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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Aug. 31, 2017
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o San Francisco-Based Qadium Raises $40 Million in Second Round of Funding
o Mountain View-Based GetInsured Acquires ACAExpress.com
o San Francisco-Based Chime Technologies Acquires GeographicFarming
o Study: Only 25% of Employees Believe Their Colleagues Behave Ethically
o Survey: Email Now Embedded in Peoples' Lives Like Never Before
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o Briefly Noted: Conversica, Course Hero
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o San Francisco-Based Qadium Raises $40 Million in Second Round of Funding
San Francisco -- Qadium, the San Francisco-based developer of a subscription service used by large organizations to assess their Internet risks, said on Thursday it has raised $40 million in its second round of funding, led by IVP. New investor TPG Growth and prior investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Founders Fund, Susa Ventures and angels also participated in the round, which the company will use to bolster its sales and marketing activities and grow its engineering and product teams. Qadium indexes every device on the public Internet every hour, similar to how search companies crawl web pages. It uses this data to continually monitor the Internet, developing comprehensive information about all of an organization's Internet-facing risks. Those risks include shadow IT, misconfigurations in cloud hosting, unauthorized or unmonitored Internet of Things (IoT) equipment, regional offices and subsidiaries violating policy and "lost" devices due to M&A events. Qadium previously raised a $20 million in its first round, led by NEA in 2016. "Prior rounds were a bet on the vision that we'd be able to monetize persistent monitoring of the entire Internet's surface area," said co-founder and CEO Tim Junio. "Since then, our sharp uptick in initial sales affirms our intuition was on the right track." Customer include CVS, PayPal, Capital One, Allergan and Fluor.
https://qadium.com/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170831005455/en/Qadium-Announces-40-million-Series-Funding-Led
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o Mountain View-Based GetInsured Acquires ACAExpress.com
Mountain View, Calif. -- GetInsured, the Mountain View-based developer of an online marketplace for individual health insurance, said on Thursday it has acquired Texas-based ACAExpress.com, as well as the company's sister brand, Benefit Geek. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ACAExpress.com has built a Healthcare.gov-integrated platform designed to streamline Affordable Care Act health plan enrollment for consumers and brokers. GetInsured said the acquisition will bolster its health insurance ecommerce tools for group, individual and Medicare enrollment. "Acquiring ACAExpress enables us to extend our technology to the broker community and bring greater efficiencies to Medicare shopping and enrollment," said co-founder and CEO Chini Krishnan. ACAExpress.com founders Chris Linville, Don Archer and Kenny West will remain with GetInsured as senior vice president and general manager of broker business, engineering director and vice president of broker engagement, respectively.
https://company.getinsured.com/
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/getinsured-acquires-acaexpresscom-expands-saas-health-insurance-platform-to-enable-independent-brokers-300511758.html
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o San Francisco-Based Chime Technologies Acquires GeographicFarming
San Francisco -- Chime Technologies, the San Francisco-based developer of an operating system for the real estate industry, said it has acquired Arizona-based GeographicFarming, a provider of marketing tools for real estate businesses. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company said the acquisition will add direct mail and telemarketing farming features to its real estate suite. Chime's platform makes it easy to launch marketing campaigns, track lead activities, build customer relationships and manage teams.
https://chime.me/
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/chime-acquires-geographicfarming-to-keep-real-estate-professionals-on-the-cutting-edge-300511297.html
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o Study: Only 25% of Employees Believe Their Colleagues Behave Ethically
Arlington, Va. -- Only 25% of employees believe their colleagues behave ethically, according to a new study from CEB. The company surveyed 5,000 employees on drivers of culture in the workplace, and found that the vast majority believe their teammates engage in and model the wrong behaviors. Despite a recent focus on improving corporate culture, over the past eight years there has been less than a 1% drop in the number of employees who observed misconduct at their organizations. "Employees today do not believe their companies are any more ethical than they were eight years ago," said Brian Lee, compliance practice leader at CEB. "Most companies' top-down approach to improving corporate integrity and culture -- focused on senior leaders' messages and tone -- is clearly not enough to create change."
https://news.cebglobal.com/2017-08-21-CEB-Says-Only-25-Percent-Of-Employees-Trust-That-Their-Colleagues-Behave-Ethically
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o Survey: Email Now Embedded in Peoples' Lives Like Never Before
San Jose, Calif. -- Coinciding with the 35th anniversary of email's copyright, a new report by San Jose-based Edison Software finds that email is now embedded in Americans' lives than ever before. The survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults finds that about one third receive up to 100 emails a day, with 85% accessing them through their mobile devices. About 41% read email in bed, 39% while eating food, 34% while on the go, 24% while in the bathroom and 21% while spending time with their significant other. Approximately 74% feel overwhelmed by the number and frequency of emails they receive, and nearly half are worried about missing an important message due to email overload. The complete report is available at the link below.
https://www.edison.tech/assets/press/2017-state-of-email-report.pdf (PDF)
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o Briefly Noted:
(Foster City, Calif.) Foster City-based Conversica, a developer of AI-driven lead engagement software for marketing and sales organizations, on Thursday named Victor Belfor as its senior vice president of business development, Brian Kaminski as its chief customer officer and Sid Reddy as chief scientist. Belfor previously was a founding leader of the partnership team at OpenSesame, Kaminski was a worldwide client success executive at IBM and Reddy was principal applied scientist at Microsoft.
https://www.conversica.com/resources-press-releases/
(Redwood City, Calif.) Redwood City-based Course Hero, developer of an online learning platform, on Thursday named Ankur Varma as its chief product officer. Varma was most recently the founder and CEO of Plonked, which was acquired by Spend Labs, and previously led the product, UX and design teams at Prism Labs and the software management team at Silver Spring Networks.
https://www.coursehero.com/
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/course-hero-hires-tech-entrepreneur-ankur-varma-as-chief-product-officer-300512309.html
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