| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- June 26, 2013 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o San Jose-Based GainSpan Raises $19 Million in Fourth Round o Palo Alto-Based HighBar Partners Closes New $130 Million Fund o San Jose-Based Vormetric Lands $15 Million in New Funding o Palo Alto-Based Inadco Raises $11 Million in Second Round o Palo Alto-Based NuMedii Secures $3.5 Million in First Round o Internet Hall of Fame Announces 2013 Inductees o Report: U.S. IPO Market Grows 40% in Second Quarter o Briefly Noted: LucidWorks, Tessera Technologies, Cogniance _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Mobile Commerce World --How Remembering Your First Job Can Make You More Successful --Patent Applications Drafted --Research Leader – Collaboration and Communications --Forrester Report-How to Organize for the Digital Future, from Siteworx --Director of Business Development --Post-Merger Integration Project Manager- Resources Global- San Jose CA --Sales and Tech Development (LogiXML) --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 Jose-Based GainSpan Raises $19 Million in Fourth Round San Jose, Calif. -- GainSpan, a San Jose-based developer of semiconductor technology designed to let clients create connected products, said on Wednesday it has raised $19 million in its fourth round of funding. Participants included new investors Zebra Technologies and Oplink Communications, as well as previous backers Opus Capital, Intel Capital, New Venture Partners, Sigma Partners, Camp Ventures and Hatteras Funds. GainSpan, a spinoff of Intel, said it will use a portion of the funds to launch a new family of chips, modules and application development kits. The company said its GS2000 family is the first to combine Wi-Fi and ZigBee IP on a single die, extending IP connectivity to a wider variety of devices. http://www.gainspan.com http://www.gainspan.com/news/news_20130626_seriesD _____________________________________________ o Palo Alto-Based HighBar Partners Closes New $130 Million Fund Palo Alto, Calif. -- HighBar Partners, a Palo Alto-based investment firm focused on enterprise and infrastructure software companies, said on Wednesday it has closed a new $130 million fund, to be known as HighBar Partners II. The fund already has made investments in four companies -- Blazent, Soonr, Vyatta (sold to Brocade in 2012) and Zettaset. HighBar was originally formed in 1995 as a personal investment vehicle for three executives who were part of the founding teams at Sun Microsystems and Brocade Communications Systems, and has since grown into an institutional firm. The firm typically invests in companies undergoing significant strategic, financial or operational change. http://www.highbarpartners.com http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/highbar-partners-closes-130-million-strategic-growth-capital-fund-213180951.html _____________________________________________ o San Jose-Based Vormetric Lands $15 Million in New Funding San Jose, Calif. -- Vormetric, the San Jose-based developer of encryption and key management technology, said on Wednesday it has raised $15 million in a new round of funding, led by Split Rock Partners. Previous backers JK&B Capital, Quicksilver Ventures and Sigma Partners also participated. The company said the proceeds will support its growth plans in strategic market segments, accelerate product development and fuel international expansion. Vormetric said it has been profitable since 2009, and currently has more than 1,100 customers. http://www.vormetric.com http://www.vormetric.com/sites/default/files/2MB/Vormetric%20Closes%20%2415M%20Funding%20_%20FINAL%5B6%5D.pdf (PDF) _____________________________________________ o Palo Alto-Based Inadco Raises $11 Million in Second Round Palo Alto, Calif. -- Inadco, the Palo Alto-based developer of an advertising platform that allows for two-way communication between consumers and marketers, said on Wednesday it has landed $11 million in its second round of funding, led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). Previous backer Redpoint Ventures also participated in the round, which the company will use to hire more engineers and continue to build out its technology platform. Inadco previously had raised $5 million. http://www.inadco.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130626005456/en/Inadco-Raises-11-Million-Series-Led-U.S. _____________________________________________ o Palo Alto-Based NuMedii Secures $3.5 Million in First Round Palo Alto, Calif. -- NuMedii, a Palo Alto-based developer of big data technology that predicts which drugs will be most effective in treating a particular disease, then translates that information into therapeutic candidates, said on Wednesday it has raised $3.5 million in its first round of funding. Claremont Creek Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners co-led the round, which also included participation from Life Science Angels and others. The company will use the proceeds to further develop its technology and prepare for clinical testing. NuMedii entered into a strategic collaboration with Aptalis Pharma in 2012 to develop new therapies for gastrointestinal disorders and cystic fibrosis. http://www.numedii.