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- NEA General Partner Harry Weller, 46, passes away
New Enterprise Associates General Partner Harry Weller, who led the firm's East Coast venture practice, died in his sleep Saturday. He was 46. Weller joined the firm in 2002 and was a well-recognized VC. His industry honors included the Forbes “Midas List” for nine years running, Washingtonian’s "Titans of Technology,” Business Insider’s “Top 5 East Coast VCs” and the Washington Business Journal's "Outstanding Director Award.”

- VC-backed MapR hires chief revenue officer
MapR Technologies, a converged data platform provider, has appointed Jim Kowalski as chief revenue officer. Previously, Kowalski worked at Marketo and has held several senior leadership roles at Oracle. MapR's backers include Future Fund, Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, Qualcomm Ventures and Redpoint Ventures.


- VC-backed Sonatype appoints Fox as CTO
Sonatype, which helps companies improve their software supply chains, has named Brian Fox as chief technology officer. Fox is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and former chair of the Apache Maven project. Sonatype is backed by New Enterprise Associates, Accel Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Bay Partners and Goldman Sachs.
