| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- June 6, 2012 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o Menlo Park-Based Delphix Raises $25 Million in Third Round o San Francisco-Based Lending Club Lands $15M Investment from KPCB o LinkedIn Confirms Reports of Hacked Passwords o SVForum Names Top Winners of Launch: Silicon Valley 2012 Event o San Francisco-Based Threadflip Lands $6.5 Million in First Round o Briefly Noted: Arbitron, nlyte Software, Applied Ceramics _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Executive Briefing - Product Portfolio Briefing --Marketing Events Coordinator --Senior Manager, eCommerce – Redwood City, CA --Account Manager --Sr. Financial Analyst --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 Menlo Park-Based Delphix Raises $25 Million in Third Round Menlo Park, Calif. -- Delphix, a Menlo Park-based developer of agile data software, said on Wednesday it has raised $25 million in its third round of funding, led by Jafco Ventures. New investors Summit Partners and Battery Ventures and previous backers Greylock Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners also participated in the round, which increased the company's total funding to $45.5 million. Delphix, which emerged from stealth mode in 2010, makes software designed to virtualize the data within enterprise databases, reducing database storage costs while increasing application team productivity and returns on database investments, as well as hastening time to market. http://www.delphix.com/ http://www.delphix.com/2012/06/delphix-raises-25-million-in-series-c-funding/ _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Lending Club Lands $15M Investment from KPCB San Francisco -- Lending Club, the San Francisco-based developer of an online platform for investing in and obtaining personal loans, said on Wednesday it has landed a $15 million investment from Menlo Park-based Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). The company also received a $2.5 million investment from John Mack, who recently joined Lending Club's board and currently serves as chairman emeritus of Morgan Stanley. Lending Club now has raised $100 million since its inception, bringing its total in unrestricted cash to more than $45 million. Mary Meeker, a general partner at KPCB, will join the company's board of directors. http://www.lendingclub.com http://www.kpcb.com/ http://www.lendingclub.com/public/lending-club-press-2012-06-05.action _____________________________________________ o LinkedIn Confirms Reports of Hacked Passwords Mountain View, Calif. -- LinkedIn, the Mountain View-based online business network, late Wednesday confirmed earlier reports that some of its member passwords had been stolen. "We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts," the company wrote in a blog post. The company said that members with accounts associated with the compromised passwords will need to reset their passwords, which have now been invalidated. A user in a Russian forum early Wednesday claimed to have hacked and uploaded about 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords onto the web. http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/06/06/linkedin-member-passwords-compromised/ _____________________________________________ o SVForum Names Top Winners of Launch: Silicon Valley 2012 Event Mountain View, Calif. -- SVForum, a non-profit organization for technologists and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, on Wednesday named the top award winners from its Launch: Silicon Valley 2012 event, held Tuesday at Microsoft's campus in Mountain View. The six winners were chosen from 30 new companies that presented to an audience and a panel of Silicon Valley VCs and angels, whose combined votes determined the winners. Over 300 companies applied to present at the event. Those named "Most Likely to Succeed" included: Los Altos-based Evena (Life Science), Palo Alto-based Klickex (Mobile), New York-based Noodle (Next Generation Internet 1), Burlingame-based SocialiQ (Next Generation Internet 2), San Francisco-based Kiverdi (Technology 1) and San Francisco-based ZipZap (Technology 2). http://www.launchsiliconvalley.org _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Threadflip Lands $6.5 Million in First Round San Francisco -- Threadflip, the San Francisco-based developer of a social marketplace for discovering, buying and selling fashion, said it has raised $6.5 million in its first round of funding, led by Shasta Ventures. Lowercase Capital and previous backers First Round Capital and Baseline Ventures also participated in the round, which increases the company's total funding to $8.1 million. Threadflip, which also announced the launch of its iOS mobile app, said it will use the proceeds to roll out a slew of new, enhanced services over the coming months. Tod Francis of Shasta Ventures will join the company's board of directors. http://www.threadflip.com http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/threadflip-launches-new-ios-app-and-announces-65m-in-series-a-financing-1665449.htm _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) Arbitron, the Maryland-based media and marketing research firm best known for its radio ratings, on Wednesday named Derrik Dennis as the director of sales at Arbitron Mobile. Dennis, who previously served as product director for The Nielsen Company's telecom practice, will be based in San Francisco. http://arbitron.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=820 (Menlo Park, Calif.) Menlo Park-based nlyte Software, a developer of data center infrastructure management software, on Wednesday named Doug Sabella as its president and CEO. Sabella previously served as the president and CEO of Veraz Networks, where he led the company through an IPO in 2007. Veraz then merged with Dialogic, where Sabella continued to serve as president. http://www.nlyte.com/nlyte-software-press-releases/nlyte-software-appoints-douglas-sabella-as-president-and-ceo (Fremont, Calif.) Fremont-based Applied Ceramics, a fabricator and supplier of custom-made ceramics, quartz, silicon and sapphire components for the semiconductor processing equipment industry, on Wednesday named Boris Lipkin as its vice president of business development. Lipkin most recently served as operating partner at Vantage Point Capital Partners, and previously was the president and CEO at Therma-Wave. http://www.apceramics.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120606005149/en/Applied-Ceramics-Names-Industry-Veteran-Boris-Lipkin =================================================== 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 > Executive Briefing -- Product Portfolio Management It's a fact! As your product portfolio grows, the market impact of your organization can quickly become diluted because traditional product management practices focus on improving the performance of each product. 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This position reports directly to the Marketing Manager to plan, coordinate and manage all aspects of client seminars and receptions, sponsorship events, Firm events and retreats, and other special events. Candidate must have a Bachelor's degree and the ability to communicate clearly and effectively in one-on-one and small group settings with business partners and outside vendors. Additionally, candidate must be a self-starter, detail oriented, have the ability to organize and prioritize a number of tasks and complete them under time constraints. Strong computer, backend web development, HTML and graphics skills are required. Experience with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign is preferred. Salary: DOE. Please include your salary requirement. 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Our Finance team seeks an individual who will report to the CFO, with the ability to develop and maintain long-range financial models for the company's strategic plan, produce product revenue projections and forecasts and prepare financial analyses. They will also be able to analyze trends, manage components of the operating plan process, participate in the valuation of potential business development opportunities, and collaborate with R&D, Commercial and Operations functions. The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, challenging and highly diverse team environment is critical. To be a successful candidate you will have at least 4 years of finance/accounting experience, with a proven track record of incorporating applications of accounting principles, financial reporting, and cash management, and be an expert in Excel. It's important that you have experience in life sciences and knowledge/experience with Microsoft GP is a plus, as is an MBA. 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