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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- June 22, 2017
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Job of the Day: Senior Ruby Platform Engineer, Mountain View CA - $170k
o San Francisco-Based Samsara Raises $40 Million in Third Round of Funding
o San Francisco-Based Elevate Security Launches After Raising $2 Million
o Santa Clara-Based Intel Extends Cash Tender Officer for Mobileye
o Correction - SignalFx Names Mark Cranney as Chief Commercial Officer
> Job of the Day: Senior Ruby Platform Engineer, Mountain View CA - $170k
o Briefly Noted: Talend, Infogain, YL Ventures
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o San Francisco-Based Samsara Raises $40 Million in Third Round of Funding
San Francisco -- Samsara, a San Francisco-based developer of Internet-connected sensor systems for industrial and transportation applications, said it has raised $40 million in its third round of funding, led by General Catalyst. Previous backer Andreessen Horowitz and Samsara's founders also took part in the round, which valued the company at more than $530 million. Samsara's hardware and software platform, targeting the $8 billion vehicle telematics market, combines data from sensors, GPS, cameras and mobile apps. The 100-employee company now has raised $80 million since its inception, with plans to double its headcount by the end of this year while investing heavily in research and development. "This new financing lets us invest in long-term technology development to explore new applications for our platform," said co-founder and CEO Sanjit Biswas. Biswas and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) John Bicket together previously founded and led Meraki, a cloud networking technology company acquired by Cisco Systems for $1.2 billion. Hemant Taneja, managing director at General Catalyst, has joined the company's board of directors.
http://www.samsara.com
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/industrial-iot-company-samsara-raises-40m-in-series-c-growth-financing-300477294.html
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o San Francisco-Based Elevate Security Launches After Raising $2 Million
San Francisco -- Elevate Security, the San Francisco-based developer of a web-based platform designed to shift human behavior and responses to security threats in an effort to prevent breaches, said it has officially launched operations after landing $2 million in seed funding. Costanoa Ventures and Webb Investment Network took part in the round. Led by former Salesforce cybersecurity veterans Masha Sedova and Robert Fly, Elevate focuses on improving people's responses to phishing scams and increasing reporting rates of suspicious activity. Emphasis is put on curbing risky behaviors such as password reuse, working on personal devices and refusal to use multi-factor authentication. "The approach the vast majority of companies use to train their employees on cybersecurity is so old-fashioned and out of date that it actually does more harm than good," said Fly, the company's CEO. "Force-feeding a 60-minute video with questions at the end isn't going to achieve much more than getting people to tune out the message. If employees don't feel invested in protecting digital assets, you might as well just leave the front door of your company open to hackers."
http://www.elevatesecurity.com
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elevate-security-launches-with-2m-seed-funding-from-costanoa-ventures-and-webb-investment-network-300472340.html
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o Santa Clara-Based Intel Extends Cash Tender Officer for Mobileye
Santa Clara, Calif. -- Intel, the Santa Clara-based chipmaker, said on Thursday it has extended its cash tender offer for shares of Israel's Mobileye after falling well short of its original goal to acquire the bulk of the company's stock. The company's cash tender offer, at $63.54 a share, had been set to expired Wednesday night, but now has been extended through July 20. So far, just 50% of Mobileye's shares, have been validly tendered and not withdrawn, and an additional 8% have been tendered pursuant to guaranteed delivery procedures. Intel said it must be tendered at least 95% of Mobileye's outstanding shares to complete the $15.3 billion deal, first announced in March. Intel said the acquisition will bolster its position in the fast-growing market for autonomous vehicle systems, data and services, expected to grow to $70 billion by 2030.
https://www.intel.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170622005383/en/Intel-Extends-Cash-Tender-Offer-Outstanding-Shares
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o Correction - SignalFx Names Mark Cranney as Chief Commercial Officer
San Mateo, Calif. -- SignalFx, a San Mateo-based developer of a service that monitors metrics across every component in the cloud to maximize the productivity of cloud operations teams, has named Mark Cranney as its chief commercial officer. Cranney most recently was an operating partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which is a major investor in SignalFx. In his new role, he will lead the company's go-to-market operations, including sales, marketing, business development, customer success, support and services. In previous roles, he led worldwide field operations at Opsware, and held senior executive field operations positions at HP, Aster Data Systems and Parametric Technology Corp. The news follows a series of key hires for SignalFx, including Paul Ross as vice president of marketing, Jim Brzezinski as vice president of worldwide sales, Susan Gudenkauf as vice president of customer experience and Naren Goel as vice president of finance. (Note - An article in Wednesday's edition misidentified the name of SignalFx.)
