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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- June 28, 2017
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Inbox Summit East - Washington, D.C. - Sept. 29 (Super Early-Bird Rate Available)
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o Redwood City-Based Sumo Logic Lands $75 Million in New Funding
o Sunnyvale-Based Platform9 Raises $22 Million in Third Round
o San Francisco's DayTwo Secures $12 Million in First Round of Funding
o HDS Federal to Acquire Federal Contracts from San Jose-Based Brocade
o Ford Teams with Motivate to Launch Expanded Bike-Share Program in Bay Area
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o Briefly Noted: Accenture, Jetlore, AEye
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o Redwood City-Based Sumo Logic Lands $75 Million in New Funding
Redwood City, Calif. -- Sumo Logic, the Redwood City-based developer of a cloud-native machine data analytics platform, said it has landed $75 million in a new round of funding, led by Sapphire Ventures. Accel Partners, DFJ Growth, Greylock Partners, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Sequoia Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures also took part in the round, which increased the company's total backing to $235 million since its inception seven years ago. The company said it will use the proceeds to bolster its engineering, sales and global operations, with a focus on extending the capabilities of its service to address areas such as operational and security analytics, advanced machine learning and IoT. "This investment… reflects the company's progress and provides the capital needed to become the dominant SaaS leader in the machine data analytics category," said CEO Ramin Sayar. Sumo Logic said its platform is now used by more than 1,500 clients, analyzing well over 100 petabytes of data a day.
http://www.sumologic.com
https://www.sumologic.com/press/2017-06-27/75-million-funding-round/
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o Sunnyvale-Based Platform9 Raises $22 Million in Third Round
Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Platform9, a Sunnyvale-based provider of open source-as-a-service for clients deploying hybrid clouds across multiple platforms, said on Wednesday it has raised $22 million in its third round of funding, led by Canvas Ventures. HP Enterprise also participated in the round, along with previous backers Redpoint Ventures and Menlo Ventures. The company, which now has raised $36.5 million since its inception, said it will use the latest proceeds to expand its global sales, product and marketing teams, as well as boost engineering investments. Platform9's cloud delivery model lets users deploy and manage hybrid clouds with popular cloud frameworks such as Kubernetes, OpenStack and Fission. Clients include Cadence Design, Autodesk, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Sony PlayStation. "Enterprises today are racing to adopt the cloud, but struggle with managing numerous infrastructure silos, ranging from legacy virtualized data centers to pockets of public cloud deployments," said CEO Sirish Raghuram. "We enable infrastructure anywhere to be easily managed."
http://www.platform9.com
https://platform9.com/press/platform9-raises-22-million-series-c-funding-to-reimagine-hybrid-clouds/
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o San Francisco's DayTwo Secures $12 Million in First Round of Funding
San Francisco -- DayTwo, the San Francisco- and Israel-based provider of a DNA sequencing service that explores the gut microbiome to help users live healthier and maintain normal blood sugar levels, said it has raised $12 million in its first round of funding. Investors included Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Seventure Partners' Health for Life Capital fund, Mayo Clinic, co-founder Marius Nacht and other private investors. The company, which now has raised $17 million since its inception, said it will use the latest funds to expand its product, engineering and data science teams in Tel Aviv and San Francisco. In addition, DayTwo said it will deepen its clinical research with the Mayo Clinic and other gut-microbiome clinical research partners. DayTwo has developed a method to accurately predict people's glycemic response to specific foods and food combinations using their microbiome and other clinical factors. The company then uses that information in its cloud-based diet and nutrition planner, giving users personalized scores based on what they eat. "We've just scratched the surface of how powerful the microbiome is to support personalized diet, nutrition, and chronic condition management," said CEO Lihi Segal. "DayTwo has brought actionable, evidence-based science down to a mobile app, to make personalized nutrition easy and convenient for the first time."
http://www.daytwo.com
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/daytwo-secures-120-million-series-a-financing-round-300480088.html
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o HDS Federal to Acquire Federal Contracts from San Jose-Based Brocade
Santa Clara, Calif. -- Hitachi Data Systems Federal (HDS Federal), a unit of Santa Clara-based Hitachi Data Systems that provides data and analytics tools to the federal government, said it will pay an undisclosed amount to acquire federal service maintenance contracts from San Jose-based Brocade Communication Systems. The deal is expected to close by the end of October, when Broadcom completes its $5.9 billion acquisition of Brocade, announced in November. HDS Federal said it will take on an unspecified number of cleared employees from Brocade as part of the agreement. "This agreement with Brocade reinforces our commitment to the public sector and expands our portfolio of capabilities to further assist our government customers in their digital transformation journeys," said David Turner, HDS Federal's president and CEO.
