Alliance Member News
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Mike Jellen of Velodyne LiDAR Featured in New York Times Article
May 25, 2017
Alliance member Mike Jellen, President of Velodyne LiDAR, was recently interviewed for a New York Times article about lidar (light detection and ranging), the sensor at the heart of many autonomous car designs.
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2 Alliance Member Companies on ENR List of Top 400 Contractors
May 24, 2017
Congratulations to Chris Rivielle, President & CEO of Plant Construction, and Jes Pedersen CEO; Tony Rango, COO; and Shelley Doran, SVP, of Webcor Builders, whose companies were among Engineering News-Record‘s "Top 400 Contractors of 2017."
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VeloCloud Earns 2017 Cloud Product of the Year Stevie Award
May 16, 2017
American Business Awards℠ recently honored VeloCloud as Bronze Winner for "Innovative SD-WAN Supporting Network Agility, Scalability and Simplified Branch Implementations" while delivering superior access to services. Alliance member Sanjay Uppal is the CEO of VeloCloud.
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Barrett Cohn Interviewed on Bay Area Ventures Radio Program
May 08, 2017
Alliance member Barrett Cohn, Managing Director of Scenic Advisement, was recently interviewed on the Bay Area Ventures radio program, on Sirius XM Channel 111, Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School. Alliance Director Doug Collom is a Bay Area Ventures co-host.
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Folio3 Awarded 2017 SuiteCommerce Partner Of The Year
May 04, 2017
Folio3 announced that it has been awarded the 2017 SuiteCommerce Partner of the Year Award by the Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit (GBU), the industry’s leading provider of cloud financials / ERP and omni-channel commerce software suites. Alliance member Adnan Lawai is the Chief Executive Officer of Folio3.
Read MoreThe FruitGuys Built A $30M Business Selling Fresh Fruit To Offices—And Promoting Small Farms
May 04, 2017
Alliance member Chris Mittelstaedt and The FruitGuys, were profiled in a recent Forbes article.
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Caribou Biosciences Announces Grant of a Key CRISPR-Cas9 Patent
May 02, 2017
Caribou Biosciences, a leading company in CRISPR-Cas genome engineering, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Vilnius University a CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing patent. Caribou has rights to this intellectual property in multiple fields of use, including exclusive access in the research tools field. Caribou is led by Alliance member Rachel Haurwitz.
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Duncan Channon Snags “Campaign of the Year” at 2017 sfBIG Star Awards
April 26, 2017
Duncan Channon, a 2016 Ad Age Small Agency of the Year, claimed “Campaign of the Year” honors for its “Stir the Pot” campaign for Kettle Brand at the 2017 San Francisco Bay Area Innovation Group’s BIG Star Awards. The win marked the second consecutive year Duncan Channon took the show’s top campaign award. Alliance member Andy Berkenfield is the CEO of Duncan Channon.
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Circle Pharma Announces Expansion of Series A Financing
April 25, 2017
Circle Pharma,announced that it has completed an expansion of its Series A financing. With this subsequent closing, a total of approximately $6.5M of shares of Circle’s Series A Preferred Stock has been issued in the Series A financing. Circle Pharma is led by Alliance member David Earp.
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Wi-Fi Supplier Xirrus Acquired
April 21, 2017
Wireless networking equipment manufacturer Xirrus, led by Alliance member Shane Buckley, has been acquired by Riverbed Technologies.
Read More VeloCloud Earns 5-Star Rating in CRN’s 2017 Partner Program Guide
April 19, 2017
VeloCloud Networks, the Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN company, announced that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has again given VeloCloud a 5-Star rating in its 2017 Partner Program Guide. This annual guide is the definitive listing of partner programs from technology vendors that provide products and services through the IT channel. Alliance member Sanjay Uppal is the CEO of VeloCloud.
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Rado Danilak Addresses Future Trends in IT Technology at GLOBSEC 2017 Forum
April 18, 2017
Alliance member Rado Danilak will speak as part of a group of world leaders and dignitaries about future trends and innovations within the Information Technology (IT) industry to accelerate technological advancement as a panelist at the GLOBSEC Future 2017 Forum from May 26-28.
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Savioke Expands Robotic Reach from Hotels to FedEx
April 14, 2017
Savioke, a Silicon Valley robotics company that had been providing robots to hotels to help with room service duties, has broadened its focus and is now working with FedEx to move items around its Collierville, Tennessee, information technology center. Alliance member Steve Cousins is the CEO of Savioke.
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Dtex Systems Insider Releases Threat Intelligence Report
April 13, 2017
Dtex Systems, a leader in user behavior intelligence and insider threat detection, announced the availability of its Insider Threat Intelligence Report. The report reveals key security trends driven by malicious and negligent insiders that include a cross section of employees, contractors and partners with access to corporate endpoints, data and applications. Alliance member Christy Wyatt is the CEO of Dtex.
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Douglas Murray is EY Entrepreneur of the Year Semifinalist
April 12, 2017
Congratulations to Alliance member Douglas Murray, CEO of Big Switch Networks upon being named a semifinalist, along with Big Switch Networks' Founder Kyle Forster, for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Northern California Region Award.
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NuMedii Announces Partnership to Advance New Treatments for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
April 11, 2017
NuMedii has announced the formation of a strategic partnership with Three Lakes Partners to discover and advance new treatments for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) based on NuMedii's Big Data intelligence technology. NuMedii is led by Alliance member Gini Deshpande.
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LogiGear Captures Another Industry Accolade
April 11, 2017
LogiGear, a world leader in software testing solutions, announced that it has won a 2017 Corporate Vision Global Excellence Award for Most Outstanding Automated Software Testing Company from Corporate Vision Magazine. Alliance member Hung Nguyen is the Chief Executive Officer of LogiGear.
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Ben Davis Interviewed on Bay Area Ventures Radio Program
April 10, 2017
Alliance member Ben Davis, Founder and CEO of Phizzle, was recently interviewed on the Bay Area Ventures radio program, on Sirius XM Channel 111, Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School. Alliance Director Doug Collom is a Bay Area Ventures co-host.
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Cat Lincoln Contributes to Fortune Magazine’s Entrepreneur Insiders Network
April 10, 2017
The Entrepreneur Insiders network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in America’s startup scene contribute answers to timely questions about entrepreneurship and careers. Alliance member Cat Lincoln, CEO and Founder of CLEVER, recently responded to the question, “How do you stay optimistic when your company is struggling?”
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Big Switch Networks Named to JMP Securities’ Super 60 List
March 28, 2017
Big Switch Networks has been named to JMP Securities' annual Super 60 list (previously Fast 50) for the third consecutive year. This list recognizes the most strategically positioned private companies within the Internet security, communications infrastructure and storage industries. Alliance member Douglas Murray is the CEO of Big Switch Networks.
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