Bay Area Tech Wire -- Jan. 31

============================================ BAY AREA TECH WIRE -- Jan. 31, 2012 ============================================ Clean Energy & Smart Grid Directory - Special Limited-Time Discount Offer http://www.smartenergygroup.org o Campbell-Based AlienVault Raises $8 Million in Second Round o Intel Capital Leads $20 Million Round for Solera Networks o San Francisco-Based UrbanSitter Lands $1.75 Million in Seed Funding o Bain Capital Ventures Raises $600 Million for New Fund o Milpitas-Based Quantros Names Gerard Livaudais as Chief Medical Officer > Clean Energy & Smart Grid Directory - Special Limited-Time Discount Offer o Briefly Noted: Apple, Fundly, Intel, Entelos, Coupa Software _____________________________________________ > Job/Event/Marketplace Classified Listings (Full Listings Below Stories) --The Secrets to Getting Positive ROI from Facebook Ads Webinar --Cloud Connect Santa Clara - Feb. 13 to 16 --Whitepaper: The Secret to Online User Adoption --Clean Energy & Smart Grid Directory - Special Limited-Time Discount Offer --Enterprise Sales Manager --How to Develop the Framework to Strengthen Your Organization --Account Director (sales), Bay Area --Visa Inc, Emerging Technology Cloud Guru - Foster City, CA --Advertise on Bay Area Tech Wire and Reach More than 6,000 Subscribers Ad Descriptions Below Briefly Noted Section Post Job/Event/Marketplace ad: http://www.bayareatechwire.com _____________________________________________ o Campbell-Based AlienVault Raises $8 Million in Second Round Campbell, Calif. -- AlienVault, a Campbell-based developer of open source security information and event management software, said on Tuesday it has raised $8 million in its second round of funding, led by new investor Trident Capital. Previous backers Adara Venture Partners and Neotec also participated in the round, which the company will use to accelerate research and development and aggressively expand sales and marketing activities. The company has named Alberto Yepez, Trident's managing director, as its chairman of the board. The news comes after AlienVault recently announced the appointment of a new executive team, led by CEO Barmak Meftah and CTO Roger Thornton. http://www.alienvault.com/  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120131005562/en/AlienVault-Lands-8-Million-Series-Funding-Led  _____________________________________________ o Intel Capital Leads $20 Million Round for Solera Networks Santa Clara, Calif. -- Intel Capital, the investment arm of the Santa Clara-based chipmaker, said it has led a new $20 million round of funding Utah-based Solera Networks, a developer of network security analytics tools. Previous backers Allegis Capital, Signal Peak Ventures and Trident Capital also participated in the company's fourth round, which it will use to bolster sales, marketing and product development activities. Solera's DeepSee platform uses deep packet inspection capabilities to capture, index and classify all network traffic in real-time. http://www.intelcapital.com  http://www.soleranetworks.com  http://www.soleranetworks.com/press_release/raises-funding/  _____________________________________________ o San Francisco-Based UrbanSitter Lands $1.75 Million in Seed Funding San Francisco -- UrbanSitter, the San Francisco-based developer of an online service that helps parents and sitters connect through people they know, said on Tuesday it has landed $1.75 million in a round of seed funding, led by First Round Capital. Rustic Canyon Partners, Menlo Ventures and several angel investors also participated. The company also said it recently expanded to San Diego, Napa Valley and Sonoma, Seattle, Boulder and Lake Tahoe, and plans to add the New York, Chicago, Denver and St. Louis markets over the next month. UrbanSitter, which launched in September, said it will use the additional funding to support new product development -- including a mobile component -- and further expand into new cities. Rob Hayes of First Round Capital and Neal Hansch of Rustic Canyon Partners have been added to the company's board of directors. http://www.urbansitter.com  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120131005063/en/UrbanSitter-Raises-1.75-Million-Seed-Funding-Expands  _____________________________________________ o Bain Capital Ventures Raises $600 Million for New Fund Palo Alto, Calif. -- Bain Capital Ventures, a Boston-based early-stage venture capital firm with West Coast offices in Palo Alto, said it has raised $600 million for a new investment fund. The fund is the largest to date for the firm, which makes investments in industries such as business services, consumer, healthcare, Internet, mobile and software. Bain has made more than 125 venture investments since its inception in 1984, and now manages $1.5 billion of assets, with over 70 active portfolio companies http://www.baincapitalventures.com/  _____________________________________________ o Milpitas-Based Quantros Names Gerard Livaudais as Chief Medical Officer Milpitas, Calif. -- Quantros, a Milpitas-based developer of applications and services designed to advance the safety and quality in healthcare, on Tuesday named Gerard Livaudais as its chief medical officer and senior vice president of content and product management. Livaudais originally joined the company in early 2010 as executive vice president of product management, and previously was an internist with the Kaiser Hawaii Permanente Medical Group. More than 2,000 healthcare facilities currently use Quantros' web-based apps. http://www.quantros.com  http://quantros.com/resources/news/quantros-names-gerard-livaudais-chief-medical-officer  _____________________________________________ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Clean Energy & Smart Grid Directory - Special Limited-Time Discount Offer Tech Wire’s directory group has just published the 2012 edition of the Clean Energy & Smart Grid Directory, which profiles nearly 1,000 of the most cutting-edge organizations in the renewable energies and smart grid sectors in the U.S. and Canada. It also provides contact info on over 4,000 of the key individuals leading these exciting organizations, as well as details on their financial backers. The Clean Energy & Smart Grid Directory is a great tool for investors, recruiters, job seekers, sales and business development pros looking for new opportunities in this burgeoning industry. The new product is currently available to Tech Wire readers for a special, limited-time discount of 20%, now through Feb. 15. For more information go to: http://www.smartenergygroup.org |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| _____________________________________________ o Briefly Noted: (Cupertino, Calif.) Cupertino-based Apple has named John Browett as its senior vice president of retail, responsible for the company's retail strategy and the continued expansion of Apple retail stores around the world. Browett since 2007 had been the CEO of European technology retailer Dixons Retail. He also previously served as the CEO of Tesco.com. