| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- April 4, 2014 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o San Ramon-Based Five9 Prices IPO Below Range; Shares Rise 9% o Oakland-Based Sungevity Raises $70 Million in New Funding o Report: Cupertino-Based Apple Acquires Novauris Technologies o Burlingame-Based RefleXion Medical Raises $11.6 Million o San Francisco-Based Dropbox Promotes Sujay Jaswa to CFO o Briefly Noted: Semiconductor Industry Association, SKTA Innopartners - N42 _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --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 San Ramon-Based Five9 Prices IPO Below Range; Shares Rise 9% San Ramon, Calif. -- Shares of San Ramon-based Five9 rose 9% on their first day of trading Friday, after the developer of cloud contact center software priced its initial public offering (IPO) lower than expected. The company is selling 10 million shares for $7 each, well below its expected range of $9-$11. Its stock, now trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol "FIVN," closed Friday at $7.64. The latest news comes about 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.five9.com/news/news-releases/pr-five9-announces-pricing-of-initial-public-offering _____________________________________________ o Oakland-Based Sungevity Raises $70 Million in New Funding Oakland -- Sungevity, an Oakland-based solar energy provider, said on Friday it has raised $70 million in a new round of funding, led by Jetstream Ventures. E.ON and GE Ventures also participated in the round, which the company will use to expand its customer base into new markets. GE made its initial investment in the company in July. Sungevity said its sales doubled last year on the strength of its remote solar design and instant quoting technology. The company also has launched operations in the Netherlands and Australia over the past two years. http://www.sungevity.com http://www.sungevity.com/news/release_2014_04_04.php _____________________________________________ o Report: Cupertino-Based Apple Acquires Novauris Technologies Cupertino, Calif. -- Looking to improve the technology behind Siri, Cupertino-based Apple has acquired U.K.-based Novauris Technologies, TechCrunch reported. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Novauris reportedly has been building its own speech recognition technology. Its founders were key team members at Dragon Systems. http://www.novauris.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/03/speech-recognition-pioneer-novauris-bought-by-apple-team-now-works-on-siri/ _____________________________________________ o Burlingame-Based RefleXion Medical Raises $11.6 Million Burlingame, Calif. -- RefleXion Medical, a Burlingame-based medical device startup developing the first biologically-guided radiation therapy system for cancer treatment, said on Friday it has raised $11.6 million in its first round of funding. Sofinnova Partners led the round, which also included participation from Pfizer Venture Investments (PVI) and Venrock. RefleXion's technology integrates positron emission tomography (PET) with radiation therapy, providing the potential to deliver a higher dose of therapeutic radiation to multiple cancerous lesions while sparing the surrounding healthy tissue. http://www.reflexionmedical.com/ http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/-1896049.htm _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Dropbox Promotes Sujay Jaswa to CFO San Francisco -- Gearing up for an expected initial public offering (CFO) in the coming months, San Francisco-based Dropbox, the large cloud storage and sharing company, has promoted Sujay Jaswa to the role of CFO, The Wall Street Journal reported. Jaswa, a former technology investors at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), joined Dropbox in 2010, serving as its vice president in charge of partnerships. The news comes two months after the company raised $350 million at a $10 billion valuation, according to TechCrunch. Dropbox, founded in 2007 as a Y Combinator startup, currently counts more than 200 million users. https://www.dropbox.com/ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/04/03/dropbox-promotes-sujay-jaswa-to-financial-chief-ahead-of-ipo/ _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (Washington, DC) The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Friday that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $25.87 billion in February, up 11.4% from the prior year. It marks the industry's largest year-to-year increase in more than three years. http://www.semiconductors.org/news/2014/04/04/press_releases_2013/february_ semiconductor_sales_up_11.4_percent_compared_to_last_year/ (Sunnyvale, Calif.) SKTA Innopartners said on Friday that stealth-mode startup N42 has joined its Innovation Accelerator in Sunnyvale. N42, which is focused on virtualized data center technology, becomes the third startup at the facility, along with eTopus Technology and Pavilion Data Systems. http://sktainnopartners.com/ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140404005706/en/SKTA-Innopartners-Welcomes-Startup-Innovation-Accelerator#.Uz75oKhdXng =================================================== Job/Event/Marketplace Listings: =================================================== To Post in Job/Event/Marketplace: http://www.bayareatechwire.com 6000 Readers: 5 day ad: $120--10 day ad: $175--20 day ad: $300 > Create Your Own Hiring Opportunity - 5 Behaviors Decision-Makers Find Irresistible Many job seekers express confidence in finding a new job this year, according to a recent survey, but many are also frustrated as they struggle to find a job matching their qualifications and salary preferences. 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