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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- March 6, 2015
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o Mountain View-Based Quixey Raises $60 Million in New Funding
o San Francisco-Based HoneyBook Lands $22 Million in Second Round
o San Francisco-Based Swiftype Raises $13 Million in Second Round
o Oakland-Based BARTRENDr Raises $1.3 Million in Seed Funding
o Bay Area Companies Dominate Forbes' Best Companies List
o Briefly Noted: RedSeal, RingCentral
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o Mountain View-Based Quixey Raises $60 Million in New Funding
Mountain View, Calif. -- Quixey, the Mountain View-based developer of a search engine for mobile apps, said Friday it has raised $60 million in its Series C-1 round of funding, led by Alibaba. SoftBank, Goldman Sachs and GGV also took part in the round, which comes 17 months after the company raised $50 million in its third round. "We're solving some very difficult problems that require different ideas and perspectives," the company wrote in a blog post. "Both our new and existing investors and partners have a significant amount of expertise that will allow us to move at a much faster pace."
https://www.quixey.com/
https://blog.quixey.com/2015/03/06/announcing-our-60-million-additional-series-c1/
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o San Francisco-Based HoneyBook Lands $22 Million in Second Round
San Francisco -- HoneyBook, the San Francisco-based developer of an invitation-only collaborative platform designed to connect event professionals, clients and vendors, said on Friday it has raised $22 million in its second round of funding, led by Norwest Venture Partners. Aleph and Hillsven also took part in the round, which increased the company's total backing to $32 million since its founding in 2013. HoneyBook said it will use the proceeds to make its platform available to event professionals in every major U.S. city. The platform is designed to let event professionals tap into their networks to win new business and work with everyone involved in organizing a single event. So far available only in the Bay Area, the services soon will be offered in Los Angeles and New York, with plans to continually expand over the next year.
http://www.honeybook.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150306005025/en/HoneyBook-Raises-22M-Fuel-Growth-Trusted-Network#.VPnh6nzF_ng
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o San Francisco-Based Swiftype Raises $13 Million in Second Round
San Francisco -- Swiftype, the San Francisco-based developer of a hosted search tool that can be integrated into websites and mobile apps, said it has raised $13 million in its second round of funding, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Chetan Puttagunta, a partner at NEA, has joined the company's board of directors. It marks NEA's third investment in the company, after previously participating in its seed round and later leading its first round in 2013. "These new funds will fuel our continued growth as we look to bring on more search engineers, expand our sales and marketing efforts and establish a stronger position of leadership within the search industry," wrote co-founder Matt Riley in a blog post. A 2012 graduate of Y Combinator, Swiftype currently counts more than 25 employees, and powers billions of queries a month across hundreds of thousands of websites and apps. Clients include Qualcomm, CloudFlare, Shopify and Twitch.
https://swiftype.com/
http://www.nea.com
http://blog.swiftype.com/swiftype-announces-13-million-series-b-funding-round
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o Oakland-Based BARTRENDr Raises $1.3 Million in Seed Funding
Oakland -- BARTRENDr, the Oakland-based developer of a social networking app designed to let bar-goers connect and share their night out, said it has raised $1.3 million in seed funding from Menlo Park-based investor group Band of Angels. The company, which has seen more than 100,000 new users over the past three months, said the funds will help it to rapidly expand in the U.S., where it is already popular in San Francisco and New York. BARTRENDr also said it has launched a new feature allowing users to share data from within their own homes. The company said the feature, called "MyBar," will generate tangible data on the consumption habits of users from within their homes and other private settings -- something that wasn't available, until now.
http://www.bartrendr.com/
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bartrendr-raises-13m-to-ensure-bar-goers-never-drink-alone-300036959.html
http://www.brewbound.com/news/mobile-app-aims-provide-beer-liquor-companies-consumption-data
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o Bay Area Companies Dominate Forbes' Best Companies List
Mountain View, Calif. -- For the sixth straight year, Mountain View-based Internet giant Google tops Forbes' newly released 2015 list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. The publication l;auded the company for recently bolstering its parental leave benefits. "New parents, regardless of gender (including dads, domestic partners, adoptive parents, and surrogate parents), can now get up to 12 weeks of fully paid baby bonding time," Forbes wrote. "Google also provides $500 of `Baby Bonding Bucks' to all new parents to use during the first three months of their child's life. Google, however, was far from the only local tech company to crack the rankings. Others included San Francisco-based salesforce (No. 8), South San Francisco-based Genentech (No. 9), Pleasanton-based Workday (No. 22), San Francisco-based Twitter (No. 24), Mountain View-based Intuit (No. 31) and Sunnyvale-based NetApp (No. 35). The complete list is available at the link below.
http://fortune.com/best-companies/
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o Briefly Noted:
(Sunnyvale, Calif.) Sunnyvale-based RedSeal, developer of a cybersecurity analytics platform that certifies the security of networks and accelerates compliance initiatives, has named Sundar Raj as its vice president of product development and Hom Bahmanyar as its vice president of engineering. Raj was most recently the senior director of enterprise mobility at CA Technologies, while Bahmanyar was RedSeal's senior director of engineering.
https://redseal.co/content/redseal-broadens-software-development-capabilities-key-management-appointments
(San Mateo, Calif.) San Mateo-based RingCentral, a developer of cloud business communications tools, on Friday named Michelle McKenna-Doyle, the senior vice president and chief information officer of the NFL, to its board of directors. McKenna-Doyle has held her current role with the NFL since 2012, and previously was the CIO of Constellation Energy.
http://www.ringcentral.com/whyringcentral/company/pressreleases/pressreleases-2015/ringcentral-appoints-nfl-cio-michelle-mckenna-doyle-to-its-board.html
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