| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- April 8, 2014 ============================================ To Subscribe: www.bayareatechwire.com o San Francisco-Based Kenshoo Raises $20 Million in New Funding o Santa Clara-Based Ineda Systems Lands $17 Million in Second Round o San Francisco-Based Neura Raises $2 Million in New Funding o Clarabridge Acquires Larkspur-Based Market Metrix o San Francisco-Based Twitter Unveils Redesigned Profile Pages o Briefly Noted: Esurance, Polycom, MetaIntell _____________________________________________ > 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 --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 Francisco-Based Kenshoo Raises $20 Million in New Funding San Francisco -- Kenshoo, a San Francisco-based developer of cloud-based digital marketing tools and predictive media optimization technology, said on Tuesday it has raised $20 million in a new round of funding, led by Bain Capital Ventures. Previous backers Sequoia Capital, Arts Alliance and Tenaya Capital also participated in the round. Deepak Sindwani, a partner at Bain, will join the company's board of directors. Kenshoo currently delivers more than 1 trillion digital ads a year and tracks over $200 billion in annualized online client sales revenue. Clients include CareerBuilder, Expedia, Facebook, KAYAK, Havas Media, iREP, John Lewis, Resolution Media, Sears, Starcom MediaVest Group, Tesco, Travelocity, Walgreens and Zappos. http://www.kenshoo.com _____________________________________________ o Santa Clara-Based Ineda Systems Lands $17 Million in Second Round Santa Clara, Calif. -- Ineda Systems, a Santa Clara-based developer of low-power SoCs for the wearable device and Internet of Things market, said on Tuesday it has raised $17 million in its second round of funding. Walden-Riverwood Ventures led the round, which also included participation from Samsung Catalyst Fund, Qualcomm Ventures and IndusAge Partners, along with previous backer Imagination Technologies. The company plans to use the proceeds to further develop its new class of ultra-low power semiconductor and software products aimed at the wearable device segment. The SoCs will be designed for use in products like smartwatches, health and fitness trackers and other wearable devices. "The market is primed for a new class of semiconductor architecture that is specifically designed to be ultra-low power and high performance for use in the rapidly growing wearable technology space," said CEO Dasaradha Gude. http://www.inedasystems.com/ http://www.inedasystems.com/news1.html _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Neura Raises $2 Million in New Funding San Francisco -- Neura, a San Francisco-based startup developing context awareness and adaptive learning technology for the Internet of Things, said on Tuesday it has landed $2 million in a new round of funding, led by Greenhouse Capital Partners. SingTel Innov8 Ventures, Pitango Venture Capital, TriplePoint Ventures and angel investors, including Ben Narasin and Isaac Applbaum, also took part. "Currently, devices available within the marketplace don't correspond to their owners or to one another, with zero contextual understanding and adaptive learning abilities," said CEO Gilad Meiri. "This funding will allow our team to finally develop the solution in which devices are empowered with intelligence and cooperate to understand the human element behind behavioral patterns." Neura is a graduate of Silicon Valley accelerator UpWest Labs. http://www.theneura.com http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140408005253/en/Neura-Raises-2-Million-Funding-Develop-Internet#.U0P6aKhdXng _____________________________________________ o Clarabridge Acquires Larkspur-Based Market Metrix Larkspur, Calif. -- Seven months after raising $80 million in funding, Virginia-based Clarabridge, a developer of sentiment and text analytics tools used by brands to improve customer service, said on Tuesday it has acquired Larkspur-based Market Metrix, developer of a feedback management platform for the leisure and hospitality industries. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company said the acquisition will extend its analytics and measurement-focused offerings. Market Metrix, which counts Wynn Resorts, Langham Hospitality Group and Red Roof Inn among its clients, will continue to offer its current products and services. Clarabridge in September raised $80 million in funding from new investors General Catalyst Partners, Summit Partners and Unica-founder Yuchun Lee. http://clarabridge.com http://corp.marketmetrix.com/ http://clarabridge.com/about-us/news-and-events/press-release/clarabridge-acquires-market-metrix/ _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Twitter Unveils Redesigned Profile Pages San Francisco -- Twitter on Tuesday unveiled a redesign that will give users of the social media site web profiles similar to the look and feel of Facebook. New profile pages, which are now being rolled out, will include larger photos, customized headers and a new feature that highlights a user's most popular tweets. The new features initially will be available to a small group of Twitter users, but should be available to the company's more than 200 million in the next several weeks. https://blog.twitter.com/2014/coming-soon-a-whole-new-you-in-your-twitter-profile _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Seven Ways to Harness the Power of Your Multi-Generational Workforce Organizations of all sizes find themselves with three radically different generations interacting in their workplace these days. As a result, business owners, senior management and HR departments are scrambling to figure out how to better understand, manage and harness the power of this multi-generational workforce. It’s not an easy task. But here we share some ideas we’ve uncovered that you can put to immediate use. http://www.fairfaxcountyeda.org/bay-area-tech-wire |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Esurance, a provider of auto, homeowners, motorcycle and renters insurance direct to consumers online, over the phone and through agents, on Tuesday named Alan Gellman as its CMO. Gellman previously spent 10 years in various executive marketing roles at Wells Fargo, including senior vice president of digital marketing. https://www.esurance.com/ https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/alan-gellman-joins-esurance-chief-123000348.html (San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based Polycom, a developer of video, voice and content collaboration tools, said on Tuesday it has promoted Scott McCool to group vice president of information technology and CIO. 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