It's the end of an era at Cisco Systems.
John Chapman, the well-regarded cable industry vet and DOCSIS pioneer, confirmed that he will be leaving Cisco amid a recent wave of layoffs that will impact about 5% of the company's workforce – or roughly 4,000 jobs.
Chapman currently serves as CTO, broadband, and a fellow at Cisco, covering areas such as PON, fixed wireless access (FWA) and mobile.
He joined the company more than 34 years ago and recalls being interviewed by Cisco founders Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner. He came aboard while Cisco was still a private startup with about 20 design engineers and 70 people across the whole company, he recalls.
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Software testing is hard. Even with the right talent in place, it doesn’t always go as planned — particularly when executed at scale. In a 2020 survey from Electric Cloud, 58% of developers blamed software bugs on test infrastructure and process issues — not design defects.
The market for software testing solutions is quite massive, unsurprisingly, with one estimate pegging it at $55.98 billion. There’s plenty of vendors in the space, from startups like Qase, EvaluAgent and Codegen to incumbents like Azure and AWS.
But a new entrant, Antithesis, thinks it can make a splash.
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RADNOR, Pa., Feb. 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mineralys Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MLYS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing medicines to target hypertension, chronic kidney disease (“CKD”) and other diseases driven by abnormally elevated aldosterone, today announced that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with institutional accredited investors to sell securities in a private placement financing (the “PIPE”) for gross proceeds of approximately $120 million, before deducting estimated fees and expenses.
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January 16, 2024 – Chicago, IL–CIVC Partners, LP (“CIVC”), a Chicago-based middle market private equity firm focused on investments in the business services sector, is pleased to announce that it has acquired Datavail Corp. (“Datavail” or the “Company”) from a group of growth inverstors led by Catalyst Investors, a New York-based growth equity firm focused on investing in seed-stage, early-stage and later-stage technology and software companies.
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Bob Anderson, hailing from Brainerd, Minnesota, and Sydney Anderson, a proud native of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, forged their life together in Boulder, Colorado, where they exchanged vows in 1976. Their journey has not only been marked by Bob’s remarkable success as a serial entrepreneur in the medical device industry but also by their commitment to philanthropy, benefiting Boulder Community Health (BCH) and numerous other local organizations.
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December 5, 2023 – Kirkland, WA – Spectrum Effect® announced today the Boulder Ventures (BV) investment into Spectrum Effect and the appointment of Kishen Mangat to its Board of Directors.
Kishen Mangat is General Partner at Boulder Ventures (BV), where he leads the firm’s enterprise 5G investment strategy. Kishen previously served as the Cisco Systems VP/GM for Mobility and co-founded multiple startups, including BroadHop, Inc.
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Billy Rankin remembers a time not long ago when someone asked his 20-person guide team at Irwin Lodge in Crested Butte how many friends they’d had die in avalanches.
Nearly everyone raised a hand for one friend, most kept it raised for two and Rankin left his hand up as the number soared to 10. Part of that was odds: Rankin has been a ski guide and avalanche course instructor for decades and lives in Crested Butte, which he said “has a pretty high tolerance for risk.” But it also shows how crushing the consequences of shaky decision-making in the backcountry can be, which is why Rankin encourages his students to study every active avalanche accident report published by the Colorado Avalanche Information Center in a given winter, looking for “the skull and crossbones, the red flags” that are always so much easier to see in retrospect than they are in the mountains.
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CU Boulder and Ball Aerospace have been collaborating for decades to solve mysteries of the universe. That partnership was also the university’s first commercial spin-off and it greased the gears of an entrepreneurial engine that continues to power innovation within the university and far beyond.
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