News from Valhalla June 2013 - Volume 29
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Valhalla Seed Companies in the News

Zonoff Opens Home Automation Platform With Launch of Open Device Software Development Kit

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Zonoff, Inc., Malvern, PA

New development tools connect device's special features or protocols to the Internet of Things; allows device manufacturers to participate in the customer experience.

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Speek is one of Wall Street Journal's 24 Startups Participating in 'WSJ Startup of the Year'

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Speek, Ashburn, VA

The Wall Street Journal announces the 24 startups chosen by Wall Street Journal editors to participate in 'WSJ Startup of the Year', an episodic video documentary for WSJ Live, the Journal's online video platform.

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How ShopSocially uses social media to bring retailers and consumers closer

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ShopSocially, Sunnyvale, CA

Jai Rawat spotted a big opportunity at the intersection of social networking and e-commerce. He observed how brands and retailers used social media and was not impressed. He felt he could fill a void and started ShopSocially, a social commerce set up.

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June News Stories

6.27.13 NVTC Announces 2013 Hot Ticket Award Finalists and Winners

Valhalla's Vubiquity winner of the "Hottest Management Team" category

6.26.13 EnterpriseDB Expands Services to Support Swelling Ranks of PostgreSQL Users

New RemoteDBA services help DBAs with maintaining, monitoring & expanding PostgreSQL deployments

6.26.13 SafeNet Redefines the Art of Software Monetization

Monetization With Cloud-Based Approach to On-Premise Software Licensing & Management

6.24.13 Valhalla's Zonoff in the News

House of the future may have Philly feel

6.24.13 Sepaton Expands Support for Most Popular Enterprise Backup Applications

New software delivers industry's most comprehensive Symantec NetBackup OST support

6.21.13 PlaceIQ Presents at Brand Marketers Summit

Watch the Video

6.19.13 SolidFire Announces Early Availability of CloudStack Storage Plug-In

Enables More Dynamic & Granular Provisioning of SolidFire's All-SSD Storage within CloudStack

6.19.13 BlueStripe Appoints Nick Burling Vice President of Product Management

Previously, Burling served at BlueStripe as the Director of Product Management

6.18.13 Upfront Digital Media Boosts Senior Leadership Team with New VPs

Company announces the appointment of Vps of marketing and business development

6.13.13 EnterpriseDB Named 2013 HP AllianceOne Partner of the Year

EnterpriseDB awarded for Mission Critical Computing

6.13.13 Legolas' New Subsidiary, Upfront Digital Media, Intends to Remove "Black Box"

Legolas Media announces Upfront Digital Media, a new subsidiary of Legolas

6.12.13 Advertas Selects Parature for a Seismic Interpretation Software Platform

Parature was chosen due to its fully customizable cloud-based customer support solutions

6.12.13 SolidFire Joins Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network

SolidFire To Deliver Certified Block Storage Solution for Red Hat's OpenStack Distribution

6.12.13 BlueStripe Software Named Gold Winner in the 2013 Network Products Guide Hot Companies & Best Product Awards

Award honors achievements of the world's premier companies in the IT & information security industry

6.11.13 Legolas Media Forms Upfront Digital Media

Upfront Digital Media Unveils Market's First Multi-screen, Multi-format Programmatic Direct Offering

6.10.13 Jumptap CEO George Bell one of the 29 Most Important People in Mobile Advertising

Meet all 29 of the Most Important People In Mobile Advertising - by Business Insider

6.5.13 Vubiquity Launches AnyVU Streaming with TiVo

End-to-end multiplatform video solution that allows any service provider to launch TV Everywhere services quickly

6.5.13 PlaceIQ Helps Advertisers Make Sense of Big Data

PlaceIQ is harnessing the power of big data to drive results for advertisers

6.5.13 Sepaton Profiles Its S2100-ES3, the Industry's Fastest, Most Scalable Data Protection Solution

It is the only platform specifically designed to deliver simple, cost-efficient data protection for large enterprise

6.5.13 New Jumptap MobileSTAT Reports Stay-at-Home Moms Reach for Tablets

Report Summarizes Mobile Insights About Moms

6.4.13 SafeNet and Arrow Ally to Secure Storage, Virtual, and Cloud Environments

Expanded Distribution Enables Easy Delivery of New Levels of Secure Storage & Virtualization Solutions

6.4.13 40% of PostgreSQL Production Deployments Support Mission-Critical Apps

EnterpriseDB announces the results of its "PostgreSQL Adoption Survey 2013"

The Valhalla Team

Investment Staff

Harry D'Andrea, Managing General Partner
Dan Gordon, Technology Partner
Kiran Hebbar, General Partner
Randy Jacops, Venture Partner
Hooks Johnston, General Partner
Art Marks, Managing General Partner

Administrative Staff

Claudia Bartz, Executive Assistant, Office Manager
Sara Endicott, Executive Assistant
Bibiana Speroni, Executive Assistant, Finance and Research

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