Bay Area Tech Wire -- March 31

========================================== BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- March 31, 2016 ============================================ Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit - April 22 - Washington,  D.C. http://www.mamsummit.com o San Francisco-Based Airware Lands $30 Million in Third Round o Redwood City's Cyara Solutions Raises $25 Million in First Round o San Francisco-Based Juicero Emerges from Stealth with $100M in Funding o Sunnyvale's Expway Raises $3.4 Million in New Funding Round o S.F.-Based Driveway Software Names Mike Simmons as New CEO o Briefly Noted: NetSuite _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit - April 22 Full Job, Event, Marketplace and Services Descriptions Below in Classified Ad Section Post Job/Event/Marketplace ad at: http://www.bayareatechwire.com _____________________________________________   o San Francisco-Based Airware Lands $30 Million in Third Round San Francisco -- Airware, the San Francisco-based developer of an operating system for commercial drones, said on Thursday it has raised $30 million in its third round of funding, led by Next World Capital. Cisco Chairman and former CEO John Chambers, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) also participated in the round, which the company will use to bolster its customer success, professional services, sales and marketing activities, as well as expand into Europe. Chambers will join the company's board of directors. Airware also announced a new partnership with State Farm, the first insurance company to have been granted an exemption by the FAA for drone use. The company will use commercial drone technology for rooftop inspections, underwriting and disaster response. https://www.airware.com  https://www.airware.com/news  _____________________________________________ o Redwood City's Cyara Solutions Raises $25 Million in First Round Redwood City, Calif. -- Cyara Solutions, the Australian developer of an omni-channel customer experience testing and monitoring platform with North American headquarters in Redwood City, said it has raised $25 million in its first round of funding. PeakSpan Capital and Greenspring Associates co-led the round, which the company will use to expand its platform and grow its global marketing, business development, sales and engineering teams. Founded in 2006 in Australia, Cyara had been bootstrapped to profitability without venture funding until this round. "Subpar customer experiences are simply no longer acceptable. This is particularly true in markets such as financial services, telecommunications, government, insurance and healthcare," said co-founder and CEO Alok Kulkarni. "Cyara's mission is to help companies accelerate their customer experience innovation lifecycle through Agile enabled discovery, testing and monitoring. This round of funding will be critical in allowing us deliver on that mission." http://cyara.com/  http://cyara.com/news/cyara-closes-25-million-series-funding-round/  _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based Juicero Emerges from Stealth with $100M in Funding San Francisco -- Juicero, a San Francisco-based developer of Wi-Fi-enabled juicing technology, said on Wednesday it has emerged from stealth after raising more than $100 million in funding, including $25 million from ARTIS Ventures. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Thrive Capital, Campbell Soup Company, Two Sigma Ventures, DBL Partners, First Beverage Group and Acre Venture Partners also participated. Juicero has launched an at-home cold-press juicing system, which includes the press, organic produce packs and a mobile app. https://www.juicero.com/  http://www.artisventures.com/blog/the-future-of-food-is-here-juicero/  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160331005779/en/Juicero-Introduces-Countertop-Cold-Press-Juicing-System  _____________________________________________ o Sunnyvale's Expway Raises $3.4 Million in New Funding Round Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Expway, the French developer of a wireless multicast platform with U.S. headquarters in Sunnyvale, said it has landed about $3.4 million in a new round of funding, led by NTT DOCOMO Ventures, which provided roughly half of the capital. Previous backers Innovation Capital, I-Source, TechFund and Isatis Capital also participated. Expway said it will use the funds to expand the adoption of FastLane, the company's newly announced tool designed to optimize data traffic between telecom cells and terminals. http://www.expway.com  http://www.expway.com/expway-announces-strategic-investment-ntt-docomo-ventures/  _____________________________________________ o S.F.-Based Driveway Software Names Mike Simmons as New CEO San Francisco -- Driveway Software, a San Francisco-based developer of mobile telematics that let insurers measure and reward good driving behavior without the need for a plug-in device in the car, on Thursday named Mike Simmons as its new CEO. He succeeds company founder Igor Katsman, who will remain with the company as CTO. Simmons also is the founder and managing partner of LiveSmart Ventures, and previously served as the head of business development at Automatic Labs and president of Directed Electronics. "He has a strong history of building partnerships with leading insurance companies," said Chairman Gigi Levy-Weiss. "Equally important, he understands what's important to consumers and where the business is headed." http://www.driveway.ai  http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/driveway-selects-mike-simmons-as-new-ceo-300244071.html  _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > 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 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (San Mateo, Calif.) San Mateo-based NetSuite, a developer of cloud-based financial and enterprise resource planning software, on Thursday named Zakir Ahmed as its vice president and general manager of Asia. Ahmed most recently was the general manager of a $50 million business unit at TechnologyOne, and previously held roles with Salesforce.com, Microcell, CGI and Steltor. http://www.netsuite.com/portal/company/pressreleases/03-30-16.shtml  =================================================== Job/Event/Marketplace Listings: =================================================== To Post in Job/Event/Marketplace: http://www.bayareatechwire.com 7,000 Readers: 5 day ad: $120--10 day ad: $175--20 day ad: $300 > 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. 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