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Common Networks aims to change that, providing 5G wireless broadband to five Bay Area cities (with more on the way). The company was founded in 2016 by four Square alumni with experience in product, business development and engineering, and is led by CEO Grace Chen. The company recently revealed that its millimeter wave service, a core 5G technology, is based on Terragraph, an open-source design created by Facebook as part of its Telecom Infrastructure Project. Just months after selling AppDynamics to Cisco in 2017 for $3.7 billion, Jyoti Bansal got to work on his next venture.

Pilot’s three co-founders — CEO OlPcSf.org Waseem Daher, CTO Jessica McKellar and COO Jeff Arnold — have been here before. The company is the third they’ve partnered on, after selling a Linux security startup to Oracle in 2011 and a workplace chat solution to Dropbox in 2014. The trio, who met at MIT during their undergraduate studies, are now working to soothe the bookkeeping woes that plague small business owners. Pilot uses a combination of software and human customer service to automate the production of reports that give business owners a clear view of their finances — without having to puzzle over the sums themselves. Two of her previous startups — Sourcery Technologies and Zappedy — were acquired by Lavu and Groupon, respectively. Her latest project is Cheetah, which seeks to alleviate a major headache for the food service industry by giving chefs and restaurateurs the ability to order ingredients via smartphone.

Q3 venture funding returns to now-regular doldrums

The company was founded with the mission of bringing research software — often old and outdated — in line with the rapid-fire pace of discovery in labs the world over. The company has raised $61.2 million to date, receiving funding from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark, Menlo Ventures and Thrive Capital. Spotnana’s Travel-as-a-Service platform works to personalize travel booking and power global travel experiences.

In his email to staff, CEO Sundar Pichai says affected US employees will be paid during the full notification period (minimum 60 days). The company will also offer a severance package starting at 16 weeks salary plus two weeks for every additional year at Google, and accelerate at least 16 weeks of GSU vesting. Departing US employees will received their bonuses for 2022 and remaining vacation time. The company will also continue to provide 6 months of healthcare, job placement services, and immigration support for those affected. Outside the US, the tech giant will support employees in line with local practices. As housing costs rise, startups across the country are testing novel avenues to help renters become homeowners.

While SignalFire’s in-house Beacon AI can reveal fascinating insights like the data above, its true purpose is to give our portfolio companies superpowers. It helps founders source extraordinary job candidates, combining an array of signals to identify which are open to new roles before they leave their company. Beacon can also use a company’s ideal customer profile to generate sales lead lists complete with contact information to accelerate their growth. “If you believe what I believe, you have to just leave the company,” Balaji told the paper.

North Bay soul outfit Monophonics teams with R&B veteran Lee Fields at Fillmore

Life360 is available in monthly subscriptions, so families can have constant peace of mind about the safety of their loved ones. While run art is growing in popularity all over the world, it hit its stride in San Francisco, where Strava is based. Chan is what’s known as a run artist, using GPS tracking on an app called Strava, he turns thousands of steps into giant designs that span entire cityscapes.

The communities affected most by the news rack removals are those that are less tech-savvy and prefer reading print papers, especially seniors and non-English speakers. Ken Cacich, a 72-year old San Francisco resident, has been reading the Bay Area Reporter, one of the country’s largest LGBT newspapers, since 1975. But recently, he’s found it harder and harder to find a copy of the print publication. Cockroach Labs serves companies in industries that depend on large quantities of data, such as the banking, fintech, media streaming and logistics sectors. The company operates a distributed SQL database where companies can house and use programming data. Meanwhile, SF’s embrace of AI offset the headwinds that pushed some startups out.

A burglary suspect was arrested in connection with three break-ins over a span of five days in Solano County, authorities said. Authorities with the California Highway Patrol on Friday announced the arrest of an Oakland man suspected of fatally shooting his own wife almost two years ago. An Oakland officer shot and injured a shooting suspect early Saturday morning during a brief chase, police said.

The AI salary surge, location-based pay, and more tech talent trends

Elliston Berry’s life was turned upside down after a photo she posted on Instagram was digitally altered online to be pornographic. Apple will pay $95 million to settle allegations that its Siri virtual assistant violated people’s privacy by eavesdropping on mobile device users. Wake up to our carefully curated list of headlines with the Daily Journal’s daily newsletter. The heightened appreciation also extends to the Bay Area, including San Mateo, where her mom still lives. She still holds fond memories of walking home from school or walking to Draeger’s Market downtown. “As cliche as it sounds, I saw people who were CEOs or surgeons at Stanford … they were living their truth in this one week at the festival.

Because Sanity treats content like data, rather than static entities, users can adapt and customize any content on the Sanity platform by using programming languages, resulting in a fully custom piece of content. At scale, this allows clients to create content workflows that are tailored to their own process needs. Publica is a CTV adtech company that runs a platform for managing and deploying advertising content. Clients use it to predict the timing of ads so they can make decisions for their own content (like spacing their ads out from competitors’ and capping ad frequency). The company is responsible for more than 3 billion connected TV ads each month, and serves clients including Samsung, Fox and MLB.