| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Sept. 17, 2013 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o San Mateo-Based Apttus Lands $37 Million ion First Round o San Francisco-Based FuzeBox Raises $26M, Names New CEO o San Francisco-Based PubNub Raises $11 Million in Second Round o S.F.-Based Appirio Acquires Developer Community TopCoder o Milpitas-Based SanDisk Names Scott Mercer to Board of Directors o Briefly Noted: Digilant, Mobiveil, ConteXtream _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Chief Information Officer/IT Director - City of Mountain View --IDF13 San Francisco --The Debate on Public and Private Data Now Available Online --Mobile Commerce World --Patent Applications Drafted --Research Leader – Collaboration and Communications --Director of Business Development --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 Mateo-Based Apttus Lands $37 Million ion First Round San Mateo, Calif. -- Apttus, a San Mateo-based developer of cloud software that drives the business process between a buyer's interest in a purchase and the realization of revenue, said on Tuesday it has raised $37 million in its first round of funding, from K1 Capital, ICONIQ Capital and salesforce.com. Launched in 2006, Apttus focuses on an area known as quote-to-cash automation, including configure price quote, contract management, renewals management and revenue management. The company is a long-standing partner of salesforce.com, with applications built natively on the Salesforce platform. http://www.apttus.com http://info.apttus.com/funding-iconiq-k1capital-salesforce.html _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based FuzeBox Raises $26M, Names New CEO San Francisco -- FuzeBox, a San Francisco-based developer of real-time communication and collaboration tools, said on Tuesday it has raised $26 million in its second round of funding, announced a new freemium version of its service and named former Yammer and salesforce.com executive David Obrand as its new CEO. Hermes Growth Partners led the round, which also included participation from previous backers Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Insight Venture Partners. The company now has raised $46 million since its inception. Obrand most recently served as the chief customer officer at Yammer, playing a key role in the company's rapid growth and eventual acquisition by Microsoft for $1.2 billion in 2012, and previously spent a decade at salesforce.com. Obrand will be leading several new executives, including new chief customer officer Mary Pecka; Georg Ell, the company's new vice president and general manager of EMEA; and Jonathan Grant, its new vice president of finance, accounting and investor relations. http://www.fuzebox.com http://blog.fuzebox.com/fuzebox-targets-global-expansion-raises-26m-names-david-obrand-as-ceo-adds-freemium-service/ _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based PubNub Raises $11 Million in Second Round San Francisco -- PubNub, a San Francisco-based developer of cloud infrastructure and tools designed to help developers deliver real-time capabilities to any device, said on Tuesday it has raised $11 million in its second round of funding, led by Scale Venture Partners. Previous backers Relay Ventures and TiE Angels also took part in the round, which increased the company's total funding to $15.5 million. PubNub will use the proceeds to expand its worldwide sales and marketing activities. PubNub's technology enables real-time experiences like live dashboards and streams, collaboration, second screen synchronization and machine-to-machine signaling. Clients include Rebtel, Viggle, GetTaxi, Humble Bundle, StageIT, Spreecast, Celly, Monotype and Class Dojo, and the company also has powered real-time apps for events such as the Olympics, Eurocup, American Music Awards and Super Bowl. Andy Vitus of Scale will join the company's board of directors. http://www.pubnub.com http://www.marketwatch.com/story/pubnub-secures-11-million-in-series-b-funding-to-fuel-growth-of-global-real-time-network-2013-09-17 _____________________________________________ o S.F.-Based Appirio Acquires Developer Community TopCoder San Francisco -- Appirio, a San Francisco-based provider of cloud services for businesses, said on Tuesday it has acquired Connecticut-based developer community TopCoder. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Appirio said the acquisition creates the world's largest professional development and design community with nearly 600,000 developers, designers and data analytics experts. Appirio created its own CloudSpokes community in 2011. "The rise of the sharing economy is quickly rendering the traditional systems integration and offshore biased model obsolete," said Chris Barbin, co-founder and CEO of Appirio. "Together, the CloudSpokes and TopCoder communities offer more elastic development and design resources than Accenture, Deloitte and InfoSys combined." Narinder Singh, the founder of Appirio, will serve as president of the combined company, with TopCoder founder Jack Hughes joining Appirio's crowdsourcing advisory board. David Messinger, the vice president of community at CloudSpokes, has been promoted to chief community officer of the combined communities. http://www.appirio.com http://appirio.com/category/press-releases/2013/09/appirio-acquires-topcoder-creating-worlds-largest-professional-development-design-community/ _____________________________________________ o Milpitas-Based SanDisk Names Scott Mercer to Board of Directors Milpitas, Calif. -- SanDisk, the Milpitas-based maker of flash memory storage products, on Tuesday named Scott Mercer to its board of directors. Mercer previously served as the chairman and CEO of Conexant Systems, as well as the interim CEO of Adaptec and CFO of Western Digital. He also is currently a director at Polycom and QLogic. http://www.sandisk.com http://www.sandisk.com/about-sandisk/press-room/press-releases/2013/sandisk-appoints-scott-mercer-to-its-board-of-directors/ _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) Digilant, a Boston-based provider of services designed to help marketers uncover unique insights about audience characteristics, said on Tuesday it has promoted Meg McLauglin as its vice president of accounts strategy. McLauglin's team will be managed from the company's San Francisco office. http://www.digilant.com http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/digilant-promotes-todd-heger-vp-152100635.html (Milpitas, Calif.) Milpitas-based Mobiveil, a developer of silicon intellectual property and subsystems, on Tuesday named Dale Olstinske as its vice president of sales. Olstinske most recently served as the vice president of sales at Denali, which was acquired by Cadence Design Systems. http://www.mobiveil.com http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/mobiveil-appoints-semiconductor-ip-industry-124500306.html (Mountain View, Calif.) Mountain View-based ConteXtream, a developer of emerging network virtualization tools, on Tuesday named Anshu Agarwal as its vice president of marketing; Aviva Gatt as its vice president of global human resources and Tim Timon as its vice president of technical services and support. 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