Collective Intellect raises an additional $6.6M

TechCrunch is reporting that Collective Intellect has raised another $6.6M. This brings the total financing to $9.2M. This is the second significant deal that was participated in by GroTech Capital which recently invested $5.6M in HiveLive. Previous coverage of Collective Intellect is here, including a podcast with the head honchos that I did in November, …

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Calling Tango Blue

Paul Berberian is one of the smartest guys I know. He’s best known around town as one of the founders of Raindance Communications. Last year, he started a company called Zuzingo which makes Zenie Bottles. Just one year into it, Paul folded the company last week. In a great post laying it all out, Paul …

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VideoBloom In The Mountains

I had the pleasure to recently interview Antoine Toffa, Founder and CEO, of VideoBloom. Toffa has been in Colorado for 14 years, working as an Internet serial entrepreneur since 1996, after working as a GM for US West/MediaOne and Time Warner Interactive. His big success came with Trip.com that was sold to Galileo in 2000 …

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Survey Gizmo: Moving On Up!

Survey Gizmo hosted a fun, friendly open house party last Friday. Located on Spruce St (with an unobstructed view of the Flatirons) in a charming blue house, co-founders Scott McDaniel and Derek Scruggs were cool enough to give us this tour of their new digs. *In the video I reference the presentation at New Tech …

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Umbria acquired

Umbria (new media intelligence and sentiment analysis) announced today that it has been acquired by JD Power for an undisclosed amount. The 40 person Umbria team should continue to operate from Boulder, according to Tech Rockies. Other Colorado companies in a related space include Collective Intellect and Filtrbox.

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Lijit Office Tour & Million Page View Party!

Yesterday was a very special day at the Lijit offices. Whenever the team doubles the number of page views in a day, they take a shot (out of customized Lijit shot glasses). Lijit’s CEO Todd Vernon was kind enough to show us around.

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