TechTaffy

tech:

taffy

Facebook Product Head For Android Joins Draper Fisher Jurvetson

By TechTaffy Desk

Bubba_MurarkaHead of product for Facebook for Android, Bubba Murarka, has joined Draper Fisher Jurvetson, as general partner and managing director.

Since 2008, Mr. Murarka has held positions at Facebook, as business development leads. Most recently he was head of product for Facebook for Android where he started the Facebook Home project.

Mr. Murarka will identify new investment opportunities and will bring his more than ten years of product development and business to experience DFJ’s existing portfolio companies. At DFJ, Mr. Murarka will focus primarily on early-stage consumer Internet and mobile companies. He will also assist companies across the portfolio with their growth and product strategies.

Prior to Facebook, Mr. Murarka spent seven years in technical and product roles at Microsoft. While there, he acted as group program manager for Bing’s Bay Area development team. He started his career at Microsoft in Seattle.

Mr. Murarka has served an adviser and an angel investor to more than ten companies in the consumer mobile and online education sectors since 2008. 

[Image courtesy: Draper Fisher Jurvetson]

Just in

Series A

Tembo raises $14M

Cincinnati, Ohio-based Tembo, a Postgres managed service provider, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round.
Around the web

Raspberry Pi is now a public company — TC

Raspberry Pi priced its IPO on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday morning at £2.80 per share, valuing it at £542 million, or $690 million at today’s exchange rate, writes Romain Dillet. 
Fundings

AlphaSense raises $650M

AlphaSense, a market intelligence and search platform, has raised $650 million in funding, co-led by Viking Global Investors and BDT & MSD Partners.
Around the web

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B to take on OpenAI — VentureBeat

Confirming reports from April, the series B investment comes from the participation of multiple known venture capital firms and investors, including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (A16z), Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding, writes Shubham Sharma. 
IT

Capgemini partners with DARPA to explore quantum computing for carbon capture

Capgemini Government Solutions has launched a new initiative with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to investigate quantum computing's potential in carbon capture.