MAD about Market Maps

Apr 04, 2024

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Since last post we’ve seen 3 acquisitions, 7 fundraising rounds, 20 people moves & promotions, 5 roles, 2 new company launches, 4 articles, 1 podcast, and 4 newly added events.

Machine Learning, AI & Data (MAD) Landscape

The 2024 MAD landscape features 2,011 logos (+578 from 2023). The team this year, led by Matt Turck, included Aman Kabeer and Katie Mills (FirstMark), Jonathan Grana (Go Fractional) and Paolo Campos.

M&A

CData Software acquired Data Virtuality (data integration and management).
Descartes Labs acquired Geosite (geospatial intelligence).
iCapital acquired Mirador (investment data aggregation and reporting).

Fundraising

Coalesce (data transformation) raised $50M in a Series B led by Industry Ventures and Emergence Capital.
Datavolo (multimodal data pipelines) raised $21M in a round led by General Catalyst.
Modal (data training and upskilling) raised $25M in a round led by Left Lane Capital.
Proxima (predictive data intelligence) raised $12M in a Series A led by Mucker Capital.
Quadratic (data science spreadsheets) raised $5.6M in a Seed round led by GV.
Skyflow (data privacy) raised $30M in a Series B Extension led by Khosla Ventures.
Supersimple (self-service business intelligence) raised $2.2M in a Pre-Seed round led by Tera Ventures.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

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Mosisa Abagaro joined Antenna as VP, Client Services.
Vinod Akunuri joined Code Willing as Principal, Backtest, Optimization, and Research.
John Anagnost joined Treasure Data as Global Director, Account Management.
Robert Cassey was promoted to VP of Engineering at Techspert.
Rachel Hausmann joined Dataplor as Director of Strategic Partnerships.
Dirk Herdes joined Crisp as GM & SVP of Sales.
Noémie Heuland joined Moody’s as CFO.
Charles Hollis joined Aperio Intelligence as Head of Strategic Intelligence.
Alex Jaimes was promoted to Chief AI Officer at Dataminr.
Mohammad Javad Feizollahi joined J.P. Morgan Chase as VP, Applied AI/ML Lead.
David Kanto joined Alkymi as Strategic Accounts Director.
Pooja Khosla was promoted to Interim CEO at Intelligent.
Will Lau joined Concertiv as VP, Head of the Technology Practice.
Mike Lawn joined Energy Aspects as Head of Power Research.
Tom Luker joined Triple Private Equity as Investment Director.
Bill Quadrini joined CubeLogic as Managing Director of Strategy & Innovation.
Devin Redmond joined Mercury Fund as an Investor.
Alexandra Rodrigues was promoted to Director, ESG Advisory at Nasdaq.
Eu-Gene Sung joined GLG as CFO.
James Taylor was promoted to Head of Sales at Techspert.

Who’s Hiring

Caden is hiring a Lead Data Scientist ($190K - $220K).
Concertiv is hiring a Senior Associate / Manager, Exchange Data Strategy ($100K-$120K).
IQVIA is hiring a Patient Data Strategy Director ($146K-$249K).
J.P. Morgan is hiring a Data Strategy & Business Operations Associate.
NASCAR is hiring a Analyst, Customer Journey, Data Strategy.

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

New Companies

Vigama Capital is a newly launched fundamental long-short equity hedge fund based in Geneva. The firm is led by Vincent Ijaouane (CIO), former Lead Manager of Agora at Pictet Asset Management, and Fabrice Peresse (COO), former Executive Director, Operations at Capital Fund Management.

Voice Of The Purple is a new voter data company with a database of 300M+ consumer profiles and 150M+ voter records. The company helps campaigns refine messaging for effective outreach to swing voters. The company was founded by Ryan Wagner, former SVP at Datasys and PE/VC Practice Lead at NielsenIQ.