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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Sept. 28, 2017
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Event: Financial Diaries: Building Financial Resilience in the Bay Area - Oct. 4
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o Roku Goes Public; Shares Jump 67% on First Day of Trading
o Ken Denman Named Venture Partner at Sway Ventures
o Palo Alto-Based Stockpile Raises $30 Million in Second Round
o Farming Tech Company Phytech Raises $11 Million in Second Round
o NYT: Twitter Accounts Tied to Russia Part of Influence Campaign
o Briefly Noted: Remind, LendingClub
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o Roku Goes Public; Shares Jump 67% on First Day of Trading
Los Gatos, Calif. -- Shares of Roku, the Los Gatos-based TV streaming company, jumped 67% on Thursday in their first day of trading after an initial public offering (IPO) of its stock. The company's shares went public at $14 per share and closed at $23.50 on Thursday. The shares are trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol "ROKU". The company raised $252 million from the offering. Roku was an early pioneer in the television streaming market.
https://www.roku.com/
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o Ken Denman Named Venture Partner at Sway Ventures
San Francisco -- Sway Ventures, the San Francisco-based venture capital firm, has named Ken Denman as a venture partner. Previously, Denman was CEO of the AI-enabled facial expression analysis company, Emotient, which was acquired by Apple in 2016. Denman has also served as CEO of Openwave Systems and iPass, where he led a successful public offering. Sway Ventures' portfolio companies include Uber, OpenGov, Addepar, and Penrose Studios.
https://swayvc.com/sway-ventures-names-ken-denman-venture-partner/
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o Palo Alto-Based Stockpile Raises $30 Million in Second Round
Palo Alto, Calif. -- Stockpile, a Palo Alto-based brokerage firm focused on fractional share stock investing, announced on Thursday that it has raised $30 million in its second round of funding. The investment was led by Fidelity's Eight Roads Ventures, with participation from Mayfield, Arbor Ventures, Hanna Ventures, Wang Ventures, and others. "Fractional shares make market investing fun, easy, and personal," said Avi Lele, Stockpile's founder and CEO. "Even someone with only a few dollars can buy a piece of a favorite brand like Amazon or Alphabet, which are currently trading close to $1000 a share."
https://www.stockpile.com/
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o Farming Tech Company Phytech Raises $11 Million in Second Round
Palo Alto, Calif -- Digital farming company Phytech announced on Thursday that it has raised $11 million in a second round of financing, led by Tencent Holdings Limited, with participation from Syngenta Ventures and others. Using IoT and AI platforms, Phytech help farmers sense and analyze plant demands. The company said its technology has been successfully deployed by major growers in the U.S, Australia, and Israel.
https://www.phytech.com/
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o NYT: Twitter Accounts Tied to Russia Part of Influence Campaign
Washington, D.C. -- The New York Times reported on Thursday that a network of Twitter accounts with links to Russia was actively involved in trying to influence last year's presidential election. To date, Facebook has been the social platform receiving the most attention from investigators and the media for Russian involvement. Twitter executives were scheduled to brief Congressional investigators on Thursday. "There is evidence that Twitter may have been used even more extensively than Facebook in the Russian influence campaign last year," The New York Times reported. "In addition to Russia-linked Twitter accounts that posed as Americans, the platform was also used for large-scale automated messaging, using "bot" accounts to spread false stories and promote news articles about emails from Democratic operatives that had been obtained by Russian hackers." The paper said in recent weeks Russian-linked Twitter accounts have also been trying to stir up passions around N.F.L. players who kneel during the National Anthem.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/technology/twitter-russia-election.html
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> Financial Diaries: Building Financial Resilience in the Bay Area
Join us on October 4th from 1-4PM at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for a special discussion with the authors of "The Financial Diaries: How Americans Cope in a World of Uncertainty," followed by a panel about the challenges to helping working class families build financial resilience in the Bay Area. All attendees will receive a copy of the book; speakers include co-authors Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider; Sean Kline (SF Office of Financial Empowerment), Linda Bidrossian (Bay Area Council), Lewis Brown (PolicyLink), Charise Fong (East Bay Asian Local Development Corp). Event made possible by the generous support of Citi Foundation.
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o Briefly Noted:
(San Francisco) Remind, a San Francisco-based K-12 communication platform, announced that Deborah Quazzo has joined the company's board of directors. She is a managing partner at GSV Acceleration. Founded in 2011, Remind helps schools, districts, teachers, and families connect. Investors include First Round Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, and Social Capital.
https://www.remind.com/
(San Francisco) LendingClub, the San Francisco-based online lending platform, issued a $323 million bond on Tuesday that is backed by consumer loans from its platform. The transaction was backed by approximately $350 million of collateral and includes $217.3 million of Class A notes, $51.0 million of Class B notes, and $54.7 million of Class C notes rated "BB".
http://ir.lendingclub.com/file.aspx?IID=4213397&FID=390457735
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> Financial Diaries: Building Financial Resilience in the Bay Area
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