Netsoft Completes 1st Placement at Astro Digital

Astro Digital is a leading CubeSat startup recently funded with $16m in Series A financing.

In addition to designing, building and deploying their own satellites for the purpose of data capture, Astro Digital also builds satellites for other companies.

Located in historic Moffett Field, Astro Digital has already launched two satellites with 2 more going up by summer.

Congratulations to Wayne Alward on his new role as Director of Space Programs!

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Netsoft Completes 15th Placement at Mimosa Networks

Founded by serial technology entrepreneurs Brian Hinman and Jaime Fink in March, 2012 to develop a suite of products servicing the Wireless Service Providers, Mimosa Networks is achieving breakthrough performance with 802.11ac wireless technology. Mimosa has closed 3 rounds of funding at a very favorable valuation, and commenced shipping their first products in December 2014.

Congratulations to Gia Nguyen in his new role as Sr. Hardware Test/DVT Engineer!

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Netsoft Completes 14th Placement at Mimosa Networks

Founded by serial technology entrepreneurs Brian Hinman and Jaime Fink in March, 2012 to develop a suite of products servicing the Wireless Service Providers, Mimosa Networks is achieving breakthrough performance with 802.11ac wireless technology. Mimosa has closed 3 rounds of funding at a very favorable valuation, and commenced shipping their first products in December 2014.

Congratulations to Andrew West in his new role as Sr. Hardware Engineer!

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Netsoft Completes 2nd Placement at Aviatrix

Aviatrix develops software that enables enterprises to build hybrid clouds by connecting to dozens of AWS virtual private clouds (VPCs) and Azure VNets without buying additional networking equipment. It also allows employees and partners to connect directly to the cloud without traditional corporate VPNs. Software vendors can use Aviatrix to migrate their on-premise apps to the cloud and switch to a single tenant SaaS model. Current customers of Aviatrix include large and small enterprises.

Congratulations to Sam Ning on his new role as Sr. Software QA Engineer!

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Hybrid Cloud Storage Startup Panzura Adds $32M in New Funding

Campbell-based cloud storage company Panzura this week announced it had closed a $32 million round of funding led by Matrix Partners, with participation from Meritech Capital Partners, Opus Capital, Chevron and Western Digital. The 8-year-old company has raised an estimated $90 million to date.

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Fremont Chip Designer Quantenna Communications IPO Plans to Raise $100M

Wireless chip designer Quantenna Communications hopes to join the new wave of Silicon Valley IPOs, revealing plans on Thursday to raise $100 million in an offering.

The Fremont company has raised more than $160 million from investors who include Sequoia Capital, DAG Ventures, Centerview Capital, Venrock and Southern Cross Capital.

Quantenna is the chip supplier to Mimosa.

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Netsoft Completes 9th Placement at Kumu Networks

Founded in 2012 around patented full-duplex wireless technology,Kumu Networks is developing bleeding-edge wireless products with commensurate bandwidth advantages. Kumu closed Series B financing October 2013 with a new lead investor and Series A investors participating as well.

Netsoft began working with Kumu in 2012 at company inception, when it was just 7 people.

Congratulations to Scott Young on his role as Product Engineering Lead!

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Carried Interest – How it is Treated Matters!

IMHO whether it is Trump or corrupt Hillary, if either candidate as president succeeds to get Congress to overturn the current treatment of carried interest, it will DEFINITELY impact Silicon Valley, tech, hiring, and overall US competitiveness. I had worked successfully in Silicon Valley for 2 decades before I even understood how carrier interest works. But the tax treatment of carried interest matters!

The US is still heads and shoulders above the rest of the world in tech and innovation.

Penalizing those in the ecosystem that take the big risks associated with such success would definitely be counterproductive

Whatever you tax heavily will be discouraged. Chief Justice John Marshall got it right when he famously wrote "the power to tax involves the power to destroy"

Here is the article from Anand Sanwal at CBInsights.com below:

I'm outta here

The topic of carried interest has come up in this year's US presidential election. For those unfamiliar, this description from a recent Bloomberg article (see The Blurb for link to full article) describes the debate.

The venture community is torn on the topic, with some VCs saying the current tax treatment should be changed while others argue that it's correct. But most don't say that the treatment of carried interest would impact their choice of vocation.

Keith Rabois (@rabois) of Khosla Ventures (a great follow on Twitter btw) isn't having it. He has said pretty emphatically that he's out of the VC game if carried interest goes away.

For the other VCs on the newsletter, are you getting out of VC if carried interest goes away?

Yes, I'm out
No. I like the current rule but wouldn't stop
No. And I think carried interest rules should change

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Netsoft Recent Placements

Vice President World Wide Sales CircleShout, William Jenkins will be building the sales strategy, model and a scalable system to grow SaaS revenues at CircleShout.

Senior Solutions Architect at Apstra, A David Cheriton funded start up in the Data Center Automation space.

Senior Director of Solutions Engineering Covisint, provider of Identity Management and IoT platforms for the enterprise.

Senior Sales Engineer, Platfora, provider of data analytics and visualization platform for Hadoop data stores.

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Netsoft Completes 13th Placement at Mimosa Networks

Founded by serial technology entrepreneurs Brian Hinman and Jaime Fink in March, 2012 to develop a suite of products servicing the Wireless Service Providers, Mimosa Networks is achieving breakthrough performance with 802.11ac wireless technology. Mimosa has closed 3 rounds of funding at a very favorable valuation, and commenced shipping their first products in December 2014.

