| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Sept. 25, 2012 ============================================ Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit – Oct. 18, 2012 http://mamsummit.com/baltimore2012/ o Menlo Park's Spectrum Equity Invests $25 Million in WeddingWire o San Francisco-Based Bizo Names Annie Wayne as CFO o San Jose-Based Cypress Extends Offer for Ramtron International o San Francisco-Based Tegal to Change Name to CollabRx o Report: Angel Investors Raise Valuations, Cut Round Sizes > Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit – Oct. 18, 2012 o Briefly Noted: MapLight, Riverbed Technology, Five9 _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Free Live DMW Webinar On Hack Attacks and Cloud Security with Akamai --Distilled Intelligence 2.0 - October 11-12, 2012 --Just Released! 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The company said it will use the capital to expand its offerings, as well as sales and marketing activities. "This next phase of growth will be dedicated to fulfilling an even bigger mission for the company," said co-founder and CEO Timothy Chi. Over the past year, WeddingWire has launched web-based software designed to help wedding and event professionals manage all aspects of their business, from appointment scheduling to mobile marketing. In addition, the company launched EventWire.com for other types of event planning, along with specific websites for celebrations such as BirthdayWire.com, MitzvahWire.com and PromWire.com. Ben Spero, managing director of Spectrum Equity, and Pete Jensen, a principal at the firm, will join WeddingWire's board of directors. Previous institutional investors in the company include Catalyst Investors and Southern Capitol Ventures. http://www.weddingwire.com http://www.spectrumequity.com/ http://www.weddingwire.com/press-center/press-releases/2012/weddingwire-announces-25-million-investment-from-spectrum-equity.html _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Bizo Names Annie Wayne as CFO San Francisco -- Bizo, the San Francisco-based developer of a business audience marketing platform designed to help brand advertisers target more than 100 million professionals, on Tuesday named Annie Wayne as its CFO. Wayne, most recently the CFO of online social buying club HomeRun, joins the company six months after it raised $10 million in its second round of funding, led by Crosslink Capital. Wayne also has served as the CFO of marketing analytics company Biz360. Bizo also has hired former BtoB magazine editor Sean Callahan as editor and marketing director. The company ranked No. 86 in the most recent Inc. 500. http://www.bizo.com http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bizo-hires-annie-wayne-as-chief-financial-officer-171146551.html _____________________________________________ o San Jose-Based Cypress Extends Offer for Ramtron International San Jose, Calif. -- Cypress Semiconductor, a San Jose-based developer of mixed-signal, programmable chips, on Tuesday extended its tender offer to acquire shares of Colorado-based rival Ramtron International. The company is offering $3.10 a share through an offer tentatively scheduled to expire Oct. 9. The offer previously was scheduled to expire Sept. 25. So far, about 5.7 million shares of Ramtron have been validly tendered. The two companies entered into a merger agreement earlier this month. http://www.cypress.com/ http://investors.cypress.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=709236 _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Tegal to Change Name to CollabRx San Francisco -- Two months after acquiring CollabRx, a Palo Alto-based developer of interpretive content and data analytics tools used in genomics-based medicine, San Francisco-based Tegal on Tuesday received shareholder approval to officially change its corporate name to CollabRx. The renamed company will begin trading Thursday on the Nasdaq under the symbol, "CLRX." http://www.collabrx.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120925006181/en/Tegal-Receives-Shareholder-Approval-Change-Corporate-CollabRx _____________________________________________ o Report: Angel Investors Raise Valuations, Cut Round Sizes Santa Clara, Calif. -- Angel investment groups increased early stage pre-money valuations, but cut round Sizes in the first half of 2012, according to a new report by the Angel Resource Institute (ARI), Silicon Valley Bank and CB Insights. Pre-money valuations averaged $2.7 million in the second quarter, up from $2.5 million in the previous quarter, while median angel round sizes dropped 21% to $550,000. "Angel investors seem to be following a trend similar to the one we've witnessed recently in the venture capital market: Internet and mobile are increasingly becoming attractive areas for investment while healthcare is seeing its share decrease in terms of both deals and dollar," said Jonathan Sherry, the co-founder of CB Insights. The most active angel groups, in terms of number of deals, were Tech Coast Angels, Central Texas Angel Network, Launchpad Venture Group, Golden Seeds, Sand Hill Angels and Investors' Circle The biggest investors, in terms of dollars, were Tech Coast Angels, Central Texas Angel Network, Sand Hill Angels, Golden Seeds, Launchpad Venture Group, Alliance of Angels, Arizona Technology Investor Forum, Common Angels, Desert