Bay Area Tech Wire - July 11

========================================== BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- July 11, 2017 ========================================== Job of the Day: Senior Ruby Platform Engineer, Mountain View CA - $170k o Mountain View-Based HyTrust Raises $36 Million, Acquires DataGravity o San Francisco-Based Move Guides Lands $48 Million in Third Round o Redwood City-Based Lastline Secures $28.5 Million in Third Round o Mountain View-Based Symantec to Acquire Palo Alto's Skycure o Palo Alto-Based Nok Nok Labs Raises $8 Million in Fourth Round o Campbell-Based Bitglass Promotes Rich Campagna to CEO > Job of the Day: Senior Ruby Platform Engineer, Mountain View CA - $170 o Briefly Noted: Seacoast Capital - OnSSI, eHealth _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Inbox Summit East - Sept. 29 - DC --Senior Ruby Platform Engineer, Mountain View CA - $170k --Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit - Baltimore - Sept 15 Full Job, Event, Marketplace and Services Descriptions Below in Classified Ad Section Post Job/Event/Marketplace ad at: http://www.bayareatechwire.com _____________________________________________ o Mountain View-Based HyTrust Raises $36 Million, Acquires DataGravity Mountain View, Calif. -- HyTrust, a Mountain View-based developer of tools designed to automate security controls on private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure, said on Tuesday it has raised $36 million in its fifth round of funding, using a portion of the proceeds to acquire New Hampshire-based DataGravity. Advance Venture Partners (AVP) led the round, which also included participation from previous backers Sway Ventures, Epic Ventures, Vanedge Capital and Trident Capital, as well as new investors Cisco, Fortinet, Intel and VMware. The company said it will use a portion of the funds to expand its sales and marketing efforts, and to fund new product development. HyTrust also has acquired data visibility and security company DataGravity in a bid to bolster its data security tools focused on protecting workload data. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. "The acquisition will accelerate the expansion of HyTrust's platform capabilities and capitalize on the high-growth cloud security market," said Eric Chiu, the company's co-founder and president. DataGravity's staff will join HyTrust. https://www.hytrust.com  https://www.hytrust.com/news-item/cloud-security-leader-hytrust-raises-36-million-series-e-funding-led-advance-venture-partners/  https://www.hytrust.com/news-item/hytrust-acquires-datagravity/  _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Move Guides Lands $48 Million in Third Round San Francisco -- Move Guides, a U.K.-based developer of cloud-based software designed to help companies move and manage mobile workers, with U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, said on Tuesday it has raised $48 million in its third round of funding. Future Fund, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Notion Capital took part in the round, which increased the company's total funding to $91 million since its inception in 2012. "Global mobility management is the next frontier for HR tech," said Ravi Viswanathan, a general partner at NEA. "Move Guides has developed the first cloud-based software platform to power the mobile workforce. They are disrupting traditional relocation companies and ushering in the future of talent management and workforce planning." The news comes three months after Move Guides acquired Estonia-based Teleport, developer of apps designed to help knowledge workers find their best places to live and work. http://www.moveguides.com/ https://www.moveguides.com/press/press-release-move-guides-raises-series-c-funding  _____________________________________________ o Redwood City-Based Lastline Secures $28.5 Million in Third Round Redwood City, Calif. -- Lastline, a Redwood City-based developer of malware protection tools, said on Tuesday it has secured $28.5 million in its third round of funding, led by Thomvest Ventures. Previous backers Osage University Partners and Redpoint Ventures also participated, along with Barracuda Networks, NTT Finance and WatchGuard Technologies. The company said it will use the funds to expand its sales and marketing activities and bolster its development organization. Umesh Padval, a partner at Thomvest, and Barmak Meftah, the president and CEO of AlienVault, have joined the company's board of directors. "This funding, strengthened board and the resulting growth will solidify Lastline as the leader in advanced breach detection," said co-founder and CEO Christopher Kruegel. http://www.lastline.com https://www.lastline.com/press/lastline-secures-28-5m-latest-funding-round-led-thomvest-ventures/  _____________________________________________ o Mountain View-Based Symantec to Acquire Palo Alto's Skycure Mountain View, Calif. -- Symantec, the Mountain View-based Internet security giant, said on Tuesday it will acquire Palo Alto-based mobile threat defense firm Skycure. Financial terms of the deal, expected to close