Evernote高层持续动荡,负责合作伙伴关系的副总裁也将离职
Evernote 现在正处于急剧的过渡与转型期,这从公司高层的持续动荡就能看出。消息称,Evernote 负责合作伙伴的副总裁 Alex Pachikov 将于明年1月 离职,随他离职的还有他手下的几名高管。不久前,公司的品牌营销副总裁 Andrew Sinkov 已经离职了。
5 个月前,Evernote 的 CEO 兼联合创始人 Phil Libin 也卸任了 CEO 一职。公司 CEO 由 Chris O ‘Neill 接任。上个月,还有消息称公司的 COO Linda Kozlowski 也将于今年年 底离职。
今年对于 Evernote 可谓是非常动荡的一年。除了公司高层的持续动荡外,公司还进行了系列裁员和产品调整,包括关闭了 3 个海外办事处、裁员 47 人、关闭 Evernote Food、Skitch、Clearly 应用服务。对于为何关闭一些应用服务,Evernote 表示是为了专注于公司的核心业务。
很长一段时间以来,Evernote 的业务可谓是停滞不前,饱受外界诟病,因此公司高层的离职和新高管的引入并不见得是一件坏事。接下来,公司 CEO O’ Neill 需要的是重新改造公司,高管重组应是其中的一个重要部分。Evernote 究竟会走向何处,Time will tell!
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硅谷
2015年12月24日
硅谷
招聘文本分析创企Textio,获800万美元A轮融资来源:猎云网(编译:竹子)
Textio,一家分析特定情景中的词汇和语言的创企,今天宣布完成了由Emergence Capital领投的800万美元A轮融资。Cowboy Ventures、Bloomberg Beta和Upside Partnership也参与了此次融资。
Textio的第一款工具瞄准的是人才并购领域如招聘。创始人Snyder发现,某些特定的词汇和设计对应聘者更有吸引力,于是这些预测分析就被吸纳进了Textio的服务里。Textio可以分析一个公司的职务说明、绩效考核与其它备案,并判断这些文案是否可以为公司取得最佳效果。
该软件利用人工智能技术扫描招聘文本信息,然后向公司建议进行调整,以提高该公司吸引能力强的应聘者的机会。比如,有重点句的职位招聘总是比没有的更吸引求职者。Textio的软件还会建议各公司引进更多样化的应聘者。例如女性职场人士通常不会参与办公室内斗,或通常不会从事代码类的工作。
Textio成立于去年秋天,它的两位创始人 Kieran Snyder 和 Jensen Harris 分别是微软和亚马逊的前员工,Kieran Snyder之前致力于科技公司中性别歧视的研究,同时曾在微软、亚马逊任职语言学家,Jensen Harris曾在微软工作过16年。Textio创办后不到5个月,就在今年2月份拿到了150万美元的融资。
Textio主要以三个方面来衡量相关的科技短语:一是申请包含该短语岗位的应聘者人数;二是满足该词语要求技能的应聘者在全部应聘者中的百分比;第三是工作招聘发出后多久能够招到相关的人才。
虽然目前它的用处在于职位招聘,但很明显,这些技术可以被用到其他很多方面,比如邮件、简历以及其他各类信息。如果技术运行良好,理论上它可以为各类文档搭建分数库,这或许也是吸引投资人的地方。
Textio还有其他有价值的过人之处吗?大概就是它的客户了吧。目前使用Textio服务的企业有Twitter、Atlassian、Starbucks、Square和Microsoft等等。自然语言处理技术有广阔的应用领域,这又是对投资人的另一大强烈吸引。
Snyder表示,Textio目前可以识别出超过6万句短语词组,而这一数据还在持续增长。它会研究词汇是以何种方式组合在一起,比如词组中动词的密度和其他语法相关的特性。基于以上种种,最后给出评定分数。
当然,Textio也有不少潜在的竞争对手,诸如IBM Watson理论上也能分析文本并给出类似的结果。不过Snyder表示他们的优势在于专注的内容领域更具体。
Textio, A Startup That Analyzes Text Performance, Raises $8M
Textio CEO Kieran Snyder took a quantitative approach to how language worked in her linguistics studies. And when she and her co-founder Jensen Harris were leaving Microsoft to start a new company, it was only natural that it would be centered around language in some way.
That’s how Textio, a startup that analyzes text for how well words and phrases perform in certain scenarios, was born. The company today said it raised $8 million in a financing round led by Emergence Capital. Cowboy Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, and Upside Partnership also participated in the financing round.
“We had this premise that word processing in text hadn’t been disrupted in a while, from command line to GUI,” CEO Kieran Snyder said. “We had the internet come along, it was about social and sharing, and we think that AI and the set of related technologies is the next big disruptor of text. If you know the performance of a document before it’s ever published then you can fix it before it’s published.”
