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Databento, founded by ex-hedge fund trader Christina Qi, has raised $97 million to scale its pay-per-use market data API. Already profitable with 24 employees, the startup aims to dismantle Bloomberg's terminal monopoly by offering institutional-grade data at a fraction of the cost. With plans for 20+ global data centers, it could reshape how banks and funds consume financial information.
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| What you see | What it tells you |
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| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Christina Qi was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |