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Amrit Robbins
Amrit earned his B.S. in Atmosphere/Energy Engineering at Stanford University. He has relevant domain experience in sales, project management, business development, and engineering. After completing his degree, he worked at QBotix (which made robotic tracking systems for solar PV) as an assistant to the CEO where he helped to build…
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Ekso Bionics Launches Joint Exoskeleton Manufacturing Venture in China
Powered exoskeleton developer Ekso Bionics has launched a joint venture in China, supported by at least $100 million, to build a dedicated manufacturing center for rehabilitation and industrial-use markets in Asia. The Richmond, California-based Ekso will license its manufacturing technology and transfer its relevant Chinese patent rights to the venture,…
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Sight Machine Wins ABB Award for Industrial Automation and Energy Efficiency
SAN FRANCISCO—Sight Machine Inc., the leader in manufacturing data analytics, was named by Cleantech Group to the 2019 Global Cleantech 100, an annual guide to the leading companies and themes in sustainable innovation. At the same event, ABB Technology Ventures awarded Sight Machine the Automation of Everything Award as “the…
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Are Virtual Workforces Worth the Effort?
By Warren Lutz For Everett Harper, CEO of Truss, a software infrastructure consulting firm that helps companies and government agencies scale by allowing them to ship products more efficiently, running a virtual company wasn’t really the original plan. As Truss was getting off the ground, one of its co-founders couldn’t…
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Tivic Health Receives FDA Clearance To Market ClearUP™
SAN FRANCISCO—Tivic Health Systems Inc. announced that ClearUP Sinus Pain Relief, a first-in-class bioelectronic treatment for sinus pain due to allergic rhinitis (hay fever), has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). ClearUP is an over-the-counter (OTC) device that provides consumers with a simple, non-invasive and…
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Member Bill Newell Speaks: Establish a Core Technology, Not Just a Single Offering
The Challenge: In the situation at hand, a CEO was seeking insight into pursuing a partnership in order to bring a product to market. He was torn how—or if—to partner with a larger company that would complete development and handle commercialization, as well as whether to retain their own rights…
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Sutro Achieves $10 Million Milestone Payment from Celgene
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.,—Sutro Biopharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: STRO), announced that the company earned $10 million in a milestone payment from Celgene triggered by the successful development of a dry powder XtractCFTM formulation, using spray drying technology, which is well established in the pharmaceutical industry. Dried XtractCFTM is a significant advancement,…
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Rachel Haurwitz on Forbes List of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech
Congratulations to Alliance member Rachel Haurwitz, CEO of Caribou Biosciences, who was named to Forbes' list of America’s “Top 50 Women in Tech” which identifies three generations of forward-thinking women technologists leading more than a dozen tech sectors across the globe.
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Bailard Wins a 2018 Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work Award
FOSTER CITY, Calif.—Bailard, Inc., a boutique asset and wealth management firm based in California, has earned a Pensions & Investments 2018 Best Places to Work in Money Management award. Presented by Pensions & Investments, the global news source of money management, the awards program, now in its sixth year, is…
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Two Alliance Member Companies Honored with 2018 Best in Biz Awards
Congratulations to DriveScale, led by CEO Gene Banman and VP of Sales Jeff Raice, and Chowbotics, led by CEO and Founder Deepak Sekar, on receiving the 2018 “Best in Biz Awards.” DriveScale was honored with a “Most Innovative Company of the Year” award and Chowbotics received the “Most Innovative Product…
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Amir Panush
Amir Panush has served as Chief Executive Officer of CEVA since January 2023. Prior to his current position, Amir served as CEO and General Manager of InvenSense, a TDK group company. Amir held various leadership positions at TDK, following TDK’s successful acquisition of InvenSense in 2017. Amir joined InvenSense in…
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Four Alliance Members on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 List
Congratulations to the following Alliance Members whose companies were named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 List. Combining technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and rapid growth, Fast 500 companies—large, small, public, and private—hail from cities far and wide across North America and are disrupting the technology industry. If you are looking for…
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Automation Anywhere Announces $300 Million Investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund
SAN JOSE, CALIF. – Automation Anywhere®, the leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), announced it has raised $300 million from the SoftBank Vision Fund. The funding is subject to regulatory approvals and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions and is an expansion to the company’s Series A round announced in…
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Travel Tech Company Sojern Announces Financing Round
SAN FRANCISCO— Sojern, the travel tech company known for its traveler path-to-purchase data and innovative travel marketing and distribution solutions, announced that growth equity firm TCV has led a $120 million financing round in Sojern. Sojern looks to build on its years of rapid growth and successful execution—recently marking 13…
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Craig Hunter
Craig founded Covalent and is CEO. He initially worked in corporate development, finance and strategy, with stints as an M&A banker on Wall Street and as CFO of a small consumer products company. He rediscovered his Silicon Valley roots in 2003, taking a business strategy role at the display division…