Angels and Atlanta Technology Angels http://www.svb.com/News/Company-News/Halo-Report--Angel-Investment-Groups-Increase-Early-Stage-Pre-Money-Valuations,-Cut-Round-Sizes-in-2012/ _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit – Oct. 18, 2012 Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit - Intelligence & Insights on the Future of Communications. This one-day conference, organized by Potomac Tech Wire and Capitol Communicator, will bring together 300+ executives from the marketing, advertising, technology and communications sectors to discuss major issues facing the industry. The themes will focus on emerging technologies and trends in marketing communications. Topics will include: metrics, mobile, social media, multi-platform campaigns, online video campaigns, experiential advertising, B2B, PR, and much more. 7:45 am – 6:00 pm. Oct. 18, 2012. Register at: http://mamsummit.com/baltimore2012/ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (Berkeley, Calif.) Berkeley-based MapLight, a nonpartisan research organization that aims to reveal the influence of money on politics, said on Tuesday it has launched a new mobile app, Politicash 2012. The free app, available for iOS and Android devices, is designed to track money flowing to presidential campaigns, including their affiliated super PACs. The app is regularly updated with data from the Federal Elections Commission (FEC). http://maplight.org/data-release/maplight-the-political-money-tracker-launches-politicash-2012-app-for-the-presidential-election (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Riverbed Technology, a developer of hardware, software and virtualized tools designed to improve IT performance, has named Ian Whiting as its senior vice president of sales for the Americas. Whiting most recently served as the executive vice president of worldwide sales at Brocade Communications Systems. http://www.riverbed.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2012/press_092412b (San Ramon, Calif.) San Ramon-based Five9, a developer of cloud-based contact center software, on Tuesday named David Milam as its new CMO. Milam spent the past five years as the CMO and executive vice president of McAfee, and previously held executive positions at EMC, Documentum, Broadbase Software, Cadence Design Systems and Structural Dynamics Research. http://www.five9.com/call-center-news/press-releases/pr-five9-hires-experienced-marketing-chief-david-milam.htm =================================================== 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 > Free Live DMW Webinar On Hack Attacks and Cloud Security with Akamai Online media and entertainment companies have become a key target with the rise of the hacktivist movement. Seeking to make political statements, hacktivists focus in on high-traffic or high-profile media sites, bent on embarrassing them by making their Web sites unavailable - or worse. 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Last fall's Distilled Intelligence (DI) 1.0 featured 55 companies representing a cross-section of technology including cyber security, educational technology, clean/green tech, critical infrastructure, enterprise software, medical IT, mobile commerce, consumer internet, and social platforms. Since DI 1.0: More than $27 million has been invested into presenting companies; 15 of the involved companies participated in world-class accelerator programs including TechStars, 500 Startups, and TheFort.vc; DI companies have created hundreds of jobs; and Two of DI companies have been acquired. Tickets are on sale at www.distilledintelligence.com for investors and entrepreneurs. ____________________________________________ > Just Released! SaaS Entrepreneur: Your Guide to Cloud Apps Success! "SaaS Entrepreneur: The Definitive Guide to Succeeding in Your Cloud Application Business." 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The race is on for tablet market supremacy as providers at all levels move at light speed to gain the upper edge. The only thing moving faster than the tablet industry is the demand markets are putting on the devices themselves. The post PC era is upon us and the tablet form factor is accelerating the shift faster than most would have predicted. Keeping up is critical. Getting left behind is a death sentence. Come hear from newly anointed pioneers and leave as one of them yourself. www.modevtablet.com ____________________________________________ > The Smarter Banking Choice for Growing Technology Companies. Bridge Bank’s Technology Banking Division serves venture-backed and non venture-backed companies from inception to IPO. 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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. We would like you to share our commitment to teamwork and collaboration and be excited by the challenges of applying your expertise to an important, emerging area in diagnostics. To apply, please send your resume to jobs@veracyte.com For additional information, see our website www.veracyte.com ____________________________________________ Bay Area Tech Wire has over 6,000 subscribers who rely on it for their daily briefing of local technology news. Bay Area Tech Wire has various advertising offerings ideal for jobs listings, events, service offerings, and office space for rent. 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