| ============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- June 25, 2014 ============================================ Summer Rates on all Bay Area Tech Wire Advertising www.bayareatechwire.com o San Jose-Based mCube Lands $37 Million in Third Round of Funding o San Francisco-Based Fingerprint Raises $10.85 Million in Second Round o San Francisco-Based Autodesk to Acquire Shotgun Software o Kaplan Acquires San Francisco-Based Dev Bootcamp o Fewer Bay Area CIOs Plan to Hire in Second Half of 2014 o Briefly Noted: RiskIQ, Envivio, Virobay _____________________________________________ > 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 Jose-Based mCube Lands $37 Million in Third Round of Funding San Jose, Calif. -- mCube, a San Jose-based maker of the world's smallest MEMS motion sensors, said on Wednesday it has landed $37 million in its third round of funding. Participants included previous backers Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, MediaTek, iD Ventures America and DAG Ventures, as well as new investors Keytone Ventures, SK Telecom Ventures and Korea Investment Partners. mCube plans to use the new funds to further accelerate its growth and expand its line of motion sensors. The company's motion sensors are used in a variety of consumer, mobile and wearable devices, including smartphones and tablets that typically incorporate multiple MEMS accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetic sensors. mCube has shipped more than 60 million units since its inception in 2009. http://www.mcubemems.com http://www.mcubemems.com/news-events/press-releases/mcube-closes-37m-series-c-financing-round/ _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Fingerprint Raises $10.85 Million in Second Round San Francisco -- Fingerprint, a San Francisco-based developer of mobile play-and-learn networks for kids, said on Wednesday it has raised $10.85 million in its second round of funding from new and previous investors. The company said it will use the proceeds to fast-track the development of new games, apps, videos and ebooks for partner networks. By the end of this year, the company said it expects to launch seven new networks with a footprint spanning the U.S., Canada, Southeast Asia, Australia and Europe. Fingerprint currently operates its own network, Fingerprint Play, as well as networks for Samsung, Sylvan Learning and Astro, and has announced plans to build a new network with Cricket Media. "Mobile has changed children's viewing and playing habits, and as a result, the growth in the mobile kids' entertainment and edutainment industry is taking off," said co-founder and CEO Nancy MacIntyre. http://fingerprintplay.com http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fingerprint-secures-1085m-series-b-financing-from-top-media-and-entertainment-companies-to-expand-and-create-new-kids-mobile-networks-264542801.html _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Autodesk to Acquire Shotgun Software San Francisco -- Autodesk, the San Francisco-based provider of design software, said on Wednesday it will acquire Los Angeles-based Shotgun Software, a developer of production tracking, review and asset management software for the film, television and games industries. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The current Shotgun team will continue with the company, and lead future product development. Shotgun's tools for production management are already tightly integrated with some of the most widely used tools in the industry, including Autodesk's 3ds Max and Maya software. Chris Bradshaw, the senior vice president of Autodesk Media & Entertainment, said the acquisition will "accelerate Autodesk's efforts to deliver solutions that help our creative customers solve the critical problem of operating more efficiently by collaborating globally to deliver increasingly complex productions on time and budget." http://www.autodesk.com/shotgun http://www.shotgunsoftware.com/ http://news.autodesk.com/press-release/corporate-sustainability/autodesk-acquire-shotgun-software-creator-cloud-based-product _____________________________________________ o Kaplan Acquires San Francisco-Based Dev Bootcamp San Francisco -- Kaplan, the Florida-based education and test prep company, said on Wednesday it has acquired San Francisco-based Dev Bootcamp, developer of the software coding bootcamp model. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition immediately makes Kaplan one of the largest players in the emerging market of coding bootcamps. The nine-week Dev Bootcamp program, which is designed to give students the coding skills needed to secure entry-level software development jobs, has graduated more than 600 students since 2012. "We believe that by combining our experience and expertise, we can help establish an industry standard in an evolving market," said Bernardo Rodriguez, the head of Kaplan's new economy skills training (NEST) initiative. http://www.kaplan.com http://devbootcamp.com/ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140625005645/en/Kaplan-Acquires-Dev-Bootcamp-Founder-Leader-Software#.U6r6npRdXng _____________________________________________ o Fewer Bay Area CIOs Plan to Hire in Second Half of 2014 San Francisco -- About 16% of Bay Area chief information officers (CIOs) plan to expand their IT teams during the second half of 2014, down 4% from projections for the previous six months, according to a new survey by Robert Half Technology. Another 71% plan to hire only for open IT roles and 14% plan to put hiring plans on hold. "As a hub for the IT sector, the Bay Area is experiencing continued demand for myriad tech roles, from DevOps engineers to systems administrators and help desk professionals," said Megan Slabinski, Robert Half Technology's Bay Area district president. "Employers seek candidates who are 'solutions developers' -- those who understand business needs and can create application solutions from whiteboard to implementation." http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bay-area-cios-reveal-2014-hiring-plans-235214271.html _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) Less than a month after landing $25 million in its second round of funding, San Francisco-based RiskIQ, developer of a service designed to detect online threats to a brand's customers, said on Wednesday it has established operations in the U.K. and appointed Ben Harknett as its vice president of EMEA. Harknett previously was the head of EMEA at Wildfire, a division of Google. http://www.riskiq.com/company/press-releases/riskiq-taps-former-google-exec-lead-expansion-emea (South San Francisco) South San Francisco-based Envivio, a developer of software-based video processing and delivery tools, on Wednesday named Judith Coley as its vice president of corporate and investor communications. Coley most recently served as the vice president of marketing at Vuclip, and previously was the director of integrated marketing for Adobe's corporate, mobile and devices division. http://www.envivio.com/en/newsandevents/press-releases/envivio-vp-comm-2014/menu-id-113.html (Menlo Park, Calif.) Menlo Park-based Virobay, a clinical stage pharmaceutical firm developing treatments for neuropathic pain, autoimmune diseases and fibrosis, on Wednesday named James Welch as its CFO. 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