TechFlash: Exclusive: Tableau beefs up in Silicon Valley, execs gets tech Oscars

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January 29, 2014

Exclusive: Tableau beefs up near Silicon Valley birthplace as co-founder, new engineer get Oscars Tableau Software is beefing up its Big Data mobile efforts near its Stanford birthplace as the professor who co-founded the Seattle company wins his third Academy Award. Wesley Chan steps down as Google Ventures partner to work on startup Wesley Chan, who has led early stage investing at Google Ventures, is stepping down as a general partner to try his hand at doing a startup himself. Ensighten gets $40M for website management, marketing Ensighten, a four-year-old startup that helps customers manage and make money from their websites, has raised $40 million in Series B funding. Twitter co-founder Evan Williams raises $25M for Medium Twitter co-founder Evan Williams' latest online publishing platform, Medium, raised $25 million in a round of funding led by Greylock Partners, according to the tech and media news site Re/code. Tech's overinvested, wealthy Silicon Valley, S.F. investors say Most wealthy investors think there is too much money pouring into Silicon Valley and San Francisco's tech startups. More founder & funder news eBay founder Pierre Omidyar assumes cartoon form to explain media startup CloudLock raises $16M Series C led by Bessemer - San Jose Brad Feld loves 'learning machines' Kaiser invests in big data company Health Catalyst - San Francisco Should Bitcoin be regulated at all?

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