Bay Area Tech Wire -- Oct. 18

============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Oct. 18, 2011 ============================================ Sponsored By: Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated www.rwbaird.com/bay   o San Francisco-Based Dropbox Raises $250 Million in Second Round o Menlo Park-Based Khosla Leads $10 Million Round for BillGuard o Mountain View-Based Ovia Raises First Round, Led by DCM o S.F.-Based Cleantech Group Unveils Global Cleantech 100 List o Cambridge Again Tops Harvard on U.S. News Best Universities List o Report: U.S. IT Employment Grows for 20th Straight Month o LivingSocial to Showcase Local Deals on Clear Channel Radio Stations o Briefly Noted: Clustrix, EBR Systems, Echelon, Xignite _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Master Data Management (MDM) Consultant --Systems Engineer - Chantilly, VA --Asia, APAC, & US Executive Search and Consulting Services --Senior Hardware Engineer, ASIC/FPGA --Web Manager --Advertise on Bay Area Tech Wire and Reach More than 6,000 Subscribers Ad Descriptions Below Briefly Noted Section Post Job/Event/Marketplace ad: http://www.bayareatechwire.com _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Dropbox Raises $250 Million in Second Round San Francisco -- Marking one of the largest funding rounds for a Bay Area technology company in recent years, San Francisco-based Dropbox, the developer of a service that allows users to transfer documents, photos and videos between devices, said on Tuesday it has raised $250 million in its second round. Index Ventures led the round, which also included participation from new investors Benchmark Capital, Goldman Sachs, Greylock Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, RIT Capital Partners and Valiant Capital Partners, as well as previous backers Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Hadi and Ali Partovi. Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, and now has received a total of $257.2 million in funding. The service now has more than 45 million users in 175 countries. "Our goal has always been to build a service that hundreds of millions of people would love and trust," said Houston, who serves as CEO. Dropbox recently ranked No. 5 in the Silicon Alley Insider Digital 100, an annual ranking of the world's most valuable private digital startups. At the time, the company was worth an estimated $4 billion, putting it behind only Facebook, Zynga, Groupon and Twitter. http://www.dropbox.com/  http://www.dropbox.com/press/20111018  _____________________________________________ o Menlo Park-Based Khosla Leads $10 Million Round for BillGuard Menlo Park, Calif. -- Khosla Ventures, the Menlo Park-based technology venture capital firm, has led a new $10 million round for New York-based BillGuard, developer of a web-based service that scans users' credit and debit card activity and alerts them to hidden charges, billing errors, misleading subscriptions, scams and fraud. Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors and previous backers Bessemer Venture Partners and IA Ventures also participated in the company's second round. BillGuard, whose service launched in May, said it will use the proceeds to accelerate growth and support marketing, business development, sales and R&D expansion. The company said its service is similar to anti-spam technology, harnessing the collective knowledge of millions of people posting billing complaints online and through a transaction flagging system directly in electronic statements. http://www.billguard.com  http://www.khoslaventures.com/  http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/vinod-khosla-peter-thiel-eric-schmidt-back-billguard-in-10m-series-b-financing-1574473.htm  _____________________________________________ o Mountain View-Based Ovia Raises First Round, Led by DCM Mountain View, Calif. -- Ovia, the Mountain View-based developer of a video recruitment platform designed to improve candidate screening, said on Tuesday it has raised an unspecified amount in its first round of funding, led by DCM. The company said it will use the proceeds to enhance its technology platform, expand sales and marketing and add key employees. "Our goal is to disrupt and improve the recruitment process by leveraging technology to bring back the true essence of recruitment: people getting to know people," said Rodrigo Martinez, the company's co-founder and CEO. Launched in January, Ovia already boasts a client list that includes Groupon, Intel and Salesforce. http://oviahr.com/  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20111018006566/en/OVIA-Secures-Series-Funding-DCM  _____________________________________________ o S.F.-Based Cleantech Group Unveils Global Cleantech 100 List San Francisco -- Cleantech Group, a San Francisco-based research firm focused on the cleantech sector, on Monday night unveiled its third annual Global Cleantech 100 list at an event at the French Embassy in Washington, DC. Produced in collaboration with the UK's Guardian News and Media, the program recognizes 100 companies deemed likely to make a significant market impact over the next 5-10 years in areas such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, water and waste, and low carbon transportation. To qualify, companies must be independent, for-profit, cleantech companies not listed on any major stock exchange. This year, 4,274 companies were nominated. The complete list is available at the link below. http://www.cleantech.com/global-cleantech-100/  _____________________________________________ o Cambridge Again Tops Harvard on U.S. News Best Universities List Washington, DC -- For the second straight year, Cambridge has topped Harvard for the No. 1 spot in the U.S. News World's Best Universities rankings, released on Tuesday. MIT ranked third, Yale fourth and Oxford fifth in the rankings, which are determined by factors such as academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio and proportion of international faculty. Locally, Stanford was the highest-ranked university at No. 11, followed by the University of California, Berkeley (No. 21). The complete list