Textio’s first tool looks at talent acquisition documents — like job postings — to determine how well they will perform among candidates. Certain words and layouts attract more candidates than others, Snyder found, and those predictive analytics are baked into the service. For example, Textio shows that job postings with bullet points tend to perform better than job postings without them.
Right now it’s used for talent acquisition documents, but it’s pretty easy to see that the technology can be applied to documents that include common phrases — such as email, resumes, or other kinds of messages. If the technology works, it can theoretically begin building up scores for those kinds of documents, which is likely what attracted investors to the product and the team.
Another reason it might be so valuable to investors? Its customers. Already Textio is being used by companies like Twitter, Atlassian, Starbucks, Square and Microsoft. Natural Language Processing technology has very broad applications if done right, which makes it an attractive bet for many investors.
Textio recognizes more than 60,000 phrases with its predictive technology, Snyder said, and that data set is changing constantly as it continues to operate. It looks at how words are put together — such as how verb dense a phrase is — and at other syntax-related properties the document may have. All that put together results in a score for the document, based on how likely it is to succeed in whatever the writer set out to do.
Given who’s likely using Textio, it’s important that it feels easy to use — hence the highlighting and dropdown boxes rather than readouts. Snyder said, at its core, Textio can’t feel like a statistics tool, and that’s probably because the kinds of people using it might not always be NLP experts.
Of course, there are potential competitors in the space when it comes to natural language processing. There are tools like IBM Watson that can analyze text and, in theory, pull off a similar result. But Snyder says Textio’s results will be better because they are content-specific — like in the case of talent-acquisition documents.
Source:TC
硅谷
2015年12月24日
硅谷
专为跨公司交流服务,群聊消息应用Xros要做自由职业者的Slack来源:猎云网(编译:Nico)
不用电子邮件,这个群聊App也能让用户和公司外部的人畅聊无阻。
我们之前就说过这个话题,现在我们不妨再说一次:电子邮件现在已经过时了,今后可能再也无法成为通信主流。Ami Ben David也同意这种说法。他开发出了一款名为Xros(发音和“cross”相同)的消息App。有了它,用户无需发送电子邮件就能和自己公司内部或者其他公司的人聊天。
它就像是自由职业者的Slack。
“就交流来说,现在已经没有多少人会用电子邮件了,而且我认为未来它将会被完全取代。”以色列创企EverythingMe(最近已倒闭)联合创始人Ben David表示,“我昨天正式发行了Xros,现在我有近20场会谈,但是没有一场会谈是通过邮件进行的。”
在这20场会谈中,有一场会谈是和我进行的。Ben David给我发了一封邀请邮件,点击直接进入一个一对一的聊天室——无需登入和密码。是不是很方便!
通过给你的邮件标记“身份”,你可以直接进入聊天室。此外,你在Xros上的信息很安全,其隐私保护强度和电子邮件不相上下。Xros还支持群聊、连接云端等功能,这样用户就可以分享文本、图片和附件了。
Ben David表示,由于在离家较远地方和非传统工作环境下工作者的数量在不断上升(从劳动统计局的调查结果来看,在美国有1550万人都是自由职业者),Xros的基础功能将会比Slack更“接地气”。
“人们通常认为用户一般只和公司内部人员交流,而Slack主打的正是企业内部交流服务。”他说,“但是,还有很大一部分人的工作是对外的,比如说自由职业者、顾问、服务供应商、律师、商业开发人员、博客写手、投资人等等。”
和Slack一样,Xros也配备电脑版和移动版。Ben David说:“有一大批早期用户(移动用户)使用了Whatsapp群聊功能来进行工作通信,但问题是Whatsapp没有桌面应用。有了Xros,你可以随意切换移动端和网页端进行对话,信息同步完全不受地点和时间限制。”
当然了,Xros若想进入市场,不仅需要吸引自由职业者,更需要吸引企业内部的白领人士使用(对于这些人来说,Slack可能已经完全成为他们日常生活中的一部分了,所以这类人更难成为用户)。如果Slack之前就开发出跨公司交流的聊天工具,那么也就没Xros什么事儿了。
Source:fastcodesign
企业沟通协作工具 Slack 获得8000 万美元融资用于的应用开发基金Slack Raises $80 Million Fund to Support Platform Strategy
据华尔街时报消息,企业沟通协作工具 Slack 透露已获得 8000 万美元新一轮融资,此轮融资将用于应用商店的投资基金。另外,Slack 还宣布将更新手机端App,这次更新将整合一些功能,如将支持亚马逊的网页服务。
Slack 的创始人兼 CEO Stewart Butterfield表示,希望这次融资能为投资者带来回报,但这并不是融资的目的,而是希望融资能激发大家更好地开发 App。
