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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Nov. 3, 2015
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o Sunnyvale-Based Bidgely Lands $16.6 Million in Second Round
o Palo Alto-Based Lumo Bodytech Raises $10 Million in Second Round
o Sunnyvale-Based PMC-Sierra Backs All-Cash Skyworks Offer
o San Francisco-Based PagerDuty Acquires Event Enrichment HQ
o San Francisco-Based Kabam Promotes Jeff Howell to CTO
o Briefly Noted: eBay Enterprise, Agilent Technologies, Keysight Technologies,
Vox Network Solutions, Origami Logic, MetaIntelli - Mi3 Security
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o Sunnyvale-Based Bidgely Lands $16.6 Million in Second Round
Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Bidgely, a Sunnyvale-based developer of web and mobile tools designed to help consumers save energy, said on Tuesday it has landed $16.6 million in its second round of funding, led by new investor Constellation Technology Ventures. European utility investors E.ON and RWE also participated, giving Bidgely access to 65 million new homes, as well as previous backer Khosla Ventures. The company said it will use the proceeds to expand its HomeBeat consumer engagement product suite for home energy management, as well as to scale commercial deployment globally. "The Series B round with European utility investment will allow us to aggressively expand our European presence and leverage our disaggregation technology and expertise in consumer behavior across an expanded product offering," said CEO Abhay Gupta.
http://www.bidgely.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151103005589/en/Bidgely-Raises-16.6-Million-Series-Adds-Investors
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o Palo Alto-Based Lumo Bodytech Raises $10 Million in Second Round
Palo Alto, Calif. -- Lumo Bodytech, the Palo Alto-based developer of a technology platform that uses algorithms, software and smart sensors to optimize performance and address human biomechanics, said on Tuesday it has raised $10 million in its second round of funding. WuXi Healthcare Ventures led round, which also included participation from previous backers Madrona Venture Group, Innovation Endeavors, AME Cloud Ventures and Innovalue Capital, as well as new investors MAS Holdings and SanDisk founder Eli Harari. Monisha Perkash, Lumo Bodytech's co-founder and CEO, said the new round will enable his company to "deliver a wearables platform that will ultimately help people address significant health, wellness and performance issues." The company said its platform is a combination of hardware, software and data that will enable companies to integrate human body movements into the next generation of wearables technology. Lumo previously had raised more than $6 million in equity financing and $2 million in crowdfunding.
http://www.lumobodytech.com
http://www.lumobodytech.com/lumo-platform-for-the-future-of-wearable-technology/
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o Sunnyvale-Based PMC-Sierra Backs All-Cash Skyworks Offer
Sunnyvale, Calif. -- PMC-Sierra, the Sunnyvale-based big data semiconductor and software company, said that its board of directors has deemed a $2.24 billion all-cash takeover bid from Massachusetts-based Skyworks Solutions superior to a $2.35 billion cash-and-stock deal from Aliso Viejo-based Microsemi. "The board believes that the mixed stock/cash consideration proposed by Microsemi does not provide superior value compared to the all cash $11.60 transaction with Skyworks," PMC said in a statement. "While Microsemi's proposal is nominally higher… the board believes that Skyworks' all cash proposal provides more value certainty to shareholders." In response, Microsemi late Monday took its battle directly to shareholders. "Our offer is more strategic, offers more speed and certainty in terms of the closing approval process, and delivers a higher per share price than the Skyworks offer," said James Peterson, Microsemi's chairman and CEO. "While the PMC board has chosen to determine that our proposal is not superior, we hope that the PMC shareholders will express their concern over this decision."
http://pmcs.com/
http://investor.pmcs.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74533&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2104918 http://investor.microsemi.com/2015-11-02-Microsemi-Corporation-Reiterates-its-Superior-11-88-Per-Share-Cash-and-Stock-Bid-for-PMC-Sierra-Inc
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o San Francisco-Based PagerDuty Acquires Event Enrichment HQ
San Francisco -- PagerDuty, the San Francisco-based developer of an operations performance management platform, said on Tuesday it has acquired Seattle-based Event Enrichment HQ, maker of a platform designed to help IT professionals reduce their downtime by eliminating noise and surfacing actionable events. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ophir Ronen, Event Enrichment's co-founder, is now a product director at PagerDuty. The company's new integrated platform aims to helps businesses decrease resolution times by reducing noise so that incident responders can spend less time manually triaging events. PagerDuty is now offering a private beta of Event Enrichment's functionality to select customers.
