Category: Boulder/Denver

PharmaJet Obtains $2,500,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=06844572-5a0d-4445-80e9-a6ed62a4d76d&Preview=1 Date 4/15/2013 Company Name PharmaJet Mailing Address 400 Corporate Circle Golden, CO 80401 Company Description Our product delivers pharmaceuticals – vaccines and drugs – through the skin. We accomplish this using jet injection technology. We do not use needles – big or small, or patches of any kind. Website http://www.pharmajet.com Transaction … Continue reading “PharmaJet Obtains $2,500,000 New Funding Round”

Denver Open Coffee Club

Long-running biweekly open and informal meetup for entrepreneurs, startups, and investors, featuring discussion of the hottest tech news. Free to attend with purchase of coffee and tip for barista.

Startup Weekend Boulder VI

The 54-hour competition for developers, designers, marketers, product managers, and startup enthusiasts returns to Boulder, where it was launched in 2007. Teams form Friday night to launch startups and present their companies Sunday night. Prizes go to top teams. Speakers scheduled to appear include Brad Feld, David Cohen and Ingrid Alongi. Cost $99 per person, … Continue reading “Startup Weekend Boulder VI”

TEDxCU

TED talks come to CU-Boulder, with local entrepreneurs, activists, and researchers sharing “ideas worth spreading.” Tickets are $10 for students, $20 for others. Learn more and purchase tickets at its website.  

New Tech Denver Monthly Meetup

Denver’s version of Colorado’s largest monthly gathering of entrepreneurs and techies, with presentations from great companies, networking, and job leads. $10 donation is requested. Registration through Meetup.com required. More information, including agenda and list of companies presenting, and registration information at  its website.  

North American IPv6 Summit

Two-day convention discusses the ongoing transition to IPv6. Sponsored by Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force (RMv6TF) in conjunction with Regional North America IPv6 Task Forces. Google chief Internet evangelist Vinton Cerf is scheduled to give the keynote address Thursday morning. More information is available here.

Rally Opens Strong on Wall Street with $400M Market Cap; Stock Up

The opening act has been great so far for Rally Software Development, but only after more than a decade of work. Rally’s (NYSE: [[ticker:RALY]]) IPO this morning was worth $84 million, with its shares pricing at $14. The stock started climbing when trading opened and traded around $18 in the late morning, an increase of … Continue reading “Rally Opens Strong on Wall Street with $400M Market Cap; Stock Up”

15 Appetizing Apps for People Who Love to Cook and Eat

Phones and food are a match cooked up in heaven. Sometimes it seems as if our mobile gadgets were specifically designed to mesh with our cooking and eating habits. After all, you don’t lug your desktop or laptop computer with you when you’re going out to a restaurant. When you want to find a great … Continue reading “15 Appetizing Apps for People Who Love to Cook and Eat”

Rally Beats Expectations With $84M IPO, Shares to Trade This Morning

Rally Software Development beat expectations for its IPO, scheduled this morning. The company raised $84 million. Rally, a Boulder, CO-based company that develops cloud-based project management tools for software developers, set the price of its common stock at $14 per share and sold 6 million shares. Last week, Rally said it would offer 5.75 million … Continue reading “Rally Beats Expectations With $84M IPO, Shares to Trade This Morning”

Foursquare’s New Cash, New Focus: Why Local is So Damn Hard

Back in 2009, with the smartphone revolution just taking off, savvy app-makers started playing around with ways to use the iPhone’s GPS features, tracking where users are in real time. The sharpest among them, it turned out, wound up building little games that encouraged people to “check in” at places they visited in the real … Continue reading “Foursquare’s New Cash, New Focus: Why Local is So Damn Hard”

Rally Software Obtains $84,000,000 New Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bc4da81c-8848-450f-a169-29501b62aab2&Preview=1 Date 4/12/2013 Company Name Rally Software Mailing Address 3333 Walnut St Boulder, CO 80301 Company Description One way to describe Rally (NYSE: RALY) is to say we are absolutely dedicated to making your development organization faster, leaner and more agile. In fact, we think helping you be “on time and on … Continue reading “Rally Software Obtains $84,000,000 New Financing Round”

Biodesix Receives $8,800,000 Series D Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=f3604ea7-6ce5-4e2d-9106-aea73eb5a383&Preview=1 Date 4/12/2013 Company Name Biodesix Mailing Address 2970 Wilderness Place Boulder, CO 80301 Company Description Biodesix was founded in 2005 to apply the principles of complex data analysis and mass spectrometry (MS) to the discovery and development of improved multivariate tests that give physicians better information to understand the patient and … Continue reading “Biodesix Receives $8,800,000 Series D Round”

