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Skytree Supports Big Data Analytics in Hadoop with Hortonworks Data Platform

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Skytree Server Version 12.11 Now Runs on YARN on Hadoop

SAN JOSE, Calif. – June 3, 2014 – Skytree®, the Machine Learning Company®, today announced that its predictive analytics software is now available on Apache Hadoop YARN to deliver agile analytics on Hadoop clusters. Skytree’s flagship product — Skytree Server® — is built to provide high-performance Machine Learning and takes advantage of the multi-workload capabilities enabled by YARN’s increased reliability, scalability and manageability.

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Wholesale Shopping App Boxed Announces $6.5M Series A

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Mobile Commerce Startup Raises Funds to Drive Continued Growth, Expand National Infrastructure

NEW YORK – May 13, 2014 – Boxed, a mobile commerce company that provides the discounts of warehouse club shopping with fast, affordable delivery, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding. Built by mobile industry veterans, Boxed is the first company to make ordering big box products simple, affordable, and hassle-free from a phone or tablet. Return investor Greycroft Partners and new investors First Round Capital and Signia Venture Partners led the round, with participation from ENIAC Ventures, Social Starts, BoxGroup, Owen Van Natta (former Facebook COO), and David Ko (Former Zynga COO).

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LifeMap Solutions Emerges to Develop Big Data-Powered Mobile Health Products

lifemap solutions logoLifeMap Solutions Partners with Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Leadership Team Includes Deep Biotech and Silicon Valley Experience 

ALAMEDA, Calif. — May 7, 2014 — LifeMap Solutions, Inc., a medical technology startup focused on creating innovative mobile health (mHealth) products and services powered by big data, today announced an initial $5 million seed round led by parent company LifeMap Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc., with additional participation via in-kind support from its development partner, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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Consumer Physics Launches SCiO to Demystify our Material World

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Pocket-Sized Scanner Reads Molecular Fingerprint of Food, Pharmaceuticals, and More 

MENLO PARK, Calif. and TEL AVIV, Israel – April 29, 2014 –Consumer Physics today unveiled SCiO, a handheld sensor that scans the molecular fingerprint of physical matter and instantly provides useful information about its chemical makeup. SCiO delivers real-time results to its mobile application on the user’s smartphone via Bluetooth LE.

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Elementum Named Supply Chain “Cool Vendor” by Top Analyst Firm Gartner

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Elementum receives recognition as one of five leading cloud-based supply chain solutions

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—April 28, 2014—Enterprise startup Elementum today announced it has been selected by Gartner, Inc. as one of the “Cool Vendors” in a report on supply chain services [1].  Among the report’s key findings is that “an integrated cloud-based platform and services that support front-office and back-office processes across the extended value chain are important for delivering the right service to the right customer at the right time.” Elementum offers one such platform, leveraging cloud computing, Big Data and analytics to extend supply chain collaboration beyond the four walls of the enterprise.

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Founders of Box, Yahoo!, Workday, and Silver Lake Partners Invest in Elementum to Redefine Enterprise Software

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Mobile supply chain startup adds top Silicon Valley advisors and investors

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 8, 2014 – Today, enterprise startup Elementum announces the addition of five new investors—Aaron Levie, Dave Duffield, Jerry Yang, Jim Davidson, and Mike Frandsen—as well as new members to its board of advisors. The company, which offers mobile software for supply chain management, exited stealth mode this February with over $60 million in funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX).

ADDITIONAL INVESTORS: 

  • Dave Duffield, co-founder and co-CEO, Workday
  • Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO, Box
  • Jerry Yang, co-founder, Yahoo!; founding partner, AME Cloud Ventures
  • Mike Frandsen, VP of products, Workday
  • Jim Davidson, co-founder and managing director, Silver Lake Partners

Jim Davidson is also a member of the company’s board of directors.

ADDITIONS TO BOARD OF ADVISORS: 

  • Dave Duffield, co-founder and co-CEO, Workday
  • David Dibble, former EVP, service engineering and operations, Yahoo!
  • David Henke, former SVP, engineering and operations, LinkedIn
  • Aneel Bhusri, co-founder, chairman, and co-CEO, Workday

“With the creation of the world’s first supply chain graph, Elementum isn’t just disrupting the industry, they’re rewriting the rules.”

Aaron Levie, co-founder & CEO, Box

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Machine Learning Innovator Skytree Grew Over 300 Percent Annual Booked Revenues; Certifies on Cloudera 5

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Predictive Analytics Startup Integrates with Leading Apache Hadoop Platform to Offer Newest Big Data Analysis Technology

SAN JOSE, Calif. — April 2, 2014 — Skytree®, the Machine Learning Company®, today announced it has grown booked revenues by over 300 percent on an annual basis since the company officially launched in 2012.

Skytree also announced today that it has been certified on Cloudera 5, the latest version of Cloudera’s unified analytic data management platform, Cloudera Enterprise. Built on Apache™ Hadoop® it serves more and more as the core of an enterprise data hubs (EDH) globally. Skytree’s flagship predictive analytics software, Skytree Server, is one of the first products that has been certified on the platform. Continue reading Machine Learning Innovator Skytree Grew Over 300 Percent Annual Booked Revenues; Certifies on Cloudera 5

DoubleDutch Goes Big with Executive Hires to Scale Platform, Product and People

doubledutch-logo-dark1-300x45Vice Presidents of Engineering and Finance Join Fast-growing Event Technology Startup, Bringing Experience from Apple, Morgan Stanley and other Marketing Software Companies

SAN FRANCISCO — Mar. 26, 2014 — DoubleDutch, the leading provider of mobile event applications, today announced two additions to its executive team: Tim Christensen joins as vice president of engineering and Ken Kamada as vice president of finance. With a focus on data capture and social engagement at events, DoubleDutch’s mobile-first product is breaking new ground in location-based and contextual content delivery. The company has made scale a priority, more than doubling its staff from 40 to 90 employees in 2013. Christensen and Kamada have extensive experience growing startups, and will help structure DoubleDutch for continued success as the company expands its products, team and international reach. Continue reading DoubleDutch Goes Big with Executive Hires to Scale Platform, Product and People