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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Feb. 13, 2015
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o San Francisco-Based Invuity Raises $20 Million in New Funding Round
o Milpitas-Based FrontRange to Merge with Lumension
o Menlo Park-Based Sequoia Capital Co-Leads $30M Round for Practo
o Visa to Remove 16-Digit Account Numbers in Online and Mobile Payments
o Information Technology Employment Sees Boost in New Year
o Briefly Noted: Palo Alto Networks
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o San Francisco-Based Invuity Raises $20 Million in New Funding Round
San Francisco -- Invuity, a San Francisco-based developer of surgical photonics, said on Friday it has raised $20 million in a new round of funding, led by Wellington Management. Greg Lucier, who will join the company's board of directors, also participated, joining previous backers HealthCare Royalty Partners, Valence Life Sciences, InterWest Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The company said it will use the proceeds to accelerate growth and further commercialize its line of advanced visualization devices.
http://www.invuity.com
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/invuity-raises-20-million-funding-round-300035749.html
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o Milpitas-Based FrontRange to Merge with Lumension
Milpitas, Calif. -- FrontRange, a Milpitas-based provider of hybrid IT service management tools, said it will merge with Arizona-based rival Lumension. The move comes after FrontRange was acquired by Clearlake Capital Group, which also owns Lumension. The resulting company, to be known as Heat Software, will be based in Milpitas, with operations in Scottsdale, Ariz. Jonathan Temple, the president and CEO of FreontRange, will become CEO of the combined company, which will feature a blended management team. "Heat Software will have a unique opportunity to provide enterprises with greater efficiency and effectiveness for their IT departments, as well as enhanced security across the entire organization," said Behdad Eghbali and Prashant Mehrotra of Clearlake in a statement.
http://www.heatsoftware.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150212005195/en/FrontRange-Lumension-Merge-Form-HEAT-Software#.VN5kn-bF_ng
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o Menlo Park-Based Sequoia Capital Co-Leads $30M Round for Practo
Menlo Park, Calif. -- Sequoia Capital, the Menlo Park-based venture capital firm, has co-led a new $30 million round of funding for Practo, an India-based developer of clinical practice management software. Matrix Partners also co-led the company's second round. Founded in 2008, Practo offers software that is currently used by more than 8,000 doctors in India. The company also offers a cloud telephony service that helps doctors connect with their patients.
https://www.practo.com/
https://www.sequoiacap.com/
https://blog.practo.com/announcing-30m-series-b-funding/
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o Visa to Remove 16-Digit Account Numbers in Online and Mobile Payments
Foster City, Calif. -- Credit card giant Visa said on Friday that it will expand its use of a security technology that replaces traditional 16-digit account number with a unique series of numbers for all online and mobile payments in an effort to prevent the exposure of consumer account information. The company debuted its Visa Token Service (VTS) in September, and it now is in use by more than 500 financial institutions. "In 2015, Visa will offer secure payments across a wide variety of devices, platforms and apps," said CEO Charlie Scharf. "Removing card account numbers from the processing and storage of payments represents one of the most innovative and promising technologies we’ve seen in decades." Visa also plans to tokenize transactions initiated online with Visa Checkout, the company's online payment service.
http://usa.visa.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150213005114/en/Visa-Remove-16-Digit-Account-Number-Online-Mobile#.VN4K_-bF_ng
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o Information Technology Employment Sees Boost in New Year
Alexandria, Va. -- The number of information technology jobs in the U.S. grew 0.4% last month to 4.8 million, according to new figures from the TechServe Alliance, a national trade association for the IT and engineering staffing industry. On a year-over-year basis, IT employment has grown by 4.7% since Jan. 2014, adding 216,800 IT workers. "Following robust growth in 2014, all indications are that we will have another strong year for IT and engineering employment in 2015," said Mark Roberts, CEO of the TechServe Alliance. "While I am confident demand will remain strong absent a macro-economic or political shock, an inadequate supply of talent in high demand skill sets will continue to be a challenge."
http://www.techservealliance.org/pressroom/documents/IndexReleaseFebruary2015.pdf (PDF)
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o Briefly Noted:
(Santa Clara, Calif.) Santa Clara-based Palo Alto Networks, developer of an enterprise cybersecurity platform, has named Ryan Gillis as its vice president of government affairs and policy. Gillis most recently served as director of legislative affairs and cybersecurity policy for the National Security Council.
https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/company/press/2015/palo-alto-networks-continues-public-sector-momentum.html
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