Investors help HydroPoint launch web application

<p>Petaluma greentech startup HydroPoint Data Systems has raised $720,000 in venture funding and launched new technology for its web-based irrigation control system.</p><p>Customers who use its WeatherTrak water management system will save 17 billion gallons this year, the company said.</p><p>WeatherTrak downloads real-time data from 40,000 U.S. weather stations to control landscape irrigation at customers' locations.</p><p>On Tuesday, HydroPoint launched a web-based management application for WeatherTrak that helps users with site monitoring, troubleshooting, diagnostics and reporting.</p><p>WeatherTrak is used by corporations, commercial property managers, water distributors, developers, green irrigation designers and homeowners.</p><p>Earlier this month, HydroPoint sold $720,000 of a $2 million equity offering, according to U.S. securities regulators.</p><p>HydroPoint has raised more than $40 million in venture capital since it was founded in 2002. It has about 58 employees at its Petaluma headquarters.</p>