Bay Area Tech Wire -- Aug. 11

============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Aug. 11, 2014 ============================================ Mid Atlantic Marketing Summit - Sept. 19, 2014 www.mamsummit.com o Andreessen Horowitz Invests $50 Million in BuzzFeed o San Francisco-Based Chairish Raises $4 Million in First Round o Mountain View-Based Quettra Launches with $2.9 Million in Seed Funding   o TripAdvisor Completes $200 Million Deal for S.F.-Based Viator o Google to Join $300 Million Cable Project Connecting U.S. and Japan o Survey: Record Valuation Increases for Silicon Valley Tech Firms in Q2 > Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit Baltimore - Sept. 19, 2014 o Briefly Noted: Bay Dynamics, Keysight Technologies, Gigamon _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Lease SoMa. Live Mosso. --Senior Analyst - Consumer Services US --Intel's IDF14 San Francisco. September 9–11 --Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit Baltimore - Sept. 19, 2014 --Human Services Agency IT Director - City and County of San Francisco --5th Annual Billington Cybersecurity Conference - $150 off Use Code "Techwire" --EnMasse Design - Bay Area Product Design Studio --Don't Miss Summer Rates On All Bay Area Tech Wire Advertising Ad Descriptions Below Briefly Noted Section Post Job/Event/Marketplace ad: http://www.bayareatechwire.com _____________________________________________ o Andreessen Horowitz Invests $50 Million in BuzzFeed Menlo Park, Calif. -- Andreessen Horowitz, the Menlo Park-based venture capital firm, said it will invest $50 million in BuzzFeed, the New York-based digital media company best known for its memes and funny lists, but increasingly forging into higher-quality news content. Chris Dixon, a general partner at the firm, will join the company's board of directors. BuzzFeed currently boasts a staff of more than 200 employees, covering areas such as politics, sports, business, entertainment and travel. "We're presently in the midst of a major technological shift in which, increasingly, news and entertainment are being distributed on social networks and consumed on mobile devices," wrote Dixon in a blog post. "We believe BuzzFeed will emerge from this period as a preeminent media company." http://www.buzzfeed.com/  http://cdixon.org/2014/08/10/buzzfeed/  _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Chairish Raises $4 Million in First Round San Francisco -- Chairish, the San Francisco-based developer of an online marketplace for buying and selling pre-owned furniture, said on Monday it has raised $4 million in its first round of funding, co-led by Azure Capital and O'Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures. Several technology and private equity executives also took part in the round, which increases the company's total backing to more than $7 million since its founding in 2013. "Furniture is a typical household's third largest investment but it's ridiculously hard to sell," said co-founder and Chairman Gregg Brockway. "A vertical, curated marketplace built around a great mobile experience makes it dramatically simpler to buy and sell home decor." Chairish offers pre-owned items for sale on consignment and shares up to 80% of the proceeds with the consignor. As of July, the company counted 120,000 monthly customers, adding more than 1,000 items a week for sale to its curated marketplace. http://shop.chairish.com/  http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/chairish-receives-4-million-series-a-investment-270759121.html  _____________________________________________ o Mountain View-Based Quettra Launches with $2.9 Million in Seed Funding Mountain View, Calif. -- Quettra, a Mountain View-based developer of tools designed to help mobile marketers reach the right audience at the right time, said it has emerged from stealth with $2.9 million in new seed funding. Investors included CrunchFund, Data Collective, Google Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Miramar Digital Ventures and SV Angel, as well as Sungy Mobile Limited and angel investors Amitt Mahajan, Anthony Ha, Anna Patterson, Carol Sands and Greg Badros. "Quettra was founded with the vision to build an intelligent, sustainable and profitable ecosystem to connect advertisers with their target audience via a mobile platform," wrote founder and CEO Ankit Jain in a blog post. "The software and systems that we are building will serve personalized content and meaningful experiences at lightning speeds to users of our partners' applications." http://www.quettra.com  http://www.quettra.com/blog/launch/  _____________________________________________ o TripAdvisor Completes $200 Million Deal for S.F.