Rally Software Secures $84,000,000 New Funding Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bc4da81c-8848-450f-a169-29501b62aab2&Preview=1 Date 4/12/2013 Company Name Rally Software Mailing Address 3333 Walnut St Boulder, CO 80301 Company Description One way to describe Rally (NYSE: RALY) is to say we are absolutely dedicated to making your development organization faster, leaner and more agile. In fact, we think helping you be “on time and on … Continue reading “Rally Software Secures $84,000,000 New Funding Round”

Tagwhat’s “Feed” App Serves Up Deals in Right Place at Right Time

It’s 4:30 p.m. on a Friday, which means it’s time to wrap up the workweek with coworkers and friends at a local happy hour. You get to pick the place and want to go to someplace new, but you don’t know that many places nearby. A few blocks away, the owner of a new bar … Continue reading “Tagwhat’s “Feed” App Serves Up Deals in Right Place at Right Time”

Stop Managing Your Career and Start a Company

First, a full confession. I have not read Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In.” I do have her book on my Kobo e-reader. I will read it this weekend. My fellow tech CEO friends highly recommend it. I know I am going to love it too. But my unintentional avoidance of “Lean In” (my “leaning out”?) goes … Continue reading “Stop Managing Your Career and Start a Company”

Startup Communities Are Messy: Highlights & Slideshow with Brad Feld

(Xconomy contributor Juliet Preston helped pull this story together) It’s one thing to read a leading tech investor’s new book on building entrepreneurial ecosystems, and another thing altogether to host him in a sweet living room art gallery with a couple dozen of San Diego’s tech leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs. With help from the Cooley … Continue reading “Startup Communities Are Messy: Highlights & Slideshow with Brad Feld”

Venture Deals Neared $7B in First Quarter, Up From 2012

We recently looked at which venture capitalists were raising money last quarter. Now we’ve got some insight into how they spent it. Research firm CB Insights says it tracked $6.9 billion in VC investments nationwide in the first quarter of this year, spread across 841 deals. Those totals represented a steady pace compared with the … Continue reading “Venture Deals Neared $7B in First Quarter, Up From 2012”

WellTok Raises $18.7M Series B to Gamify Healthcare, Gets New CEO

If your health insurance company has you playing games, you’re probably not happy. If you talk about insurance or healthcare to your friends on a social network, the odds are you’re complaining. But a growing number of companies are trying to change that by improving consumers’ experiences and engaging them—in part through gaming and social … Continue reading “WellTok Raises $18.7M Series B to Gamify Healthcare, Gets New CEO”

The Ultimate “Lean In”: Starting Your Own Company

Sheryl Sandberg brings a much-needed voice to the table on female leadership. She speaks from the vantage point of a strong executive who has made her way to the top. Her concept of leaning in and not leaving before you leave is important, but all this comes from an employee’s view. About four years ago, … Continue reading “The Ultimate “Lean In”: Starting Your Own Company”

Lighting the Way to Better Understanding of the Brain

We are enamored by our brains. Arguably the most complex system in the universe that is made up of over 80 billion neurons, the brain is a complex organ that can be a source of marvel and devastation, from human consciousness to neurodegenerative disease. The triumph of overcoming brain disease and injury is captivating: Neuroscientist … Continue reading “Lighting the Way to Better Understanding of the Brain”

WellTok Obtains Series B Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3295546d-f145-4a8a-8c78-934afa34e835&Preview=1 Date 4/10/2013 Company Name WellTok Mailing Address 1530 15th Street Denver, CO 80202 Company Description Our social platform allows health plans to rapidly participate in the health care community in a new and powerful way, thus strengthening engagement and collaboration with their members. Website http://www.Welltok.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “WellTok Obtains Series B Round”

New World of Crowdfunding Waits as SEC Struggles to Complete its Job

Almost exactly one year ago, a new age for entrepreneurs and investors was supposed to have begun. On April 5, 2012, President Barack Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Startup Businesses, or JOBS Act, into law. Among the act’s provisions were changes to regulations governing how entrepreneurs, startups, and small companies could raise money through crowdfunding … Continue reading “New World of Crowdfunding Waits as SEC Struggles to Complete its Job”

The Publishing Industrial Complex is Dead. Long Live the Publishers!

When Fred Wilson wrote about Simplified Content Marketing, he got hundreds of comments, many of them saying essentially that this was nothing new. They are wrong. There’s something really dramatically new going on, but the shift is so massive, so tectonic, that it’s a little hard to even see while being in the middle of … Continue reading “The Publishing Industrial Complex is Dead. Long Live the Publishers!”

