Mark Medearis

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Baya Systems Raises $36 Million Series B

January 23, 2025

Cooley advised Baya Systems, a leader in system intellectual property technology that empowers the acceleration of intelligent compute, on its $36 million Series B.

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Mark Medearis
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Anita Vasudevan
Special Counsel, Palo Alto
Alex Maki
Associate, Palo Alto
Bill Boyle
Paralegal Specialist, Palo Alto
Brian Mitchell
Transactional Quantitative Analyst, San Diego
Mark Windfeld-Hansen
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Rebecca Ross
Special Counsel, Washington, DC

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Machinify Announces Acquisition by New Mountain Capital

January 10, 2025

Cooley advised Machinify, a provider of artificial intelligence-powered software transforming healthcare payments, on its definitive agreement to be acquired by New Mountain Capital.

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Partner, Palo Alto
Garth Angelo Osterman
Partner, San Francisco
Maureen Nagle
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Nicolas Francis
Associate, San Francisco
Katie Rosati
Associate, Seattle
Mark Windfeld-Hansen
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
David Dalton
Associate, Santa Monica
Steve Flores
Partner, Chicago
Sean O'Neill
Partner, Santa Monica
Alexis Finkelberg Bortniker
Partner, San Diego
Ross Eberly
Partner, Santa Monica
Charles Haley
Partner, Palo Alto
Ryan Montgomery
Partner, Boston
Jonathan Rivinus
Partner, Colorado
Mark Medearis
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Sharon Connaughton
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Alexander Ellebracht
Associate, Palo Alto
Josh Himmelstern
Associate, San Diego
Alison L. Tong
Associate, Seattle
Novak Topalovic
Associate, San Diego
Rubin Waranch
Associate, Colorado
Raquel Zepeda
Associate, San Francisco
Patricia Myers
Paralegal Specialist, Colorado
Melanie Yuvienco
Paralegal Specialist, Palo Alto
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Transactional Quantitative Analyst, San Diego

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Openprise Secures $25 Million in Series B Funding

March 5, 2024

Cooley advised Openprise on its $25 million Series B financing led by investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital. Partner Mark Medearis led the Cooley team advising Openprise, a top revenue operations (RevOps) data automation company using artificial intelligence to help RevOps teams transform their data into action, achieve operational agility at scale and simplify technology to drive efficient growth.

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Mark Medearis
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Noel Ripberger-Scheick
Associate, Palo Alto
Christy Fairlie
Paralegal Specialist, Reston

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Celona Closes Oversubscribed $60 Million Series C Financing

April 11, 2022

Cooley advised Celona on its oversubscribed $60 million Series C funding round. The financing round was led by DigitalBridge Ventures, and included participation from all of Celona’s existing investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, NTTVC, Qualcomm Ventures and Cervin Ventures. Partner Mark Medearis led the Cooley team advising Celona, a developer of AI-powered business-critical solutions designed to meet the connectivity needs of AI and edge-compute powered apps in the enterprise.

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Mark Medearis
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Daniel Y. Lee
Associate, Palo Alto

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Sense Raises $50 Million Series D Round

December 7, 2021

Cooley advised Sense on its $50 million Series D funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Mark Medearis led the Cooley team advising Sense, a developer of an AI-powered talent engagement platform.

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Mark Medearis
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
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Associate, Palo Alto

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