-Based Viator San Francisco -- Continuing its rapid buying spree, Massachusetts-based travel website TripAdvisor on Monday it has completed its $200 million acquisition of San Francisco-based Viator, an online provider of resources for researching and booking destination activities. The deal was first announced in July. Founded in 1995, Viator features more than 20,000 bookable tours and attractions and more than 600,000 reviews, photos and videos submitted by travelers. The company has more than 250 employees, who will continue to work at the company's headquarters in San Francisco and offices in Las Vegas, London and Sydney. In May, TripAdvisor acquired lafourchette, a Paris-based online restaurant booking platform, and earlier this year acquired Tripbod, a travel community that helps connect travelers to local experts. http://www.viator.com/  http://www.tripadvisor.com/PressCenter-i6891-c1-Press_Releases.html  _____________________________________________ o Google to Join $300 Million Cable Project Connecting U.S. and Japan Mountain View, Calif. -- Google and five other companies will team to build and operate a new $300 million trans-Pacific cable system connecting the U.S. and Japan, the Mountain View-based company said on Monday. The project, dubbed "Faster," also will include NEC, China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, KDDI and SingTel. Construction will begin immediately, with the system -- which aims to address surging data demands between the U.S. and Asia. -- targeted to be ready-for-service during the second quarter of 2016. "The Faster cable system has the largest design capacity ever built on the trans-Pacific route, which is one of the longest routes in the world," said Woohyong Choi, chairman of the project's executive committee. "The agreement announced today will benefit all users of the global Internet." http://www.nec.com/en/press/201408/global_20140811_01.html  _____________________________________________ o Survey: Record Valuation Increases for Silicon Valley Tech Firms in Q2 Mountain View, Calif. -- Silicon Valley technology and life science companies raising capital during the second quarter posted record valuation increases, according to the results of Fenwick & West's latest Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey. The survey analyzed the valuations and terms of venture financings for 174 companies headquartered in the Silicon Valley. During the quarter, up rounds -- in which a company's price per share increased since its previous funding round -- exceeded down rounds 80% to 6%, with 14% flat. That marked the largest difference between up rounds and down rounds since the firm began the survey in 2002. The average share price increase was 113% -- the largest increase since the firm began tracking that stat in 2004. "At the big picture level, it was a very strong quarter for the venture environment, with venture investment hitting the highest level since the first quarter of 2001, and IPOs and venture fundraising on track for the best years since 2000," said Michael Patrick, a partner in the corporate group of Fenwick & West and co-author of the survey. "That said, these amounts are substantially below the dot-com bubble years, and it seems like it is a more select group of companies that are receiving the high valuations and capital infusions that we are currently seeing." http://www.fenwick.com/vcsurvey  _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit Baltimore - Sept. 19, 2014 Leading marketers, technologists and agency professionals from throughout the region come together at this annual event to discuss major marketing, social, digital and advertising trends, along with dozens of case studies, presentations and keynotes. Now in its third year and co-produced by Potomac Tech Wire, this summit is becoming a "must attend" event for the region's marketing community. For more information: www.mamsummit.com |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Francisco) San Francisco-based Bay Dynamics, a provider of information risk intelligence and security analytics, on Monday named Eric Ouellet as its vice president of strategy. Ouellet spent the past 10 years as a security industry analyst at Gartner, http://www.baydynamics.com/Company/News/2014/08/Bay-Dynamics-Appoints-Esteemed-Gartner-Analyst-Eric-Ouellet-as-Vice-President-of-Strategy.htm  (Santa Rosa, Calif.) Santa Rosa-based Keysight Technologies, the spinoff electronic measurement company of Agilent Technologies, on Monday named Rick Hamada to its board of directors. Hamada has served as the CEO of Avnet since 2011. http://www.keysight.com  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140811005428/en/Rick-Hamada-Join-Keysight-Technologies-Board-Directors#.U-j3TeNdXng  (Santa Clara, Calif.) Santa Clara-based Gigamon, a developer of traffic visibility networking tools, on Monday named Helmut Wilke as its senior vice president of worldwide sales. Wilke most recently served as the vice president of worldwide sales at Ixia. http://www.gigamon.com http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gigamon-announces-appointment-of-helmut-wilke-as-senior-vice-president-of-worldwide-sales-270798111.html =================================================== 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 > Lease SoMa. Live Mosso. Between Mid-Market and Tech Gulch, Mosso is a vibrant apartment community in San Francisco’s new heart of innovation. Mosso is LEED certified, smoke free, and pet friendly, featuring its own lobby lounge, storage units and dog/bike wash. 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