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Since last post we’ve seen 5 acquisitions, 16 funding rounds, 10 people moves & promotions, 3 articles, 2 podcasts (shout-out Elliott Management), 14 roles, 2 newly added upcoming events (PDL HH), and 5 memes.
My Gift To You
Check out the It’s Pronounced Data Job Board for a table of the jobs from each week’s newsletter and the status of each posting.
M&A
Apex Fintech Solutions acquired FinTron (digital investment solutions).
Cyera acquired Trail Security (data loss prevention).
EarthDaily acquired Descartes Labs (earth observation & remote sensing data).
Nuqleous acquired SpringBoard (retail analytics and data management).
*Deals are announced but may not be closed.
Fundraising
ApertureData (database for managing multimodal datasets) raised $8.25M in a Seed round led by TQ Ventures.
Automated Data Inc. received an investment from Tenity.
Cambri (AI consumer insights platform) raised €8M in a round led by Octopus Ventures and S4S Ventures.
Deck (utility data API) raised $4.5M in a Seed round led by Golden Ventures and Better Tomorrow Ventures.
Gladia (AI transcription and audio intelligence) raised $16M in a Series A led by XAnge.
Ikerian (medical data & AI) raised $8M in a Series B led by Sanoptis.
MDisrupt (healthcare expert matching) raised $1M in a round led by American Heart Association Ventures.
Mindtech (synthetic AI training data) raised £4M in a round led by Edge Investments.
MyFO (family office platform) raised $3.5M in a Seed round led by Rhino Ventures.
Neuron7 (service resolution intelligence) raised $44M in a Series B led by Smith Point Capital.
Opacity Labs (zero-knowledge proof data verification) raised $12M in a Seed round led by Archetype and Breyer Capital.
Options Technology (capital markets infrastructure) received an investment from Vitruvian Partners.
OroraTech (wildfire intelligence) raised €25M in a Series B led by Korys, European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, and Bayern Kapital.
Signify Research (healthtech market intelligence) raised £6M in a round led by BGF.
Strella (AI-powered customer research) raised $4M in a Seed round led by Decibel.
Tako (AI search & visualization for knowledge) raised $5.75M in a Seed round led by A* and Abstract Ventures.
People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments
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Matthew Anderson was promoted to Lead Director, Clinical Social Data Intelligence at CVS Health.
A.J. Cioffi joined EssenceMediacom as Associate Director, Data Strategy.
Paul Everett joined Bain & Company as VP, Global Research and Data Services.
Satish Grandhi joined HG Insights as CTO.
Vineet Jobanputra was promoted to Head of Product at Singletrack.
Harry Martin joined Nexus Network as Managing Director.
Prat Moghe joined Promethium as CEO.
Eric Nolette joined Walleye Capital as Director, Investments Data Science and Data Strategy.
Om Pal joined ICIS as Market Strategy Director, Europe.
Sarah Smith joined BattleFin as SVP, Business Development & Sales.
What I’m Reading
Should You Be Nice to Your Chatbot? by Preetika Rana in The Wall Street Journal.
Buy vs. Build – Learnings from 730+ Investment Firms by Prosights. (H/T Alex Izydorczyk for sharing).
Cringey LinkedIn Posts Are Getting Dragged on Fast-Growing Subreddit by Alicia Tang in Bloomberg. (H/T Matt Townsend for sharing).
What I’m Listening To
Category Visionaries episode featuring Mike Conover, Founder & CEO of Brightwave, in conversation with Brett Stapper.
Elliott Management's Strong Southwest Podcast, a new activism strategy!
Who’s Hiring
Check out the It’s Pronounced Data Job Board for a table of the jobs from each week’s newsletter and the status of each posting.
Abbott is hiring a Senior Manager, Global Market Research ($144K - $288K).
Apollo Intelligence is hiring a Global Head of Product ($185K - $275K).
Bloom AI is hiring a VP of Sales.
Bloomberg is hiring for a leadership position in Data Company Financials. Contact Alberto López Rueda for details.
Daloopa is hiring a Senior Manager, Business Operations & Analytics ($180K - $200K).
ETR is hiring a Research Coordinator / Project Manager.
Grata is hiring a Director of Data Operations ($130K - $150K).
Harvey is hiring a Partnerships Business Development Manager ($200K - $260K).
Intro is hiring a Head of Growth Marketing.
Lego is hiring a Head of Analytics & Insights, Americas ($169K - $253K).
OpenAI is hiring a Revenue Operations Leader ($325K).
Providence Equity Partners is hiring a VP, Portfolio Operations.
Ridgeline is hiring for 27 roles.
With Intelligence is hiring a Data Strategy Lead.
*salaries only listed where provided by the company. See links for specific salary details.
Upcoming Events
*new events added since last newsletter
StockTwits Stocktoberfest, October 20-22, Coronado, CA
Product Analytics Leaders Meetup, October 22, NYC
Battle of the Quants, October 23, London
NYSE Wired AI Lunch (ft. Arcee.ai), October 24, NYC
Beryl Elites Alternative Investments & Data Revolution, October 28-29, NYC
*People Data Labs Q4 Haunted Happy Hour, October 29, NYC
*Alternative Data Happy Hour, October 30, NYC
Neudata Paris Data Day for Investors, October 30, Paris
Substantive Research Unbundling Uncovered, November 6, London
AI4F Workshop on LLMs and Generative AI for Finance, November 14, NYC
Data Disrupt, June 4-5 2025, NYC
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