Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Bay Area Tech Wire - Oct. 18

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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Oct. 18, 2017
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o San Mateo-Based Feedzai Raises $50 Million in Third Round of Funding
o Sunnyvale-Based BaseHealth Raises $8.5 Million in Third Round of Funding
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San Francisco-Based Splunk Acquires SignalSense
o South San Francisco-Based Mission Bio Lands $10M in First Round  
o San Leandro-Based OSIsoft Invests in Menlo Park's Dianomic
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San Francisco-Based Appthority Names Anne Bonaparte as CEO
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o Briefly Noted: Zenefits, Project Frog, Impossible Foods, MapD Technologies
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o San Mateo-Based Feedzai Raises $50 Million in Third Round of Funding

San Mateo, Calif. -- Feedzai, the San Mateo-based developer of a risk management platform powered by big data and artificial intelligence to help prevent fraud, said it has raised $50 million in its third round of funding, led by an unspecified investor. Previous backer Sapphire Ventures also participated. The company now has raised $82 million since its inception from investors also including Oak HC/FT, Capital One Growth Ventures and Citi Ventures. Feedzai's machine learning technology and omnichannel fraud prevention tools serve customers, such as banks and merchants, that transact in virtually every country. The company said it's on track to more than double its headcount to approximately 300 employees by the end of this year. "Our vision is to serve all of the leading banks and merchants that drive the majority of money movement worldwide," said co-founder and CEO Nuno Sebastiao. "We've made major headway on our vision in the last year, and this new round of funding will help us accelerate our growth."
http://www.feedzai.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171017005109/en/Feedzai-Raises-50-Million-Series-Funding-AI 
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o Sunnyvale-Based BaseHealth Raises $8.5 Million in Third Round of Funding

Sunnyvale, Calif. -- BaseHealth, the Sunnyvale-based developer of a predictive population health management platform, said on Wednesday it has raised $8.5 million in its third round of funding, including $2.5 million from lead investor HBM Healthcare Investments. The company said it will use the proceeds to further develop its analytics engine, which is based on peer-reviewed medical literature, curated by physicians and scientists and enhanced with laboratory, biometric, social, family history and behavioral data. The platform uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to assess patient risk for 43 possible disease threats. The goal is to identify rising unknown risks within a particular patient population, to both prevent diseases before they start and control them before it's too late. "Healthcare systems have a lot of data and yet they still have a hard time finding these patients, making it hard to respond proactively to patient care needs," said CEO Jason Pyle. "Our system enables healthcare professionals to assess the unknown risk that exists within their patient population and provide access and critical care needed to both improve our overall population's health and improve the individual patient's experience with the healthcare system."
http://www.basehealth.com 
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171018005204/en/BaseHealth-Raises-8.5-Million-Series-Funding
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o San Francisco-Based Splunk Acquires SignalSense

San Francisco -- Splunk, the San Francisco-based developer of a software platform for real-time operational intelligence, said it has acquired Seattle-based SignalSense, a developer of cloud-based data collection and breach detection tools that leverage machine learning. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Splunk said the company will join its products organization in Seattle, helping the company further bolster its machine learning capabilities and machine data platform. "The addition of the SignalSense team will help expand Splunk's product leadership and drive customer value," said Richard Campione, Splunk's chief product officer.
http://www.splunk.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171017005273/en/Splunk-Acquires-SignalSense 
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o South San Francisco-Based Mission Bio Lands $10M in First Round

South San Francisco -- Mission Bio, a South San Francisco-based developer of single-cell DNA analysis tools, said it has raised $10 million in its first round of funding, led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Mayfield Fund. The company said the financing will support the launch of its Tapestri platform, a genomics platform supporting the discovery and development of precision medicine. The platform includes an instrument, consumables and software. "Delivering the right medicine to every diseased cell in a patient requires an understanding of the complex cell-to-cell variations that drive disease," said CEO Charlie Silver. "We believe that Tapestri's novel capability for scalable single-cell DNA analysis will enable the development and delivery of precision medicine based on the unique genomic profile of each patient."
http://www.missionbio.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171017005084/en/Precision-Medicine-Meets-Single-Cell-DNA-Analysis-Mission 
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o San Leandro-Based OSIsoft Invests in Menlo Park's Dianomic

