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Aviva Chooses Hara Software to Drive Measureable Energy and Sustainability Results Company-Wide

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Hara™, a leader in enterprise energy management and sustainability software, today announced that Aviva (LSE: AV, NYSE: AV) has chosen Hara to track, verify and manage Aviva’s energy and CRC activities on a UK wide basis.

Aviva, the UK’s largest insurer and one of Europe’s leading providers of life and general insurance, now has the visibility and transparency into its current distributed energy and water activities through one single system of record. Hara is helping the company aggregate accurate and auditable data within Hara.  By proactively investing in energy savings technologies, Aviva now has improved ability to actively track consumption, forecast future use, and better manage its resource efficiency on a wider UK basis.

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Sustainable Waterloo Region Chooses Hara Software to Drive Sustainability and Energy Efficiency

SAN MATEO, Cali., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Hara, a leader in energy and resource data management software, today announced that  Sustainable Waterloo Region has chosen Hara to track, verify and manage energy efficiency and sustainability initiatives for its member companies, and support attainment of this region in Canada’s long-term reduction goals. Sustainable Waterloo Region (SWR) is a not-for-profit that advances the environmental sustainability of organizations across Waterloo Region through collaboration.

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Getting Reporting Right: Tips for Solving for Gaps in Your Energy and Sustainability Data

Gaps in reported energy and sustainability data are a common challenge.These gaps are the result of leased locations where utility bills are paid indirectly, or can be the result of insufficient or nonexistent data collection systems and processes. Solving for gaps is critical to getting internal and external sustainability reporting right. Such gaps represent a risk to the quality and completeness of an organization’s GHG emission inventory and company investor disclosure (through the Carbon Disclosure Project), and they can also jeopardize the entire decision-making process around an organization’s investments in energy efficiency.

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Hara Announces Partnership with CDP

Hara is pleased to announce accreditation as a CDP silver carbon calculation partner. Through this alliance, Hara strengthens its commitment to drive greenhouse gas reduction and responsible resource consumption with better data collection and reporting. The partnership also reinforces Hara’s mission – to turn energy and resource data into business results for some of the world’s biggest brand names. Dell, News Corporation, Hasbro, Tandus, Akamai, and US Bank, among others, already use Hara’s robust software solution for reporting, including CDP reporting.
 

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Why VCs see gold in energy management software

December 8, 2012 9:00 AM 
Ashley M. Halligan

Software-based cleantech like energy management software (EMS) is a fast-growing segment as interest in hardware-based cleantech wanes. Leading EMS vendors like C3 and Hara offer tools that allow organizations to measure their energy consumption and, often, identify operational inefficiencies. That can lead to savings in energy consumption as well as real dollars, a fact that’s attracting some business owners’ attention.

Via Venturebeat: [link]

Ashley Halligan is an analyst at Austin-based Software Advice

Hara Names New CEO

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Hara, a leader in energy and resource data management software, has named Rodrigo J Prudencio as the company’s new CEO and member of the Board of Directors. Prudencio was a partner at Nth Power, one of Hara’s lead investors. He brings over 20 years of relevant technology, energy and environmental expertise to the company. Prudencio replaces Dan Leff who served as CEO since early 2011. 

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The Wall Street Journal Names Hara a Top Ten Venture-Backed Green Company

SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Hara, a leader in energy and resource data management software, has been recognized as a Top Ten Venture-Backed Green Company by the Wall Street Journal.

The Top 10 ranking seeks to identify standout green companies with high potential to achieve success. Of the ten companies ranked, Hara is the only SaaS-based enterprise software company, and was selected based on a rigorous process that reviewed amount of capital raised in the past three years; track records of the executive team, managers and investors; and finally, which company offers the best odds for success.

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Start-Ups Shifting to Clean-Tech Services

Failures Among Green Products Manufacturers Spur a Business-Plan Migration to Businesses With More Reliable Revenue

October 19, 2012

By YULIYA CHERNOVA And EMILY MALTBY

Some entrepreneurs had to change plans because assumptions didn’t pan out. Hara Software Inc., an energy management software company, initially was founded to help large corporations track and reduce carbon emissions.

It restructured to focus on managing energy for large clients when federal carbon legislation wasn’t forthcoming, said Dan Leff, who replaced its former chief executive last year.

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