Industry and entrepreneur happenings
By Cyrus Wadia and Michael Stebbins. This article originally appeared on The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, February 6, 2015.
In 2011 President Obama launched the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), committing the nation to discover, develop, and deploy cutting-edge materials twice as fast and at a fraction of the cost at that time. […]
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By Daniel Fisher. This article originally appeared on Forbes, February 2, 2015.
If you’re being sued for patent infringement before U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, there’s something you ought to know. Koh is tough on defendants and only grants 18% of motions for summary judgment, less than half the national average. […]
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By Alyson Shontell. This article originally appeared on Business Insider, January 22, 2015.
Amanda Bradford doesn’t think her dating app, The League, is elitist. She prefers the word “curated,” the same way Ivy League schools and top employers select only the best candidates.
The League, which just raised a $2.1 million seed round, […]
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By Jordan Crook. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch, December 17, 2014.
Chatous, a social messaging app that has been around since November 2012, is today closing a $2.1 million seed round led by General Catalyst, with participation from XSeed Capital and Slow Ventures. General Catalyst’s Kevin Colleran will join the board.
The […]
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With CirroSecure for Dropbox, Enterprises Can Easily Share, Sync and Collaborate in Secure Cloud-based Environment
This article originally appeared on PRWeb, December 3, 2014.
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (PRWEB) – CirroSecure, a leader in cloud data security, today announced an integration with Dropbox for Businessthat enables customers to address their data loss prevention […]
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Backed by Tech Luminaries, Breezeworks Brings Advanced Productivity Tools to Massive Yet Underserved Market
This article originally appeared on BusinessWire, November 18, 2014.
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today Breezeworks announced that it has raised $5 million in the first-ever investment led by Evan Williams’s recently formed Obvious Ventures. This funding fuels the […]
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Award follows recent $5.7 million Series C financing round extension to expand worldwide sales and marketing activities
This article originally appeared on BusinessWire, November 18, 2014.
CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ZipLine Medical, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded “2014 Best New Technology In Spine Care” by […]
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By Jonathan Shieber. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch, November 12, 2014.
Today marks the soft launch of the The League, a Tinder-esque dating app that adds a layer of class-awareness (or at least job status) for those looking for true affection in their mobile dating experience.
The pitch from The […]
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By Jordan Novet. This article originally appeared on VentureBeat, November 2, 2014.
The startup StackStorm is taking the first step toward popularizing the software it’s built to help people more efficiently run and update applications in whatever data centers they choose.
Today, in conjunction with the OpenStack Paris conference, StackStorm is releasing the 0.5 […]
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By Derrick Harris. This article originally appeared on Gigaom, October 30, 2014.
I’m probably guilty of spending too much time talking to startups and web companies, to the point where it’s easy to forget that not everyone is regularly re-architecting their applications and inserting new tools into their data-processing pipelines. Not every company is Facebook, where storage is […]
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