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o San Francisco-Based TruSTAR Raises $2 Million in Seed Funding
o Millbrae-Based AirGrub Lands $1.5 Million for Airport Food App
o ThinkingPhones Acquires S.F.-Based Video Conferencing Firm Fuze
o Menlo Park's Protiviti Acquires Assets of Decision First Technologies
o Digital Realty Trust Acquires Land in Va. for Massive New Data Center
o Briefly Noted: Rubrik, Veracyte, Equinix
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o San Francisco-Based TruSTAR Raises $2 Million in Seed Funding
San Francisco -- TruSTAR, a San Francisco and Washington, DC-based developer of enterprise technology for anonymous cyber incident sharing and collaboration, said on Monday it has raised $2 million in a new round of seed funding, led by Resolute Ventures. Other Silicon Valley-based investors also took part in the round, which the company will use to accelerate product development and expand its team. TruSTAR's privacy-preserving platform aims to protect and incentivize enterprises to share cyber threat information, helping them to collectively guard against attacks. "In order to make progress and beat the cyber criminals at their own game, we must move from an individualistic model to one of connective defense," said Paul Kurtz, the co-founder and CEO of TruSTAR, and a former White House cybersecurity advisor. "True progress will only be made once we share our data, pool our expertise and connect our response."
https://www.trustar.co
https://www.trustar.co/our-news.php
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o Millbrae-Based AirGrub Lands $1.5 Million for Airport Food App
Millbrae, Calif. -- AirGrub, the Millbrae-based developer of a mobile app for air travelers to pre-order and pick up freshly prepared food, said on Monday it has landed $1.5 million in new funding from angel investors. The app launched at San Francisco International Airport in July, and also recently launched in John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and Logan International Airport in Boston. "From delays to lines to layovers, travel can be a stressful experience, and most travelers don’t have time to wait in line for a healthy meal," said CEO Surya Panditi. "With the AirGrub app, users are able to pre-order their food giving them the peace of mind that a warm meal is waiting for them at the airport." In addition, AirGrub recently expanded its advisory board to include Shannon Stubo, LinkedIn's CMO and senior vice president of corporate communications; and former Cisco CMO Blair Christie. They will be joined by Judith Byrd, the president of Byrd Retail Group, and Joshua Reynolds, the head of marketing at Quantifind.
http://airgrub.com/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151116005335/en/AirGrub-Announces-1.5-Million-Funding
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o ThinkingPhones Acquires S.F.-Based Video Conferencing Firm Fuze
San Francisco -- ThinkingPhones, a Massachusetts-based developer of integrated voice, text, and conferencing services, said on Monday it has acquired San Francisco-based Fuze, a developer of cloud video conferencing technology. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ThinkingPhones said the acquisition expands its platform to enable mobile workers to conduct business on any device. More than 100,000 companies currently use Fuze, including Groupon, Starbucks, Macys.com and Thoughtworks. The news comes six months after Fuze raised $20 million in a round of funding from Hermes Growth Partners and acquired San Francisco-based LiveMinutes, developer of an online team workspace platform.
http://www.fuze.com
https://thinkingphones.com/resource-post/thinkingphones-acquires-leading-cloud-video-conferencing-company-fuze/
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o Menlo Park's Protiviti Acquires Assets of Decision First Technologies
Menlo Park, Calif. -- Protiviti, a unit of Menlo Park-based Roberet Half International that provides consulting services in the areas of technology, finance and operations, said on Monday it has acquired the assets of Atlanta-based Decision First Technologies (DFT), a provider of business intelligence and SAP products. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. DFT is now part of Protiviti's Data Management and Advanced Analytics solution group. "The Decision First Technologies acquisition enables us to continue expanding our advisory solutions in business analytics, data warehousing, data governance, predictive analytics and model risk management," said Shaheen Dil, the managing director and leader of Protiviti's Data Management and Advanced Analytics practice. Taylor Courtnay and Scott Golden, DFT's co-founders, and Steve Freeman, its vice president of field operations, join Protiviti as managing directors.
http://www.protiviti.com
http://www.decisionfirst.com/
http://www.protiviti.com/en-US/Pages/11-16-15-Protiviti-acquires-assets-Decision-First-Technologies.aspx
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o Digital Realty Trust Acquires Land in Va. for Massive New Data Center
San Francisco -- Digital Realty Trust, a San Francisco-based owner and operator of data centers, said on Monday it has acquired 125.9 acres of undeveloped land in Loudoun County, Va. for $43 million. The site, located less than a mile from the company's existing data center campus in Ashburn, Va., eventually will house as much as 2 million square feet of new data center space. Construction is expected to begin in 2016. "Given that we are projected to approach full capacity at our existing Digital Ashburn data center campus, this land acquisition will enable us to continue to support our customers' growth with no downtime," said CEO William Stein, adding that Northern Virginia "has proven to be one of the most desirable data center markets in the United States."
http://www.digitalrealty.com
http://investor.digitalrealty.com/investor-relations/news-and-events/news/news-details/2015/Digital-Realty-Acquires-1259-Acres-in-Loudoun-County-Virginia/default.aspx
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o Briefly Noted:
(Palo Alto, Calif.) Palo Alto-based Rubrik, maker of a converged data management appliance, on Monday named Bill Cordero as its head of worldwide channel sales. Cordero previously built and led channel businesses at storage companies including Tegile, StorSimple and DataDomain.
http://www.rubrik.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151116005428/en/Rubrik-Appoints-Channel-Executive-Bill-Cordero-Lead
(South San Francisco) South San Francisco-based molecular diagnostics company Veracyte on Monday named Tina Nova to its board of directors. Nova currently serves as the president and CEO of Molecular Stethoscope, a newly formed molecular diagnostics company, and previously was the senior vice president and general manager of Illumina's oncology business unit.
http://www.veracyte.com/media/press-releases/?id=174
(Redwood City, Calif.) Redwood City-based Equinix, an owner and operator of data centers, said on Monday it plans to raise $750 million through a public stock offering. The company plans to use the net proceeds, together with the net proceeds of a proposed offerings of senior unsecured notes and senior secured term loan, for merger and acquisition activities and repayment of indebtedness.
http://www.equinix.com/newsroom/press-releases/pr/123422/equinix-announces-proposed-public-offering-of-common-stock/
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