Vox Media, a leading digital media company based in Washington, D.C. and New York City has named Amit Bhattacharyya as their Head of Data Science. Prior to Vox, Amit led the Data Science practice at Teachers Pay Teachers for over three years. He spent nearly ten years as a Quant in the financial services industry and earned his PhD in Physics from Indiana University.

Vox Media owns and operates offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, and San Francisco.

FUNDING: Khosla Ventures, Accel, Comcast Ventures, General Atlantic, NBC Universal, Allen & Company

Chartbeat, a content intelligence company headquartered in NYC, has announced Alexandra Pressland as their new VP of Product. Chartbeat helps digital publishing organizations like the NY Times, CNN, The Atlantic, The Washington Post and ESPN improve audience engagement, inform editorial decisions, and increase readership. Their real-time and historical dashboards, in-depth headline testing and in-page optimization tools, robust reporting help these leading media organizations understand, measure, and build business value from the attention earned by their written and video content.

FUNDING: Betaworks, Lowercase Capital, Freestyle Capital, Lerer Hippeau, 14W, Index Ventures, SV Angel, Acequia Capital, Founder Collective, Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures, Uncork Capital, DFJ, Launch Fund, Harmony Partners, Digital Garage, North Atlantic Capital

Transmit.Live, a new media broadcasting platform that simplifies live stream distribution and promotion, synchronized by data-driven intelligence to expand viewership and build loyal audiences has name Jamie Roberts as Head of Engineering. Jamie will help build out Transmit.Live's offering and team.

FUNDING: MathCapital Ventures,R/GA Ventures, GroundUP

7Park Data transforms data to revolutionize business decisions. They have announced Joel Raha as their SVP of Engineering. Joel will oversee all technology and engineering for 7Park. Leveraging advanced machine intelligence, their platform transforms one petabyte of unstructured information into Leading Performance indicators for over 10,000 companies. Their Clients are the most sophisticated investment firms and Fortune 500 corporations who depend on 7Park Data for more accurate benchmarking, forecasting and strategic decision making.

FUNDING: Mueller Ventures, Granite Capital Management

* Acquired by Vista Equity Partners 2018

Material World, a personalized fashion (r)ecommerce service, has announced Guy Gavriely as VP of Engineering. Guy will help lead the technology organization and implement new key initiatives for Material World customers and partners. MW fashion trade-in service helps women evolve their closet seamlessly by trading in old fashions to earn credit on their Fashion Trade-In Card and shop at their favorite retailers.

Founded by two fashion ecommerce experts and Harvard Business School graduates with experience from top brands including Coach, Ralph Lauren, and J.Crew. Material World has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, ABC News, InStyle, Refinery29, Women's Wear Daily, and TechCrunch.

FUNDING: Great Oaks Venture Capital, SundBridge Global Ventures, Nissay Capital