| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- March 18, 2014 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o Palo Alto-Based SteelBrick Lands $5M from Former BigMachines Execs o Pleasanton-Based Veeva to Raise Up to $300M in Follow-On Offering o Oakland-Based Pandora Names New Technology Leadership o Survey: CEOs Expect Moderate Increases in Sales, Hiring and Investment o Macworld/iWorld 2014 Names Finalists for "6 About to Break" o Briefly Noted: Krux, MapR Technologies, Capsilon, Mocana _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Startup Marketing Conference SF, March 27: Last Chance to Register --Create Your Own Hiring Opportunity - 5 Behaviors Decision-Makers Find Irresistible --14 Ideas for Marketing Your Business Online --Enterprise Connect – March 17-20, 2014 --Corporate Food-Service - Catering to Cafe Management --Investment Adviser Executive --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 Palo Alto-Based SteelBrick Lands $5M from Former BigMachines Execs Palo Alto, Calif. -- SteelBrick, a Palo Alto-based developer of configure-price-quote apps for Salesforce.com customers, said it has received a $5 million investment from Godard Abel, the company's new CEO, and Matt Gorniak, who will serve as a senior advisor. Abel is the co-founder and former CEO of BigMachines, where Gorniak also worked as the global senior vice president of sales and alliances. BigMachines was acquired by Oracle last year. SteelBrick founder Max Rudman will become the company's CTO. SteelBrick's CPQ software is designed to produce accurate and professional sales quotes for prospects quickly. The company will use the investment to accelerate product development, grow its sales organization and expand its leadership team. It also recently hired Will Wiegler, the former vice president of marketing at BigMachines, as its CMO. http://www.steelbrick.com/ http://www.steelbrick.com/press-release-bigmachines-founder-invests-in-steelbrick _____________________________________________ o Pleasanton-Based Veeva to Raise Up to $300M in Follow-On Offering Pleasanton, Calif. -- Five months after raising more than $200 million in its initial public offering (IPO), Pleasanton-based Veeva Systems, a developer of cloud-based software for the life sciences industry, on Tuesday announced plans to raise up to $300 million in a follow-on offering. Details such as the number of shares to be sold have not yet been released, though the company said a portion of the shares will be sold by current stockholders. The news sent shares of Veeva up 2% in Tuesday's trading on the New York Stock Exchange. http://www.veeva.com/ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140318005756/en/Veeva-Systems-Files-Registration-Statement-Proposed-Follow-on#.UygxRKhdXng _____________________________________________ o Oakland-Based Pandora Names New Technology Leadership Oakland -- Pandora, the Oakland-based Internet radio service, on Tuesday announced major changes to its technology leadership team, promoting Chris Martin to CTO and Steve Ginsberg to CIO. Martin, most recently the company's vice president of engineering, succeeds Tom Conrad, who is stepping down from his role as CTO and executive vice president of product after nearly 10 years with the company. Ginsberg was most recently the company's vice president of technical operations. Pandora also said it is creating a new chief product officer role, and will launch a search to fill that position. http://www.pandora.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140318005607/en/Pandora-Announces-Technology-Leadership-Team-Succession#.UyioeahdXng _____________________________________________ o Survey: CEOs Expect Moderate Increases in Sales, Hiring and Investment Washington, DC -- U.S. CEOs are moderately optimistic about future hiring, sales and capital expenditures, according to the Business Roundtable's first quarter CEO Economic Outlook Survey. Of those surveyed, 72% anticipate an increase in sales over the next six months, through just 37% expect to add U.S. employees and less than half expect to increase their companies' U.S. capital investment. Their overall expectation for 2014 GDP growth was 2.4%, which is below-normal compared with past economic recoveries, though slightly above expectations from the fourth quarter. "CEO expectations for overall economic growth are well below our economy's potential," said Randall Stephenson, chairman of the Business Roundtable and the chairman and CEO of AT&T. Still, the organization's CEO Economic Outlook Index, a composite of CEO expectations for the next six months, increased to 92.1 from 84.5 -- above its long-term average level of 79.7. The complete survey is available at the link below. http://www.brt.org/resources/ceo-survey/2014-Q1 _____________________________________________ o Macworld/iWorld 2014 Names Finalists for "6 About to Break" San Francisco -- Macworld/iWorld 2014, an event in San Francisco later this month focused on Apple products, and SF New Tech on Tuesday announced the finalists of "6 About to Break," a new competition spotlighting innovative apps, accessories, software and utilities positioned to breakout into the Apple marketplace. The six products include: AppPresser, Everypost, Glyph, MotionPortrait, Petcube and ReKognition. Full descriptions are at the link below. http://macworldiworld.com/the-future-of-tech-announcing-the-6-about-to-break-finalists/ _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Krux, a developer of cloud-based data management technology, on Tuesday named Mukund Ramachandran as its vice president of marketing. Ramachandran most recently served as the general manager of brand at DataXu, and previously was the senior director of product marketing at Tremor Video. http://www.krux.com/ https://prnmedia.prnewswire.com/news-releases/krux-appoints-mukund-ramachandran-as-vice-president-marketing-250821871.html (San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based MapR Technologies, developer of an Apache Hadoop data analytics platform, said on Tuesday it has opened a new office in Australia to bolster its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The company over the past few months also has established its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore and opened offices in Japan and Korea. http://www.mapr.com/company/press-releases/mapr-technologies-expands-asia-pacific-presence-opens-new-office-australia (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Capsilon, a developer of cloud-based document management tools for mortgage lenders and investors, on Tuesday named Greg Marek as its CMO. Marek previously held marketing leadership roles with Confirmit, Citrix, Intuit and Oracle. http://www.capsilon.com/news/capsilon-appoints-greg-marek-as-chief-marketing-officer/ (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Mocana, a developer of mobile app protection technology, on Tuesday announced the hiring of five new executives. 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