Mountain View, Calif. -- Soasta, a Mountain View-based developer of tools for the testing and certification of software for web services, said on Friday that it has secured $2.25 million in its first round of funding. The round was led by Canaan Partners, with several private investors also participating. The company said that it willuse the capital to launch new products. Ken Gardner, the founder, chairman and CEO of Soasta, previously was the founder, president and CEO of Istante, which was acquired by Oracle in 2005.
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