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/01/31John-Browett-Joins-Apple-as-Senior-Vice-President-of-Retail.html  (Palo Alto, Calif.) Palo Alto-based Fundly, developer of a social giving platform, has named Stephen Kob as its director of product design. Kob most recently worked for digital agency R/GA in New York, where he contributed to the Nike+ GPS and Nike+ Active experiences. He led the design of the Nike+ FuelBand iOS and Android apps, http://fundly.com/  (Santa Clrar, Calif.) Santa Clara-based chipmaker Intel on Tuesday promoted Mooly Eden and Richard Taylor to the position of senior vice president. Eden also was recently named president and general manager of Intel Israel, while Taylor is the company's director of human resources. http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2012/01/31/intel-promotes-two-executives-to-senior-vice-president  (San Mateo, Calif.) San Mateo-based Entelos, a provider of in silico modeling and simulation products and services, on Tuesday named Mark Hovde as its vice president of sales and marketing and Will Frederick as its CFO. Hovde most recently was senior vice president of business development at Certara, while Frederick was CFO of the products division of Avaya. http://www.entelos.com  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120131005512/en/Entelos-Expands-Senior-Management-Team  (San Mateo, Calif.) San Mateo-based Coupa Software, a developer of cloud spend optimization software, on Tuesday named Mark Verbeck as its senior vice president and CFO. Verbeck most recently was the CFO of Blade Network Technologies, which was acquired by IBM. http://www.coupa.com/press-releases/coupa-appoints-new-senior-vice-president-and-chief-financial-officer-following-record-growth-in-2011/  =================================================== Job/Event/Marketplace Listings: =================================================== To Post in Job/Event/Marketplace: http://www.bayareatechwire.com 6000 Readers: 5 day ad: $120--10 day ad: $175--20 day ad: $300 > The Secrets to Getting Positive ROI from Facebook Ads Webinar Facebook has over 800 million users. This means that more than 1 in 10 humans on Earth are using Facebook. This large captive audience combined with the wealth of accurate demographic data available creates a marketer’s dream database. But what are the best practices to dig into Facebook advertising? And how do you get a positive ROI from these ads? 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Thousands of cloud leaders and technology experts from top companies attend Cloud Connect to get the latest on public and private clouds, cloud security, big data, cloud economics, and evolving industry standards. Join other IT decision makers, developers and cloud providers this February 13 to 16 and learn how you can move your cloud strategy forward. Register now at http://www.CloudConnectEvent.com/SantaClara using priority code TECHWIRE to save 25% or get your free Expo Pass. ____________________________________________ > Whitepaper: The Secret to Online User Adoption Download the Whitepaper: Overcoming Halfhearted User Adoption by NavigationArts, a DC-based User Experience consultancy with NEW offices in New York, Boston, and Raleigh-Durham. Learn how to improve user adoption rates and organizational efficiencies from our experts who specialize in the design and development of websites, intranets, applications and more. Download the whitepaper at http://www.navigationarts.com ____________________________________________ > Clean Energy & Smart Grid Directory - Special Limited-Time Discount Offer Tech Wire’s directory group has just published the 2012 edition of the Clean Energy & Smart Grid Directory, which profiles nearly 1,000 of the most cutting-edge organizations in the renewable energies and smart grid sectors in the U.S. and Canada. It also provides contact info on over 4,000 of the key individuals leading these exciting organizations, as well as details on their financial backers. The Clean Energy & Smart Grid Directory is a great tool for investors, recruiters, job seekers, sales and business development pros looking for new opportunities in this burgeoning industry. The new product is currently available to Tech Wire readers for a special, limited-time discount of 20%, now through Feb. 15. For more information go to: http://www.smartenergygroup.org ____________________________________________ > Enterprise Sales Manager If you're considering a change, this may finally be your motivation. NovaStor (www.novastor.com) is searching for an Enterprise Sales Manager to take on a ground floor opportunity selling enterprise backup solutions in a market where storage growth is exponential year over year. The product has a long history of success within top reference accounts and scales well beyond competitive solutions. NovaStor is seeking a self motivated and driven individual who is capable of spearheading the introduction of this German engineered solution to a broader US market through channel initiatives (employees from competitors – Commvault, Atempo, Quest/Bakbone, NetBackup and EMC Legato are welcome). Within this trailblazing role, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of NovaStor and have unlimited earning potential. 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