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BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- March 16, 2016
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Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit - April 22 - Washington, D.C.
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o Menlo Park-Based KPCB Leads $61.2 Million Round for Ring
o Menlo Ventures Leads $14.5 Million Funding Round for Usermind
o Three High School Seniors Names Winners of Intel Science Talent Search
o SBA Names Tracy Terrill as Chief Digital Officer
o President Obama Reveals NCAA Men's and Women's Brackets
o Briefly Noted: Erevena, in/PACT
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o Menlo Park-Based KPCB Leads $61.2 Million Round for Ring
Menlo Park, Calif. -- Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), the Menlo Park-based venture capital firm, said on Wednesday it has led a new $61.2 million round of funding for Santa Monica-based Ring, developer of a Wi-Fi video doorbell. Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group also took part in the round, which the company will use to bolster its line of smart video doorbells and expand its international presence. Ring's video doorbell alerts users when the device's motion sensors detect movement on their property or someone rings the bell. They can then see and speak to whoever is at their door through their mobile device.
http://www.ring.com
https://www.kpcb.com
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160316005361/en
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o Menlo Ventures Leads $14.5 Million Funding Round for Usermind
Menlo Park, Calif. -- Menlo Ventures, the Menlo Park-based venture capital firm, said on Wednesday it has led a new $14.5 million round of funding for Seattle-based Usermind, developer of an orchestration hub for business operations teams. Previous backers Andreessen Horowitz and CRV also took part in the company's second round, which increased its total funding to $22.1 million. Usermind said it will use the proceeds to expand sales and marketing activities, as well as to accelerate its research and development. Matt Murphy, managing director at Menlo Ventures, has joined the company's board of directors. Usermind's platform is designed to help companies define and automate all aspects of their customer lifecycles to improve revenue, retention and profitability.
http://www.usermind.com
https://www.menlovc.com/
http://usermind.com/blog/usermind-raises-14-5-million-to-launch-the-first-platform-for-bizops
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o Three High School Seniors Names Winners of Intel Science Talent Search
Santa Clara, Calif. -- Three 17-year-olds, including one from the Bay Area, on Tuesday night were named winners of the Intel Science Talent Search in Washington, DC. The annual pre-college science and math competition, a program of the Society for Science & the Public, awarded more than $1 million in prizes, all told. Top winners included: Amol Punjabi of Marlborough, Mass., who created software designed to help drug makers develop new therapies for cancer and heart disease; Paige Brown of Bangor, Maine, who studied the water quality of 11 environmentally impaired local streams; and Maya Varma of Cupertino, who used $35 worth of hobbyist electronics and free computer-aided design tools to create a smartphone-based lung function analyzer that diagnoses lung disease. Of the 1,750 high school seniors who entered the competition, 300 were announced as semifinalists in January. Of those, 40 were chosen as finalists and invited to Washington.
https://www.societyforscience.org/content/press-room/innovative-teen-scientists-win-more-1-million-awards-intel-science-talent-search
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o SBA Names Tracy Terrill as Chief Digital Officer
Washington, DC -- The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has named Tracy Terrill to the newly created position of chief digital officer. Terrill, who will lead the agency's digital operations, most recently served as the chief technology officer (CTO) of LegalZoom, and earlier held marketing and technology leadership roles with NBC Universal Studios, Universal Music Group, Warner Brothers and Gartner. "In record time, Tracy has built a digital service team with top talent from both the private and public sector," said SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet. "The team is charged with guiding improvement of our systems and ensuring that the SBA leverages its digital capabilities to effectively serve entrepreneurs and small businesses."
http://www.sba.gov
https://www.sba.gov/content/sba-appoints-tracy-terrill-chief-digital-officer
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o President Obama Reveals NCAA Men's and Women's Brackets
Washington, DC -- President Obama on Wednesday revealed his completed NCAA men's and women's basketball tournament brackets through the White House web site. In his men's bracket, Obama has Kansas, Texas A&M, Michigan State and UNC headed to the Final Four. In the women's bracket, he picks Connecticut, Florida State, South Carolina and Notre Dame to advance. Locally, he has the Cal men and San Francisco women losing in the opening round, and the Stanford women advancing to the Sweet 16. The complete brackets are available at the link below.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/03/15/see-president-obamas-2016-ncaa-basketball-tournament-brackets
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> Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit - April 22
Now in its fifth year, the annual summit has become the "must-attend" annual marketing event for the DC region and beyond. The summit brings together 400+ CMOs, Senior Marketers, Agency Professionals and Technology Executives from the DC area. The event features dozens of case studies, keynotes, presentations and networking breaks on the most important issues facing marketers in 2016-2017. For more information, go to: www.mamsummit.com
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o Briefly Noted:
(San Francisco) U.K.-based executive search firm Erevena said it has opened its first U.S. office in San Francisco. Partner Terry Shaw and Max Levy, principal consultant, will relocate from London to operate the new office. The company said it did more than 30% of its work in North America last year.
http://www.erevena.com/news/erevena-announces-new-office-in-san-francisco/
(San Francisco) San Francisco-based in/PACT, developer of a platform that brings together people, causes and brands to give back through direct giving rewards and event engagement, on Wednesday named Kevin Eyres as its new CEO. He succeeds founder John McNeel, who becomes chief brand officer. Eyres is the former managing director of LinkedIn Europe.
http://www.inpactnow.com/en
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/inpact-expands-leadership-team-with-former-managing-director-of-linkedin-europe-kevin-eyres-joining-as-ceo-300237078.html
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> The Shifting Sands of Employee Motivation
The old "if-then motivators" of giving bonuses for the achievement of goals no longer work. Work has become too complex and is changing too rapidly for such simple formulas to be relevant and to motivate performance. Here, we review some new motivators and how to engage with employees. http://fairfaxcountyeda.org/bay-area-tech-wire
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> Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit - April 22
Now in its fifth year, the annual summit has become the "must-attend" annual marketing event for the DC region and beyond. The summit brings together 400+ CMOs, Senior Marketers, Agency Professionals and Technology Executives from the DC area. The event features dozens of case studies, keynotes, presentations and networking breaks on the most important issues facing marketers in 2016-2017. For more information, go to: www.mamsummit.com
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