equity investment from Insight Partners and Sixth Street Growth.

• Lukka (crypto data) received an investment from Animoca Capital.

• Setpoint (debt facility management) raised $31M in a Series B led by 645 Ventures.

There’s A Data Provider For That

Given we’re entering back to school season, check out Niche. Niche provides in-depth profiles on every school and college in America, over 140 million reviews and ratings, and powerful search and data tools, Niche helps millions of students and families find and enroll in the right school for them. Niche incorporates data from over 25 data sources and surveys.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

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• Orna Albus joined Guidepoint as Head of External Platforms.

• Jörg Ambrosius was promoted to President of Investment Services at State Street.

• Jason Beyer joined Fortive as Chief Data Officer.

• Kipp Bodnar joined the Board of Directors of Similarweb.

• Chris Bonsi joined Guidepoint as Head of North Asia.

• Paul Devereaux joined BCA Research as Chief Revenue Officer.

• Sam Freedman joined A.Team as Head of Partnerships.

• David Haberman joined Golub Capital as VP, Business Technology & Analytics.

• Michael Kutsch joined Emporia Research as VP of Customer Solutions.

• Philip Lee joined LSEG as Head of Customer Success, APAC.

• Pierce Lord joined ICE as Senior Director, ICE Bond Pricing Product.

• Dom Maida joined the Board of Directors of ZoomInfo.

• Kiran Mander joined BCA Research as Head of Marketing.

• Pratik Patel joined Dataplor as Head of Business Operations & Chief of Staff.

• Justin Welling was promoted to Head of Global Sales, Visible Alpha at S&P Global.

What I’m Reading

• The Expert Economy by Gaelen Hendrickson, Avi Gandhi, and Ishan Sinha at Point72 Ventures.

• 'These are not normal;' A new type of dealmaking for AI startups is rattling Silicon Valley by Ben Bergman and Sri Muppidi in Business Insider.

• Hedge Funds Battle to Turn ChatGPT from Intern to Analyst by Justina Lee in Bloomberg.

What I’m Listening To

• The Alternative Data Podcast episode featuring Brian Peltonen.

Legal, Regulatory & Compliance

• Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Sues Gen­er­al Motors for Unlaw­ful­ly Col­lect­ing Dri­vers’ Pri­vate Data and Sell­ing It To Sev­er­al Com­pa­nies, Includ­ing Insur­ance Companies.

*Nothing in this section should be construed as an opinion of the author. This is just to highlight news and articles related to data privacy, legal, regulatory, and compliance matters.

Who’s Hiring

• Aidentified is hiring a VP, Product Manager - Data as a Service (DaaS).

• Deloitte is hiring a Research Manager, Health Care, Center for Health Solutions ($124K - $255K).

• Flex Capital is hiring a Principal.

• S&P Global is hiring a Head of Business Management, Corporate Platforms ($131K - $190K).

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

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• *Enterprise Data Privacy in AI, August 22, Virtual

• *The future of B2B research starts with the death of panels, August 22, Virtual

• *PE Happy Hour, August 20, NYC

• *VC & PE Happy Hour, August 28, NYC

• *World of DaaS in DC, August 29, Washington D.C.

• *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

• Big Data LDN, September 18-19, London

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

• 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

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

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

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

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