Thursday, October 16, 2014

Bay Area Tech Wire -- Oct. 16

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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Oct. 16, 2014
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Menlo Park-Based Canaan Partners Raises $675 Million for 10th Fund
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Palo Alto-Based Osmo Lands $12 Million in First Round of Funding
o San Francisco-Based Idibon Raises $5.5 Million in First Round
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Shares of Brisbane-Based Atara Slump Following Smaller-Than-Expected IPO
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Facebook's Zuckerberg Donates $25 Million to Help fight Ebola
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Briefly Noted: Nexant, ForSight Vision5

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o Menlo Park-Based Canaan Partners Raises $675 Million for 10th Fund

Menlo Park, Calif. -- Canaan Partners, a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm, said on Thursday it has raised $675 million for its 10th fund, to be known as Canaan X. The firm, which focuses on early- and seed-stage startups, said it will devote two-thirds of the fund to investments in the information technology sector, and the other third to healthcare. Canaan now has more than $4.2 billion under management. Its recent exits include Ebates (acquired by Rakuten), Labrys Biologics (acquired by Teva Pharmaceutical), Civitas Therapeutics (to be acquired by Acorda Therapeutics), Dermira (IPO), Durata Therapeutics (to be acquired by Actavis), Skybox Imaging (acquired by Google), Metacloud (acquired by Cisco) and Israel-based PrimeSense (acquired by Apple). The firm also said it has promoted Tim Shannon to general partner; Hrach Simonian to venture partner; and Brendan Dickinson, Julie Papanek and Roseanne Wincek to principal.
http://www.canaan.com 
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/canaan-partners-raises-675-million-for-its-tenth-fund-279437222.html 
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o Palo Alto-Based Osmo Lands $12 Million in First Round of Funding

Palo Alto, Calif. -- Osmo, the Palo Alto-based developer of a children's hardware games device that connects to any iPad, said on Thursday it has raised $12 million in its first round of funding, led by Accel Partners. Upfront Ventures and K9 Ventures also took part in the round. Accel's Rich Wong will join the company's board of directors. Founded in 2013 by Pramod Sharma and Jerome Scholler, Osmo is the developer of a device that allows any object -- such as a pen and paper -- interact with an iPad. The company, which generated more than $2 million through its pre-sales campaign, also announced a partnership that will see its products sold at 284 Apple retail stores in the U.S. and Canada, as well as online. "A year ago Jerome and I were still 3D printing Osmo in my garage, iterating on jagged prototypes," said Sharma, the company's CEO. "It’s an incredible moment for our company and with our new round of funding."
http://www.playosmo.com/ 
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o San Francisco-Based Idibon Raises $5.5 Million in First Round

San Francisco -- Idibon, a San Francisco-based developer of technology that combines natural language processing with data science to help companies better understand their language data, said on Thursday it has raised $5.5 million in its first round of funding. Investors included Altpoint Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Morningside Ventures, with participation from Samsung and Inventec. The company, which was launched earlier this year, said its platform takes unstructured data -- like social media, emails and websites -- and provides structured answers to business intelligence questions. Vadim Tarasov of Altpoint will join Idibon's board of directors.
http://idibon.com/ 
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141016005240/en/Idibon-Raises-5.5-Million-Series-Deliver-Actionable#.VD-7uSLF_ng 
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o Shares of Brisbane-Based Atara Slump Following Smaller-Than-Expected IPO

Brisbane, Calif. -- Shares of Brisbane-based Atara Biotherapeutics fell more than 8% by midday Thursday in their market debut, hours after the drug development company raised $55 million in its initial public offering (IPO). The company priced 5 million shares at $11 each -- well below expectations of $14-$16. Shares are now trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol "ATRA." Atara focuses on therapies for patients with debilitating diseases. The company's lead products are based on proteins that have shown the potential to have therapeutic benefit in a number of clinical indications.
http://www.atarabio.com/ 
http://investors.atarabio.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=876467
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o Facebook's Zuckerberg Donates $25 Million to Help fight Ebola

Menlo Park, Calif. -- With fears of an Ebola outbreak spreading throughout the U.S., Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan said they have donated $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight the deadly disease. "We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesn't spread further and become a long term global health crisis that we end up fighting for decades at large scale, like HIV or polio," Zuckerberg wrote. "We believe our grant is the quickest way to empower the CDC and the experts in this field to prevent this outcome." The CDC said it will use the donation primarily to address needs identified by experts on the ground in the most severely affected countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101696761533081 
http://www.cdcfoundation.org/blog-entry/25-million-donation-mark-zuckerberg-and-priscilla-chan-helps-cdc-fight-ebola 
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o Briefly Noted:

(San Francisco) San Francisco-based Nexant, a provider of energy software and services for utilities, on Thursday named Peter Noland as its vice president of business development for utility services. Noland most recently was senior director at CLEAResult, where he led market strategy and business development for the company's Pacific region.
http://www.nexant.com/ 
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141016005252/en/Peter-Noland-Joins-Nexant-Lead-Business-Development#.VD_xgSLF_ng 

(Menlo Park, Calif.) Menlo Park-based ForSight Vision5, a developer of non-invasive products that replace eye drops and provide sustained therapy for eye diseases, on Thursday named Lisa Garrett as its vice president of finance and administration. Garrett previously was the vice president of human resources and CFO at Corventis.
http://forsightvision5.com/company/press-garrett/

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