| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- June 24, 2014 ============================================ Summer Rates on all Bay Area Tech Wire Advertising www.bayareatechwire.com o San Francisco-Based RelayRides Raises $25 Million in Second Round o Mountain View-Based Aerospike Raises $20 Million in Third Round o San Mateo-Based Opera Mediaworks to Acquire AdColony o San Francisco-Based Seal Software Secures $4 Million in New Funding o Student-Led Mission to Mars Launches $25M Crowdfunding Campaign o Briefly Noted: Tamr, Renewable Energy Trust Capital, Vigilant Solutions _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Seven Facts to Breathe Life into Your Business --EnMasse Design - Bay Area Product Design Studio --Free Cloud & Network Security Forum & EXPO - Santa Clara - June 25 --Don't Miss Summer Rates On All Bay Area Tech Wire Advertising --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 RelayRides Raises $25 Million in Second Round San Francisco -- RelayRides, the San Francisco-based developer of a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace, said on Tuesday it has landed $25 million in its second round of funding, led by Canaan Partners. Previous backers August Capital, Google Ventures and Shasta Ventures also took part in the round, which increases the company's total funding to $44 million. Deepak Kamra, a general partner at Canaan, will join the company's board of directors. RelayRides said it will use the proceeds to accelerate customer acquisition, enhance existing products and expand into new geographies and services. Launched nationwide in early 2012, RelayRides now offers vehicles in more than 2,300 U.S. cities. The service is designed to connect people who need a car with owners whose vehicles would otherwise go unused, promising rates that average 40% less than traditional rental car companies. http://www.relayrides.com https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/relayrides-raises-25-million-series-110000159.html _____________________________________________ o Mountain View-Based Aerospike Raises $20 Million in Third Round Mountain View, Calif. -- Aerospike, the Mountain View-based developer of an in-memory NoSQL database used for real-time bidding, said on Tuesday it has raised $20 million in its third round of funding, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Columbus Nova Technology Partners, Alsop Louie Partners and Regis McKenna also participated. The company said its database has been adopted by an increasing number of financial services, telecom and retail clients to power multi-channel apps that respond in real time based on what consumers are doing, where they are and what they want. [The funding] provides the resources we need to open source Aerospike and take advantage of this broad market opportunity," said CEO Joe Gottlieb. http://www.aerospike.com http://www.aerospike.com/press-releases/aerospike-raises-20-million-series-c/ _____________________________________________ o San Mateo-Based Opera Mediaworks to Acquire AdColony San Mateo, Calif. -- Opera Mediaworks, the San Mateo-based operator of a mobile ad network, said on Tuesday it will acquire Los Angeles-based AdColony, developer of a mobile video advertising platform. Financial terms of the deal, expected to close during the third quarter, were not disclosed. Opera said the acquisition will help it deliver mobile video advertising to publishers and advertisers. "This acquisition will augment our services with a robust specialization around mobile video -- the fastest growing segment within the mobile advertising industry," said Lars Boilesen, the CEO of parent Opera Software. Will Kassoy will continue to lead AdColony as CEO, and also will become the CMO of Opera Mediaworks. AdColony also has offices in San Francisco and New York. http://www.operamediaworks.com http://www.adcolony.com/ http://operamediaworks.com/press_06_24_14.html _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Seal Software Secures $4 Million in New Funding San Francisco -- Seal Software, a San Francisco-based developer of contract discovery and contract analytics tools, said on Tuesday it has raised $4 million in a new round of funding, led by Toba Capital. Several previous backers also participated in the round, which will fuel the company's next stage of growth. Seal's software is designed for businesses requiring greater visibility and control of their contracts. "Seal Software solves a problem that many companies don't want to admit they have: minimal visibility into their contract portfolios," said CEO Ulf Zetterberg. The company also announced that software industry veteran Paul Sallaberry has joined its board of directors. http://www.seal-software.com http://seal-software.com/seal-software-raises-4-million-expand-leadership-growing-contract-discovery-analytics-market/ _____________________________________________ o Student-Led Mission to Mars Launches $25M Crowdfunding Campaign Washington, DC -- Organizers of a planned student-led mission to Mars officially kicked off a $25 million crowdfunding campaign Monday. The mission, called Time Capsule to Mars (TC2M), aims to launch and land a time capsule on Mars containing data that memorializes the digital keepsakes of the human race. The capsule will contain messages from tens of millions of people in the form of text, images, audio and video clips, which the group hopes will be "rediscovered by future colonists of the Red Planet." The group is raising funds by charging $0.99 a message, up to 10 MB. The group includes founder and mission director Emily Briere, a senior at Duke University, as well as Duke grad student Jon Tidd, a production intern at SpaceX. The mission also is being supported by NASA and companies such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing and ATK. http://www.timecapsuletomars.com/ http://www.timecapsuletomars.com/#upload (to upload message) _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) On the heels of its official launch at DataBeat 2014 in San Francisco with more than $16 million in financing led by Google Ventures and New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Tamr, a Massachusetts-based big data startup, said it has opened a new office in San Francisco. Ayman Khalil, a former App Store analytics manager for Apple, has joined the company as its West Coast field engineering, leading the new office. The company said the office will provide it with a base for sales, business development and engineering operations on the West Coast. Tamr co-founder Daniel Bruckner, a member of the original research project at MIT, will be among those supporting the new office, as well as Chairman Jerry Held, who is based in the San Francisco area. Tamr said is actively hiring in the Bay Area for sales, business development, field engineering and software development positions. http://www.tamr.com/tamr-data-integration-startup-opens-san-francisco-office/ (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Renewable Energy Trust Capital (RET Capital), a provider of capital to the renewable marketplace, on Tuesday named Bill Keeney as its vice president of business development. Keeney most recently spent seven years as the vice president of Duke Energy Renewables. http://www.renewabletrust.com (Livermore, Calif.) Livermore-based Vigilant Solutions, a provider of license plate recognition, facial recognition and hosted analytic tools, has named Kris Robinson and Scott Dye to its public safety sales team. 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