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Savioke Expands Robotic Reach from Hotels to FedEx
A Silicon Valley robotics company that had been providing robots to hotels to help with room service duties has broadened its focus and is now working with FedEx to move items around its Collierville, Tennessee, information technology center. San Jose-based Savioke is using its Relay robot to act as mailroom…
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Dtex Systems Insider Releases Threat Intelligence Report
SAN JOSE, CA—Dtex Systems, a leader in user behavior intelligence and insider threat detection, announced availability of its Insider Threat Intelligence Report. The report reveals key security trends driven by malicious and negligent insiders that include a cross section of employees, contractors and partners with access to corporate endpoints, data…
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Douglas Murray is EY Entrepreneur of the Year Semifinalist
SANTA CLARA, CA –– Big Switch Networks, The Next-Generation Data Center Networking Company, announced Douglas Murray, CEO, Big Switch Networks, and Kyle Forster, Founder, Big Switch Networks, were named semifinalists for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2017 Northern California Region Award. Murray and Forster were selected as semifinalists by…
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NuMedii Announces Partnership to Advance New Treatments for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
MENLO PARK, Calif.—NuMedii, Inc. announced the formation of a strategic partnership with Three Lakes Partners, LLC, to discover and advance new treatments for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) based on NuMedii's Big Data intelligence technology. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a rare chronic progressive and usually fatal interstitial lung disease for which…
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LogiGear Captures Another Industry Accolade
FOSTER CITY, CA—LogiGear, a world leader in software testing solutions, today announced that it has won a 2017 Corporate Vision Global Excellence Award for Most Outstanding Automated Software Testing Company from Corporate Vision Magazine. The Global Excellence Awards were launched to celebrate and promote those firms and individuals that the…
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Ben Davis Interviewed on Bay Area Ventures Radio Program
Alliance member Ben Davis, Founder and CEO of Phizzle, was recently interviewed on the Bay Area Ventures radio program, on Sirius XM Channel 111, Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School. Alliance Director Doug Collom is a Bay Area Ventures co-host. The segment may be heard on this link.
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Cat Lincoln Contributes to Fortune Magazine’s Entrepreneur Insiders Network
If you don’t get freaked out once in awhile, you’re probably coasting—at least a little. And yes, that means that sometimes you’re going to flounder and struggle. But if you expect some discomfort to be part of the process, there are several ways you can plan ahead to deal with…
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Big Switch Networks Named to JMP Securities’ Super 60 List
SANTA CLARA, CA—Big Switch Networks, The Next-Generation Data Center Networking Company, announced that it has been named to JMP Securities' annual Super 60 list (previously Fast 50) for the third consecutive year. This list recognizes the most strategically positioned private companies within the Internet security, communications infrastructure and storage industries.…
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Member Jeff Antrim Speaks: Double Down on Quality and Accountability
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by a CEO whose services firm was suffering from expensive “go-backs,” where he would often find it necessary to send his staff back to client sites to fix mistakes. He came to the Alliance seeking strategies to keep this trend at bay…
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Jes Pedersen Named 2017 Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame Laureate
Congratulations to Alliance member Jes Pedersen, President & CEO of Webcor Builders, who was inducted into Junior Achievement of Northern California’s 2017 Business Hall of Fame, honoring outstanding business leaders and entrepreneurs who have made a significant contribution to the economic and social development of the Bay Area. Through business…
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SutroVax Raises $64M
When SutroVax was spun out of Sutro about four years ago, the biotech took along a conjugation platform that was repurposed for developing a new brand of vaccines. And now that they are aiming for the clinic with a lead pneumococcal vaccine, SutroVax has reeled in a whopping $64 million…
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David Earp
David J. Earp, J.D., Ph.D., has served as the President & CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of Circle since October 2013. Previously, David held various roles at Geron Corporation (NASDAQ:GERN), including Chief Patent Counsel, Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice President of Corporate Transactions, building a…
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Light Polymers Closes $24.3 Million in Series A Funding
Light Polymers, a nanochemistry startup with R&D operations in Silicon Valley, Taiwan and Korea, announced a Series A investment of $24.3 million led by a consortium of private investors. The Series A will be used to fund R&D expansion and commercialization for its flexible and foldable OLED display chemistry and…
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Jonathan Corr Appears on “Press:Here”
Alliance member Jonathan Corr appeared on NBC Bay Area's “Press:Here” to discuss Ellie Mae's move to automate the home buying process. Click here to view the segment on “White Collar Robots.”
