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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Aug. 9, 2017
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Inbox Summit East - Sept. 29 - DC
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o San Francisco's Symphony Ventures Lands $4.5 Million in First Round
o Fremont-Based Foxit Software Acquires CVISION Technologies
o San Jose-Based MojiLaLa Lands $1.5 Million for Emoji Marketplace
o Apps by Samsung, Google Rank as Most Draining on Android Devices
> Inbox Summit East - Sept. 29 - DC
o Briefly Noted: Govini, Velodyne LiDAR, Sanmina, FreeWire Technologies
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o San Francisco's Symphony Ventures Lands $4.5 Million in First Round
San Francisco -- Symphony Ventures, a U.K.-based provider of robotic process automation and intelligent automation services, with U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, said on Wednesday it has raised $4.5 million in its first round of funding from private equity firm Livingbridge. The company said it will use the proceeds to double its headcount, with a focus on the U.S., U.K. and Poland; continue its international expansion and bolster product development activities. The company has named Henry Alty of Livingbridge to its board of directors, and Bill Thomas, managing partner at founder advisory firm Acresis, as chairman. Founded in 2014, Symphony provides consulting, implementation and managed services to enterprise clients looking to automate operational processes that are manual, repetitive, complex and time consuming.
http://www.symphonyhq.com
http://www.livingbridge.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170809005170/en/Symphony%C2%A0Ventures%C2%A0Secures-%C2%A33.5-Million%C2%A0-4.5-Million-%C2%A0in-Series
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o Fremont-Based Foxit Software Acquires CVISION Technologies
Fremont, Calif. -- Foxit Software, a Fremont-based developer of PDF software, said it has acquired New York-based counterpart CVISION Technologies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. CVISION's software is designed to capture PDF documents and optimize them through optical character recognition (OCR) processes. It also uses file compression technology to streamline PDF file sizes. Foxit said the acquisition builds upon its 2015 acquisition of Luratech Software, helping it gain a stronger position in the high volume, enterprise automation market for PDF compression, OCR solutions and conversion. CVISION's clients include Ford Motor Co., the New York Stock Exchange, Chase, GE Power & Water, Bank of America and Verizon.
https://www.foxitsoftware.com
http://www.cvisiontech.com/
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/foxit-software-announces-acquisition-of-leading-pdf-document-optimization-software-company-cvision-300500508.html
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o San Jose-Based MojiLaLa Lands $1.5 Million for Emoji Marketplace
San Jose, Calif. -- MojiLaLa, the San Jose-based developer of an emoji marketplace that lets creators sell their emoji designs to the public, said it has landed $1.5 million in a new round of seed funding. Great Oaks VC, betaworks ventures and IVP partner Dennis Phelps took part in the round, which the company will use to scale its platform and expand its engineering team. MojiLaLa, a graduate of 500 Startups, recently completed a successful beta period that began late last year. The company said its marketplace aligns with Apple's new focus on creative engagement within its iMessage app. Additionally, the company distributes stickers through integrations with a variety of mobile messaging apps and chat platforms, including Kika Keyboard, Baidu, Giphy, Line, Facebook Messenger, Microsoft, Skype, Gfycat and Telegram. "Our core mission is making the messaging platform a place where people can communicate with more creativity and a higher level of artistic expression," said co-founder and CEO Dana Loberg.
http://www.mojilala.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170808006233/en/MojiLaLa-Raises-1.5M-Seed-Funding-Scale-%E2%80%98Augmented
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o Apps by Samsung, Google Rank as Most Draining on Android Devices
Redwood City, Calif. -- Samsung's AllShare app, which lets users share content across their connected devices, tops Redwood City-based Avast's latest ranking of the mobile apps that most deplete battery life, storage capacity and data plan usage on Android devices. In fact, apps published by Samsung and Google take up each of the top 10 spots on the list of apps that run at startup, and five of the top seven among apps run by users. Most improved for the quarter were picture messenger tool Snapchat, social media giant Facebook and music streaming behemoth Spotify, which previously had occupied three of the four top spots for performance-draining apps run by users and on start-up. "For many of us, our smartphones are the main device in our everyday lives," said Gagan Singh, the senior vice president and general manager of mobile business at Avast. "Knowing which of our favorite apps are the hardest-hitting on battery life, data usage, and storage is important so we can manage any that we are regularly using on our phones." The rankings were compiled from information from more than 3 million Android users.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170809005508/en/Avast-Reveals-Top-Apps-Drain-Android-Phone
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o Briefly Noted:
(San Francisco Big data and analytics firm Govini, which has offices in Virginia and San Francisco, on Wednesday announced its six-member board of advisors. Members include: Sandy Winnefeld, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Robert Work, former Deputy Secretary of Defense; John Hillen, professor of practice and executive-in-residence at George Mason University's School of Business; Will Grannis, managing director of the CTO office at Google; Dave Rensin, engineering director at Google and former principal architect at Amazon Web Services; and Boyden Gray, former White House council and founding partner at Boyden Gray & Associates.
http://www.govini.com/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170809005164/en/Govini-Names-Industry-Government-Tech-Leaders-Board
(San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based Velodyne LiDAR, a developer of 3D real-time perception systems for autonomous vehicles, has named Bob Brown as its chief financial officer (CFO). Brown most recently served as the CFO of VeriSilicon Holdings, and previously held senior financial and business development roles at LSI and Cadence Design Systems, as well as finance roles at HP.
http://www.velodynelidar.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170808005274/en/Velodyne-LiDAR-Appoints-Robert-Brown-Chief-Financial
(San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based Sanmina, a provider of electronics manufacturing services, said on Wednesday it has promoted David Anderson to executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), effective Oct. 2. He will succeed Bob Eulau, who last month was elevated to the role of CEO. Anderson since 2013 has served as the company's senior vice president, corporate controller and principal accounting officer.
http://www.sanmina.com
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sanmina-appoints-david-anderson-as-executive-vice-president-and-chief-financial-officer-300501725.html
(San Leandro, Calif.) San Leandro-based FreeWire Technologies, a technology company focused on mobile and networked energy storage, has named Forrest North as its vice president of system integration. North in 2010 founded Xatori, the parent company of PlugShare. That company in 2013 was acquired by Recargo, who appointed North as itys chief operating officer (COO).
http://www.freewiretech.com
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/freewire-appoints-forrest-north-as-vp-of-system-integration-300500305.html
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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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> 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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