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:

Caribou Biosciences Raises $30M to Expand Its Gene-Editing Technology
May 17, 2016

Biotech startup Caribou Biosciences, led by Alliance member Rachel Haurwitz, has raised $30 million in funding for its gene-editing technology. 

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TGAC Installs Largest SGI UV 300 Supercomputer for Life Sciences Worldwide
May 10, 2016

The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) has partnered with global HPC hardware giant SGI to address the most complex problems in genomics analysis.  Alliance member Jorge Titinger is the President & CEO of SGI.

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ABD Insurance and Financial Services Acquires SharedHR
May 04, 2016

ABD, a boutique consulting firm offering risk management, insurance brokerage, employee benefits and retirement solutions, announced its acquisition of SharedHR. The acquisition launches the company’s new HR services practice, ABD SharedHR, offering human resource administrative and consulting services to existing and prospective ABD clients. Alliance member and SharedHR CEO Paul Finkle and his current team of employees will continue to cultivate and grow the company’s HR offerings as the new ABD SharedHR practice group.

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Craig Goehring Has Helped Brown and Caldwell Find Success In the Virtual Realm
May 02, 2016

Alliance member Craig Goehring, CEO of Brown and Caldwell, was profiled in a recent issue of Smart Business Northern California.

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Graybug Vision Announces $44.5 Million Series B Financing
May 02, 2016

Graybug Vision, a venture-stage pharmaceutical company committed to developing potentially transformative therapies for ocular diseases including wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and glaucoma, announced the closing of a $44.5 million Series B financing.  Alliance member Jeff Cleland is the President & CEO of Graybug Vision.

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2 Alliance Members on the List of the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business
April 29, 2016

Congratulations to Alliance members Rachel Haurwitz, CEO of Caribou Biosciences and Erin Mendez, President/CEO of Patelco Credit Union who were named to the 2016 list of the "Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business!"

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Clare Computer Solutions Named One of 2016 Tech Elite Solution Providers by CRN
April 28, 2016

Congratulations to Brad Mendonsa and Clare Computer Solutions on being named to CRN's 2016 Tech Elite 250 list. This annual list honors an exclusive group of North American IT solution providers that have earned the highest number of advanced technical certifications from leading technology vendors.

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Doug Dooley Participates in Venture Capital CIO Briefing Program
April 27, 2016

Silicon Valley VCs, including Alliance member Doug Dooley, and entrepreneurs have partnered with Trace3 to curate the latest disruptive technologies for global CIOs.

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Linden Lab Opens Pp VR World Project Sansar to Outside Creators
April 26, 2016

Linden Lab, lead by Alliance member Ebbe Altberg, will open up its in-development VR virtual world, Project Sansar, to a select number of third-party creators immediately.

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Anomali Raises $30 M in Series C Round
April 21, 2016

Anomali, the provider of the market-leading ThreatStream threat intelligence and Anomali Enterprise platforms, announced it has raised $30 million in series C funding.   Anomali is led by Alliance members Hugh Njemanze, CEO, and Wei Huang, VP of Engineering.

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Patelco Celebrates 80 Years of Service
April 21, 2016

Congratulations to Alliance member Erin Mendez and Patelco Credit Union as they celebrate 80 years of service to Bay Area communities.

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Second Genome Raises $42.6 M Series B Round
April 20, 2016

Second Genome, a privately-held biopharmaceutical company developing novel medicines through innovative microbiome science, announced that Alliance member, Peter DiLaura closed an oversubscribed Series B investment round with $42.6 million in financing.

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John De Santis and Gary Gysin Participate in Atlantic Council’s Captains of Industry Series
April 19, 2016

Alliance members John De Santis, CEO of HyTrust, and Gary Gysin, CEO of Liquid Robotics, recently participated in an Atlantic Council panel discussion regarding what the Pentagon could do to interest Silicon Valley startups in work with a military purpose. 

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Brad Freitag Promoted to Vice President, Worldwide Sales for FileMaker
April 19, 2016

FileMaker has named Alliance member Brad Freitag as Vice President, Worldwide Sales. He previously served as vice president, Americas Sales, for the company.

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Big Switch Networks Recognized on CRN’s Virtualization 50 List
April 14, 2016

Congratulations to Alliance member Doug Murray and Big Switch Networks on being named to CRN's 2016 "Virtualization 50" list. This annual list recognizes channel-friendly companies that provide some of the most innovative virtualization technology available.

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VeloCloud Among “Cool Vendors in Enterprise Networking, 2016”
April 13, 2016

Congratulations to Sanjay Uppal and VeloCloud Networks on being named a "Cool Vendor" in the "Cool Vendors in Enterprise Networking, 2016" report by Gartner, Inc.

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Phani Nagarjuna Wants People Who Share His Vision at Nuevora
April 06, 2016

Alliance member Phani Nagarjuna,Founder & CEO of Nuevora, was profiled in a recent issue of Smart Business Northern California.

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Chris Rivielle Has Taken a Different Approach to Employee Development at Plant Construction
April 06, 2016

Alliance member Chris Rivielle, President & CEO of Plant Construction, was profiled in a recent issue of Smart Business Northern California.

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John De Santis Featured in Recent Forbes “Leadership” Column
March 30, 2016

Alliance member John De Santis was recently featured in a Forbes "Leadership" column discussing the value of investing in executive education.

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Franz Inc. Named to KMWorld Magazine’s 2016 “100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management”
March 29, 2016

Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, announced that is has been named to KMWorld’s 2016 list of the "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management."  Alliance member Jans Aasman is the CEO of Franz Inc.

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