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Entity Academy, an edtech startup that trains, mentors and places women in tech roles, secures $100M

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Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development. Since 2016, some 400 students, almost all women, have completed the course.

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Emotive Names President, COO

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Los Angeles-based conversational text messaging software developer Emotive--which is backed by CRV and others--said this week that it has named Matt Cooley as the company's President and COO. The company recently raised $50M in its Series B funding round. According to Emotive, Cooley was the first major investor in Emotive in 2019.

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Crowdstrike Gets More Unwelcome Attention In Ukraine Scandal

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Crowdstrike , the cybersecurity software developer which was founded in Orange County, which recently had its IPO, is getting some unwelcome attention today after the company's name came up in a transcript of calls involving Ukraine and the President of the United States.

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GoGuardian Sets Chief Revenue Officer

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GoGuardian was acquired by private equity investor Sumeru Equity Partners back in 2016, and most recently acquired Pear Deck, a student engagement software developer. GoGuardian says it now serves more than 20 million students at over 14,000 schools across the United States.

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Rincon Ventures Backs Rainforest QA In $25M Round

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Santa Barbara-based venture capital investment firm Rincon Ventures is part of a new funding round for quality assurance software developer Rainforest QA. Rincon invested in Rainforest QA's Series A round back in 2016. Rainforest is based in San Francisco. READ MORE>>.

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Cylance Names Chief Privacy Officer

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Irvine-based cybersecurity software developer Cylance said Tuesday morning that it has named Greg Silberman as the company's Chief Privacy Officer. He also served at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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Medsphere Systems Merges With Stockell Healthcare

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Carlsbad-based electronic health records software developer Medsphere Systems Corporation , and St. Stockell Healthcare Systems is a developer of revenue cycle management (RCM) tools. Louis-based Stockell Healthcare Systems said today that the two are in a merger agreement, which will make Stockell a division of Medsphere.