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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- July 6, 2017
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Inbox Summit East - Washington, D.C. - Sept. 29 (Super Early-Bird Rate Available)
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o San Francisco-Based OnboardIQ Raises $9.1 Million in First Round
o Mountain View-Based Symantec to Acquire Fireglass
o San Francisco-Based Light Polymers Lands $5 Million in Second Round
o San Jose-Based Lumileds Gains Independence Following Philips Sale
o Sausalito-Based Sitecore Names Mark Frost as New CEO
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o San Francisco-Based OnboardIQ Raises $9.1 Million in First Round
San Francisco -- OnboardIQ, the San Francisco-based developer of a hiring automation platform for hourly workers, said on Thursday it has raised $9.1 million in its first round of funding, led by Origin Ventures. SoftTech VC, Crosslink Capital and Y Combinator also participated. Brent Hill, a partner at Origin Ventures, has joined the company's board of directors. Founded by Jeremy Cai and Keith Ryu, OnboardIQ has developed a cloud-based platform that uses machine learning and automation to address challenges commonly faced by HR and operations teams when hiring large workforces. "Companies are now using OnboardIQ to process over 300,000 applications each month," said Cai, who serves as chief operating officer (COO). "[The platform] is purpose-built to serve hourly workers, a demographic that makes up the majority of the global workforce but has been overlooked by modern HR software."
http://www.onboardiq.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170706005821/en/OnboardIQ-Closes-9.1M-Series-Funding
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o Mountain View-Based Symantec to Acquire Fireglass
Mountain View, Calif. -- Symantec, the Mountain View-based cybersecurity giant, said on Thursday it will acquire Israel-based Fireglass, a developer of technology designed to eliminate ransomware, malware and phishing threats by preventing potentially harmful content from reaching user endpoints or corporate networks. Financial terms of the deal, expected to close by the end of September, were not disclosed. Fireglass' browser isolation technology is designed to open all potentially harmful websites, emails and attachments within a separate protected environment, protecting users regardless of the links they click or the sites they visit. Symantec said the acquisition will bolster its Integrated Cyber Defense Platform, while also extending its secure web gateway and email protection offerings. "Integrating Fireglass' isolation technology with Symantec's existing endpoint, email and secure web gateway solutions could reduce security events by as much as 70%, while virtually eliminating advanced threats spread by web browsing or email content," said Symantec CEO Greg Clark. "Isolation will become a core component in the design of cyber defense architectures for the cloud generation." Fireglass is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.
http://www.symantec.com
https://fire.glass/
https://www.symantec.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/2017/symantec_0706_01
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o San Francisco-Based Light Polymers Lands $5 Million in Second Round
San Francisco -- Light Polymers, a San Francisco-based nanochemistry startup with R&D operations in Silicon Valley, Taiwan and Korea, said it has raised $5 million in its second round of funding. Tsingda International Venture Capital and TEL Venture Capital co-led the round, which the company will use for strategic projects and a related acquisition that it said will be "announced soon." Founded in 2013, Light Polymers has conducted extensive research on the use of lyotropic liquid crystals in LED lighting, LCD and OLED displays, as well as in the building materials and biomedical fields. The technology is now in trial stages with a number of potential commercialization partners. The company previously raised $24.3 million in its first round, which closed in March.
http://www.lightpolymers.com/
http://www.lightpolymers.com/light-polymers-closes-5m-series-b-strategic-funding-round-with-tokyo-electron-and-tsingda-international-venture-capital/
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o San Jose-Based Lumileds Gains Independence Following Philips Sale
San Jose, Calif. -- Lumileds, a San Jose-based developer of LEDs and automotive lighting products, said that owner Royal Philips has completed a deal to sell 80.1% of the company to Apollo Global Management. Financial terms of the deal, first announced in December, were not disclosed. Royal Philips has retained the remaining 19.9% stake. As a result, Lumileds, which has more than 9,000 employees, now operates as an independent company. "We are fortunate to have Apollo's and Philips' support as Lumileds embarks upon our next chapter as an innovator of high performance LEDs and a leader in advanced lighting solutions," said CEO Mark Adams in a statement.
http://www.lumileds.com
http://www.agm.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170705005689/en/Lumileds-Officially-Independent-Company-Funds-Affiliated-Apollo
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o Sausalito-Based Sitecore Names Mark Frost as New CEO
Sausalito, Calif. -- Sitecore, a Sausalito-based developer of experience management software, on Thursday named Mark Frost as its new CEO. He succeeds co-founder Michael Seifert, who will take a seat on the company's board of directors. "After 15 years of steering Sitecore… I'm excited to pass the baton and am confident that Mark is the right person to lead Sitecore into its next chapter," said Seifert. "His competencies around strategy and leadership, combined with his remarkable experience in scaling software businesses, make him the ideal fit." Frost most recently served as the CEO of MarkMonitor, which he helped sell in October, and previously served as general manager of the SaaS business unit of CA Technologies.
http://www.sitecore.net/
http://www.sitecore.net/en/company/press-and-media/press-releases/2017/07/sitecore-appoints-mark-frost-as-chief-executive-officer
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o Briefly Noted:
(San Francisco) San Francisco-based Blue Cedar, a developer of enterprise mobile app data security tools, on Thursday named Lars Ronning as its vice president and general manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Ronning most recently served as the vice president and general manager for EMEA at Helpshift.
https://www.bluecedar.com/press-releases/blue-cedar-expands-european-presence-appoints-lars-ronning-vice-president-and-general-manager
(Redwood City, Calif.) Redwood City-based Shutterfly, the manufacturer and online retailer of personalized photo products and services, has named Scott Arnold as the president of Shutterfly Enterprise, overseeing the company's enterprise division. Arnold most recently served as the president and CEO of AppSense. and earlier was the CEO of Market Tools, chief operating officer (COO) of Borland Software and a partner at McKinsey & Company based in Silicon Valley.
http://ir.shutterfly.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1032184
(San Francisco) San Francisco-based Zenefits, developer of a digital HR platform for small and medium businesses, on Thursday named Kevin Marasco as its chief marketing officer. Marasco most recently served as the CMO at HireVue, and previously was the vice president of brand and digital marketing at Taleo and senior vice president of marketing and sales support at Vurv Technology.
https://www.zenefits.com/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170706005382/en/Zenefits-Names-HR-Marketing-Veteran-Kevin-Marasco
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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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> 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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