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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Oct. 2, 2017
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Event: Financial Diaries: Building Financial Resilience in the Bay Area - Oct. 4
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o Francisco Partners Makes Majority Investment in Dynamo Software
o Pleasanton-based Ellie Mae Completes its Acquisition of Velocify
o Santa Clara-based ServiceNow Acquires San Diego-Based Telepathy
o TechCrunch: San Francisco-based Angaza Raises $10.5 Million in Second Round
o Hughes Launching Satellite Internet Service in Colombia
o Briefly Noted: Twitch, Hustle
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o Francisco Partners Makes Majority Investment in Dynamo Software
San Francisco -- Francisco Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm, has made a majority investment in Massachusetts-based Dynamo Software, a provider of investment management software for the alternative asset investment industry. Members of Dynamo management will also retain a significant ownership stakes in the company.
https://www.dynamosoftware.com/dynamo-announces-investment-francisco-partners/
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o Pleasanton-based Ellie Mae Completes its Acquisition of Velocify
Pleasanton, Calif. -- Ellie Mae, a platform for the mortgage finance industry, announced on Monday that it has completed its acquisition of Velocify, a sales management platform. The deal was originally announced on Aug. 31. The acquisition brings together two major mortgage technologies with the aim of offering a fully digital mortgage service. Ellie Mae said it will provide financial details on the deal when it reports its third quarter results.
https://elliemae.com/about/news-reports/press-releases/ellie-mae-completes-acquisition-of-velocify
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o Santa Clara-based ServiceNow Acquires San Diego-Based Telepathy
Santa Clara, Calif. -- ServiceNow, a Santa Clara-based developer of technology for managing customer service and help desks, announced that it has acquired Telepathy, a San Diego-based design studio. ServiceNow said the addition of Telepathy will enhance the customer experience on its platform. Financial terms of the deal were not released. "ServiceNow chose us because of the design culture and process we have created over the last 17 years, not just the client work and deliverables we have produced," wrote Telepathy founder Chuck Longanecker. "They valued the design tribe we have created and the soul of our culture that we had fought so hard to preserve."
https://servicematters.servicenow.com/2017/09/29/servicenow-doubles-customer-experience-design-acquisition-telepathy/
https://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/news-events/elevating-lifes-experiences-at-lightspeed
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o TechCrunch: San Francisco-based Angaza Raises $10.5 Million in Second Round
San Francisco -- TechCrunch reported on Monday that San Francisco-based Angaza, a pay-as-you-go software developer for energy usage for the developing world, has raised $10.5 million in its second round. Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective led the round. Other investors included Rethink Impact, Salesforce Ventures, Social Capital, and the Stanford StartX Fund. Angaza has now raised a total of $16 million.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/02/laurene-powell-jobs-emerson-collective-invests-in-disruptive-solar-startup-angaza/
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o Hughes Launching Satellite Internet Service in Colombia
Germantown, Md. -- Hughes Network Systems, the broadband satellite company, announced on Monday the launch of its high-speed satellite Internet service in Colombia. This is the company's second international deployment of its consumer service beyond North America. The service, which just launched, is expected to reach 75% of Colombia's population.
https://www.hughes.com/who-we-are/resources/press-releases/hughes-launches-consumer-satellite-internet-service-colombia
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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.
Online registration link can be found by clicking here
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o Briefly Noted:
(San Francisco) Social video service Twitch announced on Monday the launch of an official Twitch online store. The store is run with Amazon.
https://www.twitch.tv/store/merch
(San Francisco) Hustle, a peer-to-peer messaging platform, announced the appointment of Ysiad Ferreiras as the company's chief operations officer. Ferreiras joined Hustle in 2015, initially as a director of sales.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170929005137/en/Hustle-Names-Ysiad-Ferreiras-Chief-Operations-Officer
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