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Personetics, a leading provider of predictive customer engagement solutions for the banking industry, today announced that it has completed its series B funding of $11.5 million. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the second round of funding joined by Personetics’ existing investors Sequoia Capital and Carmel Ventures. This investment will be used to drive sales and scale operations to meet the growing demand for predictive solutions that transform the digital experience for banking customers. Following the series B funding, Yoni Cheifetz, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, will join the Personetics board.

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The Obama Administration tomorrow will honor several genomics and molecular biology researchers who have focused on making large and complex sets of biological data open and widely accessible to the larger research community.

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In just a year, DataStax’s customer base grew tenfold to more than 270 by the end of 2012. The company, which could be to Cassandra what Red Hat is to Linux, has more than 100 employees and has raised $39 million from venture capital firms.

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Kenandy, Inc., the leader in SaaS-based ERP solutions for the global enterprise, today announces that it has closed $33 million in Series B financing. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with existing Series A investors — Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, salesforce.com, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati — also participating.

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Kenandy has raised $33 million in Series B funding to try to dominate the enterprise resource planning market.

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Salesforce is on a bit of an acquisition spree this week. After purchasing marketing software company ExactTarget for $2.5 billion, the sales SaaS giant has announced the purchase of EdgeSpring, an enterprise business intelligence and analytics startup.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners Partner Jeremy Liew discusses Bonobos Co-Founder and CEO Andy Dunn’s harsh letter to venture capitalists with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.”

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A demand for high-performance storage and the emergence of inexpensive flash memory is leading to historic levels of growth among a couple of companies in the sector.

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The first major conference for the digital currency suggests it is gaining legitimacy, but in a manner disappointing to some early enthusiasts.

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