By: Dean Takahashi | VentureBeat | June 1, 2016 IMVU, the social network with 3D animated avatars, said that it has provided the technology behind a new version of the popular Kimoji paid app created by Kim Kardashian West. Redwood City, Calif.-based IMVU operates a social network where users can...
Great news! Signifyd has been recognized as a winner of the 2016 Bay Area Best Places To Work, an awards program presented by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Aside from our beloved coffee machine that serves 28 different kinds of drinks,...
By: Marisa Kendall | mkendall@mercurynews.com [vc_empty_space height="20"] Once it seemed there was nowhere to go but up. [vc_empty_space height="20"] Today, with fears of bloated valuations, a rocky stock market and the worst IPO climate since the financial crisis of 2008, startups are coming down from the clouds. And to...
By Robert Ackerman Jr | Founder & Managing Director of Allegis Capital [vc_empty_space height="20"] As anybody familiar with the computer industry knows, the FBI wants Apple to break security protections on an iPhone linked to the deadly San Bernardino terrorist attacks -- and a U.S. district court has ordered...
By: Anna Irrera | Financial News | Posted: 29 March 2016 In the past few years, Goldman Sachs has been very active in making investments in young technology companies. Banks make many of these investments to learn about important areas of technology, including cloud computing. In October Goldman Sachs joined...
By: Robert R. Ackerman Jr. | Founder & Managing Director, Allegis Capital The Cybersecurity Act of 2015 is approaching its three-month birthday, but you can be excused if you’re oblivious to that. After all, many people probably don’t know it even exists. Very quietly, the law—the...
Cybersecurity, in recent years among the strongest segments of the tech sector, now is feeling the effects of the downturn. [vc_empty_space height="20"] Over the last two years, investors have poured capital into private security companies. Twelve security companies have raised more than $100 million each from venture...
By: Marisa Kendall | San Jose Mercury News | Posted: 28 Feb 2016 [vc_empty_space height="20"] [caption id="attachment_1696" align="aligncenter" width="417"] San Jose software company Apigee began trading on the Nasdaq on April 24, 2015. The company raised $87 million in its initial public offering, the second IPO of...
Currently, more than 3000 e-commerce companies rely on Signifyd’s intelligent machine-learning platform to eliminate fraud-related chargebacks from their businesses San Jose, Calif. – February 25, 2016 – Signifyd today announced it has closed $20 million in Series B funding led by Menlo Ventures, with additional participation from Allegis Capital, IA Ventures, QED Investors, Bill McKiernan and Tim Eades. Pravin...
Cyber security startups face funding drought By Heather Somerville & Jim Finkle, Reuters February 23, 2016 [vc_empty_space height="20"] The U.S. cyber security industry, once one of the hottest targets for venture capitalists, is now grappling with a funding slump that has forced some startups to sell themselves or cut...