M Science’s bounceback: The CEO details how the alt-data pioneer has nearly doubled its staff and is courting large, corporate clients after a difficult 2019

Mike Marrale is not shy about admitting he was unhappy about where his company was a year and a half ago.The CEO of alternative-data pioneer M Science, which was founded as Majestic Research before changing its name when Jefferies brought it into the fold in 2016, told Insider that the “crowded and overpopulated” space contributed to a […]

April 29, 2021

Instacart Power Players: The 11 top executives — including recent hires from Amazon, Uber, and Goldman Sachs — as the company eyes an IPO

By all accounts, Instacart is firing on all cylinders lately.In 2020, Instacart added more than 200 new retailers and more than 15,000 new store locations to its marketplace. Instacart now delivers from more than 45,000 grocery stores and retailers in North America. And its latest round of funding more than doubled its valuation to $39 billion.

April 5, 2021

M Science Launches Insights and Intelligence Dashboard for the Food Industry

M Science, the pioneer in data-driven research and analytics, announced today the launch of their Restaurant and Food Delivery Operator Intelligence Dashboard. This new industry solution will provide previously unavailable business-critical insights from more than 50+ million monthly restaurant transactions across 150+ restaurants and delivery providers.

March 10, 2021

Hedge funds’ secret sauce is obscure data like satellite images. Here’s how the people in charge of spending millions on this data find the stuff worth buying.

Roberto Jedreicich gets to the point. The decision-maker on all things alternative data at Credit Suisse’s internal $650 million quant fund, QT, is flooded with pitches and meeting requests from new data vendors on the average day. But last week, at BattleFin’s Discovery Day in the opulent Plaza hotel in New York, it was more […]

July 26, 2019