| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- April 16, 2014 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o Mountain View-Based Jasper Wireless Raises $50M at $1.3 Billion Valuation o Menlo Park-Based ForSight Vision5 Lands $15 Million in Third Round o San Carlos-Based ReadyPulse Raises $2 Million in First Round o Santa Rosa-Based AdverseEvents Raises $2 Million in First Round o San Jose-Based Andalay Solar Names Steven Chan as President and CEO o Briefly Noted: salesforce.com, CollabNet, Proteus Digital Health _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Seven Ways to Harness the Power of Your Multi-Generational Workforce --14 Ideas for Marketing Your Business Online --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 Mountain View-Based Jasper Wireless Raises $50M at $1.3 Billion Valuation Mountain View, Calif. -- Jasper Wireless, a Mountain View-based developer of cloud-based platforms for the Internet of Things, said on Wednesday it has raised $50 million in funding at a valuation of $1.3 billion. Temasek led the round, which also included participation from Benchmark. The company plans to use the funds to accelerate the development of its platform, which is currently used by more than 1,000 companies to manage connected products and devices. Clients include Alarm.com, Air Liquide, Audi, Boston Scientific, Coca-Cola, Ford, Garmin, General Electric, General Motors, Honeywell, Nissan and Securitas. "We are seeing explosive growth in the number of Internet-connected devices, with many more billions anticipated by the end of the decade," said Jahangir Mohammed, the company's founder and CEO. "We make it easy to successfully deploy IoT service businesses." http://www.jasper.com http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/Jasper-Raises-New-Capital-Enters-Growth-Phase-Highlighted-Unprecedented-Demand-1900207.htm _____________________________________________ o Menlo Park-Based ForSight Vision5 Lands $15 Million in Third Round Menlo Park, Calif. -- ForSight Vision5, a Menlo Park-based developer of non-invasive products that replace eye drops and provide sustained therapy for eye diseases, said on Wednesday it has raised $15 million in its third round of funding, led by H.I.G. BioVentures. Previous backers Morgenthaler Ventures, Versant Ventures, Technology Partners and Delphi Ventures also participated in the round, which will help the company complete the Phase 2 clinical study for its lead product, the Helios ocular insert. The insert are designed to let glaucoma and ocular hypertensive patients continually receive medication in a non-invasive fashion. Founded in 2011, ForSight Vision5 was the fifth company to emerge from the ophthalmic incubator ForSight Labs. http://www.forsightv5.com http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/forsight-vision5-completes-15mm-series-c-funding-round-company-finishes-enrolling-phase-2-clinical-study-255475101.html _____________________________________________ o San Carlos-Based ReadyPulse Raises $2 Million in First Round San Carlos, Calif. -- ReadyPulse, the San Carlos-based developer of a permission-based social content commerce platform, said it has raised $2 million in its first round of funding. Participants included Divergent Ventures, Harmony Capital, Moxie Software and angel investors from Seattle and Silicon Valley. Todd Warren of Divergent Ventures and Tom Kelly, the former CEO of Moxie Software, have joined the company's board. ReadyPulse's platform is designed to uncover a brand's best and most relevant social content -- like photos, videos and reviews -- from their most popular sources and brand ambassadors, while adding in the filters of permission and compliance. The software focuses not only on displaying the content already available about a brand, but also managing people who have the potential to create that content. The company works with more than 60 brands, including GoPro, Reebok, O'Neill, Smith Optics and Red Wing Shoes. http://ww2.readypulse.com/ http://ww2.readypulse.com/press-release/readypulse-raises-2m-a-round-for-permission-based-social-content-commerce-platform/ _____________________________________________ o Santa Rosa-Based AdverseEvents Raises $2 Million in First Round Santa Rosa, Calif. -- AdverseEvents, a Santa Rosa-based healthcare informatics company focused on drug safety and side effects, said on Wednesday it has raised $2 million in its first round of funding, led by Evaluate. Other significant investors included Trevor Fenwick, the founder and executive chairman of Euromonitor International; and Michael Tansey, the former president and CEO of Jobson and CEO of the Scientific and Healthcare group at Thomson Reuters. Tansey and Jonathan de Pass, the founder and CEO of Evaluate, will join the company's board. AdverseEvents said it will use the proceeds to expand its sales force and analyst teams, as well as to continue building its marketing presence among health insurers, health systems and hospitals. http://www.adverseevents.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140416005425/en/AdverseEvents-Closes-2-Million-Series-Financing#.U06r_1VdXng _____________________________________________ o San Jose-Based Andalay Solar Names Steven Chan as President and CEO San Jose, Calif. -- Andalay Solar, a San Jose-based designer and manufacturer of integrated solar power systems, on Wednesday named Steven Chan as its new president and CEO. Chan was most recently the vice president of NRG Energy, and previously served as the executive vice president of strategy and system sales at GCL-Poly Energy. He succeeds Margaret Randazzo, who had led the company the past two years. She will retain her role as CFO until June 30 and remain on the company's board. http://www.andalaysolar.com/ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/andalay-solar-board-appoints-steven-chan-ceo-255461821.html _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) San Francisco-based salesforce.com, the large developer of customer relationship management software, on Wednesday named Shinichi Koide as the chairman and CEO of its Japan operations. Koide, the former head of HP Japan, succeeds Eiji Uda, who will continue as an executive advisor. The company also has promoted Hitoshi Kawahara, the senior vice president and head of enterprise sales at salesforce.com Japan, to the roles of president and COO. http://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases/2014/04/140416.jsp (South San Francisco) South San Francisco-based CollabNet, a developer of cloud-based application lifecycle management tools, on Wednesday named Jan Liband as its vice president of marketing. Liband previously held application development marketing roles with Embarcadero Technologies, VA Software and Wind River. http://www.collab.net http://finance.yahoo.com/news/collabnet-names-jan-liband-vice-133000682.html;_ylt=AwrBJR5Cjk5T_CkA3EuTmYlQ (Redwood City, Calif.) Redwood City-based Proteus Digital Health, developer of a digital health feedback system, on Wednesday named Markus Christen as its senior vice president and head of global development and Tony Levitan as its senior vice president of people. 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