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Scott McNealy
We were honored to welcome Scott McNealy to the Alliance of Chief Executives. Scott, who did not have a technical background when he co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982, served as the CEO of Sun through the 1980s and 1990s. Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems in 2010 for $7.4 billion, and since…
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Fall 2018
Going ‘Live’ - Running a Business in Real-Time With the increasing speed at which technology is fueling change, running a real-time business can be a huge difference maker. But as Alliance members Chris Beall of ConnectAndSell, Victor Chapela of Suggestic, Yvonne Linney of Transcriptic, Dennis O’Malley of Caliva, Rodney Pearlman…
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Imanis Data Network World’s 10 Hot Business Continuity Startups to Watch
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Imanis Data, the leader in enterprise data management powered by machine learning, announced that Network World has named it among the publication’s ‘10 Hot Business-Continuity Startups to Watch.’ Imanis Data is listed along with a crop of well-funded young businesses that embrace blockchain, machine learning, data analytics,…
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Six Alliance Member Companies on the List of the Bay Area’s Fastest Growing Private Companies
Congratulations to the following Alliance Members whose companies were named to the Bay Area's list of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies for 2018 by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal. CleanFund Commercial PACE Capital, led by CEO Greg Saunders Innowave Marketing Group, led by CEO Stu…
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LexisNexis Owner Leads $38 Million Investment in Quid
Quid, a startup that helps companies analyze large volumes of text from news, social media and the web, raised $37.5 million in venture funding. The deal was led by REV Ventures, the investment arm of LexisNexis owner RELX Group Plc, which contributed about $10 million. Other investors include Julian Roberson,…
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Gainsight Acquires Aptrinsic to Enable Product Growth for Subscription Businesses
Gainsight, the Customer Success company, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aptrinsic, a privately held company based in San Mateo, California and Tel Aviv, Israel. Aptrinsic is a product-led growth solution that delivers powerful analytics and in-product engagements used to increase adoption, retention and expansion in B2B…
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Patrick Renvoise
Patrick Renvoise co-founded SalesBrain in 2002 and served as Chief Persuasion Officer. SalesBrain, the world’s first neuromarketing agency, uses neuroscience discoveries to radically transform sales and marketing performance by targeting the decision making part of a customer’s brain: their primal, unconscious brain. He has three passions in life: the science…
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Unicorn Births Outpace IPOs in Bay Area
More venture-backed Bay Area companies have gone public in 2018 great numbers, but it has done little to cull the unicorn backlog. “The unicorn class is finally graduating this year but more are being minted in the meanwhile,” said Matthew Kennedy, an analyst at Renaissance Capital, an investment firm that…
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Benno Dorer
Benno Dorer is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Clorox Company. Benno joined Clorox in 2005 as vice president and general manager, Glad® Products. Before joining Clorox, Benno worked for 14 years at Procter & Gamble in various marketing positions across a range of categories and countries, including…
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Superior Sensor Technology Revolutionizes Pressure Sensor Technology
SANTA CLARA, Calif., /PRNewswire/—Superior Sensor Technology today launched the company with the introduction of NimbleSense™, a breakthrough, application specific, pressure sensor technology for industrial, medical and automotive applications. The NimbleSense™ architecture is an integrated platform combining advanced piezoresistive sensing elements, analog signal path, processing intelligence and proprietary integration techniques to…
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Curt Carlson
Prior to founding the Practice of Innovation, Curt Carlson was President and CEO of SRI International. During Curt's 16-year tenure at SRI, its revenue more than tripled and SRI became a global model for the systematic creation of high-value innovations. Carlson is widely sought as a speaker and thought leader…
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Cognizant to Acquire Digital Engineering Leader Softvision
TEANECK, NJ – Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Softvision, LLC, a privately-held digital engineering and consulting company focused on agile development of innovative software solutions and platforms. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2018 subject to the…
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R.F. MacDonald Co. Recognized as One of the Bay Area’s Largest Private Companies
HAYWARD, Calif.,— R.F. MacDonald Co., a leading provider of boiler and pump equipment for commercial and industrial solutions, announced that it has been recognized by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the Bay Area's largest family-owned businesses. The company has been previously recognized by the Times and other…
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Going ‘Live’ - Running a Business in Real-Time
By Warren Lutz Chris Beall, CEO of ConnectAndSell, a provider of sales acceleration technology for outbound prospecting and appointment setting, has no use for meetings or sales quotas. Meetings waste time and are inherently political, he says, while sales goals are artificially restrictive. Instead, he runs ConnectAndSell in real-time—and as…
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Cybersecurity Firm Nozomi Networks Raises $30M
Nozomi Networks has secured $30 million in Series C funding. The San Francisco, Calif.-based touts itself as an industrial security giant, securing more than 300,000 industrial devices over a range of industries, like manufacturing, energy, and mining, with hundreds of hydroelectric and gas distribution facilities on its roster. It’s the…
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