February 8, 2010 Subscribe www.sierraventures.com Sierra Ventures News Startup, Know Thyself: Q&A with Sierra Ventures Managing Director Tim Guleri January 29, 2010 - What does it take for a startup to win the attention of venture capitalists in this economic environment? For Sierra Ventures' Tim Guleri, it's all about knowing your financial model, knowing the market in which you do business, and having confidence in both. Read More Strategic Portfolio News MIOX Provides Water Purifiers To Haiti. 5 Large Purifiers Can Disinfect About 20,000 Gallons February 3, 2010 Sierra Ventures and Andreessen-Backed Cloud Launcher Makara Debuts (previously named WebAppVM) February 2, 2010 …other Makara news:  Makara Leverages Virtualization to Simplify Cloud Application Management Makara Turns the Cloud into a Virtual Layer Makara Smoothes the Road to Cloud Computing American Fiber Systems Gives Carson City Long-Awaited High Bandwidth Connectivity Choice February 1, 2010 Greenplum Positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems February 1, 2010 InvenSense MEMS Gyros Give Smart Phones New Spin February 1, 2010 …other InvenSense news:  InvenSense Unveils World's First Motion Processing Unit for Smartphones InvenSense Opens Highly Automated MEMS Gyroscope Manufacturing Facility in Taiwan iSuppli Ranks InvenSense as Top MEMS Company and Consumer Gyroscope Supplier for 2009 Microsoft's Future: With Opalis - Crystal Clear February 1, 2010 Parature Receives 2009 Product of the Year Award Presented by Customer Interaction Solutions(R) Magazine February 1, 2010 …other Parature news:  Parature Announces Sahar Hashemi, Co-Founder of Coffee Republic, as the Keynote Speaker for its European Users’ Group Parature Named to JMP Securities 2009 Hot 100 Parature Announces Its ‘Best Practices in Customer Service’ Webinar Series   Rivermuse - IT Event and Fault Management Industry Ready to Shift January 30, 2010 Approva Closes Year With 37% Growth in Q4 2009 on Continued Strong Demand for Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) Applications January 28, 2010 SenSage More Than Just a Clever Name in Analytics - New Market Report Released   January 28, 2010   Click Forensics - Click Fraud Up During Q4 2009 January 28, 2010 …other Click Forensics news:  Adknowledge Partners with Click Forensics to Enhance Click Scoring System Click Forensics: Industry Click Fraud Rate at 15.3 Percent for Q4 2009 ZoomSystems Announces Record Growth, Surpassing $120 Million in Sales for Retail Partners January 28, 2010 …other ZoomSystems news:  Triangle Capital invests $8M in ZoomSystems   Ooyala Accelerates Entry into Japanese Market with Localized Video Publishing Platform January 27, 2010 …other Ooyala news:  Ooyala and 52nd GRAMMY® Awards Hit High Note with Online Video Ooyala Scores Partnership with Telegraph Media Group, Will Power Its Video Content Ooyala, NTT Smartconnect Partner to Sell Co-Branded Broadband Video Platform in Japan DotNetNuke Corp. Achieves Significant Traction in 2009 January 26, 2010 Razorsight Achieves 9th Consecutive Year of Revenue Growth in 2009 January 19, 2010   Marathon Technologies new partnership and traction with MAXXESS January 10, 2010 Any questions can be submitted to news@sierraventures.com Sierra Ventures has managed nine venture capital partnerships and currently has more than $1.5 billion of capital under management. Some of the firm’s investments include 360Commerce (acquired by Oracle), Active Software (acquired by WebMethods), AmeriGroup (AGP), Centex (acquired by WorldCom), AuthenTec Inc. (AUTH), ConvergeNet (acquired by Dell), FatBrain (acquired by Barnes & Noble), Frontbridge (acquired by Microsoft), Healtheon (merged with WebMD), Interact Commerce (acquired by Sage), Intuit (INTU), Micromuse (acquired by IBM), OnAssignment (ASGN), OnLink (acquired by Siebel), Quinta (acquired by Seagate), StrataCom (acquired by Cisco), Sourcefire (FIRE), Sychip (acquired by Murata Corporation), Teradata (acquired by NCR).

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