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Nov 12, 2024

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Since last post we’ve seen 6 acquisitions, 13 funding rounds, 20 people moves & promotions, 29 roles (12 buyside), 1 new company, 3 newly added upcoming events, and 5 memes.

Looking for a new job? 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. There are 94 open roles with an average salary of $212K.

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Links to the M&A and Funding trackers are at the bottom for paid subscribers.

M&A

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) acquired a minority stake in Qlik (business intelligence) from Thoma Bravo.
Astorg acquired a majority stake in Redslim (data management).
FE fundinfo acquired Matterhorn Reporting Services (AIFMD software and services).
SAS acquired Hazy (synthetic data technology).
SIX acquired Aquis (stock exchange).
With Intelligence acquired SPS (deal data & analytics) from Bain & Company.

*Deals are announced but may not be closed.

Fundraising

Cintoo (reality capture data management) raised €37M in a Series B led by Partech.
Cloudsquid (Ai-powered document extraction) raised $1M in a Pre-Seed round led by High-Tech Gründerfonds and Backbone Ventures.
Connecty AI (enterprise data agents) raised $1.8M in a Pre-Seed round led by Market One Capital.
Deckmatch (private markets intelligence) raised $3M in a Seed round led by Alliance Venture and Luminar Ventures.
Equal (identity data and verification) raised $10M in a Series A led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital.
IOTA (data visualization for manufacturing) raised $10.4M in a Series A led by Altira Group.
Kaizen (regulatory compliance solutions) raised £42M in a growth round from Guidepost Growth Equity.
LendingMetrics (credit technology and data) received an investment from LDC.
Rhino Health (federated computing for healthcare data) received an investment from Telus Global Ventures.
Troveo (content monetization for AI) raised $4.5M in a Seed round led by Seven Seven Six.
Ursa Space Systems (satellite data) raised $10M in venture debt from Horizon Technology Corporation.
Vega (alternative asset management technology) raised $20M in a Series A led by Apollo and Motive Partners.
Zengines (AI-powered data migration) raised $9M in a round led by Hyde Park Venture Partners.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

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Abby Bauer joined iCapital as Vice President.
Randy Bean joined Ataccama as an Advisor.
Paddy Boyle joined Opetek as an Advisor.
Mukesh Chaudhary joined BWG + OTR as Chief Customer Officer.
Mark Eramo was promoted to Co-President, Commodity Insights at S&P Global.
Dave Ernsberger was promoted to Co-President, Commodity Insights at S&P Global.
Charles Fischer joined ValidMind as Chief Revenue Officer.
Nandan Kasarla joined Neuberger Berman as MD, Head of Enterprise Data Technology.
Michael King joined S3 Partners as COO.
Doug Laney joined BARC as Research and Advisory Fellow.
Brijesh Malkan was promoted to Chief Product Officer at Singletrack.
Sarah Martinez joined Tracer as Chief Commercial Officer.
Richard Mattison joined MSCI as Head of ESG and Climate.
Anthony McVickers joined Finbourne Technology as Sales Director.
Katherine Mitchell joined Wall Street Prep as Head of B2B Marketing.
Tom Obermaier joined Ripjar as CEO.
Giuseppe Paleologo joined Balyasny Asset Management as Head of Quantitative Research.
Ian Sams was promoted to Global Head of Product at TraditionData.
Nim Sharon joined NielsenIQ as VP of Business Development.
Gavin Skinner joined Aiera as Chairman & COO.

New Company Alert

Omaha Insights offers a large-scale normalized data framework to compare and value companies in a reliable and consistent way. The company corrects, adjusts, and standardizes thousands of company accounts worldwide. The company is led by Bryant Matthews (prior Credit Suisse), Jordan Alloun (prior VIA AM), Carlos Olmedo (prior PrestaShop), and Benjamin Schwartzberg (prior FactSet).

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.

Buyside & Banking

This week I did some digging for buyside data roles and found a bunch of really cool opportunities that I think many of you are well qualified for.

Alpine Capital Research is hiring a Director of Fundamental Analytics.
Balyasny Asset Management is hiring a Manager, Data Delivery ($225K - $275K).
Capstone Investment Advisors is hiring a Data Engineer ($150K - $190K).
Golub Capital is hiring a Data Governance & Stewardship Lead.
Hamilton Lane is hiring a VP, Data Intelligence.
Janus Henderson is hiring a Head of Enterprise Data Management ($150K - $175K).
J.P. Morgan is hiring a MD, Chief Economist, Consumer & Business Intelligence ($250K - $450K).
Liberty Mutual Investments is hiring a Private Markets Data Product Owner ($141K - $246K).
Point72 is hiring a L/S Data Analyst ($120K - $150K).
Polar Asset Management is hiring a Data Scientist.
Vanguard is hiring a Head of Investment Data Research.
William Blair is hiring a Lead Data Engineer.

General

Acumen is hiring a President ($300K - $325K). Not data related but this is one of the most incredible organizations.
Avangrid is hiring a Senior Director, Data Strategy & Analytics ($172K - $237K).
Bloomberg is hiring a Associate Director of Research, Bloomberg Intelligence ($215K - $265K).
Daikin is hiring a Director, Data Strategy & Master Data.
Datavant is hiring a VP of Engineering, Provider Vertical ($310K - $400K).
Datazoic is hiring a Customer Success Associate.
Green Cabbage is hiring a VP of Engineering.
J2 Health is hiring a Senior Data Engineer ($180K - $200K).
Justworks is hiring a Director of Engineering, Data Platform ($250K - $300K).
LSEG is hiring a Head of Data, FTSE Russell.
Meta is hiring a Manager, Product Data Operations, GenAI ($143K - $202K).
Morning Consult is hiring a Research Director ($93K - $150K).
Sainsbury’s is hiring a Head of Data Science.
Thomson Reuters is hiring a Associate, Corporate Venture Capital ($112K - $208K).
UCB is hiring a Global Head of Data Acquisition Strategy ($255K - $298K) and a Global Head of Data Strategy ($177K - $232K).
Zema Global Data Corporation is hiring a General Counsel.

*salaries only listed where provided by the company. See links for specific salary details.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

AI4F Workshop on LLMs and Generative AI for Finance, November 14, NYC
*BattleFin Discovery Day, November 20-21, London
Monda Meetup - Biggest Data Sales Challenges You Faced in 2024, November 20, London
Feeding the AI Machine: Diving Deeper into the Data That Powers the World’s Leading AI Companies, November 21, Tel Aviv
*Neudata Winter Data Summit, December 5, NYC
*Battle of the Quants, December 5, NYC
Data Disrupt, June 4-5 2025, NYC

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