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The latest news from American River Ventures and its portfolio companies:

WiSpry's President and Founder Promoted to Lead the Company
May 20, 2010
WiSpry, Inc., the leader in tunable radio frequency (RF) semiconductor products for the wireless industry, today announced that Jeffrey Hilbert has been promoted to lead the company as its president, effective Monday, May 24, 2010.
SynapSense™ Launches Breakthrough Adaptive Control™ Technology to Automate Data Center Cooling
May 13, 2010
SynapSense Corporation, a leading provider of wireless instrumentation solutions, today introduced new Adaptive Control technology that provides the world’s leading data centers with the ability to continuously align cooling capacity with changes in IT load.
Monitoring Moisture Content In The Air Can Help Save Lives And Billions Of Dollars In Fuel Costs From Air Traffic Delays
March 23, 2010
Every day, weather forecasters are challenged to accurately assess the potential for severe weather such as flooding, hurricanes, and tornadoes, as well as helping to ensure the safety of commercial and private aircraft from threatening thunderstorms, icing and wind shear.
WiSpry Obtains Key Patent for MEMS Variable Capacitors and Actuation Components
February 16, 2010
WiSpry, Inc., the leader in tunable radio frequency (RF) semiconductor products for the wireless industry, today announced that the Company’s patent application for Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) Variable Capacitors and Actuation Components, and Related Methods has been granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Patent number 7,545,622).
MediaTek Executive Joins WiSpry Board of Directors
January 26, 2010
WiSpry, Inc., the leader in tunable radio frequency (RF) semiconductor products for the wireless industry, today announced the addition of Ed Healy, senior advisor to the chairman of Mediatek, to its board of directors. Mr. Healy has been in management, marketing and engineering roles in the semiconductor industry for over 20 years.
Data Center Saves Big with Better Airflow Monitoring
January 25, 2010
James Kennedy, the senior facility manager at RagingWire said the colocation company is saving more than $600,000 per year on cooling costs at its Sacramento, Calif.-based data center.
SynapSense Wins 2009 Product of the Year Award from SearchDataCenter.com
January 18, 2010
SynapSense Data Center Monitoring and Energy Management (SynapSoft 5.0) wins 2009 Gold Award for data center infrastructure
CalPERs Board Recognizes American River Ventures & SynapSense
December 16, 2009
CalPERS recieved a SMUD rebate check for data center energy savings efforts achieved via Synapsense. The check was received at a CalPERS Board meeting on December 16, 2009.
SpectraSensors Identifies Oxygen in Natural Gas
November 9, 2009
SpectraSensors, Inc., a leading supplier of optical sensors for petrochemical applications, announced the model OXY4400 oxygen analyzer for natural gas pipelines.
HP's Data Center Smart Grid Initiative - SynapSense Key Component
November 4, 2009
...The HP strategy includes hardware, software and services to create an infrastructure that brings together computing, storage, networking and management resources into a single pool designed to help increase businesses’ agility and efficiency and drive down operation and maintenance costs in the data center.
HID Labs is Trying to Bring an Ancient Lighting Technology up to Date
October 18, 2009
The difference between today's manufacturing plants and those of the 1940s is night and day...The lights that illuminate those warehouses, however, have not changed much in the last 70 years. They are "high-intensity-discharge" (HID) bulbs, and they produce luminescence through a simple design: electricity flowing between two electrodes in a glass chamber.

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