When it comes to data

7 acquisitions, 11 fundraising rounds, 15 people moves & promotions, 5 articles, 8 roles, 4 new events, a podcast, a new album drop, and a special event announcement

M&A

• A—B acquired Avalanche Insights (qualitative research).

• Accenture acquired Strongbow Consulting (technology consulting).

• AngelList acquired Nova (financial infrastructure for private markets).

• Fastmarkets acquired Hardwood Market Report (lumber price reporting agency).

• Numerix acquired PolyPaths (fixed income analytics).

• OAG acquired Infare (air travel data).

• Premier International acquired Information Asset (data consulting).

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

• Abbey Labs (identity and access management) raised $5.25M in a Seed round led by Point72 Ventures.

• Akkio (generative analytics) raised $15M in a Series A.

• Axuall (workforce intelligence) raised a Series B-1 from First Cressey Ventures.

• CorralData (data unification and insights) raised a Seed round led by NY Angels, eonCapital, and Hilltop Ventures.

• Datasaur (data labeling) raised $4M in a Seed round led by Initialized Capital.

• DBtune (database optimization) raised €2.4M in a Seed round led by 42Cap.

• Lightup (data quality monitoring) raised $9M in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Newland Ventures.

• Local Logic (location intelligence) raised CAD$17.5M in a Series B led by Groundbreak Ventures and Investissement Québec.

• Polars (dataframe library) $4m in a Seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures.

• SnoFox (cold chain analytics) raised $4.5M in a Seed round led by Voyager Ventures.

• Stackless Data (data infrastructure and products solution) raised a Seed round led by Singularity Capital.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Dhruv Anand was promoted to VP, Director of Business Agility at FactSet.

• Joseph Aube was promoted to US Deputy Head of Data Strategy at Brevan Howard.

• Michael Axelrod joined Consumer Edge as VP, Head of Customer Success.

• Tony Brown was appointed Senior Advisor to Zelig.

• Jeremy Bruck joined Gulp Data as Managing Partner, Data Valuation & Monetization.

• Adam Cardarelli joined Automated Data Inc as Chief Product Officer.

• Luis Castellanos joined Lightkeeper as MD, Head of Sales.

• Joshua Coon was promoted to SVP, Machine Learning Research at iCapital.

• Adolfo Hernandez was appointed CEO Designate at Capita.

• Howard Luks joined LiveRamp as VP of Vertical Development, Retail & CPG.

• Emily Man joined Primary Venture Partners as a Partner.

• Hiro Mizuno was appointed Special Advisor to the CEO at MSCI.

• Mark Paradis was promoted to Director of Data Operations at NBCUniversal.

• Robert Schumaker joined BridgeWise as Head of North America.

• Zeke Sexauer joined pulsESG as Head of Marketing.

What I’m reading

• Inside the ESG software arms race by Simon Mundy, Patrick Temple-West, and Kaori Yoshida in the Financial Times.

• 8 things you should know about next-gen quant by Mike Chen at Robeco.

• Think your firm is data-driven? Think again! Addressing knowledge loss in your organization by Nomad Data.

• 2023 Financial Services Industry Predictions by Deloitte.

• Human Capitalist a new Substack from LiveData.

What I’m Listening To

• The Unicorn Whisperer: The Man Who Turned Startup Investing Into A Science featuring Professor Ilya Strebulaev on the Boardroom Banter podcast.

• July 1999 a new album by my old colleague, Rico Fabello.

Who’s Hiring

• Capital One is hiring a Senior Director of Card Core Data Products.

• FactSet is hiring a Senior Director, Head of Real Time Solutions.

• Fitch is hiring a Managing Director, Head of Data for Fitch Ratings.

• Foresight Data is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer.

• Intapp DealCloud is hiring a Industry Principal, Private Equity.

• Nasdaq is hiring a Global Head of Investor Distribution & Advisor Platforms, Nasdaq Indexes and a Head of Corporate Strategy.

• Reorg is hiring a Director of AI Product and Research.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• Disney Data & Analytics Conference, August 14-16, Orlando

• *Denver Data Dudes & Dudettes - Low-Key Meetup, August 15, Denver

• Low-Key Data Happy Hour, August 16, NYC

• *DataEngBytes, Multiple August Dates, Australia

• New York Venture Summit, September 6-7, NYC

• FISD London at Google, September 19, London

• Big Data LDN - September 20-21, London

• BattleFin Discovery Day London - September 26-27, London

• Neudata San Francisco Data Summit - September 28, San Francisco

• FISD New York at Societe Generale, September 28, NYC

• FinTech Sanbox's Boston FinTech Week, October 10-13, Boston

• *BattleFin Corporate Discovery Day, November 2, NYC.

• *Benzinga Fintech Deal Day & Awards, November 13, NYC

Special Event Announcement

My friends at BattleFin are hosting a Corporate Discovery Day, an event where corporations find data that empowers smarter business decisions, enhanced marketing strategies, optimized resource allocation, and tightened supply chain operations. The event will be held on November 2nd, 2023 in NYC. There will also be a pre-event webinar, How to Use Corporate Data, on October 4th, 2023. For more information, the full agenda, and to register, check out the link.

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