The Brain Map Shouldn’t Get $100M a Year. It Should Get Much More

The human brain, as Francis Collins recently said, “is the most complicated organ in the universe.” We only have vague ideas today of how it works at the level of genes, and neural circuits. Deeper understanding could help us unravel some of today’s great mysteries, from autism to Alzheimer’s to epilepsy. The sequencing of the … Continue reading “The Brain Map Shouldn’t Get $100M a Year. It Should Get Much More”

Boulder Tech Companies Looking for Job Seekers Ready to Take Flight

Come enjoy beautiful Boulder, Colorado, America’s best place to live—on us. That’s the message a handful of entrepreneurs and supporters are trying to spread with this year’s Boulder Startup Week, which will run from May 15 to 19. The event, now in its fourth year, has evolved into a festival that’s equal parts party, networking … Continue reading “Boulder Tech Companies Looking for Job Seekers Ready to Take Flight”

Eye on the Living Room: How Dropcam Makes Surveillance Feel Safe

Ten years ago this month, I edited a cover story for MIT’s Technology Review magazine called “Surveillance Nation.” Written by veteran science journalist Charles Mann and network security guru Dan Farmer, the story looked at the state of digital video circa 2003 and envisaged a near future where every home, business, and street would be … Continue reading “Eye on the Living Room: How Dropcam Makes Surveillance Feel Safe”

Crash Course for Colorado Biotech Entrepreneurs Coming April 18

Who said startup accelerators and boot camps were just for software companies? The Colorado BioScience Association will host a two-day “BioBoot Camp” in Denver on April 18 and 19. The event is intended to help scientists and entrepreneurs who are doing promising research understand how to commercialize their discoveries and build companies. The program is … Continue reading “Crash Course for Colorado Biotech Entrepreneurs Coming April 18”

Social Media Monitor Gnip Grows With Reddit, Instagram, Bitly Feeds

The amount of information companies can glean from social media is getting broader, its impact is reaching deeper, and the number of sources businesses need to follow is growing. To keep up, Gnip, one of the leading collectors and providers of social media data, has added new feeds from six companies, including Reddit and Instagram, … Continue reading “Social Media Monitor Gnip Grows With Reddit, Instagram, Bitly Feeds”

Now is the Time to Push for a Robot-Assisted Surgery Revolution

As recently reported in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Bloomberg News, there is a controversy brewing over robotic surgery and whether it is superior to alternative surgical approaches. Robotic training practices have also been questioned and it has been debated whether surgeons are receiving enough supervised cases before flying solo. What … Continue reading “Now is the Time to Push for a Robot-Assisted Surgery Revolution”

Sierra Nevada Corp. Building Space Industry Around “Dream Chaser”

This year, the first completed Dream Chaser test vehicle is slated to undergo its first unmanned drop-flight tests from 12,000 feet at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in California. The Dream Chaser is the only winged spacecraft still in NASA’s commercial crew program competition, and the only space plane in development that will carry humans … Continue reading “Sierra Nevada Corp. Building Space Industry Around “Dream Chaser””

Sequencing Seattle: An Idea for the Future of the Northwest

Let me make a modest proposal:  Seattle should commit to sequencing and interpreting the genomes of every willing member of its population and should do it within the next five years.  This program would elevate Seattle to the forefront of personalized genomic medicine, leverage many advantages unique to our area, and create a vibrant and … Continue reading “Sequencing Seattle: An Idea for the Future of the Northwest”

SEC’s New Social Media Guidance: Sensible, Fair, Inevitable

Give the SEC a lot of credit…the headline they chose for their press release yesterday about public companies using social media could not have been more clear: “SEC Says Social Media OK for Company Announcements if Investors Are Alerted.” With those words, and a full report here, the commission has blessed the inevitable modernization of corporate … Continue reading “SEC’s New Social Media Guidance: Sensible, Fair, Inevitable”

UrgentRx Garners $2,500,000 Series B Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bda0cdf6-6b79-4957-a271-28fa51dd9ba4&Preview=1 Date 4/3/2013 Company Name UrgentRx Mailing Address 1610 Wynkoop St Denver, CO 80202 Company Description UrgentRx is a line of fast-acting, portable OTC medications providing right now relief for today’s busy, “on-the-go” consumer. UrgentRx Fast Powders come in an innovative, fast-acting flavored powder format available in convenient, single-dose, credit-card-sized packets for … Continue reading “UrgentRx Garners $2,500,000 Series B Round”

BusyLife Software Secures $1,225,000 Seed Financing Round

Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0b27235b-eb63-4185-a6db-c3c7afa652fc&Preview=1 Date 4/3/2013 Company Name BusyLife Software Mailing Address 1624 Market Street Denver, CO 80202 Company Description We are dedicated to the success of our merchants and a world empowered to Do More, Simply. BusyLife Software powers the success of merchants by providing “best in class” mobile commerce solutions which drive sales … Continue reading “BusyLife Software Secures $1,225,000 Seed Financing Round”

