Wrapped

Since last post we’ve seen 11 acquisitions, 12 funding rounds ($91.8M raised), 18 people moves & promotions, 14 roles ($202K average salary), 4 articles, 1 legal matter, 3 newly added upcoming events, and 5 memes.

M&A

Adding in press release links now

• Capitolis acquired Capitalab (rates portfolio compression & margin optimization) from BGC. PR.

• Castine acquired ResearchPool (research management). PR.

• Cloudera acquired Octopai (data lineage and catalog platform). PR.

• Experian acquired Audigent (data activation and identity platform). PR.

• HubSpot acquired Frame AI (unstructured data insights). PR.

• Interpublic acquired Intelligence Node (eCommerce intelligence). PR.

• Luxurynsight acquired Heuritech (AI-powered trend forecasting). PR.

• Norstat acquired PFM Research (data collection). PR.

• Nuqleous acquired Interactive Edge (retail insights and reporting automation). PR.

• Uniphore acquired ActionIQ (AI customer data platform) and Infoworks (data migration and data operations automation). PR.

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Funding

• Aerospike (real-time database) raised $30M in growth financing from CIBC Innovation Banking.

• Bounce Insights (AI-powered market research) raised $4.5M in a round led by ACT Venture Capital.

• Care IO (healthcare data governance and interoperability) raised a Seed round led by Jaswinder Chadha and Satvinder Singh.

• Datapad (AI data assistant) raised $500K in a round led by Pitchdrive.

• Ethyca (data privacy) raised $10M in a round led by Aspenwood Ventures and AVP.

• Maybern (private fund finance and accounting) raised a Series A led by Primary Ventures.

• Merative (healthcare analytics for employers and payers) raised $25M from Morgan Health.

• Pixeltable (open-source AI data infrastructure) raised $5.5M in a Seed round led by The General Partnership.

• Sightglass (AI-powered investor relations platform) raised $3M in a Seed round led by Base10 Partners.

• Spexi (earth observation and geospatial data) raised $11.5M in a Series A led by Blockchange Ventures.

• StrategyBridgeAI (data-driven business analysis) raised a Pre-Seed round led by D11Z.

• Synthera.ai (synthetic financial market data) raised €1.7M in a Pre-Seed round led by Motive Ventures.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Elina Baygildina joined GLG as Global Senior Director.

• Jim Butler joined Bombora as CTO.

• Theresa Condor was promoted to CEO at Spire.

• Evan Dorfman joined Eastern Bank as AVP, Data Analytics.

• Andrew Graham was appointed Chair of Techspert.

• Sonia Greenberg was promoted to Director of Product Management, Tick History Solutions at FactSet.

• Matthew Greninger was promoted to MD, Americas and Global Head of Reconciliation Sales at NeoXam.

• Chris Kolb joined Third Bridge as VP, Sales.

• Jonathan Levin was promoted to CEO at Chainalysis.

• Andy MacMillan joined Alteryx as CEO.

• Christopher Mcloughlin joined FactSet as EVP, Chief Legal Officer.

• Maria Teresa Meyer joined Bridgewise as GM, Latin America.

• Makay Redd joined Oxford Data Plan as Director of Account Management.

• Victoria Sakal joined Ipsos as Chief of Staff.

• Mike Shimerda joined ASX as GM, Tech & Data Strategy.

• Martynas Simanauskas joined TAMTAM as Global Director of Data Partnerships.

• Bharathy Sripadham joined Chime as VP of Data Engineering.

• Guan Wang joined Airtable as VP of Data.