http://www.hdsfed.com
http://www.hdsfed.com/news/press-releases/hitachi-data-systems-federal-signs-definitive-agreement-accept-transfer-and
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o Ford Teams with Motivate to Launch Expanded Bike-Share Program in Bay Area
San Francisco -- Commuters in the Bay Area will have more two-wheeled options to get around town under a new program that launched Thursday. Automaker Ford said it has teamed with Motivate to expand the area's bike-share program -- now called Ford GoBike -- with plans to make 3,500 technology-enabled bicycles available throughout San Francisco, East Bay and San Jose by the end of summer. The bikes feature gears and brakes specifically designed to more easily navigate hilly terrain, as well as puncture-resistant tires and motion-activated lights. People can become members of the program by registering at FordGoBike.com or walking up to a station. Users of Ford's FordPass app can find and rent available bikes through their mobile devices. The app also will send notifications, including the time of a user's current ride and number of miles ridden on a trip. By the end of 2018, Ford GoBike aims to house 7,000 bikes at 546 stations, making it the nation's second-largest bike-share program. Ford and Motivate have worked with local officials, community groups, civic associations and others to determine specifications and station locations for the Bay Area.
https://www.fordgobike.com/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170627006341/en/Ford-GoBike-Launching-Bay-Area-Expanding-Accessible
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> Inbox Summit East - Sept. 29 - Washington, DC
Inbox Summit East is a one-day conference that puts a spotlight on the latest and most effective techniques for email marketing. With dozens of panels, presentations and networking opportunities, the summit in Washington, D.C. will take a deep dive into current developments in email marketing and email strategy. Topics will include: Email Deliverability Issues, Current Email Metrics, Integrating Email With Social and Mobile Platforms, Email Content, List Building and Maintenance, Personalized and Customer Centric Email, and the Future of Email.
http://www.inboxsummiteast.com/
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o Briefly Noted:
(San Francisco) Accenture said that Sanjay Podder, the managing director of Accenture Labs in Bangalore, India, has been selected as an Eisenhower Fellow (EF). As part of EF's Fall Global Program, which includes 20 other leaders from business, government and civil society from the Middle East and South Asia, Podder will take part in a six-week fellowship in the U.S. to exchange knowledge and ideas.
https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/sanjay-podder-of-accenture-selected-as-eisenhower-fellow-to-research-tech4good-initiatives.htm
(San Mateo, Calif.) San Mateo-based Jetlore, developer of an AI-powered prediction platform for retailers, has named Dorna Bandari as its director of algorithms. Bandari, who will oversee machine learning infrastructure and development of algorithms, most recently worked at Pinterest, where she led data science initiatives in infrastructure and the company's core product groups.
http://www.jetlore.com
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jetlore-poaches-pinterests-top-female-data-scientist-to-become-new-director-of-algorithms-300480044.html
(Pleasanton, Calif.) Pleasanton-based AEye, a developer of robotic vision technology for autonomous vehicles, on Wednesday named Allan Steinhardt as its chief engineer, John Stockton as its vice president of product and Blair LaCorte as its chief of staff. Steinhardt previously served as a chief scientist at DARPA; Stockton was the CEO of ARC International, Synergy Semiconductor and Stream Machine; and LaCorte served as global president of PRG and CEO of XOJET.
https://aeye.ai/executive-team
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> Inbox Summit East - Sept. 29 - Washington, DC
Inbox Summit East is a one-day conference that puts a spotlight on the latest and most effective techniques for email marketing. With dozens of panels, presentations and networking opportunities, the summit in Washington, D.C. will take a deep dive into current developments in email marketing and email strategy. Topics will include: Email Deliverability Issues, Current Email Metrics, Integrating Email With Social and Mobile Platforms, Email Content, List Building and Maintenance, Personalized and Customer Centric Email, and the Future of Email.
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> Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit - Baltimore - Sept. 15
The Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit: Baltimore will be held on Sept. 15 at Pier 5 Hotel in Baltimore. Now in its sixth year, the annual summit has become the "must-attend" marketing event for the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond. The summit brings together 300+ CMOs, Senior Marketers, Agency Professionals and Technology Executives from throughout the Mid-Atlantic area. The event features dozens of case studies, keynotes, and presentations on the most important issues facing marketers in 2018.
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