据悉,Slack 曾在 11月被华尔街日报评为 2015年的技术创新者(Technology Innovator),Slack 去年客户规模增长了 10 倍,达到了 125 万,其中 50% 为海外客户。
硅谷
2015年12月16日
硅谷
以色列大数据公司 Anodot 获 300 万美元 A 轮融资
Anodot日前在 A 轮系列融资中获得 300 万美元,投资方为 Disrupt-ive,融资总额已达 450 万美元。
Anodot 是一家提供实时分析和异常检测的大数据创业公司,成立于 2014年6月,总部位于以色列,还在森尼维尔市、加利福尼亚、以色列的瑞安那等多地成立了办事处。
Anodot 通过已获得专利的机器学习算法,实时在大量的数据中发现异常的数据并把他们转为有价值的商业信息,以消除商业观察中的延迟,支持快速的商业决策,目前主要应用在广告技术、电子商务和物联网行业。
值得一提的是创始团队成员都是连续创业者,Anodot 的 CEO David Drai 曾是 Cotendo 公司的联合创始人兼 CTO,这家公司最后被 AKamai 以两亿六千八百万美元收购。而 Anodot 的首席数据分析专家 Dr.Lra Cohen 是惠普软件的前 CTO。研发副总裁 Shay Lang 同样有多年相关经验。此外,董事会的成员还包括 Impreva CEO 兼总裁 Anthony Bettencourt,O’ Reilly Media 的首席数据分析师 Ben Lorica。
今年早些时候就有行业分析称,BI 将会在未来快速发展,到 2018年 之前,有望以每年8.3%的增率、两百亿美金的市值增长。正如很多 BI 公司已在 2015年 拿到了融资,例如以色列创业公司 Pyramid Analytics 和 Sisence 都在今年获得了 3000 万美元的投资,Looker 也在今年3月 份融到了 3000 万美元,Adaptive Insights 则在 6月 份获得了 7500 万美元。
Disrupt-ive 的合伙人兼 Anodot 董事会成员 Tal Barnoach 此前曾发表声明:“通过自动化、实时的对大数据指标和关键信息进行提取分析,来变革商业智能,这有着巨大的市场潜力。”
Anodot 的 CEO David Drai 也表示:“拿打车 APP 来说,订单都是基于短信系统,若出现问题则至少需要 3 天来进行修复,动则会损失上万美元。这就是我创立 Anodot 的初衷,希望利用机器学习和自动监测来进行实时分析,降低由延迟发现问题造成的损失。”
据悉,知名科技公司 WIX 和 Avantis 都已是 Anodot 的客户,本轮融资将用于在物联网、电子商务、广告技术等的市场扩张。
Israeli business intel startup Anodot scores $3 million in Series A
Anodot, a business intelligence startup that specializes in anomaly detection, exited stealth on Wednesday and announced a $3 million Series A funding round led by Tel Aviv- and New York-based Disrupt-ive Fund. Its total funding to date is $4.5 million.
They use machine learning algorithms to identify system anomalies. Already counting prominent tech companies Wix and Avantis among their clientele, the new round will help them expand their sales strategy toward IoT, e-commerce, and adtech companies abroad.
“There is a huge opportunity to disrupt the BI market by enabling automated and real-time insights into big data pools of metrics and KPIs,” said Disrupt-ive Fund general partner and Anodot board member Tal Barnoach in statement to the press.
Its co-founders have impressive resumes: CEO David Drai is also the co-founder and former CTO of Cotendo, which was acquired by Akamai for $268 million, and the former CTO of Gett. Chief Data Scientist Dr. Ira Cohen is the former CTO of HP Software and VP of R&D Shay Lang has experience at several tech companies. Their board includes the likes of Imperva CEO and President Anthony Bettencourt and O’Reilly Media chief data scientist Ben Lorica.
“As a mobile taxi app, SMS text orders were dropped by the carrier, but it could take up to three days to spot critical issues and fix them, costing tens of thousands of dollars per incident,” Drai said. “That’s where I got the idea for Anodot—to employ the latest advances in machine learning to detect performance problems automatically and in real-time, eliminating the latency.”
BI is flying high
The business intelligence market is expected to grow 8.3% per year to a value of $20.8 billion in 2018, according to an industry analysis by MarketsandMarkets published earlier this year. Consequently, BI companies have raised a lot of money in 2015. Fellow Israeli startups Pyramid Analytics and Sisense both raised $30 million rounds this year. Other companies include Looker, which also received $30 million in March, and Adaptive Insights, which brought in $75 million back in June.
The company was founded in June 2014 by co-founders CEO David Drai, Chief Data Scientist Dr. Ira Cohen, and VP of R&D Shay Lang. They maintain offices in Sunnyvale, California and Ra’anana, Israel.
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