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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Feb. 24, 2016
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Job of the Day: Information Systems Manager and Senior Systems Analyst - Berkeley, CA
o San Francisco-Based Aria Systems Raises $50 Million in Funding
o Menlo Park-Based Quantifind Raises $30 Million in Fourth Round
o Facebook Launches New Tool Letting Users Express More than "Like"
o Palo Alto-Based Forty Seven Lands $75 Million in First Round
o San Jose-Based Rani Therapeutics Lands New Round of Funding
o FTC Settles Complaint Against ASUS Over Security Flaws in Routers
o Briefly Noted: Freshdesk, Xilinx, Genesys
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o San Francisco-Based Aria Systems Raises $50 Million in Funding
San Francisco -- Aria Systems, the San Francisco-based developer of a platform designed to help clients grow recurring revenue, said it has raised $50 million in its fifth round of funding. Previous backers Bain Capital Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, InterWest Partners, Venrock and VMware joined new investors Rembrandt Venture Partners, Madison Bay Capital Partners and Hercules Technology Growth Capital in the round. "Our investment partners provide us with their extensive experience in enterprise cloud, along with capital to provide a truly enterprise-grade level of support and service to our global customers," said Tom Dibble, Aria's president and CEO. Aria's platform is designed to streamline recurring revenue operations across marketing, finance and IT, helping teams get a wider variety of offerings to market faster. Clients include AAA NCNU, Constant Contact, Edmunds.com, Experian, Falck, Red Hat, Pitney Bowes, Roku, VMware and Zipcar.
www.ariasystems.com
https://www.ariasystems.com/company/press-release/aria-systems-raises-50-million-to-meet-growing-global-demand-for-enterprise-monetization-solutions
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o Menlo Park-Based Quantifind Raises $30 Million in Fourth Round
Menlo Park, Calif. -- Quantifind, the Menlo Park-based developer of a platform designed to help brands explore and change the impact they are having on revenues, said on Wednesday it has raised $30 million in its fourth round of funding, led by Cathay Innovation. Previous backers Redpoint Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners, Comcast Ventures, Iris Capital and AME Cloud Ventures also took part in the round. The company said it will use the proceeds to fuel its market expansion efforts, accelerate product development and double its staff in Menlo Park. The news comes on the heels of a year in which Quantifind more than tripled its customer base and generated a 165% increase in bookings year-over-year.
http://quantifind.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160224005435/en/Quantifind-Secures-30-Million-Funding
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o Facebook Launches New Tool Letting Users Express More than "Like"
Menlo Park, Calif. -- Taking a cue from users yearning to express a greater range of reactions to Facebook posts than simply "Like," the Menlo Park-based social networking giant on Wednesday launched "Reactions," a new tool that lets users pick from a range of emojis expressing Like, Love, Haha, Wow, Sad or Angry. Users can access the tool by either holding down the Like button on mobile devices or hovering over it on desktops. "For more than a year we have been conducting global research including focus groups and surveys to determine what types of reactions people would want to use most," wrote Sammi Krug, a Facebook product manager, in a blog post. "We also looked at how people are already commenting on posts and the top stickers and emoticons as signals for the types of reactions people are already using to determine which reactions to offer." The company had been testing Reactions in select markets for the past year.
http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/02/reactions-now-available-globally/
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o Palo Alto-Based Forty Seven Lands $75 Million in First Round
Palo Alto, Calif. -- Forty Seven Inc., a Palo Alto-based biotechnology firm developing therapies targeting cancer immune evasion pathways, said on Wednesday it has landed commitments for $75 million in its first round of funding, co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. Clarus Ventures and GV (formerly Google Ventures) also participated. The company, which so far has received the first half of the round, said it will use the proceeds to complete two ongoing clinical studies, fund additional clinical trials and advance more preclinical programs. It also has licensed the rights to multiple immuno-oncology programs from Stanford University. "I feel confident that this combined team along with the support we have from our Series A investors and our scientific founders will enable us to fully explore the clinical utility of our lead molecule and the licensed technology," said CEO Jonathan MacQuitty.
