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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Sept. 19, 2017
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Inbox Summit East - Sept. 29 - DC
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o Redwood City-Based TigerGraph Emerges from Stealth After Raising $31 Million
o Palo Alto-Based Minio Lands $20 Million in First Round of Funding
o San Francisco-Based TalkIQ Raises $14 Million in First Round of Funding
o Milpitas-Based Cloudleaf Secures $13 Million in First Round
o Santa Clara-Based DSP Concepts Raises $10 Million in First Round
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o Briefly Noted: 8x8, Shasta Ventures, CrowdStrike
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o Redwood City-Based TigerGraph Emerges from Stealth After Raising $31 Million
Redwood City, Calif. -- TigerGraph, the Redwood City-based developer of a real-time graph analytics platform, said on Tuesday it has emerged from stealth after raising $31 million in its first Round of funding. Participants included Qiming VC, Baidu, Ant Financial, AME Cloud, Morado Ventures, Zod Nazem, Danhua Capital and DCVC. Formerly known as GraphSQL TigerGraph has developed a distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time. Early customers include Alipay, VISA, SoftBank, State Grid Corporation of China, Wish and Elementum. "With the power of combining real-time, big data and deep link analytics in a single platform, TigerGraph delivers the true promise and benefits of a graph platform," said founder and CEO Yu Xu. "TigerGraph is poised to redefine the enterprise market just as the iPhone redefined the smartphone market."
http://www.tigergraph.com
http://www.tigergraph.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/TigerGraph-Launch_PressRelease.pdf (PDF)
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o Palo Alto-Based Minio Lands $20 Million in First Round of Funding
Palo Alto, Calif. -- Minio, a Palo Alto-based provider of open source object storage for cloud-native and containerized applications, said on Tuesday it has landed $20 million in its first round of funding, co-led by Dell Technologies Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Nexus Venture Partners. Intel Capital, AME Cloud and Steve Singh also took part in the round, which the company will use to accelerate product development and expand its operations. Minio enables developers to store unstructured data on any public or private cloud infrastructure. Now with support for multi-cloud, the company is enabling users to build their own Amazon S3-compatible object storage on bare metal, public cloud or existing SAN/NAS storage infrastructure. "Emerging trends like AI, IoT and 5G will further accelerate the massive explosion of data taking place today," said co-founder and CEO Anand Babu Periasamy. "With such an influx, multi-cloud and standardization of the infrastructure stack is inevitable."
https://minio.io
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170919005178/en/Minio-Secures-20-Million-Series-Launches-Multi-Cloud
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o San Francisco-Based TalkIQ Raises $14 Million in First Round of Funding
San Francisco -- TalkIQ, the San Francisco-based developer of a platform designed to help businesses better understand and take action on voice conversations with customers, said on Tuesday it has raised $14 million in its first round of funding. Scale Venture Partners led the round, which also included participation from Aspect Ventures, Danhua Capital, Felicis Ventures LINE Corp and Salesforce Ventures. Rory O'Driscoll, managing partner at Scale, has joined the company's board of directors. "This new funding… will let us transform business intelligence with speech recognition and voice analytics," said CEO Dan O'Connell. TalkIQ's platform uses enterprise speech recognition and natural language processing capabilities to help client-facing teams better respond to key moments with customers. Users can act on real-time insights and recommendations in areas such as recognizing purchase intent, handling objections, responding to competitors, pricing, building rapport, closing, implementation, troubleshooting and renewal.
http://www.talkiq.com
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/09/prweb14710857.htm
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o Milpitas-Based Cloudleaf Secures $13 Million in First Round
Milpitas, Calif. -- Cloudleaf, the Milpitas-based developer of an enterprise IoT platform, said on Tuesday it has landed $13 million in its first round of funding from IndusAge Partners, Bold Capital Partners, Tandem Capital, Mahindra Partners and angel investors. The company said it will use the proceeds to bring its Sensor Fabric -- a mesh of intelligent IoT sensors, endpoints, gateways and cloud technologies -- to market, enabling customers to digitize their enterprise operations. The technology is designed to let customers know, in real time, where their assets are and the condition of those assets. "This round of funding will enable us to drive continuous innovation and establish key partnerships," said CEO Mahesh Veerina.
http://www.cloudleaf.com/
https://www.cloudleaf.com/news/?utm_source=press&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=PR&utm_
term=IoT&utm_content=IoT
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o Santa Clara-Based DSP Concepts Raises $10 Million in First Round
Santa Clara, Calif. -- DSP Concepts, a Santa Clara-based developer of embedded digital signal processing audio tools, said on Tuesday it has raised $10 million in its first round of funding, led by BMW i Ventures. Walden International Ventures and angel investor David Tsang also participated. The company said it will use the proceeds to transition from an engineering services business to a technology licensing business. "Consumers have already purchased millions of voice-controlled products, and while they've become aware of the power and convenience of voice UI, they've also experienced the frustrations that occur when voice UI devices don't respond quickly and accurately," said founder Paul Beckmann. "Voice UI products powered by our Audio Weaver modular DSP software can be designed and tuned to get the best possible performance from any product or form factor." The company also has named John Whitecar as its chief operating officer (COO). Whitecar previously was responsible for wireless platforms at Tesla.
http://www.dspconcepts.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170919005518/en/DSP-Concepts-Raises-10M-Series-Bring-Innovative
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o Briefly Noted:
(San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based 8x8, developer of a communications cloud that combines unified communications, team collaboration, contact center and analytics, said on Tuesday it has promoted Dejan Deklich to executive vice president and chief product officer. Deklich will now be responsible for overseeing the company's engineering, product management and DevOps efforts. In a related move, Senior Vice President Darren Hakeman, who formerly oversaw the company's product management and product operations teams, will now oversee corporate development.
https://www.8x8.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170919005356/en/8x8-Promotes-Dejan-Deklich-Executive-Vice-President
(San Francisco) Shasta Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with offices in Menlo Park and San Francisco, said on Tuesday it has launched the Shasta Camera Fund, a pre-seed and seed fund that will back entrepreneurs developing products in augmented reality, virtual reality and camera-first computer vision applications. The fund plans to invest up to $100,000 per entrepreneur.
http://shastaventures.com/camerafund
(Sunnyvale, Calif.) Sunnyvale-based CrowdStrike, provider of cloud-delivered endpoint protection services, on Tuesday named Lisa McGill as its chief human resources officer. McGill most recently served as the senior vice president of people at Fortinet, and previously was the chief human resources officer at Brocade and Foundry Networks.
https://www.crowdstrike.com/resources/news/crowdstrike-appoints-lisa-mcgill-as-chief-human-resources-officer/
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