Bay Area Tech Wire - Nov. 14

========================================== BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Nov. 14, 2017 ========================================== To subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o Santa Clara-Based LeanTaaS Lands $26 Million Investment from IVP o San Francisco-Based TrueAccord Raises $22 Million in Second Round o San Francisco-Based GI Partners Closes New $2.7 Billion Fund o China's Didi Chuxing Opens U.S. Research Campus in Mountain View o Bethany Mayer to Resign as President of Keysight's Ixia Solutions Group o S.F.-Based Apartment List Acquires Maguire & Fish to Bolster Hiring Efforts o Briefly Noted: Artis Ventures - Locus Biosciences, CloudBees, Planisware North America _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Intellectual Property Services / Patent Applications Drafted --Baird - A Global Technology Investment Banking Full Job, Event, Marketplace and Services Descriptions Below in Classified Ad Section Post Job/Event/Marketplace ad at: http://www.bayareatechwire.com _____________________________________________ o Santa Clara-Based LeanTaaS Lands $26 Million Investment from IVP Santa Clara, Calif. -- LeanTaaS, a Santa Clara-based developer of software for healthcare providers, said on Tuesday it has landed a new $26 million investment from Insight Venture Partners (IVP) in its second round of funding. The company said it will use the proceeds to further bolster its core iQueue platform, a cloud service that works with any electronic health record system. The platform uses predictive analytics and machine learning to help more than 40 hospitals and infusion centers keep expensive assets like infusion chairs, operating rooms, diagnostic imaging equipment and inpatient beds from being over- or underutilized. The company said the technology reduces wait times for appointments and surgeries by up to 50%, while also increasing g patient access and improving operational performance through increased revenue and reduced costs. "This investment from Insight Venture Partners is a strong validation of our approach and will enable us to dramatically accelerate our growth over the coming years," said founder and CEO Mohan Giridharadas. http://www.leantaas.com https://www.insightpartners.com/  https://leantaas.com/blog/insight-venture-partners-invests-26m-series-b-in-leantaas-to-fuel-growth-of-healthcare-operations-platform/  _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based TrueAccord Raises $22 Million in Second Round San Francisco -- TrueAccord, the San Francisco-based developer of a data-driven debt collection platform, said on Tuesday it has raised $22 million in its second round of funding, led by Arbor Ventures. Nyca Investment Partnership, Assurant Growth Investing, Caffeinated Capital Fund, Felicis Venture, TenOneTen and Crystal Towers also participated in the round. The company, which was founded in 2013, said it will use the latest funding to fuel the ongoing development of its platform, which is designed to help businesses collect more debt online than traditional methods. Clients include top 10 issuers, leading creditors, and technology companies such as Yelp and LendUp, with more than $1.5 billion of debt flowing through the platform since 2014. "It was the personal experience of dealing with a debt collector that made me realize the traditional collections industry was ripe for disruption with technology innovation and a more human approach," said Ohad Samet, the CEO of TrueAccord. "We are seizing this opportunity to use machine learning to humanize debt collection for good." http://www.trueaccord.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171114005699/en/TrueAccord-Closes-22M-Series  _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based GI Partners Closes New $2.7 Billion Fund San Francisco -- GI Partners, a middle market private equity firm based in San Francisco, said on Tuesday it has closed a new $2.7 billion fund, surpassing its initial target by about $400 million. The fund, known as GI Partners Fund V, will make control-oriented investments in North American middle market businesses from sectors such as IT infrastructure, healthcare, software and services. "We are excited to further build our investment portfolio from the attractive pipeline of investment opportunities we have identified," said Rick Magnuson, the firm's founder and executive managing director. Fund V was activated in August when it invested in the $1.675 billion acquisition of ViaWest from Shaw Communications, creating a major provider of colocation, connectivity, cloud and managed services. GI completed its previous $2 billion fund, GI Partners Fund IV, in 2014. http://www.gipartners.com https://www.gipartners.com/news/gi-partners-closes-oversubscribed-fund-v-with-27-billion-in-limited-partner-commitments  _____________________________________________ o China's Didi Chuxing Opens U.S. Research Campus in Mountain View Mountain View, Calif. -- Didi Chuxing, the Chinese developer of a mobile transportation platform, on Tuesday opened its main U.S. research facility in Mountain View, with an eye of growing and expanding its Bay Area team. The new campus is located on National Avenue, with offices covering 36,000 square feet and capacity for more than 200 employees. Didi focuses on AI-based security and intelligent driving technologies for the transportation industry. "It is vital to strengthen a global community and dialogue among innovators and local partners as technology revolutionizes the way the world moves at an ever-faster pace," said Bob Zhang, the company's chief technology officer (CTO). "DiDi Labs in Mountain View is ready to play a greater role in this community." DiDi acquired Uber China in mid-2016. http://www.didichuxing.com/en/ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171114006230/en/DiDi-Labs-Opens-New-Campus-Mountain-View  _____________________________________________ o Bethany Mayer to Resign as President of Keysight's Ixia Solutions Group Santa Rosa, Calif. -- Keysight Technologies, a Santa Rosa-based tech company that helps customers optimize networks and bring electronic products to market faster, said on Tuesday that Bethany Mayer will step down from her role as president of its Ixia Solutions Group to pursue other interests, effective Dec. 1. Mark Pierpoint, currently the vice president and general manager of Internet infrastructure solutions within the company's Communications Solutions Group, will become acting president. Mayer, formerly the president and CEO of Ixia, joined Keysight following its acquisition of Ixia in April. http://www.keysight.com  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171114005614/en/Keysight-Technologies-Announces-Departure-Bethany-Mayer-Mark _____________________________________________ o S.F.-Based Apartment List Acquires Maguire & Fish to Bolster Hiring Efforts San Francisco -- Apartment List, the San Francisco-based developer of an online apartment rental marketplace, said on Tuesday it has acquired talent agency Maguire & Fish, naming founder Neil Kucera as its head of talent. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Apartment List, which recently announced its work with Facebook Marketplace and signed a long-term partnership with Homes.com, said the acquisition will bolster its hiring efforts. Kucera previously worked in operations at Google, where he provided operational support to the engineering and project management teams responsible for developing new programs and features for Google Maps. He also was a partner at Fortis Partners and a division lead at VonChurch before starting Maguire & Fish in 2015. http://www.apartmentlist.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171113006451/en/Apartment-List-Acquires-Talent-Powerhouse-Maguire-Fish  _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > Intellectual Property Services/Patent Applications Drafted I provide a wide range of services relating to intellectual property including patents, trademarks, trade secrets and licensing. 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San Jose-based CloudBees, a developer of continuous delivery tools designed to help DevOps teams respond quickly to a business's software delivery needs, on Tuesday named Evangelina Vallez as its vice president of human resources. Vallez most recently served as the senior director of human resources at Splunk for five years. https://www.cloudbees.com/press/cloudbees-announces-evangelina-vallez-vice-president-human-resources  (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Planisware North America, a developer of project and product portfolio management software, said on Tuesday it has opened a new office in Montreal. 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