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:
San Francisco Beauty Empire Yes To Inc. Says ‘Yes’ to Expansion
December 19, 2014
San Francisco’s Yes To Inc. is growing its product line and embracing international markets as it moves beyond the face. Alliance member Joy Chen is the CEO of Yes To.
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HGST Acquires Skyera
December 15, 2014
Western Digital® Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) and HGST announced that HGST has completed an all-cash acquisition of Skyera. Alliance member Rado Danilak is the Co-Founder of Skyera.
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ThreatStream Lands $22 Million in Series B Funding Led by General Catalyst Partners
December 04, 2014
ThreatStream, the provider of a threat intelligence platform that identifies cyber threats and facilitates trusted threat sharing, announced that it has raised $22 million in series B funding led by General Catalyst Partners, with significant investment by new investors Institutional Venture Partners and previous investors Google Ventures and Paladin Capital Group. Alliance member Hugh Njemanze is the CEO of ThreatStream.
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Audentes Therapeutics Raises $42.5 Million in Series B Financing
December 02, 2014
Audentes Therapeutics, a biotechnology company committed to the development and commercialization of gene therapy products for patients with serious, rare diseases, announced the closing of a $42.5 million Series B financing. Deerfield Management led the financing with participation from Sofinnova Ventures and Venrock. Audentes is led by Alliance member Matthew Patterson.
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Tregaron’s Investment In UST Wins Deal of the Year
December 02, 2014
M&A Advisor has selected Tregaron Capital's investment in UST as the winner of the 13th Annual M&A Deal of the Year award for transactions between $10 million and $25 million in value. Alliance member JR Matthews is the Managing Director of Tregaron.
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Jorge Titinger in Smart Business: “Five benefits of Supercomputing That May Surprise You”
December 01, 2014
Jorge Titinger, President & CEO of SGI, discusses the benefits of supercomputing in this article for Smart Business Northern California.
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Vision-Ease Lens Announces John Weber as CEO
November 13, 2014
Vision-Ease Lens announces former CooperVision Inc. president, and Alliance member, John Weber as its new chief executive officer.
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What Mark Tacchi Learned from Working for Steve Jobs
November 12, 2014
Alliance member Mark Tacchi dropped out of graduate school to take a position with Steve Jobs and wound up leaving as an entrepreneur. Read about Mark's experience in this INC magazine article.
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Solid Instance Acquired by Citrix Systems
November 10, 2014
Solid Instance, which develops solutions to offer independent software vendors (ISVs) an opportunity to publish Microsoft Windows applications as a service from public and private clouds, announced that it has been acquired by Citrix. Alliance member Tyrone Pike is the President & CEO of Solid Instance.
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Phani Nagarjuna in CEO.com: “Why The C-Suite Needs Big Data Analytics”
October 24, 2014
Alliance member Phani Nagarjuna, Founder & CEO of Nuevora, explains why CEOs need big data analytics.
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Sutro Biopharma & Celgene Corporation Enter Strategic Collaboration and Option to Acquire Agreement
October 23, 2014
Sutro Biopharma announced it has entered into a strategic collaboration and option agreement with Celgene Corporation to discover and develop multispecific antibodies and antibody drug conjugates (ADCs). Alliance member Bill Newell is the CEO of Sutro Biopharma.
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Word-Parsing Wizard Idibon Picks Up $5.5M
October 16, 2014
Idibon, a startup that has developed applications that make sense of text in scores of languages, has raised $5.5 million in new funding. Idibon is led by Alliance member Rob Munro.
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RCH Appoints Neal Ringquist to EVP of Sales & Marketing
October 14, 2014
Retirement Clearinghouse, the retirement savings industry’s only provider of automatic and managed portability solutions, has appointed industry veteran, and Alliance member, Neal Ringquist as executive vice president of sales and marketing with responsibility for the company’s marketing strategy and plan sponsor sales channel.
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Heritage Bank of Commerce Enters Into Agreement to Acquire Bay View Funding
October 08, 2014
Heritage Bank of Commerce has signed a definitive stock purchase agreement to acquire Bay View Funding, a nationally recognized leader in the factoring industry. This acquisition diversifies and expands Heritage's commercial offerings. Alliance member Glen Shu is the President and CEO of Bay View Funding.
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Calithera Biosciences, First Bay Area IPO in 2 Months, Raises $80M
October 02, 2014
Cancer drug developer Calithera Biosciences, led by Allliance member Susan Molineaux, completed its $80 million initial public offering.
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Boeing & Liquid Robotics Sign Agreement to Develop Solutions for Maritime Surveillance
September 23, 2014
Boeing and Liquid Robotics, the market leader in unmanned ocean vehicles,signed a global, multi-year teaming agreement for collaboration on product development, maritime services and operational deployments. Alliance member Gary Gysin is the CEO of Liquid Robotics.
Clare Computer Solutions Named to CRN Fast Growth 150 List
September 23, 2014
Clare Computer Solutions (CCS), announced that it has been named to the CRN Fast Growth 150 list. The Fast Growth 150 list recognizes those solution providers that have been the fastest growing over a two-year period based on gross revenue from calendar year 2011 to calendar year 2013. Alliance member Brad Mendonsa is the CEO of CCS.
Read More Sutro Biopharma & Merck KGaA to Partner on Development of Antibody Drug Conjugates
September 17, 2014
Sutro Biopharma, a biopharmaceutical company developing antibody drug conjugates and bispecific antibodies, and the biopharmaceutical division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany announced a collaboration and license agreement to develop antibody drug conjugates (ADCs). Sutro CEO, Bill Newell, and CFO, Ed Albini, are Alliance members.
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Accellion Introduces Kiteworks Cloud Content Connectors for Box and Dropbox
September 16, 2014
Accellion, an industry leader in providing secure, enterprise mobile file sharing and collaboration solutions to enable increased business productivity, announced the launch of kiteworks™ content connectors for Box and Dropbox to extend IT management and oversight to content stored by employees in cloud accounts. Accellion is led by Alliance member Yorgen Edholm.
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Transera Turns Contact Center Data Into Strategies for Business Optimization
September 16, 2014
Transera, the Customer Engagement Analytics in the cloud company, announced that it is opening up its Customer Engagement Analytics, allowing customers to analyze data from two data sources for 90 days using its cloud-based software. Alliance member Prem Uppaluru is the CEO of Transera.
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