Monday, July 15, 2013

Bay Area Tech Wire -- July 15

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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- July 15, 2013
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Mountain View-Based AirTight Raises $10 Million in Fourth Round
o S.F.-Based Kabam Announces Secondary Offering at $700M Valuation
o Menlo Park-Based Mayfield Fund Invests $5 Million in TrustRadius
o Mountain View-Based HyTrust Lands New Investment from In-Q-Tel
o 49ers Rank No. 17 on Forbes List of Most Valuable Sports Teams
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o Mountain View-Based AirTight Raises $10 Million in Fourth Round

Mountain View, Calif. -- AirTight Networks, a Mountain View-based provider of cloud-managed Wi-Fi services, said on Monday it has raised $10 million in its fourth round of funding, co-led by previous backers Trident Capital and CMEA Capital. The company, which now has raised $48.75 million since its inception, said the new funds will fuel growth. AirTight has developed a cloud architecture designed to let clients deploy Wi-Fi across a large number of geographically distributed locations.
http://www.airtightnetworks.com/home/news/press-releases/pr/article/123/airtight-networks-closes-10-million-series-d-financing-round-capital-to-fund-explosive-growth-in-cl.html 
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o S.F.-Based Kabam Announces Secondary Offering at $700M Valuation

San Francisco -- Kabam, a San Francisco-based developer of free-to-play games, said on Monday that a small group of investors has launched a $38.5 million secondary offering that values the company at $700 million. All of the proceeds will enable current and former employees to sell their shares to the investors. "None of the new investment is going to Kabam," said co-founder and CEO Kevin Chou. "It’s all going to employees who wish to sell their shares, and it's of course a voluntary program." Several new and previous investors funded the offering, though the company declined to disclose their identities. Previous backers have included Google, Warner Brothers, MGM, Intel, Canaan Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Pinnacle Ventures, among others.
http://www.kabam.com 
http://corporate.kabam.com/media/2013/07/15/kabam-announces-385-million-secondary-financing-at/ 
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o Menlo Park-Based Mayfield Fund Invests $5 Million in TrustRadius

Menlo Park, Calif. -- Mayfield Fund, the early-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, said it has invested $5 million in Texas-based TrustRadius, developer of a website for professionals to share candid opinions on business technology products. Rajeev Batra, a partner at Mayfield, will join the company's board of directors. TrustRadius bills itself as an Angie's List, Yelp or TripAdvisor for enterprise software, offering the first-hand opinions of professional counterparts. The company was co-founded by CEO Vinay Bhagat, previously the founder and chief strategy officer of Convio. The investment is the latest for Maryfield in the marketing software space, following earlier VC deals with AgilOne, Gigya, Marketo, Moat, Newscred and Viralheat.
http://www.trustradius.com/ 
http://www.mayfield.com/ 
http://blog.trustradius.com/2013/07/trustradius-secures-5-million-in-series.html 
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o Mountain View-Based HyTrust Lands New Investment from In-Q-Tel

Mountain View, Calif. -- HyTrust, a Mountain View-based developer of cloud security tools for virtual infrastructure, said on Monday it has landed a new investment as part of a larger technology development deal with In-Q-Tel (IQT), the Virginia-based venture fund backed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. "Our partnership with HyTrust will accelerate and enhance the company's technology relating to the control, management and compliance of virtual datacenter environments," said Robert Ames, the senior vice president of IQT's Information and Communication Technologies Practice. HyTrust said the relationship also will expand its reach into the federal sector.
http://www.iqt.org 
http://www.hytrust.com/ 
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130715005270/en/HyTrust-Announces-Funding-Strategic-Partnership-In-Q-Tel 
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o 49ers Rank No. 17 on Forbes List of Most Valuable Sports Teams

The San Francisco 49ers rank No. 17 on Forbes' newly released list of "The World's 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams." The 49ers, with an estimated value of $1.175 billion, rank ninth among NFL teams behind the Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, Washington Redskins, New York Giants, Houston Texans, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears. All told, 30 NFL teams made the list. European soccer teams Real Madrid ($3.3 billion), Manchester United ($3.165 billion) and Barcelona ($2.6 billion) top the rankings, with the New York Yankees (No. 4, $2.3 billion) coming in as the most valuable U.S. team. The San Francisco Giants ($786 million) also rank No. 49 and the Oakland Raiders ($785 million) No. 50. The complete list is available at the link below.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2013/07/15/real-madrid-tops-the-worlds-most-valuable-sports-teams/ 
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The Debate on Public and Private Data Now Available Online

Now available online! Listen in to the insightful and entertaining panel of legal and IT experts who debated issues of privacy and big data recently in Menlo Park. Hosted by Concord Law School. Moderated by NYU Professor Arthur Miller, the panelists included: Joseph Alhadeff, Chief Privacy Strategist/VP Global Public Policy, Oracle; Ian Ballon, Greenberg Traurig, Executive Director Stanford Law's Center for E-Commerce; Johannes Ernst, Cloudstore; Thomas Feledy, Lieutenant, SF Police Department; Françoise Gilbert, Founder/Managing Director of the IT Law Group; Ann Geyer, Managing Director of Tunitas Group; Matthew Miller, Managing Director, Walden Venture Capital; and Mark Weinstein of Sgrouples.com.
The video is available at www.ConcordDebate.com

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(Cupertino, Calif.) MagnaChip Semiconductor, a South Korean maker of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors with U.S. headquarters in Cupertino, said on Monday it plans to raise $225 million through a private placement of senior notes, due in 2021. The company will use the proceeds to redeem outstanding notes due in 2018.
http://www.magnachip.com 
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/magnachip-announces-proposed-private-offering-105900638.html;_ylt=A2KJ2PZaBORR2HIAId3QtDMD 

(Sunnyvale, Calif.) Sunnyvale-based Aruba Networks, a developer of network access technology designed to let employees work from their personal mobile devices, said on Monday its board of directors has authorized the repurchase of up to another $100 million in stock. The company recently completed its repurchase of an initial $100 million under the program, which was originally authorized in June 2012.
http://ir.arubanetworks.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=206778&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1837558&highlight= 

(Mountain View, Calif.) Mountain View-based digital couponing company Coupons.com on Monday named Matthew Wisk as its CMO and Stephen Simpson as its vice president of production operations. Wisk most recently was the president of MyPoints.com at United Online, while Simpson was Groupon's lead SRE architect for global platform engineering.
http://www.couponsinc.com/Corporate/OurCompany/PressReleases/2013.aspx?udt_678_param_detail=623

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> The Debate on Public and Private Data Now Available Online

Now available online! Listen in to the insightful and entertaining panel of legal and IT experts who debated issues of privacy and big data recently in Menlo Park. Hosted by Concord Law School. Moderated by NYU Professor Arthur Miller, the panelists included: Joseph Alhadeff, Chief Privacy Strategist/VP Global Public Policy, Oracle; Ian Ballon, Greenberg Traurig, Executive Director Stanford Law's Center for E-Commerce; Johannes Ernst, Cloudstore; Thomas Feledy, Lieutenant, SF Police Department; Françoise Gilbert, Founder/Managing Director of the IT Law Group; Ann Geyer, Managing Director of Tunitas Group; Matthew Miller, Managing Director, Walden Venture Capital; and Mark Weinstein of Sgrouples.com.
The video is available at www.ConcordDebate.com
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