http://www.fortyseveninc.com/
http://www.fortyseveninc.com/files/8714/5626/5501/Forty-Seven-_Inc-Completes-75M-Series-A-Financing-and-Licenses-Technology-from-Stanford-University.pdf (PDF)
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o San Jose-Based Rani Therapeutics Lands New Round of Funding
San Jose, Calif. -- Rani Therapeutics, a San Jose-based developer of technology enabling the oral delivery of peptides, proteins and therapeutic antibodies that previously only could be delivered through injections, said on Wednesday it has landed its latest round of funding, increasing its total backing to more than $70 million. New investors AstraZeneca, Virtus Inspire Ventures and Ping An Ventures joined previous backers Novartis, Google Ventures, Buttonwood, GF Ventures, KPC Pharmaceuticals, InCube Ventures and VentureHealth. The company said it will use the proceeds to expand its team, develop new facilities and scale up manufacturing. Rani, founded in 2012 and spun out of InCube Labs, is developing a technology platform to convert injectable drugs such as TNF-alpha inhibitors, interleukin antibodies, basal insulin and GLP-1 into oral pills. Over the past year, the company has entered into strategic collaborations with Novartis and Astra Zeneca/MedImmune to test its platform with selected drugs. Rani also said it has hired Robert Gaffney as its vice president of operations, charged with leading the company's expansion. Gaffney previously served as the COO of Spinal Modulation, an InCube Labs company acquired by St. Jude Medical in 2015.
http://www.incubelabs.com
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rani-therapeutics-completes-latest-round-of-funding-brings-total-investment-to-70m-300225198.html
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o FTC Settles Complaint Against ASUS Over Security Flaws in Routers
Washington, DC -- The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Tuesday it has settled charges against Taiwan-based computer hardware maker ASUS, after alleging that critical security flaws in the company's routers put the home networks of hundreds of thousands of consumers at risk. The FTC said that ASUS marketed its routers as including numerous security features that the company claimed could "protect computers from any unauthorized access, hacking, and virus attacks" and "protect [the] local network against attacks from hackers." Despite these claims, the complaint alleges that the company didn't take reasonable steps to secure the software on its routers. For example, the complaint alleges that hackers could exploit security bugs in the routers' web-based control panel to change any of its security settings without the consumer's knowledge. The FTC said that a number of other design flaws exacerbated these vulnerabilities, including the fact that the company set -- and allowed consumers to retain -- the same default login credentials on every router: username "admin" and password "admin." "Routers play a key role in securing those home networks, so it's critical that companies like ASUS put reasonable security in place to protect consumers and their personal information," said Jessica Rich, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. The settlement will require ASUS to establish and maintain a comprehensive security program subject to independent audits for the next 20 years.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/02/asus-settles-ftc-charges-insecure-home-routers-cloud-services-put?utm_source=govdelivery
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> Information Systems Manager and Senior Systems Analyst - Berkeley, CA
The City of Berkeley is distinguished by its unparalleled understanding and prominence of diversity, community engagement, and activism. The Information Technology Department is staffed with 40.5 positions across five divisions with each division led by a manager. With an annual operating budget of $8.8 million, the Information Technology Department provides comprehensive services to support the City of Berkeley's overall mission. The Information Systems Manager is an unrepresented position that works to directly support the Director of Information Technology, both over specific administrative functions and also filling in for the Director's duties in her absence. A Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience in project management implementation, which included experience in either business systems analysis, software administration, network administration, or specific enterprise-wide applications is required. At least two of the five years of experience must have included supervision of professional or technical staff. The Senior Systems Analyst is a represented position that reports to the Information Systems Manager overseeing Programming and Configuration. Specific areas of responsibility include Project Management, Supervision, Programming and Analysis. A Bachelor's degree and three years of experience in systems analysis and programming of business applications, including one year in the analysis or design of large-scale computer systems and databases. The salary range for the Information Systems Manager is $118,416-$143,112 and the salary range for the Senior Systems Analyst is $96,792-$117,888. Detailed brochure available at http://www.ralphandersen.com/jobs/information-systems-manager-berkeley-ca/. Confidential inquiries encouraged to Greg Nelson at (916) 630-4900. Send cover letter, resume, and supporting materials to apply@ralphandersen.com prior to Friday, March 4, 2016.
