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o Palo Alto's MongoDB Raises $80 Million in New Funding
o Pleasanton-Based 10X Genomics Raises $55.5 Million in Second Round
o San Francisco-Based Ginger.io Lands $20 Million in Second Round
o Santa Clara-Based Citrix Systems Acquires Sanbolic
o San Mateo-Based Fractal Analytics Acquires Mobius Innovations
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o Palo Alto's MongoDB Raises $80 Million in New Funding
Palo Alto, Calif. -- MongoDB, a provider of big data management technology with dual headquarters in Palo Alto and New York, said on Monday it has raised $80 million in a new round of funding, which it hopes to eventually cap at $100 million. Nine investors have so far participated, led by an unspecified "sovereign wealth fund." Goldman Sachs and previous backers Altimeter Capital, NEA, Sequoia and T. Rowe Price Associates also have participated in the round, which increases the seven-year-old company's total funding to $311 million. "These additional funds mean we can further accelerate the delivery of world-class [database management system] technology while scaling the business to meet the needs of our users and customers globally," said Dev Ittycheria, the company's president and CEO, in a statement. MongoDB is now used by over 2,000 customers, including Adobe, ADP, Amazon, AT&T, Buzzfeed, Cisco, Craigslist, Dropbox, eBay, eHarmony, Expedia, Foursquare, Forbes, The GapGoldman Sachs, Intuit, McAfee, MetLife, MTV, Salesforce, Shutterfly and Under Armour.
http://www.mongodb.com
http://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-raises-80-million-accelerate-growth
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1441816/000144181615000001/xslFormDX01
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o Pleasanton-Based 10X Genomics Raises $55.5 Million in Second Round
Pleasanton, Calif. -- 10X Genomics, the Pleasanton-based developer of a genomics platform, said on Monday it has raised $55.5 million in its second round of funding, led by Foresite Capital Management. Venrock, Paladin Capital Group and funds managed by Morgan Stanley Investment Management also participated. The company, which now has raised more than $80 million since its inception, is led by founder and CEO Serge Saxonov, a founding architect of 23andMe. 10X Genomics is commercializing a new genomics platform that it says "will change the definition of sequencing. "The genome is complex and much of this complexity is lost or inaccessible using available sequencing technologies," said Chairman John Stuelpnagel, adding that his company's platform "captures this important genomic information, thereby increasing the value of sequencing."
http://10xgenomics.com/
http://10xgenomics.com/sites/default/files/10_011215_release.pdf (PDF)
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o San Francisco-Based Ginger.io Lands $20 Million in Second Round
San Francisco -- Ginger.io, the San Francisco-based developer of a mobile app that uses passive data and deep analytics to improve behavioral health, said on Monday it has landed $20 million in its second round of funding, which the company will use to expand the development of its platform. Participants included previous backers Khosla Ventures and True Ventures, as well as several new investors. Developed at the MIT Media Lab, Ginger.io's machine learning technology uses smartphone data and self-reported surveys to identify trends in a patient's health and wellness. That insight is then shared with healthcare providers and family members, who can intervene. The company now has raised $28 million since its founding in 2010.
http://www.ginger.io
http://blog.ginger.io/ginger-io-raises-20m-to-expand-its-digital-mental-health-offering/
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o Santa Clara-Based Citrix Systems Acquires Sanbolic
Santa Clara, Calif. -- Citrix Systems, the Santa Clara-based provider of mobile workspaces that provide users with access to apps, desktops, data and communications on any device, said on Monday it has acquired Massachusetts-based Sanbolic, a developer of storage virtualization technologies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Citrix said it plans to combine Sanbolic's technology with its own XenDesktop, XenApp and XenMobile products, reducing the complexity of Windows application delivery and virtual desktop infrastructure deployments. More than 200 Citrix customers already use Sanbolic. "There are tremendous synergies between our companies," said Momchil Michailov, the co-founder and CEO of Sanbolic. "With our server-side and converged storage management solutions and Citrix desktop and app virtualization technology, we are enabling enterprise data and workloads to be highly available and elastic based on changing business demands." Sanbolic's team will join Citrix.
http://www.citrix.com/
http://sanbolic.com/
http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/jan-2015/citrix-acquires-sanbolic.html
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o San Mateo-Based Fractal Analytics Acquires Mobius Innovations
San Mateo, Calif. -- Fractal Analytics, a San Mateo-based provider of analytics tools to large companies, said on Monday it has acquired Singapore-based Mobius Innovations, developer of a mobile context awareness platform founded by Fractal's co-founder, Nirmal Palaparthi. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Palaparthi departed Fractal in 2012 to launch Mobius, whose core platform, called Contextudio, gathers information such as geolocation and open social media data and sentiments to strengthen customer intelligence. It also provides a mobile delivery app for iOS devices, allowing companies to personalize consumer offers in real-time. "[The] acquisition will enable our clients to drive hyper-personalized customer conversations on mobile platforms through real time learning using customer context," said Srikanth Velamakanni, the co-founder and CEO of Fractal Analytics.
http://www.fractalanalytics.com
http://www.mobius.ai/home.html
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150112005164/en/Fractal-Analytics-Acquires-Co-Founder%E2%80%99s-Company-Hyper-Personalize-Customer#.VLPj0tLF_ng
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(San Francisco) Israel-based Perion Network, developer of a software monetization platform for online publishers and app developers, with operations in San Francisco, has named Shai Gottesdiener as general manager of its B2B mobile unit and Miki Kolko as CTO. Gottesdiener, who had served as the company's CTO, succeeds Tomer Pascal, who led the B2B mobile unit for five years. Kolko had served as Perion's vice president of data.
http://mail.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=890664
(Menlo Park, Calif.) Menlo Park-based Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), a later-stage venture capital firm, said on Monday it has promoted Somesh Dash and Eric Liaw to general partners. Dash, who joined the firm in 2005, focuses primarily on investments in Internet, software, mobile and technology-enabled services companies. Liaw, who joined the firm in 2011, works with companies across a variety of sectors, including enterprise software, Internet and mobile.
http://www.ivp.com/news/press-release/institutional-venture-partners-promotes-somesh-dash-and-eric-liaw-to-general-partners#.VLPjttLF_ng
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