| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Oct. 23, 2013 ============================================ Digital Entertainment World: Register Now and Save $200 http://www.dewexpo.com o Cupertino-Based Bromium Raises $40 Million in Third Round o Vigilent Relocates Headquarters to Downtown Oakland o Palo Alto's North Bridge Growth Equity Closes $580 Million Fund o San Jose-Based Oclaro Names Pete Mangan as New CFO o Sunnyvale-Based Agiliance Names Linda Gallagher as CISO > Digital Entertainment World: Register Now and Save $200 o Briefly Noted: YuMe, SugarCRM, Spin Transfer Technologies _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Patent Applications Drafted --Digital Entertainment World: Register Now and Save $200 --Free Whitepaper: TechRadar for Digital Customer Experience Technologies --Search Services Without a Fee --Service Co-ordinator/Customer Service Representative --TelcoVision Conference - Las Vegas --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 Cupertino-Based Bromium Raises $40 Million in Third Round Cupertino, Calif. -- Bromium, a Cupertino-based developer of micro-virtualization technology designed to protect businesses from advanced malware, said on Wednesday it has raised $40 million in its third round of funding, led by new investor Meritech Capital Partners. Previous backers Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, Highland Capital Partners and Intel Capital also participated in the round, which the company will use to bolster product development and accelerate sales in North America, Japan and the EMEA and APAC regions. "We have doubled revenue each quarter this year and now plan to accelerate our international expansion and strengthen our development team," said co-founder and CEO Gaurav Banga. Bromium counts the NYSE, BlackRock and ADP among its clients. http://www.bromium.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131023005415/en/Bromium%C2%AE-Secures-40M-Series-Funding _____________________________________________ o Vigilent Relocates Headquarters to Downtown Oakland Oakland -- Vigilent, a technology firm that uses artificial intelligence to help data centers increase their energy efficiency, said on Wednesday it has relocated its headquarters from El Cerrito to the I. Magnin Building in downtown Oakland. The move doubles the company's square footage, while also adding infrastructure and amenities. "With growing recognition as an emerging high-tech hotspot and access to a large base of technology professionals, Oakland is the perfect launching pad for our continued growth," said CEO Mark Housley. "And it didn’t hurt that our new building is literally green." Vigilent will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony, presided over by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, on Nov. 7. http://vigilent.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131023005546/en/Vigilent-Unveils-Headquarters-Oakland _____________________________________________ o Palo Alto's North Bridge Growth Equity Closes $580 Million Fund Palo Alto, Calif. -- North Bridge Growth Equity, a venture capital firm with dual headquarters in Palo Alto and Massachusetts, on Wednesday announced the final closing of its second fund with over $580 million in commitments. The fund, known as North Bridge Growth Equity II, will invest primarily in technology companies that are entrepreneur owned and managed, and have grown to tens of millions in revenue with little or no outside capital. The firm, which now has $1.1 billion under management, is led by general partners Matt Blodgett, Doug Kingsley, Mike Pehl and Russ Pyle. Recent investments include Proto Labs, RuffaloCODY and SmartPak. http://www.northbridge.com http://www.northbridge.com/north-bridge-closes-second-growth-equity-fund-over-580-million-commitments _____________________________________________ o San Jose-Based Oclaro Names Pete Mangan as New CFO San Jose, Calif. -- Oclaro, a San Jose-based developer of optical communications tools, has named Pete Mangan as its new CFO. Mangan, currently the company's vice president of corporate finance, will succeed Jerry Turin, who plans to resign on Nov. 8 to pursue other opportunities. Mangan previously served as the CFO at Trident Microsystems from 1996-1998, and again from 2008-2012. http://www.oclaro.com http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oclaro-appoints-pete-mangan-as-chief-financial-officer-228854771.html _____________________________________________ o Sunnyvale-Based Agiliance Names Linda Gallagher as CISO Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Agiliance, a Sunnyvale-based developer of risk management tools for governance and security programs, on Wednesday named former HSBC executive Linda Gallagher as its chief information security officer (CISO) and vice president of product planning and evangelism. Gallagher for the past decade managed HSBC's global application security and was CISO of software delivery information security risk. She previously spent 10 years at Merrill Lynch & Co. in IT security operations, security product design and software development. http://www.agiliance.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131023005767/en/Agiliance-Names-Linda-Gallagher-CISO-VP-Product _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Digital Entertainment World: Register Now and Save $200 Digital Entertainment World (DEW) is the best place to connect with content creators and owners, enabling technology providers, digital distributors and device manufacturers to create the infrastructure and technology partnerships necessary to monetize digital content. The three-day event brings together leading industry executives from games, music, video and publishing to discuss, deliberate, debate and celebrate the issues, opportunities and successes driving the digital entertainment industry. 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