Rally Releases More Details on Impending IPO

Rally Software Development’s expected initial public offering could be worth nearly $86 million, according to documents filed today with the SEC. The Boulder, CO-based company said in the filing that it plans to offer 5.75 million shares at a price of between $11 and $13. Underwriters will have the option of buying up to 862,500 … Continue reading “Rally Releases More Details on Impending IPO”

Healthcare IT: Making Good Progress

The cost of healthcare administration is a hot issue in America. According to the Center for American progress, in the U.S. healthcare system an estimated $361 billion annually goes to cover administrative costs. That number is a 14 percent of total healthcare expenditure nationwide. Improvements in IT are expected to reduce these expenditures dramatically. The … Continue reading “Healthcare IT: Making Good Progress”

One of the Lucky Few: HighFive Kicks Off Nike+ Accelerator

Brent Gilmore was just looking for a Web domain. He wound up with a co-founder, a new company, and a trip across the country. Gilmore’s startup, HighFive, is part of the new Nike+ Accelerator program, a three-month product bootcamp run by prominent national startup accelerator TechStars. The program kicked off last month and runs through … Continue reading “One of the Lucky Few: HighFive Kicks Off Nike+ Accelerator”

Colorado’s $100 Million, or $150 Million, Venture Capital Mystery

Call it Colorado’s $100 million—or is it $150 million?—mystery. That’s part of the mystery too. Gov. John Hickenlooper on March 6 told members of the media the state of Colorado is about to create a $100 million or $150 million state-backed venture capital fund. The news came during a media briefing during a visit to … Continue reading “Colorado’s $100 Million, or $150 Million, Venture Capital Mystery”

Gilead Sciences Building on HIV, Becoming Cancer Drug Force

Gilead Sciences has had what you could call a “high-class problem” the last few years. Biotech companies that are great at one thing eventually must prove they can be great at something else. And Gilead is showing signs that it’s finally on its way to becoming a truly diversified biotech industry leader, with a plan … Continue reading “Gilead Sciences Building on HIV, Becoming Cancer Drug Force”

To Do Or Not To Do? That Is the Question

Do you really need a to-do list? In the age of personal optimization, when books like The 4-Hour Workweek peddle the idea that you could be superhumanly productive if you just had the right tools, the question is almost blasphemous. Of course you need a to-do list. How else are you supposed to know what … Continue reading “To Do Or Not To Do? That Is the Question”

Scaling the Peak: Denver Out to Follow Boulder’s Entrepreneurial Ascent

When Bart Lorang decided to build his startup in Denver just over a year and a half ago, the city wasn’t exactly a lonely place. Denver has a lively downtown, cool neighborhoods, and a diverse and energetic population. Lorang is the co-founder and CEO of FullContact, which is developing a cloud-based system for managing online … Continue reading “Scaling the Peak: Denver Out to Follow Boulder’s Entrepreneurial Ascent”

Boulder and Denver, a Mile High Sibling Rivalry

Dear Xconomy, Welcome to Colorado. We’re glad to have you, but there’s a… thing you should know about. From the outside, the startup environment in Colorado just seems like one big funky but remarkably effective family of startup goodness. But, like any family, we have our internecine feuds. We are speaking, of course, about the … Continue reading “Boulder and Denver, a Mile High Sibling Rivalry”

Telling the Story of Colorado Innovation, from Molecules to the Moon

Great communities deserve great journalism. It’s one of the most important lessons I’ve learned in my career. And even with all the drama surrounding the media’s alleged decline, even with all the fretting over what will—or won’t—replace it, that truth remains. Why? Because there are too many great stories that need to be told, and … Continue reading “Telling the Story of Colorado Innovation, from Molecules to the Moon”

Announcing Xconomy Boulder/Denver—7th Region in Our Network

Thank you Boulder and Denver! We are extremely pleased to announce today the launch of Xconomy Boulder/Denver, the seventh bureau in our growing network of news sites covering the business of technology in key innovation clusters around the United States. We couldn’t have done it without the incredible support of the entrepreneurial and innovation communities … Continue reading “Announcing Xconomy Boulder/Denver—7th Region in Our Network”

Still Waiting for the Ships to Come in at Third Rock Ventures

Third Rock Ventures was in the enviable position of turning away some institutional investors when the life sciences venture firm recently closed on $516 million for its third venture fund. So first let me say, “Congratulations!” to team Third Rock. Mark Levin has demonstrated at Third Rock and as the chairman and CEO of Cambridge, … Continue reading “Still Waiting for the Ships to Come in at Third Rock Ventures”