http://www.pagerduty.com
http://www.eventenrichment.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151103005611/en/PagerDuty-Acquires-Event-Enrichment-HQ-Speed-Incident
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o San Francisco-Based Kabam Promotes Jeff Howell to CTO
San Francisco -- Kabam, a San Francisco-based developer and publisher of mobile free-to-play games, said on Tuesday it has promoted Jeff Howell to the newly created role of chief technology officer (CTO). In the new role, Howell will build technology strategy and oversee technology and development practices across the company. Howell is the former CTO of Exploding Barrel Games, which Kabam acquired in 2013. He also previously worked for Electronic Arts and Relic Entertainment. "Jeff is the natural choice as Kabam's first chief technology officer," said Aaron Loeb, the company's president of studios and live services. "He has been an integral member of the Kabam team."
https://www.kabam.com/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151103006532/en/Kabam-Promotes-Howell-Chief-Technology-Officer
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> Campaigns & Marketing Summit - Nov. 13 - National Press Club - DC
The Campaigns & Marketing Summit on Nov. 13 in Washington, D.C. will bring together 300 marketers and executives from the political, technology and brand communities to discuss their common tactics, strategies, tools and platforms. It is the first major conference to bring together both brand and political marketers. With over a dozen panel discussions on social, mobile, data, digital advertising, analytics and more, attendees will gain insights into the wave of change and innovation coming to marketing and social media in 2016.
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o Briefly Noted:
(San Jose, Calif.) San Jose-based eBay said it has completed its $925 million sale of eBay Enterprise to a consortium consisting of Sterling Partners, Longview Asset Management and the Innotrac Corp. The buyers have separated eBay Enterprise into four distinct businesses -- Enterprise Operations & Enterprise Technology Services, owned by Sterling Partners; and Magento Commerce Technologies, Marketing Solutions and CRM, all owned by the Permira Funds.
https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-inc-completes-sale-of-ebay-enterprise/
(Santa Clara, Calif.) Santa Clara-based Agilent Technologies, a provider of laboratory technology and services, said that Barry Rand has retired from its board of directors. Rand, the former CEO of AARP, was a founding director of Agilent, having served on its board since the company’s spinoff from Hewlett-Packard in 2000. The company's board now includes 10 members.
http://www.agilent.com/about/newsroom/presrel/2015/02nov-gp15027.html
(Santa Rosa, Calif.) Santa Rosa-based Keysight Technologies, a developer of electronic measurement technology, on Tuesday announced a new organizational structure designed to align the company's activities with the development of customer products. The organizational changes include the creation of a centralized Corporate Planning and Technology team, and a move to three customer-focused business groups -- the Communications Solutions Group, the Industrial Solutions Group and the Services Solutions Group.
http://about.keysight.com/en/newsroom/pr/2015/03nov-nrc15161.shtml
(Brisbane, Calif.) Brisbane-based Vox Network Solutions, a provider of converged voice and data products and services to businesses, has named Rick Dahlgren as its director of solutions architecture and design. Dahlgren most recently served as the manager of solutions architects for the western region at Windstream Communications.
http://www.voxns.com/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151103006497/en/VOX-Hires-Solutions-Architecture-Design-Expert-Rick
(Menlo Park, Calif.) Menlo Park-based Origami Logic, a developer of marketing intelligence tools that recently raised $25 million in its third round of funding, on Tuesday named Michael Logan as its chief revenue officer. Logan most recently served as the global vice president of sales at Sprinklr, and previously was the vice president of sales at Aprimo.
http://www.origamilogic.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151103005309/en/Origami-Logic-Names-Michael-Logan-Chief-Revenue
(Mountain View, Calif.) Mountain View-based MetaIntelli, a developer of web-based app security tools, said on Tuesday it has changed its company name to Mi3 Security. The company said it made the change to make clear that it's focused on the security space, and that its approach to security is driven by intelligence.
https://www.mi3security.com/press/metaintelli-changes-company-name-to-mi3-security/
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