San Leandro, Calif. -- OSIsoft, the San Leandro-based developer of an open enterprise infrastructure designed to connect sensor-based data, systems and people, said it has made an investment in Menlo Park-based Dianomic, developer of an open source platform designed to simplify IoT application and system development, as part of a larger collaboration with the company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Under the alliance, Dianomic will build and support a set of Linux-based micro-service modules to help connect and manage smart sensors for OEMs and developers. The company will use OSIsoft's Message Format, which enables communication with the PI System and other OSIsoft technologies. "Dianomic's team has unique expertise and experience in time series streaming data, open source tools and open source services that make them ideal to help us bring the IIoT market and open source community together," said Richard Beeson, OSIsoft's chief technology officer (CTO).
http://www.osisoft.com 
http://www.dianomic.com 
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/osisoft-to-collaborate-with-dianomic-as-part-of-edge-and-open-source-strategy-2237264.htm
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o San Francisco-Based Appthority Names Anne Bonaparte as CEO

San Francisco -- Appthority, a San Francisco-based developer of enterprise mobile threat protection tools, on Wednesday named Anne Bonaparte as its new CEO. She succeeds Paul Stich, who had led the company since 2013. Bonaparte most recently served as the president and CEO of BrightPoint Security, which was acquired by ServiceNow. "Her wealth of experience and deep domain expertise are a great fit for Appthority as the company continues to innovate in the expanding enterprise mobile security space," said Sean Cunningham, the managing director at Trident Cyber Security and an Appthority investor and board member. Appthority, which is backed by Venrock, U.S. Venture Partners, Trident Capital Cybersecurity and Correlation Ventures, develops technology designed to help customers keep their data private and secure from mobile device, app and network threats.
https://www.appthority.com/ 
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171018005478/en/Appthority-Names-Anne-Bonaparte-CEO 
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o Briefly Noted:

(San Francisco) San Francisco-based Zenefits, developer of a digital human resources platform, has named Souvik Das as its senior vice president of engineering. Souvik most recently served as the senior vice president of engineering at healthcare technology company Grand Rounds, and earlier was the chief technology officer (CTO) of Capital One's Auto Finance business unit.
https://www.zenefits.com/ 
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171017005536/en/Zenefits-Appoints-Souvik-Das-Senior-Vice-President 

(San Francisco) San Francisco-based Project Frog, a product and technology company that develops software and prefabricated building platforms, said it has landed a new investment from the Autodesk Forge Fund as part of a larger alliance with Autodesk. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The two companies will collaborate on a cloud-based platform designed to standardize and simplify data flow between the architecture studio, the factory and the jobsite.
http://projectfrog.com/ 
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171017005684/en/Project-Frog-Announces-Autodesk-Investment-Bolsters-Industrialized 

(Redwood City, Calif.) Redwood City-based Impossible Foods, a biochemistry company that makes meat and dairy products directly from plants, has named technology marketing veteran Tara Kriese to lead its marketing division. Kriese most recently was the chief marketing officer (CMO) at wearable tech startup Thalmic Labs, and earlier was the senior director and head of marketing for Samsung Electronics America.
http://impossiblefoods.com/ 
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171017005452/en/Impossible-Foods-Hires-Tech-Marketing-Veteran-Tara 

(San Francisco) San Francisco-based MapD Technologies, a developer of GPU-accelerated data analytics, has named Monica McEwen as its vice president of federal. McEwen previously served as the vice president of federal at Qlik Technologies. Her appointment follows an investment in the company last year by In-Q-Tel (IQT), an investment fund backed by the CIA.
http://www.mapd.com
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mapd-names-monica-mcewen-vp-federal-300537637.html 

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