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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- July 17, 2017
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o San Francisco-Based Leap Motion Raises $50 Million in Third Round
o Mountain View-Based Awake Security Launches After Raising $30 Million
o Bay Area Ranks No. 2 Worldwide in Cities for Women Entrepreneurs
o Report: U.S. Lags Behind Most of Europe in Public Wi-Fi Speeds
o Survey: 41% of Americans Say They've Been Harassed Online
o Briefly Noted: CrowdStrike
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o San Francisco-Based Leap Motion Raises $50 Million in Third Round
San Francisco -- Leap Motion, a San Francisco-based developer of motion tracking technology for natural input in virtual and augmented reality, said on Monday it has raised $50 million in its third round of funding, led by J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Lawrence Unrein, the global head of J.P. Morgan Asset Management's Private Equity Group, has joined the company's board of directors. The company said it will use the proceeds to fuel global expansion, particularly in Asia, and advance innovation and adoption of its hand and finger tracking technology. "Natural input through full hand tracking is inseparable and fundamental to the future of VR/AR," said co-founder and CEO Michael Buckwald. "In much the same way as the touchscreen sparked the mobile revolution, Leap Motion is playing a transformative role in the development of human interface technology for VR/AR."
http://www.leapmotion.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170717006006/en/Leap-Motion-Announces-50-Million-Series-Funding
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o Mountain View-Based Awake Security Launches After Raising $30 Million
Mountain View, Calif. -- Awake Security, a Mountain View-based security analytics startup, said on Monday it has launched operations after landing more than $30 million in funding from Greylock Partners and Bain Capital Ventures. Asheem Chandna, a partner at Greylock, and Enrique Salem, managing director at Bain, have joined its board of directors. Awake's platform uses machine learning and data science to automate the painstaking analysis performed by investigators, helping security teams detect, investigate and hunt for threats that currently are missed, such as corporate espionage, insider threats, lateral movement and data exfiltration. "We're taking a fundamentally different approach, automating the information gathering and interpretation that top experts perform, allowing any analyst to answer questions easily that are difficult or impossible to answer today," said co-founder and CEO Michael Callahan. "These advanced analytics free them from alert-focused drudgery and enable teams to do what they do best -- investigate and hunt for threats."
http://www.awakesecurity.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170717005698/en/Awake-Security-Launches-30-Million-Greylock-Partners
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o Bay Area Ranks No. 2 Worldwide in Cities for Women Entrepreneurs
San Francisco -- The Bay Area, including the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas, ranks No. 2 on Dell's new list of the top 50 global cities for women entrepreneurs. New York tops the company's 2017 Women Entrepreneur Cities (WE Cities) Index, which ranks cities based on the impact of local policies, programs and characteristics, in addition to national laws and customs. London, Boston and Stockholm round out the top five, with Los Angeles No. No. 6) and Washington, DC (No. 7) also ranking among the top 10. Dell said the Bay Area comes in at No. 1 in terms of capital, as well as No. 2 in operating environment and markets. "Globally, women's entrepreneurship rates are growing more than 10% each year. In fact, women are as likely or more likely than men to start businesses in many markets," said Karen Quintos, Dell's executive vice president and chief customer officer. "However, financial, cultural and political barriers can limit the success of these businesses." The complete rankings are at the link below.
http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/corporate~secure~en/documents~dell-global-we-cities-2017-index-executive-summary_final.pdf (PDF)
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o Report: U.S. Lags Behind Most of Europe in Public Wi-Fi Speeds
Palo Alto, Calif. -- When it comes to public Wi-Fi speeds, the U.S. lags far behind much of the world, according to a new report by Palo Alto-based Internet communications company Ooma. The company said the U.S. ranks No. 20, with average download speeds of 6.89 Mbps. That's less than half as fast as top-ranked Lithuania (15.4 Mbps) and No. 2 Croatia (14.05 Mbps), with Estonia (13.75 Mbps), Ireland (11.43 Mbps) and Romania (11.32 Mbps) rounding out the top five. Ooma also compiled lists of countries with the fastest and slowest Internet speeds (both private and public). The fastest include South Korea, Norway, Hong Kong, Sweden and Switzerland, while the slowest include Venezuela, Paraguay, Namibia, Bolivia and Nigeria. The details of the report are at the link below.
https://www.ooma.com/blog/best-worst-wifi-countries/
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o Survey: 41% of Americans Say They've Been Harassed Online
Washington, DC -- Forty-one percent of Americans have personally experienced online harassment, while two-thirds (66%) have witnessed the online harassment of others, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. Among those who have personally experienced harassment, 27% said they have been the target of offensive name calling, 22% purposeful efforts to embarrass them and 10% physical threats. Despite those numbers, however, Americans are divided on the issues that underlie online harassment, such as the appropriate balance between free speech and online safety. When asked how they would prioritize these interests, 45% said it is more important to let people speak their minds freely online, while a slightly larger share (53%) thinks it is more important for people to feel welcome and safe online. Similarly, 56% feel that many people take offensive content online too seriously, while 43% say this type of content is too often excused as not a big deal. "The issue of online harassment is more complicated than first meets the eye," said Maeve Duggan, author of the report and research associate at Pew Research Center. "Americans simultaneously want concrete solutions and safe spaces online, but they're protective of free expression. And given the spectrum of documented experiences with online harassment -- from the mild to the severe -- people sense there's no one-size-fits-all remedy." The survey included responses from 4,248 U.S. adults. The complete report is available at the link below.
http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/07/11/online-harassment-2017/
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o Briefly Noted:
(Sunnyvale, Calif.) Sunnyvale-based CrowdStrike, a developer of cloud-delivered endpoint protection tools, on Monday named Laurel Finch as its chief legal officer and secretary. Finch most recently served as the general counsel, chief compliance officer and secretary at MobileIron, where she was the legal lead on the company's 2014 IPO, and previously was the general counsel of Openlane.
https://www.crowdstrike.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170717005270/en/CrowdStrike-Appoints-Laurel-Finch-Chief-Legal-Officer
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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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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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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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