Vision Amateur

Since last post we’ve seen 2 acquisitions, 1 BFD, 6 fundraising rounds, 9 people moves & promotions, 10 roles, 3 articles, and 2 newly added events.

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M&A

• Duco acquired Metamaze (intelligent document processing).

• Luminate acquired Quansic (music artist identification data platform).

The BFD

Financial Times: ‘Meme-lord’ Litquidity reveals his true identity

The story behind the reveal might be wilder than the reveal itself. Give Lit a follow on Insta for the full details.

*If you don’t know, May 28, 2016

Fundraising

• Adroit Trading Technologies (O/EMS solutions) raised $15M in a Series A led by Centana Growth Partners.

• ALT Sports Data (sports data & analytics) raised $2.5M in a Seed round led by Eberg Capital and Relay Ventures.

• Bettormetrics (sports trading analytics) raised a Series A from Bettor Capital and Velo Partners.

• Bonfire Analytics (healthcare sales intelligence) raised $2M in a venture round.

• Juristat (patent analytics) received an investment from MBM Capital.

• Synthetaic (image data detection and classification) raised $15M in a Series B led by Lupa Systems and TitletownTech.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Jacob Deppe was promoted to Director of Account Management at Harbr.

• Daniel Donovan joined AlphaSense as VP, Consulting & Professional Services.

• Alan Elworthy joined CFRA Research as Global Head of Sales.

• Matthew Greninger joined NeoXam as Managing Director, Americas.

• Lewis Hamilton joined Scuderia Ferrari as Driver.

• Howard Lindzon is back as CEO of Stocktwits.

• Harrison Perl was promoted to Director, Alternative Data Strategies at Exabel.

• Keegan Riley joined Snowflake as VP of Sales.

• Barbara Stevens joined Babel Street as an Advisor.

Who’s Hiring

• Russell Scibetti provided a round-up of sports analytics roles here.

• AlphaSense is hiring a Director, Corporate Sales (TMT) ($190K-$210K).

• Atheneum is hiring a Regional Head of Commercial, Life Sciences - Americas ($150K).

• Dataplor is hiring a Senior Data Engineer and a Senior Data Application Engineer.

• Guardian Life is hiring a Insights Lead ($114K-$187K).

• HSBC is hiring a Group Head of AI Execution and Group Head of AI Research & Development.

• Placer.ai is hiring a Account Director - Finance ($125K-$175K).

• Point72 is hiring a Data Scientist, Proprietary Research ($125K-$150K).

• Stripe is hiring a AMER Head of Startup & Investor Partnerships ($237K-$356K).

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

What I’m Reading

• Managing Data as an Asset by Virginia Collins and Joel Lanz in CPA Journal.

• “I’m not just a VC I’m a founder too…” by Mark Beeston reflecting on 10 years since founding Illuminate Financial.

• Why Credit Card Data Still Makes Money by Alex Izydorczyk.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• From Data to Dealmaking, February 8, Virtual

• *Corinium CDAO Financial Services, February 13-14, NYC

• *VC & PE Happy Hour, February 20, NYC

• IFRS Sustainability Symposium, February 22, NYC

• Neudata Data Day for Investors, February 29, Boston

• Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, March 11–13, Orlando

• BattleFin Discovery Day, March 20-21, Singapore

• Skiers in Data (SKID) by LEIT Data, March 24, Verbier Switzerland

• Data Council No Bullsh*t Data Conference, March 26-28, Austin

• New York FinTech Week, April 8-12, NYC

• Data Universe, April 10-11, NYC

• Insight Innovation Exchange (IIEX), April 17-18, Austin

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