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May 24, 2024

Since last post we’ve seen 1 acquisition, 13 fundraising rounds, 17 people moves & promotions, 5 roles, 3 articles, and 1 podcast.

Alicorn Venture Partners acquired Glassbox (customer intelligence) for $150M in a take-private deal.

Artemis (data preparation) raised $1.5M in a Pre-Seed round led by Raven Indigenous Capital Partners.
Atropos Health (clinical data) raised $33M in a Series B led by Valtruis.
Coactive (image and video data) raised $30M at a $200M valuation in a Series B led by Emerson Collective and Cherryrock Capital.
Easy Metrics (labor analytics) received a $31M investment from Nexa Equity.
Hydrolix (streaming data lake) raised $35M in a Series B led by S3 Ventures.
Ketos (water intelligence) raised $10M in a round led by Tenfore Holdings.
Novata (ESG data) raised a round from Hamilton Lane, S&P Global, and Motive Ventures.
Omni (business intelligence platform) received an investment from Snowflake Ventures.
RootNote (creator and athlete data) raised $1.5M in a Pre-Seed round led by Elevate Ventures.
Scale (data labeling) raised $1B at a $13.8B valuation in a Series F led by Accel.
Velotix (data security) received an investment from Barclays and Capri Ventures.
WeatherXM (weather data collection) raised $7.7M in a Series A led by Lightspeed Faction.
XponentL Data (data products and AI consulting) received a strategic investment from Databricks Ventures

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Dan Alpert joined PeerDB as Head of Sales.
Joanna Burton joined Lockr as an Advisor.
Ian Cook joined Sixfold as Head of AI.
Rob Diefendorf was promoted to President & COO at PitchBook.
Ken Fine joined Affinity.co as CEO.
Clément Le Bon joined Deephaven Data Labs as VP of Sales.
Kendall Lovett joined DataGrail as Director of Product Marketing.
Matt Lowerre joined DataForce as Director of Business Development, AI.
Julie Martin joined Haptiq as Senior Product Manager.
Maribeth Martorana joined Spatial Risk Systems as a Strategic Advisor.
Christopher McSpiritt joined Domino Data Lab as VP, Life Sciences Strategy.
Sonali Mishra joined Neeman Global Capital as Chief Knowledge Officer.
Ali-Milan Nekmouche was promoted to Head of AI & Machine Learning at Two Sigma Investments.
Tony Peck joined Bigeye as VP of Customer Success.
Claudia López Pedreño was promoted to MD & COO at Atheneum.
Matt Rafalski joined Velox as Head of Sales, North America.
Partha Sengupta joined Nielsen as Managing Director and India Global Capability Centers Leader.

Bissell is hiring a Director, Data Strategy & Analytics.
Blackstone is hiring a Lead Data Engineer, SVP - Cloud & Platforms Engineering ($225K - $275K).
Green Street is hiring a Director, Data Acquisition and Partnerships ($160K - $175K).
JPMorgan Chase is hiring a Market Data Strategy, VP ($112K - $170K).
Velir is hiring a Senior Account Director, Financial Services ($115K - $130K).

World of DaaS Podcast episode featuring Anand Sanwal of CB Insights in discussion with Auren Hoffman.

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