https://signalfx.com/
https://signalfx.com/press/pr-20170620-appoints-mark-cranney-chief-commercial-officer/
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> Sr. Ruby Platform Engineer, Mountain View, CA - $170k
We're looking for a top caliber engineer with experience in building a data platform at internet scale. Our client's platform interacts with multitude of health/fitness devices and apps real time data streams. The ideal candidate will have top-notch skills, and preferably has experience working on early stage consumer service platforms. This is an opportunity to be part of a promising early stage startup in the exciting digital health/fitness space and to drive a new generation health/fitness platform architecture. If you've got the right skills and passion, we want you!
What you'll be doing:
- Architecting, building, testing and refining new products and services throughout the backend platform stack, including cache, workflow, controller, and data
- Evolving various stack components to scale and address new service requirements
- Designing and developing REST API and integration points for various platform services
- Brainstorming and prototyping new concepts and approaches fast
- Turning prototypes into real things
Qualifications:
- Worked on large scale SOA consumer systems
- Fluency in Ruby and Ruby on Rails
- Experience with designing REST based API's for consumer based services
- At least 5 years of experience designing and building backend software platforms
- Expert knowledge in optimization and scalability using various technologies
- Experience with MySQL and MongoDB
- Able to design and write well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code that balances beauty and pragmatism
- Demonstrable track record building distributed, clustered, high-throughput applications
- Talent and drive to build a winning product and platform
- A team player in a flat-structured, highly collaborative agile environment is a must
- Strong academic background, preferably in Computer Science
If interested, please email resume to greg@chiefpeople.com.
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o Briefly Noted:
(Redwood City, Calif.) Redwood City-based Talend, a developer of cloud and big data integration tools, said on Thursday it has opened a new office in Bangalore, India. The new office will house members of the company's customer success team, including professional services, who will provide support and training to customers and system integrators in the region.
http://www.talend.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170622005287/en/Talend-Accelerates-Growth-Opening-New-Office-India
(Los Gatos, Calif.) Los Gatos-based Infogain, a developer of front-end, customer-facing technologies, processes and applications, on Thursday named Vinay Rawat as its chief revenue officer. Rawat most recently served as the senior vice president and global head of network equipment and consumer electronics at Wipro Technologies.
http://www.infogain.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170622005580/en/Infogain-Strengthens-Leadership-Team-Appointment-New-Chief
(San Francisco) Weeks after closing its new $75 million seed fund, San Francisco-based YL Ventures, an Israel-focused seed-stage venture capital firm, on Thursday named a pair of venture advisors. New advisors include Andy Ellis, the chief security officer of Akamai Technologies, and Amichai Shulman, the co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of Imperva.
https://www.ylventures.com/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170622005127/en/YL-Ventures-Expands-Advisory-Board-Akamai-Imperva
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> Sr. Ruby Platform Engineer, Mountain View, CA - $170k
We're looking for a top caliber engineer with experience in building a data platform at internet scale. Our client's platform interacts with multitude of health/fitness devices and apps real time data streams. The ideal candidate will have top-notch skills, and preferably has experience working on early stage consumer service platforms. This is an opportunity to be part of a promising early stage startup in the exciting digital health/fitness space and to drive a new generation health/fitness platform architecture. If you've got the right skills and passion, we want you! What you'll be doing: Architecting, building, testing and refining new products and services throughout the backend platform stack, including cache, workflow, controller, and data. Evolving various stack components to scale and address new service requirements. Designing and developing REST API and integration points for various platform services. Brainstorming and prototyping new concepts and approaches fast. Turning prototypes into real things Qualifications: Worked on large scale SOA consumer systems. Fluency in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Experience with designing REST based API's for consumer based services. At least 5 years of experience designing and building backend software platforms. Expert knowledge in optimization and scalability using various technologies. Experience with MySQL and MongoDB. Able to design and write well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code that balances beauty and pragmatism. Demonstrable track record building distributed, clustered, high-throughput applications. Talent and drive to build a winning product and platform. A team player in a flat-structured, highly collaborative agile environment is a must. Strong academic background, preferably in Computer Science If interested, please email resume to greg@chiefpeople.com.
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> 13 Workplace Communication Tips Today's Young People Need to Know
Texting- and social media-obsessed Millennials aren't always prepared to navigate the business world, which primarily "runs" on email and face-to-face communication. Here, we share 13 dos and don'ts to help them communicate productively in the big leagues.
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