by the end of September, were not disclosed. Symantec said that Skycure's predictive threat detection techniques will bolster its own enterprise and consumer mobility offerings, helping clients ensure that employees' devices are secure while they access corporate resources. "One of the most dangerous assumptions in today's world is that iOS and other mobile devices that employees bring into the office are safe, but the apps and data on these devices are under increasing attack," said CEO Greg Clark. "Mobile is a core component of our strategy and the acquisition of Skycure is a major step forward in executing it." Skycure is backed by investors including Foundation Capital, Shasta Ventures, Pitango Venture Capital, New York Life, Mike Weider, Peter McKay and Lane Bess. http://www.symantec.com https://www.skycure.com/  https://www.symantec.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/2017/symantec_0710_01  _____________________________________________ o Palo Alto-Based Nok Nok Labs Raises $8 Million in Fourth Round Palo Alto, Calif. -- Nok Nok Labs (NNL), a Palo Alto-based developer of client and server authentication software, said on Tuesday it has landed $8 million in its fourth round of funding, led by Motorola Solutions Venture Capital. Previous backers DCM Ventures, DDS, DOCOMO Innovations, Korea Information Certificate Authority (KICA), Lenovo Group and ONSET Ventures also participated. Nok Nok said it will use the proceeds to accelerate the deployment of its technology across private and public markets, including government, public safety and first responder agencies. The company, a founding member of the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance), also plans to expand its channel infrastructure. "Having Motorola Solutions as a strategic investor and partner will accelerate the use of FIDO enabled technologies in market verticals that have the most need for upgrading critical authentication infrastructure," said founder Ramesh Kesanupalli. http://www.noknok.com  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170711006097/en/Nok-Nok-Labs-Raises-8M-Series-Funding  _____________________________________________ o Campbell-Based Bitglass Promotes Rich Campagna to CEO Campbell, Calif. -- Bitglass, a Campbell-based provider of cloud-based data protection services, said on Tuesday it has promoted Rich Campagna to the role of CEO, taking over for retiring co-founder Nat Kausik. Campagna helped launch the company out of stealth in 2013, and most recently served as its senior vice president of product marketing. Earlier, he served as the senior director of product management at F5 Networks, Kausik will remain an advisor to the company. The news comes six months after Bitglass raised $45 million in its third round of funding from investors including Future Fund, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Norwest and Singtel Innov8. The company's service provides end-to-end data protection from the cloud to the device, allowing clients to enforce corporate data security policies across apps like Office 365, Salesforce and Exchange. https://www.bitglass.com  https://www.bitglass.com/press-releases/bitglass-names-rich-campagna-next-ceo _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > 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. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) Seacoast Capital, a San Francisco- and Boston-based lower middle market investment firm, said on Tuesday it has invested $16 million in New York-based OnSSI (On-Net Surveillance Systems), a provider of IP-based video management software and services. It marks Seacoast's first investment in the company, which develops tools used to manage video surveillance cameras and other security edge devices. The company will use the funds to expand its product lines, as well as the business video intelligence offerings of an affiliate. OnSSI also plans to use a portion as working capital. http://www.seacoastcapital.com  http://onssi.com/   http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170710005676/en/Seacoast-Capital-Initial-Growth-Capital-Investment-OnSSI  (Mountain View, Calif.) Mountain View-based eHealth, operator of a private online health insurance exchange, has named Tim Hannan as its chief marketing officer (CMO). Hannan most recently served as the CMO of Ibotta, and earlier was the CMO of Trip.com. https://www.ehealthinsurance.com/  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170711005551/en/eHealth-Appoints-Tim-Hannan-Chief-Marketing-Officer  =================================================== Job/Event/Services Listings: =================================================== To Post in Job/Event/Marketplace: http://www.bayareatechwire.com 7,000 Readers: 5 day ad: $120--10 day ad: $175--20 day ad: $300 > 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. _____________________________________________ > 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/ _____________________________________________ > 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. 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