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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Feb. 25, 2016
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Job of the Day: Information Systems Manager and Senior Systems Analyst - Berkeley, CA
o San Jose-Based Signifyd Raises $20 Million in Second Round
o Redwood City-Based Oracle to Acquire Palo Alto-Based Ravello Systems
o S.F.-Based Mainsail Partners Raises $384M to Back Bootstrapped Companies
o Redwood City-Based Rocket Fuel Names Rex Jackson as CFO
o San Francisco-Based Mobile Action Acquires Appmind
o Briefly Noted: Hercules Capital, ThreatStream, CSC Venture Capital - WigWag
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--Information Systems Manager and Senior Systems Analyst - Berkeley, CA
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o San Jose-Based Signifyd Raises $20 Million in Second Round
San Jose, Calif. -- Signifyd, the San Jose-based developer of a cloud platform designed to automate fraud prevention for online retailers, said on Thursday it has raised $20 million in its second round of funding, led by Menlo Ventures. Allegis Capital, IA Ventures, QED Investors, Bill McKiernan and Tim Eades also took part in the round, which the company will use to accelerate growth, scale its infrastructure and continue to expand its team. Pravin Vazirani, a general partner at Menlo Ventures, will join the company's board of directors. Signifyd's machine learning and behavioral analytics platform is used to protect e-commerce merchants from credit card chargebacks, with a 100% financial guarantee. The company now has raised $31 million since its inception.
http://www.signifyd.com
https://blog.signifyd.com/2016/02/25/signifyd-raises-20-million-in-series-b-funding-to-ensure-e-commerce-merchants-never-pay-a-chargeback-again/
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o Redwood City-Based Oracle to Acquire Palo Alto-Based Ravello Systems
Redwood City, Calif. -- Oracle, the Redwood City-based database technology giant, revealed on Thursday that it has signed a deal to acquire Palo Alto-based Ravello Systems, creator of a platform that allows developers to utilize the public cloud to develop and test applications. Financial terms of the deal, signed by the companies on Monday, were not disclosed, but VentureBeat tabs it at about $500 million, citing an undisclosed source. The deal is expected to further bolster Oracle's cloud infrastructure. The news comes a year after Ravello raised $28 million in a round of funding, co-led by Qualcomm Ventures and SanDisk Ventures.
https://www.ravellosystems.com/
https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/ravellosystems/index.html
http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/22/oracle-buys-cloud-software-startup-ravello-systems-for-500-million/
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o S.F.-Based Mainsail Partners Raises $384M to Back Bootstrapped Companies
San Francisco -- Mainsail Partners, a San Francisco-based growth equity firm that invests in bootstrapped companies, said on Thursday it has raised $384 million for its fourth fund. The fund, Mainsail Partners IV, will continue its strategy of investing in bootstrapped software, technology-enabled services and healthcare companies. The firm, which now has raised over $750 million in committed capital, has made more than 20 investments over the past 13 years, including 3PL Central, Brilliant Earth, Ncontracts, nCourt, Netchemia, PlayMaker CRM, SQL Sentry and Zen Planner.
http://www.mainsailpartners.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160225005614/en/Mainsail-Partners-Raises-384-Million-Fourth-Fund
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o Redwood City-Based Rocket Fuel Names Rex Jackson as CFO
Redwood City, Calif. -- Rocket Fuel, the Redwood City-based developer of a programmatic marketing platform, on Thursday named Rex Jackson as its chief financial officer (CFO). He succeeds Cal Hoagland, a partner with FLG Partners, who had served as interim CFO since December. It marks the company's third major executive hire this year, following January's hiring of Eric Duerr as chief marketing officer (CMO) and the hiring of Ben Saitz as its first-ever chief customer officer (CCO) earlier this month. Jackson previously served as the CFO of three public companies, Synopsys, Symyx and, most recently, JDS Uniphase.
http://rocketfuel.com/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160224006490/en/Rocket-Fuel-Names-Rex-Jackson-Chief-Financial
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o San Francisco-Based Mobile Action Acquires Appmind
San Francisco -- Mobile Action, the San Francisco-based developer of an app store analytics and intelligence platform, said on Thursday it has acquired Appmind, developer of an app store optimization and marketing service that helps improve the visibility of mobile apps. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mobile Action said the acquisition will bolster its backend technology and accelerate its platform speed. "We have been collaborating with Appmind for several months now, and we realized combining our forces would make even more sense," wrote Mobile Action in a blog post. Appmind's Gabriel Machuret will join Mobile Action as a brand ambassador
http://www.mobileaction.co/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160225005135/en/Mobile-Action-Acquires-Appmind
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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:
(Palo Alto, Calif.) Palo Alto-based Hercules Capital, a provider of venture debt known until earlier this week as Hercules Technology Growth Capital, said on Thursday its board of directors has approved a $50 million open market share repurchase program. This program replaces a $50 million repurchase program that expired Feb. 23. The firm expects the program to be in effect until Aug, 23.
http://investor.htgc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=957035
(Redwood City, Calif.) Redwood City-based ThreatStream, developer of a threat intelligence platform, has named Mark Seward as its vice president of marketing and Anthony Aragues as its vice president of product management. Seward, previously served as the vice president product marketing at Exabeam, while Aragues led engineering and product management at Norse.
http://www.threatstream.com
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/threatstream-announces-two-new-executive-hires-2099744.htm
(Palo Alto, Calif.) Palo Alto-based CSC Venture Capital said on Thursday it has led a $3.2 million round of seed funding for Texas-based WigWag, developer of an open-source platform for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company, which has an office in San Francisco, will use the proceeds to accelerate product development, expand its development and marketing teams, and launch its platform and consumer products.
http://www.wigwag.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160225005387/en/WigWag-Secures-3.175-Million-Seed-Funding-Bridge
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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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> Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit - April 22
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