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April 20, 2023

Datadog acquired Codiga (static code analysis).
S&P Global Market Intelligence acquired SCRIPTS Asia’s (investor event coverage) APAC (ex Japan) database.

Arcadia (healthcare analytics platform) raised $125M in financing from Vista Credit Partners.
BlueMark (impact verification) raised $10M in a Series A led by S&P Global.
Built Technologies (real estate software) received a strategic investment from Citi.
ClimateAi (climate tech) raised $22M in a Series B led by Four Rivers Group.
Ditto (data sync) raised $45M in a Series A led by Acrew Capital.
Fiddler (model performance management) received a strategic investment from Alteryx Ventures.
Lockr (consumer data privacy tools) raised $2.5M in a Pre-Seed Round from Mozilla Ventures and a group of angel investors.
Martini.ai (corporate credit ratings) raised $6M in a Seed round led by Neotribe.
Next Gate Tech (financial data management) raised €8M in a round led by Deutsche Börse Group’s DB1 Ventures.
Rupert (analytics distribution) raised $8M in a Seed round led by Cortical Ventures and IA Ventures.
Tradier (online brokerage) raised $24.6M in a Series B led by PEAK6 Strategic Capital.
Vivid Machines (real-time crop data) raised $4.3M in a Seed round led by BDC Capital Thrive Venture Fund.

Mario Bonilla joined J.P. Morgan as Applied AI and ML Product Manager Lead.
Nina Gerson joined Coatue as Vice President.
Maja Grubic joined Bobsled as Principal Software Engineer.
Jodie Gunzberg joined Cboe Global Markets as Head of Strategic Partnerships.
Mackenzie Hargrave was promoted to Director, ESG Product Solutions at FactSet.
Nakul Kapoor was promoted to Head of Ratings Products at Fitch Solutions.
Jade Lai joined Coatue as Partner.
Jared Pinsky joined Accordion as Senior Director, Corporate Development.
David Schoenberger joined Tractiv as Chief Revenue Officer.
Max Schoenfelder joined SimilarWeb as Senior Enterprise Sales Manager, Investors.
Satvinder Singh joined LSEG as Group Head, Data & Analytics.
Sam Slevin was promoted to Global SVP of Customer Success at AlphaSense.

Harbourvest (private equity) is hiring for a Director, Data Owner, HarbourVest Entities.
Revantage, a Blackstone Company (real estate services) is hiring a VP, ESG Enterprise Data Strategy and Management
Snap (social platform) is hiring a Head of Partnerships Tech & Analytics.
Western Digital (computer hardware) is hiring a Head of Economics and Data Science.

This post from Nawar Alsaadi on LinkedIn. We need more posts like this across different sectors!
Data News - April by Louise de Leyritz at Castor, covering a data tool, industry news, articles, and a data person to follow (thanks Louise!). Most importantly though, she is a data memelord :)
Turning Point: The New Technologies Helping Hedge Funds Evolve by Hedgeweek.
How Do You Approach New Data by Alex Schwartz at FirstParty in Rebellion Research.

I See Data People continues to rapidly release content. Check out this week’s episodes featuring James Kardatzke of Quiver Quantitative and Yedidya Gorsetman of Revelio Labs.
CNBC Squawk Pod featuring Alex Karp of Palantir and Andy Jassy of Amazon.

Results from last week’s LinkedIn poll (n=69)