Congratulations to Peter Roman in his new role as Director of Hardware Engineering!

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Netsoft Completes 1st Placement at Aviatrix

Founded by Pankaj Manglik and also led by Sherry Wei, CTO, Aviatrix develops software that enables enterprises to build hybrid clouds by connecting to dozens of AWS virtual private clouds (VPCs) and Azure VNets without buying additional networking equipment. It also allows employees and partners to connect directly to the cloud without traditional corporate VPNs. Software vendors can use Aviatrix to migrate their on-premise apps to the cloud and switch to a single tenant SaaS model. Current customers of Aviatrix include large and small enterprises.

Congratulations to Chang Seong on his new role as Sr. Software Development Engineer/MTS!

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Netsoft Completes 12th Placement at Mimosa Networks

Founded by serial technology entrepreneurs Brian Hinman and Jaime Fink in March, 2012 to develop a suite of products servicing the Wireless Service Providers, Mimosa Networks is achieving breakthrough performance with 802.11ac wireless technology. Mimosa has closed 3 rounds of funding at a very favorable valuation, and commenced shipping their first products in December 2014.

Congratulations to David Dippon on his new role as Sr. Technical Customer Support Engineer!

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Bloomberg: VIDEO Inside GoPro's Extreme Adventure Film School

"Who would've thought when Netsoft started working with GoPro that it would turn into this!?"

September 30, 2015 -- (Bloomberg) -- These days Facebook likes are more valuable to an adventure athlete than being on a magazine cover. But to get those likes, athletes need to do more than just dominate their sport. They need to be able to film themselves. Every year GoPro holds a training camp to teach their sponsored athletes how to shoot, edit, and promote video of themselves doing some of the most extreme and dangerous sports out there. This year's camp was in Banff, Alberta and Bloomberg went to see how athletes are learning to grab the world's attention with videos. (Video by Drew Beebe, Adam Wolffbrandt, Ryo Ikegami)

Watch this video at http://bloom.bg/1L3RuZc

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Netsoft Completes 3rd Placement at Covisint

Covisint provides an open, developer-friendly, enterprise-class cloud platform to facilitate the rapid development and deployment of Internet of Things (IoT), Identity Management (IdM), and B2B collaboration solutions.

Netsoft places VP OEM Sales, reporting to Joel Kremke, Sr. VP Channels, Director of Sales, Central US and Director of Sales, South East reporting to Bill Lohr VP North American Sales.

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Netsoft Completes 7th Placement at Pepperdata

Pepperdata delivers predictability, increasing performance, and visibility for business-critical Hadoop jobs on existing clusters running multiple applications. Pepperdata’s software makes every Hadoop node more efficient, allowing companies to run more jobs on the existing infrastructure.

Netsoft places Vice President World Wide Sales and Business Development reporting to Sean Suchter.

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Netsoft Places Enterprise Sales Director and Director of Marketing at Confluent.io, the Kafka Company

Confluent is founded by the team that built Kafka at LinkedIn. We went through the process of fully instrumenting everything that happens in a company and making it available as realtime Kafka feeds to all data systems like Hadoop, Search, Newsfeed and so on.Now we are focusing on building a stream data platform to help other companies get easy access to enterprise data as realtime streams.

Congratulations to Director of Marketing reporting to Jay Kreps and Director of Enterprise Sales West, reporting to Jeff Hartley!

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Netsoft Completes 11th Placement at Mimosa Networks

Founded by serial technology entrepreneurs Brian Hinman and Jaime Fink in March, 2012 to develop a suite of products servicing the Wireless Service Providers, Mimosa Networks is achieving breakthrough performance with 802.11ac wireless technology. Mimosa has closed 3 rounds of funding at a very favorable valuation, and commenced shipping their first products in December 2014.

Congratulations to Roman Arutyunov on his new role as Sr. VP of Engineering!

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Netsoft Completes 10th Placement at Mimosa Networks

Founded by serial technology entrepreneurs Brian Hinman and Jaime Fink in March, 2012 to develop a suite of products servicing the Wireless Service Providers, Mimosa Networks is achieving breakthrough performance with 802.11ac wireless technology. Mimosa has closed 3 rounds of funding at a very favorable valuation, and commenced shipping their first products in December 2014.

Congratulations to Roger Dunn on his new role as Sr. Manufacturing Test Software Engineer!

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Netsoft Completes 7th Placement at TruePath Wireless

TruePath Wireless is a venture funded start-up innovating technology and business models in the wireless market. The TruePath Wireless Base Station and CPE deliver a transparent wireless link to the operator with minimal complexity and configuration. Designed for extreme environments, this turnkey solution utilizes cutting edge radio and antenna technologies including MIMO and multi-antenna TX/RX beamforming.

Netsoft has now placed the VP of Engineering, 2 test/QA Engineers, a Cloud/NMS SW Engineer as well as an embedded Linux SW Engineer at TruePath Wireless.

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WSJ: Silicon Valley Jobs Surge as Major Metros See Rising Employment

The economies of big U.S. cities are improving.

Employment rose in all 51 metropolitan areas with a population of 1 million or more in February compared with a year earlier, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

Silicon Valley’s San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro saw the biggest surge in employment, with area payrolls growing 5.4%. Regions anchored by Atlanta and Louisville, Ky., followed with gains of 4.6%.

To read the entire article, go to http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-REB-31794

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