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Bernard Coulie
Pliant CEO Bernard Coulie, M.D., Ph.D., brings more than 15 years of senior leadership experience and drug development expertise. He joined Pliant from ActoGeniX (acquired by Intrexon Corporation in February 2015), where he was CEO, Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder. In these positions, Bernard played an integral role in advancing…
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Jaume Pons
Jaume Pons previously served as Chief Scientific Officer and site head of Rinat (Pfizer), where he was responsible for portfolio delivery from idea to clinical development. He implemented the vision of a company unit following biology across therapeutic areas while generating advanced antibody technologies and turned Rinat into the center…
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2 Alliance Members on CRN’s 2017 Software-Defined Data Center 50 List
CRN editors selected companies for the Software-Defined Data Center 50 list on the basis of multiple criteria, including each company’s overall impact on the market, its influence on the channel as a whole, and the desirability of the technology and services it makes available to its partners. This inaugural list…
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2 Alliance Members on List of the 100 Biggest VC Recipients of 2016
Congratulations to Alain Harrus, CEO of Kateeva, and Rachel Haurwitz, CEO of Caribou Biosciences, whose companies were included on the San Francisco Business Times' list of the 100 biggest VC recipients of 2016. According the this report, the Bay Area Area's largest 100 venture capital recipients drew $11.2 billion in…
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KMWorld Names ABBYY among ‘100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management’
MILPITAS, CA— For the 10th year in a row, ABBYY®, a leading provider of technologies and solutions to action information, is named on KMWorld's '100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management' list. The annual listing recognizes companies that exude innovation, ingenuity, resourcefulness, usefulness, collaboration, community and expertise and help their…
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Member Peter Koshland Speaks: Go. To. Bed.
The Challenge: The case at hand was brought by a CEO who was experiencing business and life struggles. This CEO came to the Alliance looking for guidance on how to correct course and regain control. If you were in this situation, what would you do? If I were in your…
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Will Anderson
Will Anderson founded SameDay Solar in 2024. Previously, Will led Complete Solar's spectacular growth from the company's inception in 2009. Will's vision was to build the first great solar company. To realize that vision, he architected HelioQuote™, the company's cornerstone technology that provides customers a truly custom, optimized system that…
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Data Collective Invests in San Mateo’s Vium
Joe Betts-Lacroix and Tim Robertson want to build a better mouse trap — so to speak — and in the process revolutionize the way laboratories collect data from animals. But the duo's “digital vivarium” company, called Vium Inc., is part of a larger movement by traditional tech players into the…
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Big Switch Networks Recognized on CRN’s Data Center 100 List
SANTA CLARA, CA—Big Switch Networks®, The Next-Generation Data Center Networking Company, announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Big Switch to its 2017 Data Center 100 list in the Data Center Provider category. This annual list recognizes technology suppliers that excel at powering, supporting and protecting…
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WhiteHat Security Recognized as a Leader for Application Security Testing
SANTA CLARA, California—WhiteHat Security, the only application security provider that combines the best of technology and human intelligence, has once again been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the 'Leader' quadrant of the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing (AST).[1] This is the fourth such report, and WhiteHat Security has…
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$35 Million in New VeloCloud Funding
VeloCloud Networks, the cloud-based SD-WAN provider, is expanding globally and adding support for its partners thanks to a round of generous funding. The Mountain View, California-based company announced Thursday that it has finished a $35 million round of series D funding. Hermes Growth Partners led the funding round, which VeloCloud…
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RTI Co-Authors First Connectivity Framework for the Industrial Internet
SUNNYVALE, CA—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…
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Drayton Boylston
Drayton Boylston is the Founder and CEO of The Executive Coaching University. Drayton is considered a pioneer in the field of Executive Coaching and Personal Development, and widely thought of as a Leadership Visionary. He is a former CEO and Fortune 100 executive and has established and led a $100…
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TORA Named Best OMS Provider at HFM US Technology Awards
SAN FRANCISCO— TORA announced that it has been named “Best OMS Provider” at the HFM US Technology Awards. The awards, presented Monday at a ceremony in New York, recognize fund technology providers that have demonstrated outstanding customer service and innovative product development over the past 12 months. Commenting on the…
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Ryan Tweedy
Ryan Tweedy joined DeWinter Group (now Maris Consulting Group) in December 2016 as a partner for their technology practice, DeWinter Technology. Ryan has over a decade of experience in tech recruiting, sales and leadership roles which has provided a great match to begin this endeavor. He started his career in…
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Automation Anywhere Named a Leader in Robotic Process Automation by Independent Research Firm
SAN JOSE, CA—Automation Anywhere, the global leader in enterprise robotic process automation (RPA), announced they have been named a “Leader” in the February 2017 report, “The Forrester Wave™: Robotic Process Automation, Q1 2017” by Forrester Research, Inc. Forrester counts 38 RPA product vendors, but there are even more—over 50 and…
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