Alliance Member News

Alliance Members don’t just read the news ... they make the news. To check out our “Members News” from prior years, click the list below:

$35 Million in New VeloCloud Funding
March 02, 2017

VeloCloud has announced that it has finished a $35 million round of series D funding to "add depth" to its Channel Program.  Alliance member Sanjay Uppal is the CEO of VeloCloud.

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RTI Co-Authors First Connectivity Framework for the Industrial Internet
February 28, 2017

Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity company, announced the company's leadership in the creation of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC)'s Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework (IICF). The IICF is a key milestone; it is the first time a major consortia analyzed the technical connectivity problem for the Industrial IoT. Dr. Rajive Joshi, Principal Solution Architect at RTI and Co-Chair of the IIC Connectivity Task Group, was the lead author and editor of the IICF. Joshi collaborated with other market leaders, such as Cisco, Nokia, Ericsson and ABB, as well as RTI colleagues, Alliance member, Dr. Stan Schneider, CEO; Dr. Gerardo Pardo, CTO; and Brett Murphy, Director of Business Development for IIoT.

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TORA Named Best OMS Provider at HFM US Technology Awards
February 16, 2017

TORA, led by Alliance member Robert Dykes, announced that it has been named "Best OMS Provider" at the HFM US Technology Awards. The awards recognize fund technology providers that have demonstrated outstanding customer service and innovative product development over the past 12 months.

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Automation Anywhere Named a Leader in Robotic Process Automation by Independent Research Firm
February 14, 2017

Automation Anywhere has been named a "Leader" in the February 2017 report, "The Forrester Wave™: Robotic Process Automation, Q1 2017" by Forrester Research, Inc.  Automation Anywhere is led by Alliance members Mihir Shukla, CEO; Richard French, COO and Edmundo Costa, VP of Sales.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Completes Acquisition of Finesse Solutions
February 14, 2017

Thermo Fisher Scientific completed its previously announced acquisition of Finesse Solutions, a leader in the development of scalable control automation systems and software for bioproduction.  Alliance member Barbara Paldus is the CEO of Finesse Solutions.

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WhiteHat Security Wins ‘Best Application Security’ Product In 2017 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards
February 09, 2017

WhiteHat Security, the only application security provider that combines the best of technology and human intelligence, announced that its SaaS platform, Whitehat Sentinel, won 'Best Application Security' product in the 2017 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. Alliance member Craig Hinkley is the CEO of WhiteHat.

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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Kenandy with the 2017 Product Leadership Award
February 07, 2017

Frost & Sullivan recognizes Kenandy with the 2017 Product Leadership Award as the #1 Cloud ERP for small & mid-sized manufacturing.   Alliance member Chuck Berger is the CEO of Kenandy.

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Hanson Bridgett Managing Partner: “We Have to Try and Get Organized”
January 19, 2017

Alliance member Andrew Giacomini, Hanson Bridgett Managing Partner, was profiled in a recent article of the San Francisco Business Times.

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Sight Machine Named to List of Top 100 Artificial Intelligence Startups
January 11, 2017

Congratulations to Alliance member Jon Sobel and Sight Machine on being named to CB Insights’ List of the Top 100 Artificial Intelligence Startups. 

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Jim Harrison Named One of the Most Powerful People in Residential Real Estate
January 09, 2017

Congratulations to Alliance member Jim Harrison, President & CEO of MLSListings, who was named to the Swanepoel POWER 200 list, which ranks the 200 most powerful leaders in residential real estate for 2016-2017. 

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Caribou Biosciences Named to Inc. Magazine’s 2016 List of 9 Most Innovative Startups
December 29, 2016

Congratulations to Rachel Haurwitz and Caribou Biosciences on being named to Inc. magazine's list of the 9 Most Innovative Startups of 2016.

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Melinda Garcia Receives 2016 Advocacy Award
December 05, 2016

Alliance member Melinda Garcia received a 2016 Advocacy Award from the Western Regional Minority Supplier Development Council.  These awards recognize supplier diversity advocates and minority businesses.

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Walter Moos Authors Book:  Managing the Drug Discovery Process
December 03, 2016

Alliance member Walter Moos recently published a new book:  Managing the Drug Discovery Process.

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Jon Sobel Discusses How Factories Are Becoming Smarter and More Productive
November 17, 2016

Alliance member Jon Sobel recently discussed how factories are becoming smarter and more productive for Jonathan Low's blog, The LowDown.

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Stan Schneider Re-engineers How Networked Devices Generate and Use Intelligence
November 10, 2016

Alliance member Stan Schneider and Real-Time Innovations were profiled in a recent article of the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

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BioTech Nation Radio with Bill Newell
November 10, 2016

NPR and BioTech Nation interviewed Alliance member Bill Newell, CEO of Sutro Biopharma to learn more about the next generation of cancer therapeutics.

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Susan Molineaux Uses Unique Skillset to Guide Calithera Biosciences
November 10, 2016

Alliance member Susan Molineaux and Calithera Biosciences were profiled in a recent article of the San Francisco Business Times.

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2 Alliance Members on 2016 List of the “40 Hottest Emerging Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy”
November 04, 2016

Congratulations to Rachel Haurwitz, CEO of Caribou Biosciences, and Virginia Klausmeier, CEO of Sylvatex whose companies were included on the 2016 list of the "40 Hottest Emerging Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy."

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Manuel Gonzalez at FoodBytes! by Rabobank
November 04, 2016

Alliance member Manuel Gonzalez, founder of  FoodBytes! -- a combination tech start-up conference pitch slam and networking event that fuses agriculture, business and tech in a Silicon Valley model of business -- recently spoke in Boulder about innovation in the tech and agriculture sector.

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Caribou Biosciences Named to the List of Hottest Emerging Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy
November 04, 2016

Congratulations to Rachel Haurwitz and Caribou Biosciences on being named to the 2016-2017 list of the 40 Hottest Emerging Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy.

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