| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Sept. 5, 2013 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o Foster City-Based Zuora Raises $50 Million in Fifth Round o Redwood City-Based Amobee Acquires Gradient X o Mountain View-Based LinkedIn to Raise $1.2 Billion in Public Offering o Sunnyvale-Based Yahoo Unveils First New Logo in 18 Years o Vector Capital Names David Ramazetti as Managing Director o Briefly Noted: Achievers, Global Semiconductor Alliance, SwiftTest _____________________________________________ > 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 Foster City-Based Zuora Raises $50 Million in Fifth Round Foster City, Calif. -- Zuora, a Foster City-based developer of subscription commerce and billing software, said on Thursday it has raised $50 million in its fifth round of funding, which the company will use to expand operations. New investors Next World Capital; Vulcan Capital and Northgate Capital joined previous backers Benchmark Capital; Greylock Partners; Index Ventures; Redpoint Ventures; Shasta Ventures; Tenaya Capital; Workday founder and co-CEO Dave Duffield and Marc Benioff, the chairman and CEO of salesforce.com, in the round. Abhishek Agrawal of Vulcan Capital and Craig Hanson of Next World Capital will join the company's board of directors. Zuora said it will use the new funds to expand into new vertical markets and geographies, as well as expand research and development activities. The company's cloud platform is used to launch, scale and monetize subscription services. Clients include Informatica, Tata Communications, Box, Xplornet, Ustream and Reed Business Information. http://www.zuora.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130905005607/en/Zuora-Raises-50-Million-Bring-Company-Subscription _____________________________________________ o Redwood City-Based Amobee Acquires Gradient X Redwood City, Calif. -- Amobee, a Redwood City-based developer of mobile marketing tools and services, said on Thursday it has acquired Santa Monica-based Gradient X, developer of a real-time bidding platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. With the acquisition, Amobee said its platform now will offer real-time bidding functionality that includes support for multiple ad channels and formats, including video and HTML5. Brian Baumgart, the CEO of Gradient X, said the two companies "share a common vision in how to use technology to finally make mobile the most effective marketing channel to reach the right customer, with the right offer, at the right time and place." http://www.amobee.com/ http://www.gradientx.com http://www.amobee.com/news/2013/pr130905_gradientx.shtml _____________________________________________ o Mountain View-Based LinkedIn to Raise $1.2 Billion in Public Offering Mountain View, Calif. -- With its stock sitting near an all-time high, Mountain View-based LinkedIn, operator of the popular online professional network, has announced plans to raise $1.2 billion through a follow-on offering. The company said it will sell 5.4 million shares for $223 each, using the proceeds for working capital, expansion of its product development and sales teams and international expansion. LinkedIn, which went public in 2011, currently has about 238 million members. http://press.linkedin.com/News-Releases/311/LinkedIn-Announces-Proposed-Follow-On-Offering _____________________________________________ o Sunnyvale-Based Yahoo Unveils First New Logo in 18 Years Sunnyvale, Calif. -- After experimenting with 30 different logos over the past month, Sunnyvale-based Yahoo has now unveiled its new corporate identity. The new logo, available at the links below, pays homage to Yahoo's previous logo, which the company hadn't changed in 18 years. "We knew we wanted a logo that reflected Yahoo -- whimsical, yet sophisticated. Modern and fresh, with a nod to our history," wrote CEO Marissa Mayer. Mayer said she personally spent a weekend earlier this summer working on the redesign with designers Bob Stohrer, Marc DeBartolomeis, Russ Khaydarov and intern Max Ma. "We spent the majority of Saturday and Sunday designing the logo from start to finish, and we had a ton of fun weighing every minute detail," wrote Mayer. http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/60332693287/introducing-our-new-logo http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/post/60336044815/geeking-out-on-the-logo _____________________________________________ o Vector Capital Names David Ramazetti as Managing Director San Francisco -- Vector Capital, the San Francisco-based private equity firm, on Thursday named David Ramazetti as a managing director. Ramazetti most recently served as a managing director at Piper Jaffray, and previously spent time with RBC Capital Markets and Cowen & Co. In his new role, Ramazetti will be responsible for Vector's equity and credit deal origination efforts. He has closed more than 50 transactions throughout his investment banking career with an aggregate value of more than $15 billion. Vector's notable investments include Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Cambium Networks, Certara, Corel, Gerber Technologies, RAE Systems, Register.com, SafeNet, Technicolor, Teletrac, Tidel, WatchGuard Technologies and WinZip. http://www.vectorcapital.com http://www.vectorcapital.com/files/articles/119/Ramazetti%20Joins%20Vector%20Capital.pdf (PDF) _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Achievers, a developer of employee recognition and rewards software, on Thursday named Gary Conway as its CMO. Conway most recently served as the executive vice president and CMO at RedPrairie, and previously was the executive vice president and CMO at Progress Software. http://www.achievers.com (San Jose, Calif.) The San Jose-based Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) on Thursday named Maria Marced as the chairperson of its EMEA leadership council. Marced, the president of TSMC Europe, will provide advice and counsel to the GSA's board of directors on challenges and issues facing the region's semiconductor companies. http://www.gsaglobal.org/ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130905006297/en/GSA-EMEA-Leadership-Council-Names-Chair (Santa Clara, Calif.) Santa Clara-based SwiftTest, a developer of infrastructure performance validation tools, on Thursday named Len Rosenthal as its vice president of marketing and Kevin O'Donnell as its CFO. Rosenthal previously held executive marketing positions at Astute Networks, Virtual Instruments, Panasas, Inktomi and PathScale, while O'Donnell was the CFO of PanTerra Networks, Cassatt and ViewCentral. http://www.swifttest.com/news/swifttest-adds-seasoned-executives-to-senior-management-team-as-focus-expands-to-global-1000-enterprises/ =================================================== 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 > Chief Information Officer/IT Director - City of Mountain View The newly created CIO position will join a leadership team committed to innovation, creativity, and transforming local government through leading ideas and practices. 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