is available through the links below. http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-rankings/articles/2011/10/18/cambridge-tops-harvard-again-in-worlds-best-universities-rankings (article) http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-rankings/top-400-universities-in-the-world (list) _____________________________________________ o Report: U.S. IT Employment Grows for 20th Straight Month Alexandria, Va. -- U.S. information technology employment continued its month-over-month climb in September, marketing its 20th straight month of growth, according to new figures released by the TechServe Alliance, a collaboration of IT services firms, clients, consultants and suppliers. IT employment rose 5,800 in September to 4.06 million, and is now up nearly 100,000 jobs from the same point in 2010. "While the overall labor market has been struggling to recover, demand for IT professionals remains strong," stated Mark Roberts, CEO of the TechServe Alliance. "Absent a significant deterioration in the macroeconomic environment, we remain bullish on continued growth in IT employment for the foreseeable future." http://www.techservealliance.org  http://www.techservealliance.org/research/documents/IndexreleaseSeptember2011FINAL.pdf (PDF) _____________________________________________ o LivingSocial to Showcase Local Deals on Clear Channel Radio Stations Washington, DC -- Daily deals company LivingSocial said it has signed an exclusive agreement with Clear Channel Radio to showcase its deals on more than 500 radio stations in 90 U.S. cities. Each day, local radio personalities will describe the LivingSocial daily deal for their market, which also will be accessible through Clear Channel station websites. Clear Channel also will feature other LivingSocial offerings, including LivingSocial Escapes and Adventures packages, across its media platforms. "Radio stations are a primary means for people to find entertainment and learn what's going on in their communities," said Tim O’Shaughnessy, the co-founder and CEO of LivingSocial. "This matches perfectly with LivingSocial's mission." Clear Channel owns a dozen stations in the Bay Area, including seven in San Francisco. http://www.clearchannel.com http://www.livingsocial.com  http://www.clearchannel.com/Radio/PressRelease.aspx?PressReleaseID=3036   _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Clustrix, developer of a database appliance for the newSQL market, on Tuesday named Robin Purohit as its president and CEO. Purohit succeeds co-founder Paul Mikesell, who will serve as vice president of strategy and technology. Purohit most recently was the vice president and general manager of HP's portfolio of IT management, information management and application security products. http://www.clustrix.com/company/news-events/press-releases/93.html  (Sunnyvale, Calif.) Sunnyvale-based EBR Systems, a developer of wireless pacing technology used in heart failure patients, on Tuesday named Chairman Allan Will to the additional roles of president and CEO. He succeeds company co-founder Rick Riley, who will remain with the company as COO. Will has served as CEO or chairman of numerous medical device companies, including DVI, AneuRx, Adjacent Surgical, Evalve, Ardian and Concentric Medical. He also was the founder, chairman and CEO of The Foundry, a medical device incubator. http://www.ebrsystemsinc.com/news  (San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based Echelon, a developer of energy control networking technology, on Tuesday named Ron Sege as chairman, in addition to his current roles as president and CEO. He succeeds Kenneth Oshman, who passed away in August. Robert Finocchio Jr. will continue to serve as the lead independent director, or presiding director, for Echelon's board. http://www.echelon.com  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20111018005977/en/Echelon-Appoints-Ron-Sege-Chairman-Board  (San Mateo, Calif.) San Mateo-based Xignite, a provider of financial market data and cloud-based data distribution tools, said on Tuesday it will open new offices in New York and Chicago. The news comes a month after the company raised $10 million in its second round of funding. http://www.xignite.com  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20111018005943/en/Xignite-Opens-Offices-York-Chicago =================================================== Job/Event/Marketplace Listings: =================================================== To Post in Job/Event/Marketplace: http://www.bayareatechwire.com 6000 Readers: 5 day ad: $120--10 day ad: $175--20 day ad: $300 > Master Data Management (MDM) Consultant Software AG is seeking an experienced MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT (MDM) CONSULTANT to: Lead and/or assist in analysis of complex business problems. Develop work plans for individual tasks; and work with minimal direction. Plan, prioritize, organize and implement related tasks based on individual recommendations under general direction. Develop models based on client requirements. 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Send resumes to employment@infinityqs.com ____________________________________________ > Asia, APAC, & US Executive Search and Consulting Services Our company, Incredible Talent, engages in Executive Search & Consulting Services for Technology, Biotech, Clean-tech and related industries. We`ve placed numerous Senior C-Level and Managerial candidates in the US and throughout Asia (Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, etc.) for our clients. We have regional offices in Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong and Silicon Valley, and can quickly access our worldwide network to find the right talent for you. Our searches are fast with a turnaround time of 5-6 weeks, and cheap (50% less than our competitors). Please contact me to find out how we can assist you. Send inquiries to howard@incredibleconsulting.jp ____________________________________________ > Senior Hardware Engineer, ASIC/FPGA Pano Logic is looking for mid-level to senior design and verification engineer. 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