| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- March 24, 2014 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o Milpitas-Based EnVerv Lands $15.4 Million in Third Round o San Francisco-Based Demandbase Raises $15 Million in New Funding o Santa Clara-Based Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Israel's Cyvera o San Ramon-Based Five9 Sets Terms for Upcoming IPO o Ruckus Wireless to Provide Wi-Fi System for San Jose Earthquakes o Briefly Noted: UBM Tech Game Network, Nebula, SA Photonics _____________________________________________ > 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 --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 Milpitas-Based EnVerv Lands $15.4 Million in Third Round Milpitas, Calif. -- EnVerv, a Milpitas-based maker of system on chip products used for grid connectivity, said on Monday it has raised $15.4 million in its third round of funding. Participants included Cassiopeia Capital Partners, Cisco, UMC Capital and previous backers Benchmark Capital, NEA and Walden International. "We intend to utilize this capital to support the production ramps, expand our customer base and also continue the development of new product families in wired and wireless communications as well as metering market segments," said Michael Raam, the president and CEO of EnVerv. http://www.enverv.com http://www.enverv.com/pdf/EnVerv_Announce_Series_C_Round_of_Financing.pdf (PDF) _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Demandbase Raises $15 Million in New Funding San Francisco -- Demandbase, the San Francisco-based developer of a B2B targeting and personalization platform, said on Monday it has raised $15 million in a new round of funding, led by Greenspring Associates. Previous backers Scale Venture Partners, SigmaWest, Altos Ventures, Costanoa Ventures and Adobe Systems also participated in the round, which the company will use to accelerate the growth of its advertising tools and release new products later this year. Demandbase’s platform is designed to identify and segment the companies visiting a particular website, then provide targetable business attributes in real-time. "Real-time bidding (RTB) display ad spending has become a $4 billion dollar market in just a few years, but it had lacked a B2B solution." said CEO Chris Golec. "The Demandbase platform fills this void." http://www.demandbase.com http://finance.yahoo.com/news/demandbase-adds-15-million-financing-132200239.html;_ylt=AwrBEiLEOjBTE2MAQmXQtDMD _____________________________________________ o Santa Clara-Based Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Israel's Cyvera Santa Clara, Calif. -- Palo Alto Networks, a Santa Clara-based developer of cybersecurity tools designed to protect enterprise, government, and service provider networks from attacks, said on Monday it will pay approximately $200 million to acquire Israeli cybersecurity firm Cyvera. The deal is expected to close after midyear. Cyvera, which has 55 employees, has developed an offering designed to protect clients from cyber threats by blocking unknown, zero-day attacks on the endpoint. "It extends our next-generation security platform with a very innovative approach to preventing attacks on the endpoint," said Mark McLaughlin, the president and CEO of Palo Alto Networks. https://www.paloaltonetworks.com http://cyvera.com/ https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/company/press/2014/palo-alto-networks-announces-agreement-to-acquire-cyvera.html _____________________________________________ o San Ramon-Based Five9 Sets Terms for Upcoming IPO San Ramon, Calif. -- Five9, a San Ramon-based developer of cloud contact center software, on Monday set the terms of its upcoming initial public offering. The company plans to sell 10 million shares for $9-$11 each, listing its stock on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol "FIVN." The latest news comes 10 months after Five9 raised $22 million in its fourth round of funding, led by SAP Ventures. Previous backers include Adam Street Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Partech International, among others. http://www.five9.com http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288847/000119312514111175/d626745ds1a.htm _____________________________________________ o Ruckus Wireless to Provide Wi-Fi System for San Jose Earthquakes Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Ruckus Wireless, a Sunnyvale-based developer of wireless systems for the mobile Internet infrastructure market, said on Monday it will provide hardware and services for a free public Wi-Fi network at the new 18,000-seat stadium of Major League Soccer's San Jose Earthquakes. The stadium is currently being constructed on Coleman Avenue in San Jose, and is scheduled to open next year. The network will include more than 150 access points with the company's "smart" adaptive antenna technology, capable of dynamically adapting to changing RF environments. "We want our stadium to reflect our community, and technological innovation is a key component of Silicon Valley," said Dave Kaval, president of the Earthquakes. Ruckus also has Wi-Fi deployments at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte; Chennai Stadium in India; Rio Tinto Stadium in Salt Lake City; Imtech Arena in Germany; the National Stadium of Lima, Peru; and two of Brazil's largest soccer stadiums. http://www.sjearthquakes.com/ http://www.ruckuswireless.com http://www.ruckuswireless.com/press/releases/20140324-san-jose-earthquakes-new-stadium-will-rock-ruckus-smart-wi-fi _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) UBM Tech Game Network said on Monday that its 2014 Game Developers Conference set an attendance record by drawing more than 24,000 industry professionals to San Francisco's Moscone Center last week. Organizers also announced the event will return to the venue March 2-6, 2015, with the call for submissions to open this summer. http://www.gdconf.com/ https://prnmedia.prnewswire.com/news-releases/game-developers-conference-2014-attracts-24000-attendees-returns-to-san-franciscos-moscone-center-march-2-6-2015-251916521.html (Mountain View, Calif.) Mountain View-based Nebula, developer of a system that lets businesses build private computing clouds from racks of industry-standard servers, on Monday named Herb Schneider as its senior vice president of engineering. Schneider was the co-founder of both GridIron and Extreme Networks. http://www.nebula.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140324006036/en/Nebula-Names-GridIron-Extreme-Networks-Co-Founder-Herb#.UzB_36hdXng (Los Gatos, Calif.) Los Gatos-based SA Photonics, a developer of photonics technology for military and commercial applications, on Monday named Ben Mall as its business development manager for vision products. 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