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130626005358/en/NuMedii-Receives-3.5M-Series-Financing-Claremont-Creek _____________________________________________ o Internet Hall of Fame Announces 2013 Inductees Reston, Va. -- The Internet Society, a Virginia-based organization focused primarily on Internet policy, on Wednesday announced the 32 inductees for its second Internet Hall of Fame class. The organization, which also has offices in Switzerland, said all were chosen for their "groundbreaking contributions to the global Internet." The 2013 class includes: (Pioneers Circle) David Clark, David Farber, Howard Frank, Kanchana Kanchanasut, J.C.R. Licklider (posthumous), Bob Metcalfe, Jun Murai, Kees Neggers, Nii Narku Quaynor, Glenn Ricart, Robert Taylor, Stephen Wolff and Werner Zorn; (Innovators) Marc Andreessen, John Perry Barlow, Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder, François Flückiger, Stephen Kent, Henning Schulzrinne, Richard Stallman, Aaron Swartz (posthumous) and Jimmy Wales; and (Global Connectors) Karen Banks, Gihan Dias, Anriette Esterhuysen, Steven Goldstein, Teus Hagen, Ida Holz, Qiheng Hu, Haruhisa Ishida (posthumous), Barry Leiner (posthumous) and George Sadowsky. Inductees will be honored at a ceremony August 3 in Berlin, which will be live streamed at the bottom link below. http://www.internethalloffame.org http://www.internethalloffame.org/blog/2013/06/26/internet-hall-fame-announces-2013-inductees https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/2013internethalloffame _____________________________________________ o Report: U.S. IPO Market Grows 40% in Second Quarter London -- U.S. companies raised $12 billion in 48 initial public offerings (IPOs) during the second quarter, up 40% from the previous quarter, according to a new report from Ernst & Young. Capital raised also was 65% more than the same period in 2012, excluding Facebook's IPO. In addition, another 14 IPOs expected to raise around $2.8 billion are on tap before the end of June. "The IPO window is reopening thanks to rising equity markets and a wave of recent mega-deals, which is having an ice-breaker impact on the market," said Maria Pinelli, Ernst & Young's global vice chair of strategic growth markets. "Combined with improved global monetary policy, market confidence is growing, particularly in the U.S., Japan, U.K. and parts of Latin America." Pinelli, however, said that average deal size in the U.S. is trending lower, in part because of the impact of the JOBS Act, which lets more emerging growth companies file confidentially to raise capital on the public markets. The complete report is available at the link below. http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/IPO_Insights_June_2013/$FILE/1303-1055400_IPO_report.pdf (PDF) _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (Redwood City, Calif.) Redwood City-based LucidWorks, a developer of open source embedded search development tools, on Wednesday named Will Hayes, most recently the head of technical business development at Splunk, as its chief product and marketing officer. The company also named co-founder and CTO Grant Ingersoll to its board of directors. http://www.lucidworks.com/lucidworks-announces-board-and-leadership-appointments (San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based Tessera Technologies, a developer of semiconductor packaging and camera module technologies, on Wednesday named John Allen as its acting CFO. Allen, the company's corporate controller since December, succeeds Richard Neely Jr., who has left the company. http://www.tessera.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130626005464/en/Tessera-Technologies-Names-John-Allen-Acting-CFO (Menlo Park, Calif.) Menlo Park-based software consulting firm Cogniance on Wednesday named Marty McFarland as its CFO. McFarland most recently served as the CFO of PacketMotion, and was previously was the CFO of Kasenna and corporate controller of Harmonic. http://www.cogniance.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130625006680/en/Cogniance-Appoints-Veteran-CFO-Marty-McFarland =================================================== 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 > Mobile Commerce World Mobile Commerce World is for retail and enterprise executives charged with developing their company’s mobile commerce strategy. Mobile Commerce World brings together the mobile commerce ecosystem, including marketers, retailers, mobile app developers, software and service providers, integrators, security providers, operators, business strategists and leading companies. 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