Hara had continued its impressive market share and customer progress in the software category for managing carbon and energy, a category we call Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA). Backed by well-regarded investors and $20m in investment, Hara launched last summer and has taken this emerging market by storm. We named Hara as one of the 2010 Emerging ECA leaders in our vendor report published in January. Recently we caught up with Chris Farinacci, Chief Marketing Officer of Hara, and left impressed with the strong execution by Hara in the first half of this year.

The market for carbon accounting software in the U.S. last year was as small as an average venture capital funding round: about $10 million. But researchers are predicting that the market will boom to some $120 million by next year and $250 million by 2012. Competing for that cash are dozens of startups, as well as big players in the enterprise software field, along with firms that have strayed over from the field of environmental and health compliance.

"Hara co-founder and chief executive Amit Chatterjee told AFP that his mission in Denmark is to outline a "post-carbon economy" and "articulate the view from Silicon Valley" regarding businesses curbing greenhouse gases."