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Member Edmundo Costa Speaks: You Can “Win” While Holding Second Place in Your Market
The Challenge: In this situation at hand, a CEO was seeking insight into making the most of the company’s funding despite their competition’s recent success raising significantly more. If you were in this situation, what would you do? First off, it’s a good sign for your business that there are…
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Cytek Biosciences Adds Investors, Completes Series C Financing
FREMONT, Calif. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cytek Biosciences Inc., the preeminent provider of innovative flow cytometry solutions, announced the completion of a Series C funding round co-led by Northern Lights Ventures, LLC and 3E Bioventures. The funding will be used to facilitate the expansion of Cytek’s footprint around the world, as…
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Allison Pickens Named COO of Gainsight
SAN FRANCISCO (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)—Gainsight™, the Customer Success company, today announced several updates to its management team, including functional expansions and new senior leadership positions. Allison Pickens, previous Chief Customer Officer, has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of Gainsight, retaining control of the company’s Customer Success function while adding Corporate Development…
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Jim Flatt
Jim Flatt has more than 30 years of leadership experience in biotechnology and biomanufacturing and was named CEO of DMC Biotechnologies in 2025. He has a proven track record of delivering commercial success through innovation, building partnerships, and scaling operations. His previous roles include co-founder and CEO of Brightseed, where…
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Vendini Takes Lead in Canadian Ticketing Market with Boxxo Acquisition
SAN FRANCISCO & MONTREAL—Vendini, the company that makes the business of live events simple, announced that it has acquired Boxxo, Quebec’s leading ticketing software company. Boxxo has been helping arts organizations in Quebec sell tickets for more than 15 years. It currently serves many theaters, cultural, sports and leisure organizations…
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Member David Earp Speaks: Convene the Board to Consolidate Strategy and Introduce New Members
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by a CEO who had recently recruited a first-rate, new board member and was seeking insight for a successful integration. If you were in this situation, what would you do? Board meetings typically come with a pressure-cooked agenda in which the board…
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DriveScale Opens First European Office
SUNNYVALE, California /PRNewswire/—DriveScale, the leader in delivering Software Composable Infrastructure (SCI) for modern workloads and a 2018 Cool Vendor by Gartner for Cloud Infrastructure, announced it opened its first office in Europe and appointed Henk Jan Spanjaard as vice president and general manager of EMEA to lead growth in the…
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9 Alliance Members Make the INC 5000 Fastest Growing List
Congratulations to the following Alliance Members whose companies were named to the 2018 INC 5000 list of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in America. CleanFund Commercial PACE Capital, led by CEO Greg Saunders Corefact, led by Founder & CEO Chris Burnley Innowave Marketing Group, led by CEO Stu Birger Jade…
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BullGuard Wins Stevie Award
Multi-award winning consumer cybersecurity company,BullGuard announced that BullGuard Premium Protection was named the winner of a Silver Stevie Award in the “Best New Product or Service of the Year - Consumer Services” category in the 15th Annual Stevie International Business Awards. The Stevie International Business Awards are the world’s premier…
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The Autodesk Forge Fund Leads Rhumbix’s $8M Funding Round
SAN FRANCISCO—Rhumbix, a powerful mobile platform designed for smarter construction sites, has closed an $8 million round of funding led by Autodesk, Inc., a world leader in cloud-based construction project management software connecting teams and data from design through construction. “For the construction industry to fully-realize the benefits of digitization,…
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Alliance Founder Paul Witkay Interviewed on Bay Area Ventures Radio Program
Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay was recently featured on the Bay Area Ventures radio program, on Sirius XM Channel 132, Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School. Paul discussed his entrepreneurial experiences launching and growing a successful business, the dynamics underlying the Alliance, and his perspectives on Bay Area…
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BioPharmX Announces Patent Award
MENLO PARK, Calif.—BioPharmX Corporation (NYSE American: BPMX), a specialty pharmaceutical company developing products for the dermatology market, announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a fifth patent to the company – which means that three of its drug delivery systems now have patent protection. The patent, (U.S.…
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Apexigen Raises $73 Million In Series B And Series C Financings
SAN CARLOS, Calif.—Apexigen, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced the successful completion of its Series B and Series C financings in which it raised a total of $73 million. The $15 million Series B financing was led by Decheng Capital and the recent $58 million Series C financing was led…
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Member Erin Mendez Speaks: Involve (All) Your People in Strategic Decisions
The Challenge: The case at hand case was brought by a CEO who had recently been brought in to restructure a struggling company. He was aiming to gain insight into presenting strategic changes to the company in a way that would make the transition smooth and effective. If you were…
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Greg Malin Talks About Boosting Wellness in Real Estate
Six questions for Gregory Malin CEO and Co-Founder, Troon Pacific Inc. HQ: San Francisco What it does: Real estate development with an emphasis on sustainable design and wellness. Troon Pacific has affiliated company offices in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Oslo, Norway, together managing investments and development projects with values in excess…
