| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Oct. 8, 2013 ============================================ Free Whitepaper: TechRadar for Digital Customer Experience Technologies http://www.siteworx.com/news/whitepapers/digital-experience-technologies o BASIS Science Raises Additional $11.75 Million in Second Round o Palo Alto-Based Refresh Raises $10 Million o Palo Alto-based Oak Investment Partners Invests in $16M Deal for B5M o Francisco Partners Invests in Electronic Medical Records Firm NexTech o Sunnyvale-based Xoriant to Acquire San Jose-based IDEA Solutions o Sunnyvale-based Untangle Inc. Raises $2.7 Million of Venture Capital > Free Whitepaper:TechRadar for Digital Customer Experience Technologies o Briefly Noted: Presto Engineering, Avidbank Corporate Finance, AirTight Networks, Genesys _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Free Whitepaper: TechRadar for Digital Customer Experience Technologies --Concord Law School "Meet the Dean" Reception - San Jose - Oct 10 --Search Services Without a Fee --Service Co-ordinator/Customer Service Representative --TelcoVision Conference - Las Vegas --Chief Information Officer/IT Director - City of Mountain View --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 BASIS Science Raises Additional $11.75 Million in Second Round San Francisco -- BASIS Science, a San Francisco-based developer of a wrist-based health tracker to improve fitness and sleep, announced that it has raised a further $11.75 million in its second round of funding. The round included investments from Intel Capital, iNovia Capital, Dolby Family Trust, Stanford University and Peninsula-KCG. Existing investors Mayfield Fund, DCM and Norwest Venture Partners, also participated. The company has now raised more than $23 million. The company's wrist-based health tracker uses four types of sensors to calculate steps taken, calories burned and sleep quality, as well as physiological metrics like heart rate. http://www.mybasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/BASISrelease100813.pdf ____________________________________________ o Palo Alto-Based Refresh Raises $10 Million Palo Alto -- Refresh, a Palo Alto-based startup that helps users prepare for meetings by providing background information on individuals, has raised $10 million in financing from Redpoint Ventures, Charles River Ventures, and Foundation Capital. The company has developed an app that provides real-time dossiers on individuals. "Our goal is to help you win points in every conversation you have by delivering real-time insights about people you meet -- their passions, achievements, jobs, trips taken, close friends, interests -- so that conversations have more meaning and purpose," wrote co-founders Bhavin Shah and Paul Tyma in a blog posting http://www.refresh.io/refresh-raises-10m-bring-people-closer-together/ ____________________________________________ o Palo Alto-based Oak Investment Partners Invests in $16M Deal for B5M Palo Alto, Calif. -- Oak Investment Partners, a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm, has invested in the $16 million second investment round for B5M, a China-based shopping search portal. The deal was led by ClearVue Partners. Founded in 2005, B5M offers shopping search portal services across multiple vertical categories with hundreds of millions of business-to-consumer products, product and merchant reviews, group-buy deals, discount products, and shopping-related web articles. "With this funding round, we can accelerate our growth in the world's biggest e-commerce market to become a premier household brand for online shopping search," said Yeogirl Yun, founder and CEO of B5M. http://www.4-traders.com/news/B5Mcom-Secures-16-Million-Series-B-Financing-and-Aims-to-Become-a-Premier-Shopping-Search-Brand-in--17333760/ http://www.oakvc.com/ ____________________________________________ o Francisco Partners Invests in Electronic Medical Records Firm NexTech San Francisco -- Francisco Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm, announced on Tuesday it has made a strategic investment in NexTech, a provider of integrated electronic medical records, practice management, and marketing software for specialty physician practices. Based in Tampa, NexTech was founded in 1997 and has a client base of more than 7,000 providers and 40,000 office staff members. Terms of Francisco Partners' investment in the company were not disclosed. http://www.nextech.com ____________________________________________ o Sunnyvale-based Xoriant to Acquire San Jose-based IDEA Solutions Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Xoriant Corp., a product development and engineering services company based in Sunnyvale, on Tuesday announced it has signed an agreement to acquire IDEA Solutions, a consulting firm based in San Jose. IDEA Solutions offers technology consulting and services in the high tech, financial services, pharmaceuticals and automotive industries. The combined company would have more than 1500 employees worldwide. Terms of the deal between the two privately held firms were not disclosed. http://www.xoriant.com/Xoriant_acquires_IT_services_company_IDEA_solutions.html http://www.ideasolutionsinc.com ____________________________________________ o Sunnyvale-based Untangle Inc. Raises $2.7 Million of Venture Capital Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Untangle, a Sunnyvale-based maker of network software and appliances, has raised $2.7 million of venture capital, according to a new filing by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Untangle focuses on multi-function firewall and Internet management applications that are optimized for the needs of smaller organizations. Founded in 2003, Untangle is backed by CMEA Capital and Rustic Canyon Partners. Earlier this month, the company announced it acquired privately held Cymphonix, in a deal that enhances its bandwidth management and application control offerings. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1431968/000143196813000001/ xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml http://www.untangle.com _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Free Whitepaper: TechRadar for Digital Customer Experience Technologies, Q3 2013, by Forrester Research, Inc. 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The 10,000 sq-ft facility includes a clean room for RF wafer-level testing, according to the announcement. http://www.presto-eng.com (Palo Alto, Calif.) Avidbank Corporate Finance, which specializes in technology and asset-based funding, announced on Tuesday it has provided $2 million line of credit facility to LightPath Technologies, a manufacturer of optical components, based in Orlando. The facility will be used for working capital flexibility and equipment acquisition, according to Palo Alto-based Avidbank. http://www.lightpath.com http://www.avidbank.com (Mountain View, Calif.) AirTight Networks, a provider of cloud-managed Wi-Fi technology, announced that Steven Glapa has been named chief marketing officer. Glapa formerly worked at Ruckus Wireless, Booz & Co., Lucent, ArrayComm, and Zhone. http://www.airtightnetworks.com/home/news/press-releases/pr/article/123/airtight-appoints-steven-glapa-as-chief-marketing-officer-to-build-engine-for-growth.html (Daly City, Calif.) 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