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Spire Global taps new CFO
Vienna-based space-focused data and analytics company Spire Global has appointed Alison “Ali” Engel as its new chief financial officer, effective April 1. Engel brings nearly two decades of CFO experience, most recently serving in that capacity for LeaseAccelerator from 2023 to 2024. Before that, she was CFO and treasurer of media company Gannett from 2015 […]
Appian taps new chief revenue officer
Mark Dorsey is Appian’s new chief revenue officer, the McLean cloud computing and software company announced Oct. 11. He replaces Christopher Jones, who left in April to become chief revenue officer for New Relic, a software developer based in San Francisco. Dorsey, who has a MBA from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, […]
Arlington’s CareJourney acquired
Arlington County’s CareJourney, a health care data and analytics company co-founded by former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, has been acquired by Arcadia, a health care data platform headquartered in Boston, according to a June 27 announcement. A spokesperson for Arcadia declined to provide financial terms of the deal. The merged company will have […]
Charlottesville’s Astraea acquired by Fla. satellite company
Astraea, a Charlottesville-based geospatial analytics firm, has been acquired by Nuview, a Florida-based company developing a satellite imaging constellation, the companies announced Tuesday. Financial terms of the deal were not available. Founded as a for-profit benefit corporation in 2016, Astraea applies data science and artificial intelligence to analyze imaging and sensor data gathered from E[...]
Babel Street acquires text analysis platform
Reston-based web and social media monitoring company Babel Street Inc. has completed its previously announced acquisition of text analytics platform Rosette. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Babel Street first announced the acquisition in November 2022. The company completed its purchase of the platform from Massachusetts-based BasisTech LLC at the end of December […]
Comcast taps Comscore’s measurement tools
Comcast Cable’s ad sales arm will begin offering Reston-based Comscore Inc. media measurement and analytics tools as an alternative to the Nielsen ratings system, Comscore announced this week. Effectv, which sells ads in 66 markets for Comcast Cable, will use Comscore’s impression-based measurement product with its local advertising clients. The cable company has nearly 35 […]
Quick change
Jackie Juergens wanted to move from Altria Group Inc.’s strategy division to its fast-growing advanced analytics division, but she needed to brush up on her tech skills. Although she had an MBA, the mother of three and senior manager opted for William & Mary’s business school’s online master’s degree in business analytics, which she completed […]
MicroStrategy bought $420M more bitcoin in Q3
MicroStrategy Inc. purchased nearly 9,000 additional bitcoins in the third quarter for almost $420 million, according to a quarterly report the Tysons-based business software company filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Oct. 28. As of Sept. 30, MicroStrategy’s holds a total of 114,042 bitcoins, valued at $7.5 billion based on a price […]
Clarabridge to be acquired by Utah firm in $1.13B deal
Reston-based software company Clarabridge Inc. is being acquired by Provo, Utah-based data analytics firm Qualtrics International Inc. in a nearly $1.13 billion all-stock deal, the companies announced Thursday. Clarabridge’s platform uses artificial intelligence to provide conversational analytics — it is able to analyze customer feedback from indirect sources like social media, emails, su[...]
Booz Allen Hamilton hires senior VP to lead AI practice for DOD
McLean-based Fortune 500 global management consulting company Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. has hired Matt Tarascio as a senior vice president in its Strategic Innovation Group, it announced Wednesday. Tarascio will lead the analytics and artificial intelligence business to support the Department of Defense. Tarascio was previously Lockheed Martin Corp.’s vice president of AI, and its […]
McLean software company appoints two VPs
Logi Analytics, a McLean-based embedded software analytics firm, announced last week it has hired Vijay Pendyala as senior vice president of engineering and Jeff Seifert as vice president of alliances and channels. Pendyala was most recently senior vice president of engineering at Guavus and has held other leadership roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and People […]
Reston-based Comscore closes investment transactions
Reston-based media measurement and analytics company Comscore Inc. announced Thursday that it has closed its previously announced investment transactions with Connecticut-based Charter Communications Inc., Colorado-based Qurate Retail Inc. and an affiliate of New York-based Cerberus Capital Management LP. Each of the three companies made a cash investment in exchange for shares of convertible pref[...]
