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Former General Mills insight leader Nichole Norby has joined Visa as Senior Manager, Brand Insights. More
NYC-based business and financial market intelligence provider AlphaSense has secured a $350 financing round, valuing the business at $7.5 billion. Investors include Accenture Ventures, which will also partner with the company on embedding its data solutions into clients' agentic workflows. More
B2B attribution platform Dreamdata has appointed software veteran and advisor Dave Kellogg to its Board, to help shape its growth strategy. More
Market research group Kadence International has announced that Aman Makkar, who has led its India business for twenty years, will be stepping down from the CEO role at the end of this month. More
Leeds, UK-based company The Data City, creator of a new industrial classification system aiming to supersede SICs, has expanded into the US after what it describes as 'a year of rapid growth driven by demand for AI-ready economic data.' The firm now has more than 30 staff. More
Texas-based market intelligence company Futurum Group has bought Aptiviti, Inc., the parent company of Enterprise Technology Research (ETR); and will combine the latter's well-established predictive quant data engine with its own expertise, media properties and global intelligence platform. More
B2B research fieldwork company RONIN International has promoted Tavis Urquhart to Sales Director for APAC, based in Australia and starting in late July. More
Norstat has launched an Expert Network, giving clients access to verified, senior business decision-makers including CFOs, IT decision-makers, category leads and security experts. The solution is live now in 22 countries, and is headed up by MD Carsten Broich. More
Ipsos has unveiled a new 'vision' for qualitative research, combining AI and human inputs and delivered via three modules within its qual division Ipsos UU: Dynamic Digital Twin Communities; AI-Powered Moderation; and the EDGE Framework, which investigates extreme and unusual behaviour. More
Warsaw-based start-up Zynt has raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding to fuel development of its b2b sales intelligence platform, and help it expand into the US. More
New York-based Qualitate has raised a $7 million Seed round of funding, with which to accelerate development of its platform automating expert research for investment and strategy teams. More
Ipsos has reported first quarter revenue of EUR 554.9 million, down 2.4% from a year earlier and representing organic decline of 1.4%. Despite this, it has confirmed its targets for growth in 2026 as a whole, with a number of positives including a strong order book and recoveries in key sectors. More
In London, research, analytics and advisory firm Phronesis Partners has appointed Anish Nath as Director, Technology Research, AI & Automation. More
Investor Relations (IR) software firm Q4 Inc. has acquired Virtua Research, which provides collaborative consensus analytics and financial modeling solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. More
San Francisco-based AfterQuery has completed a $30 million Series A fundraising round, valuing it at $300 million. The firm taps a network of nearly 100,000 experts from a range of professions, encoding their knowledge into a dataset for use by its customers, which include all the major AI labs. More
London-based property and household intelligence company Outra has appointed Kimberley Joyce as Head of Agency, with a remit to establish the firm's first dedicated agency team and drive strategic partnerships. More
Veteran business data firm Thomson Reuters Corporation has acquired Noetica, Inc., a New York-based AI-native start-up whose software turns transaction-deal data into structured market intelligence for deal professionals. More
In the US, B2B data firm ZoomInfo has announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year ended December 31st. Reported annual revenue rose 3% to $1,249.5m, while adjusted operating income was up 4% to $445.9m. More
In the UK, fast-growing agency Basis Global has hired former B2B International leader Conor Wilcock as Managing Director, B2B. More
In Raleigh, NC, USA, L&E Research has announced the appointment of longtime Procter & Gamble employee Andrea Swinicki as Research Design Engineer. More
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