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o Briefly Noted:
(San Bruno, Calif.) San Bruno-based Freshdesk, a developer of cloud-based customer support software, has named Bobby Jaffari as the vice president of sales of Freshdesk North America and Arun Mani joins as the managing director of Freshdesk Europe. Jaffari previously held sales leadership roles at Satmetrix Systems, Hightail and Cisco WebEx, while Mani built and scaled a global sales team at AppNexus.
https://freshdesk.com/
(San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based Xilinx, a developer of programmable chips, said on Wednesday that Jon Olson will retire as its CFO in May. Lorenzo Flores, the company's corporate vice president of finance and corporate controller, will take over as senior vice president and CFO. Olson will remain in an advisory role through July.
http://press.xilinx.com/2016-02-24-Jon-Olson-to-Retire-as-CFO-of-Xilinx
(San Francisco) San Francisco-based Genesys, developer of an omnichannel customer experience platform, has named Merijn te Booij as its chief marketing officer (CMO). te Booij has been with the company since 2000, most recently serving as its executive vice president of product strategy.
http://www.genesys.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160224005378/en/Genesys-Appoints-Chief-Marketing-Officer
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> Information Systems Manager and Senior Systems Analyst - Berkeley, CA
The City of Berkeley is distinguished by its unparalleled understanding and prominence of diversity, community engagement, and activism. The Information Technology Department is staffed with 40.5 positions across five divisions with each division led by a manager. With an annual operating budget of $8.8 million, the Information Technology Department provides comprehensive services to support the City of Berkeley's overall mission. The Information Systems Manager is an unrepresented position that works to directly support the Director of Information Technology, both over specific administrative functions and also filling in for the Director's duties in her absence. A Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience in project management implementation, which included experience in either business systems analysis, software administration, network administration, or specific enterprise-wide applications is required. At least two of the five years of experience must have included supervision of professional or technical staff. The Senior Systems Analyst is a represented position that reports to the Information Systems Manager overseeing Programming and Configuration. Specific areas of responsibility include Project Management, Supervision, Programming and Analysis. A Bachelor's degree and three years of experience in systems analysis and programming of business applications, including one year in the analysis or design of large-scale computer systems and databases. The salary range for the Information Systems Manager is $118,416-$143,112 and the salary range for the Senior Systems Analyst is $96,792-$117,888. Detailed brochure available at http://www.ralphandersen.com/jobs/information-systems-manager-berkeley-ca/. Confidential inquiries encouraged to Greg Nelson at (916) 630-4900. Send cover letter, resume, and supporting materials to apply@ralphandersen.com prior to Friday, March 4, 2016.
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> Federal Business Development Director - Norfolk, Va.
A Virginia-based Healthcare Management Consulting company in pursuit of continued growth in an entrepreneurial environment is seeking a Federal Business Development Director to be responsible for significant customer acquisitions as well as expansion into the commercial market. RESPONSIBILITIES: New Federal (government) Business Development with the ability to expand sales into the commercial market. Achieve or exceed sales quotas on a quarterly and annual basis. Execute the entire client development cycle. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field required; Master's Degree preferred. A minimum of 8 years' experience in the Federal market to include business development, sales and consultant experience across various government departments and agencies. Must have an extensive network within the Federal market that can be leveraged for sales. The full job description is at: www.potomactechwire.com/listing5733.html Interested applicants, please submit resume to recruiting@ardx.net
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> Chief Marketing Officer - Tampa, FL.
The Vice President of Marketing & CMO will be responsible for positioning Pilgrim as a world-class provider of Quality Management Solutions for global life science organizations. The CMO will have responsibility for Market Strategy, Marketing Communications and Marketing Execution. This individual will lead all of Pilgrim's marketing initiatives including market management/product marketing, sales enablement, demand/lead generation, branding, online marketing, marketing communications, analyst relations, solution marketing and event management. Please email resumes to nicole.debourg@pilgrimquality.com
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> Director of Programming - Government Executive - Washington DC
Government Executive Media Group (GEMG) is Atlantic Media's b-to-b division and the leading source of information and analysis for public sector managers nationwide. Its media brands include Government Executive, Nextgov, Defense One and Route Fifty. The Director of Programming serves as the key architect of new event product concepts for all of GEMG's public sector brands, constantly striving to look for emerging event models and innovative speakers. Responsibilities: Leads development of event content ideas and innovations to maintain GEMG as the leader in the public sector event marketplace. Develops program content through research and evaluation, including topic generation, expert speaker identification, program format options, high-level attendee lists. Closely tracks prospect movement and engages with the sales team and directly with clients. Qualifications of the Ideal Candidates: Creative and strategic thinking with emphasis on customer service meeting client objectives for an event. Experience in the public sector industry preferred. Experience in managing events. Bachelor's degree and five years related experience. For full information on the position and to apply, go to: https://atlanticmedia.applytojob.com/apply/NPJDTQ/
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