| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Sept. 5, 2012 ============================================ Sponsored By: Bridge Bank – Flexible Solutions for Technology Companies www.bridgebank.com o Palo Alto-Based Accel Partners Invests $50M in Tenable Network Security o Palo Alto-Based Nebula Raises $25 Million in Equity and Debt Funding o San Francisco's Snappli Lands $1 Million in New Funding o Robin Gilthorpe Named CEO of San Francisco-Based Terracotta o S.F.-Based Fingerprint Digital Lands Investment from Corus Entertainment o Finalists Named for AARP Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch > The Smarter Banking Choice for Growing Technology Companies. o Briefly Noted: Lending Club, 3VR, Radionomy _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Electric Vehicles Forums in Boston and New York --Breakfast Forum: Implementing Analytics for Software and SaaS Providers --Mobile Development, UX/Design and Marketing Conference --The Smarter Banking Choice for Growing Technology Companies --3rd Annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit - Sept. 27, 2012 - Wash., DC --Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit – Oct. 18, 2012 --BA: Turn Sunshine into Savings -- Go Solar With Your Home or Office --Drive Sales - Advertise with Tech Wire - Special Summer Rates --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 Palo Alto-Based Accel Partners Invests $50M in Tenable Network Security Palo Alto, Calif. -- Accel Partners, the Palo Alto-based venture capital firm, has invested $50 million in Tenable Network Security, a Maryland-based developer of software designed to identify network security gaps before they can be exploited by attackers. The outside funding is the first in the company's 10-year history. The company plans to use the proceeds to expand its offerings and accelerate its global growth. Tenable's flagship vulnerability management products, Nessus and SecurityCenter, are used by more than 15,000 organizations, including the entire Department of Defense and 12 of 14 federal civilian agencies. The company has doubled its staff in the past 12 months to nearly 200 employees, and expects to double it again over the next two years. "Serious network attacks are far more common than anyone wants to publicly admit -- and our customers count on us to keep their networks safe," said CEO Ron Gula. Ping Li, a general partner at Accel, will join the company's board of directors. http://www.tenable.com http://www.accel.com http://www.tenable.com/news-events/press-releases/2012-tenable-network-security-secures-50-million-series-a-from-accel-partners _____________________________________________ o Palo Alto-Based Nebula Raises $25 Million in Equity and Debt Funding Palo Alto, Calif. -- Nebula, the Palo Alto-based developer of tools designed to let users deploy on-premise private cloud computing infrastructures, said on Wednesday it has raised more than $25 million in its second round of funding, which included both equity and debt. Comcast Ventures led the round, with Highland Capital Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Innovation Endeavors and several individuals also participating. Silicon Valley Bank is providing additional debt and credit facilities to the company, as well. Nebula, co-founded by former NASA CTO and OpenStack co-founder Chris Kemp, is now powering next-generation cloud infrastructures at biotech, financial services and media companies as part of a private beta program that began in March. The investment will allow Nebula to expand the number of companies participating in the beta, as well as continue to expand its product and engineering teams, build a petascale test system and accelerate the development and testing of its product. http://www.nebula.com http://www.nebula.com/static/press/Nebula_Series_B_Funding_Release_ Final_09052012.pdf (PDF) _____________________________________________ o San Francisco's Snappli Lands $1 Million in New Funding San Francisco -- Snappli, a San Francisco- and London-based developer of mobile optimization tools, said on Wednesday it has raised $1 million in a new round of funding. Participants included Greylock Partners, Index Ventures and Klaus Hommels, an early investor in Skype, Facebook and Spotify. The news comes as the company also launched its new cloud service and iPhone app, designed to compress, optimize and secure mobile Internet data. "Mobile Internet data will get even slower and more expensive as consumers use more data-hungry services like Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest," said co-founder and CEO Eldar Tuvey. "The solution is to make more intelligent use of the bandwidth we have, and this was the vision behind Snappli." http://www.snappli.com http://itunes.apple.com/app/snappli/id534504254?mt=8 (App preview) _____________________________________________ o Robin Gilthorpe Named CEO of San Francisco-Based Terracotta San Francisco -- Software AG, the German business software giant, on Wednesday named Robin Gilthorpe as the new CEO of Terracotta, its subsidiary based in San Francisco. Terracotta, which was acquired by Software AG in May 2011, is a developer of in-memory technology designed to provide more efficient data management than traditional database and storage technologies. Gilthorpe, who also will join Software AG's group executive board, was most recently senior vice president for the Americas at TIBCO Software. Amit Pandey had served as the CEO of Terracotta until becoming the president and CEO of Zenprise in April. http://terracotta.org/ http://www.softwareag.com/corporate/Press/pressreleases/20120905 _Terracotta_Gilthorpe_page.asp _____________________________________________ o S.F.-Based Fingerprint Digital Lands Investment from Corus Entertainment San Francisco -- Fingerprint Digital, a San Francisco-based mobile gaming startup that creates gaming apps for kids, said on Wednesday it has landed a new investment from Canadian media and entertainment company Corus Entertainment. financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Fingerprint will use the new funds to grow and expand its learning and entertainment platform, known as Fingerprint Play. "This partnership enables us to leverage Corus' experience in the kids' realm and will allow Fingerprint to increase our offerings to older children, expand internationally and deliver new games that kids love and parents trust on all platforms, from iOS to Android," said Nancy MacIntyre, the co-founder and CEO of Fingerprint. The company currently offers 14 apps, which have been played over 20 million minutes. It plans to expand to Android devices and add eight new gaming apps by the end of this year. http://www.fingerprintplay.com http://www.fingerprintplay.com/news/ _____________________________________________ o Finalists Named for AARP Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch Washington, DC -- The AARP and LivePitch Media on Wednesday announced the 10 start-up finalists -- including three from the Bay Area -- for their AARP Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch, a competition designed to showcase start-ups in the "50 and over" health technology and innovation sector. The finals are set for Sept. 21 in New Orleans, where two grand prize winners -- one selected by judges and another by attendees -- will be chosen. Among the finalists are San Francisco-based Carelinx, Pleasanton-based GenieMD and San Francisco-based LivWell Health. A complete list of the finalists, selected from 80 original entrants, is available at the link below. http://health50.org/finalists/ _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 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. Bridge Bank's product offering includes growth capital, equipment and working capital credit facilities and treasury management solutions, along with a full line of international products and services and financing secured by domestic, government and foreign receivables. For details, visit www.bridgebank.com |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Lending Club, the developer of an online platform for investing in and obtaining personal loans, on Wednesday named Russell Elmer as its deputy general counsel, as well as the general counsel and chief compliance officer of its LC Advisors (LCA) subsidiary. Elmer previously spent nearly a decade as the general counsel of E*Trade Financial. http://www.lendingclub.com/public/press-room.action (San Francisco) San Francisco-based 3VR, developer of a video intelligence platform on Wednesday named Masayuki Karahashi as its senior vice president of engineering. Karahashi most recently served as the vice president of development at Oracle, and previously held senior product development roles at Siebel Systems, Promptu and Informix. http://www.3vr.com/news/3vr-taps-oracle-vet-lead-engineering-team (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Radionomy, the European developer of a free service that allows people to discover, listen to and create online radio stations, said on Wednesday it has opened its U.S. headquarters in San Francisco. The company said the new office, located at 181 Fremont Street, will focus on sales, marketing, platform development and partnerships. It initially will be staffed by staff from Europe, with U.S.-based staff taking over in the coming months. http://www.radionomy.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120905005688/en/International-Online-Radio-Service-Radionomy-Locates-U.S. =================================================== 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 > Electric Vehicles Forums in Boston and New York Register for one of PA’s executive forums "Electric Vehicles, Fact or Fiction?" on Tuesday 11 September in Boston, or Wednesday 12 September in New York. At this cross-sector executive forum, we will break down industry silos, address market challenges and share practical knowledge and success stories. 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Register today at: www.logixml.com/sanmateo LogiXML, the pioneer of web-based business intelligent(BI) software, was positioned by Gartner, Inc. in their 2012 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms report. (February 6, 2012) Survey respondents recognized that “…ease of use goes hand-in-hand with cost as a key strength for LogiXML. [It] is reflected by its customers giving it among the highest scores for ease of use of any vendor in the survey.” Send inquiries to andrea.gemmell@logixml.com ____________________________________________ > A Mobile Development, UX/Design and Marketing Conference About Keeping Pace in the Tablet Era. 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. Bridge Bank's product offering includes growth capital, equipment and working capital credit facilities and treasury management solutions, along with a full line of international products and services and financing secured by domestic, government and foreign receivables. For details, visit www.bridgebank.com ____________________________________________ > 3rd Annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit - Sept. 27, 2012 - Wash., DC Is your business positioned to capture your share of the over $120 billion global cybersecurity market expected by 2017? The 3rd Annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit addresses the urgency of America's need to remain cyber secure. Join us as we assemble a stunning array of cybersecurity experts such as His Excellency Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia; John C. (Chris) Inglis, Deputy Director, NSA; Lt. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins, Director, DISA; Eugene Kaspersky, CEO, Kaspersky Lab; Gen. Michael Hayden (Ret.), Former Dir., CIA & NSA; and Shawn Henry, the FBI's former top cyber cop and cybersecurity experts from the CIA, DHS, INTERPOL Washington, NERC, DOE, NIST, etc. Register today at http://cybersecurity-2012.eventbrite.com (Use discount code PTech for a 15% discount!) ____________________________________________ > Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit – Oct. 18, 2012 Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit - Intelligence & Insights on the Future of Communications. 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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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Apply online at: http://www.shutterfly.com/about/positions.jsp?jvi=oW3aWfwP ____________________________________________ > Account Manager Come join PaperG, just named one of the Forbes' 100 Most Promising Companies in America, as we reinvent modern advertising. A PaperG Account Manager works as a key member of the Accounts team, where they will support PaperG's media company partners and help them thrive using PaperG's technology. Qualifications: College degree. A friendly and engaging personality - a must!. Excellent computer and Internet knowledge. High energy level. Resourceful, well organized, highly dependable, efficient and detail oriented. Knowledge of online advertising industry a strong plus. Send your resume to careers@paperg.com In your email or cover letter, let us know why PaperG interests you. ____________________________________________ > Sr. Financial Analyst Veracyte is a molecular diagnostics company that is pioneering the emerging field of molecular cytology. 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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