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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- July 13, 2017
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o San Francisco-Based Segment Raises $64 Million in Third Round of Funding
o S.F.-Based E-Scape Bio Closes First Round of Funding at $63 Million
o Dan Levin to Step Down as President and COO of Redwood City's Box
o San Francisco-Based iBeat Lands Another $3 Million in Seed Funding
o Redwood City-Based Metamoto Lands $2 Million in Seed Funding
o Briefly Noted: Digital Realty, Thoma Bravo - Global Healthcare Exchange
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o San Francisco-Based Segment Raises $64 Million in Third Round of Funding
San Francisco -- Segment, the San Francisco-based developer of a customer data platform, said on Thursday it has raised $64 million in its third round of funding, co-led by the Y Combinator Continuity Fund and GV. Previous backers Accel, Thrive Capital, Ron Conway's SV Angel and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) also participated in this round, which increased the company's total funding to $109 million. Ali Rowghani, a partner at Y Combinator and former chief operating officer (COO) at Twitter, will join the company's board of directors. Segment said it will use the latest proceeds to bolster product development activities -- creating new products designed to make the data flowing through its platform more valuable -- and expand its staff. "This investment will help accelerate our core platform development as we centralize the data flowing through our platform and expose it in new structured ways," said CEO Peter Reinhardt. "We're just at the beginning of the enormous opportunity to help businesses all over the world use their customer data effectively to build better products and experiences." Segment's technology is designed to collect, unify and send customer data to more than 200 analytics and marketing tools automatically. Businesses also can combine their website and mobile data with data from additional customer touch points in cloud services like Stripe, Salesforce, Mailchimp and Zendesk. Clients include Intuit, Atlassian, Gap, Crate&Barrel, The Knot and New Relic.
https://segment.com
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/segment-raises-64-million-to-set-the-standard-for-customer-data-infrastructure-2225996.htm
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o S.F.-Based E-Scape Bio Closes First Round of Funding at $63 Million
San Francisco -- E-Scape Bio, a San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical company developing therapies to treat neurodegenerative diseases, said it has raised $63 million in its first round of funding after closing a new tranche from Lilly Asia Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures. OrbiMed originally led the round, which included participation from Novo Holding, Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JJDC, Novartis Venture Fund and Osage University Partners. E-Scape Bio is developing small-molecule drugs that target the inherited genetic drivers of neurodegenerative disorders and correct the dysfunctional proteins at the root of the disease. The company's lead program targets the Apolipoprotein E4 (ApoE4) protein structure -- a major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. "Our work demonstrates that ApoE4 structure is the key to unlocking small molecules capable of targeting the most prominent genetic risk factor for developing Alzheimer's disease," said co-founder Yadong Huang, a senior investigator at Gladstone Institutes.
http://www.e-scapebio.com
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/e-scape-bio-series-a-extension-brings-total-round-to-63-million-to-fund-neurodegenerative-disease-pipeline-300486605.html
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o Dan Levin to Step Down as President and COO of Redwood City's Box
Redwood City, Calif. -- Box, a Redwood City-based developer of cloud content management tools, said late Wednesday that Dan Levin will step down as its president and chief operating officer (COO) following seven years with the company. Stephanie Carullo, former executive at Apple and Cisco, will succeed him as COO. Levin, who helped grow the company from 50 employees to more than 1,600 during his tenure, will remain on the board of directors. "As I move on to my next chapter, I am confident we've selected a strong leader to drive Box's continued growth," said Levin. Carullo previously served as Apple's vice president of U.S. education sales and Cisco's vice president of data center and virtualization sales. She most recently has been advising startups in Silicon Valley.
http://www.box.com/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170712006228/en/Stephanie-Carullo-Named-Succeed-Dan-Levin-Box
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o San Francisco-Based iBeat Lands Another $3 Million in Seed Funding
San Francisco -- iBeat, a San Francisco-based startup developing a cellular smartwatch that continually monitors users' heart activity, said on Thursday it has raised another $3 million to increase its total seed funding to $4.5 million. New investors include WTI, SV Tech Ventures, Lee Equity and entrepreneurs and angel investors Michael Rubin, Mark Burg and Harald Ludwig. They join original investors Maveron, Subtraction Capital, Correlation Ventures, Band of Angels, super-angels Ali and Hadi Partovi, KKR founding partner Henry Kravis, and cardiothoracic surgeon and host of "The Dr. Oz Show" Mehmet Oz. iBeat plans to use the additional funds to begin clinical testing, refine its sales and marketing strategies and further scale its tooling and manufacturing operations. The company also said it plans to double its headcount by the end of 2017.
http://www.ibeat.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170713005331/en/iBeat-Lifesaving-Smartwatch-Extends-Seed-4.5-Million
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o Redwood City-Based Metamoto Lands $2 Million in Seed Funding
Redwood City, Calif. -- Metamoto, a Redwood City-based developer of simulation software for autonomous vehicle systems, said it has raised $2 million in a round of seed funding, led by Motus Ventures. UL, Western Technology Investment, v1.vc, SK Ventures and Synapse Partners also participated. Robert Seidl, general manager of Motus Ventures, has joined the company's board of directors. "Autonomy has completely overhauled how vehicles are designed, developed and especially tested," said CEO Chad Partridge. "Simulation will not replace physical testing, but most problems are resolved in simulation before a vehicle goes out into the real world."
https://www.metamoto.com/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170712006175/en/Autonomous-System-Simulation-Startup-Metamoto-Raises-2M
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o Briefly Noted:
(San Francisco) San Francisco-based Digital Realty, an owner and operator of data centers, has named Sherri Liebo as its senior vice president of marketing. Liebo most recently served as the chief marketing officer (CMO) of Q2E, and previously was the vice president of global partner marketing at Cisco.
http://investor.digitalrealty.com/investor-relations/news-and-events/news/news-details/2017/Digital-Realty-Names-Sherri-Liebo-as-Senior-Vice-President-Marketing/default.aspx
(San Francisco) San Francisco-based private equity firm Thoma Bravo said on Thursday it has completed its sale of Colorado-based Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), a provider of connected intelligent healthcare supply chains, to Singapore-based Temasek. Thoma Bravo has retained a minority stake in the company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
http://www.thomabravo.com
http://www.ghx.com
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/thoma-bravo-completes-sale-of-ghx-to-temasek-300487838.html
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