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Acorn Product Development and Elemental8 Announce Merger
Acorn Product Development and Elemental8 have merged their companies to provide a highly integrated product development services solution with a global footprint. The merged company will operate under the Acorn Product Development brand, with design centers in Silicon Valley, Atlanta, Boston, and China. Founded in 1993, Acorn Product Development is…
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Sutro Biopharma Announces $85.4 Million Series E Round
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—Sutro Biopharma, Inc., has secured $85.4 million in Series E financing to advance its wholly-owned pipeline of novel cancer therapeutics, including two internally-developed antibody drug conjugates, or ADCs, known as STRO-001, now in Phase 1 clinical testing for lymphoma and multiple myeloma, and STRO-002, which is expected…
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Patelco Credit Union Receives Financial Capability Innovation Award
PLEASANTON, CA — Patelco Credit Unionwas honored with the 2018 Financial Capability Innovation Award presented by EVERFI, Inc., recognizing Patelco’s significant efforts to improve the financial capability of Americans through its Financialocity member digital learning initiative. “Patelco Credit Union is committed to providing members with the skills and knowledge needed…
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Daniel Riedel
Daniel Riedel is a venture capitalist, cybersecurity expert, and serial entrepreneur with over two decades of leadership at the intersection of security, infrastructure, and innovation. He co-created key global threat-sharing standards such as STIX and TAXII, helped lead the DevSecOps movement, and has driven major public-private cyber defense initiatives, including…
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Softvision Acquires Arrow Digital
AUSTIN, TX – Softvision LLC, a leader in enhancing the digital consumer experience for top brands, today announced it has acquired Arrow Digital, a West Palm Beach based digital consulting firm. Arrow Digital is an IP-driven, scalable custom software firm delivering business process automation, digital experience and RPA solutions –…
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Cesar DOnofrio
In 1999 Cesar DOnofrio graduated with an engineering degree in information systems from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional in Buenos Aires, Argentina. While working as a consultant in Y&L the US in the early 2000s, Cesar realized that his passion was to combine software development with user experience. This blend of…
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Bracken Darrell
As president and chief executive officer of Logitech, Bracken Darrell is responsible for Logitech’s strategy for growth and profitability, for the vision for the brand as well as for the company’s operations. Bracken has more than twenty years of experience in business management and brand management in successful global consumer…
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NuMedii Announces Strategic Research Collaboration with Two Leading Academic Research Institutions
SAN MATEO, Calif. – NuMedii, Inc., announced the formation of a strategic research collaboration with Yale School of Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital with the goal of utilizing single-cell sequencing to identify novel precision therapies and biomarkers in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). An orphan disease, IPF is a chronic,…
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Automation Anywhere Raises $250 Million in One of the Largest Series A Financing Rounds
SAN JOSE, CALIF. –— Automation Anywhere, the leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), announced it has completed its Series A financing round of $250 million led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Goldman Sachs Growth Equity with participation from General Atlantic and World Innovation Lab (WiL). As one of the…
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Savioke Raises $13.4 Million in New Funding
Service robotics company Savioke has raised $13.4 million in its latest funding round. New investors in this Series B round included Brain Corp, Swisslog Healthcare, NESIC, and Recruit. The round brings Savioke’s total funding to $31 million. In a blog post on the company’s website, Steve Cousins, founder and CEO…
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Andres Angelani Recognized as Nearshore Voyager of the Year
Nearshore Americas’ annual Illuminate Awards took place this June 26-27 at Nexus 2018 in San Francisco. The awards celebrate the industry actors who are adapting in the digital age and shine a spotlight on the very best in the industry. Softvision’s CEO, Andres Angelani, was among those celebrated, as he…
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ChargePoint Ushers In Electric Fleet Future with Acquisition of Kisensum
CAMPBELL, Calif.——ChargePoint, the world’s leading and most open electric vehicle (EV) charging network, continues to build on its category leadership by significantly investing in the future of mobility with the acquisition of Kisensum, a leader in fleet energy solutions. The acquisition comes as ChargePoint embarks on its most aggressive period…
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Zack Blum featured Computerworld Article
If you can determine the vitality of a platform within a sector by the activity it generates, then the appearance of new Apple in the enterprise-focused start-up, Fleetsmith, speaks volumes. Jonny Evans of Computerworld recently caught up with Zack Blum, CEO and co-founder of Fleetsmith, to see why he thinks…
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Summer 2018
Preparing for the Next Wave in Data Privacy Alliance members Ian Cohen of Experian Consumer Services, Himanshu Dwivedi of Data Theorem, Ted Elliott of Jobscience, Ju-kay Kwek of Switchboard Software, Ersin Uzun of Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and Christy Wyatt of Dtex Systems, discuss the sweeping new Data Privacy…
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Erin Mendez
We were pleased to have Alliance member Erin Mendez, President/CEO of Patelco Credit Union, join us for this Regional Alliance meeting to discuss her lessons learned from a very successful career in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Patelco, Erin served as executive vice president and chief operating officer…
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