Daz Productions and Control4: good looking Utah companies

It’s nice to see some great Utah companies presenting this year at VCIR. I just watched Daz Productions show off Daz3d, which “strives to bring 3D art directly to the masses by delivering the highest quality digital 3D content and software at the most affordable prices.” It does so with some pretty bad-ass 3d modeling …

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Filtrbox to deliver affordable business grade content monitoring and filtering

Boulder-based Filtrbox, a Techstars company which just had a coming out party of sorts here today at VCIR, is nearing launch of their content monitoring service. I’ve been using the early product since early on at Techstars and getting critical content updates each morning in my inbox. I’ve sort of come to depend on it, …

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Newmerix, ProStor VCIR presentations

By popular request, I’ll try to cover the companies I see here at VCIR today. Note that this will be at most half of the companies who present here today. Superior based Newmerix has raised over $21M thus far for their automated lifecycle management solutions for Oracle, SAP, and PeopleSoft. Newmerix covers the complete lifecycle …

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Venture Capital in the Rockies kicks off

Venture Capital in the Rockies (VCIR) kicks off today with presentations from some interesting looking companies. I’m particularly excited to hear from Family Link, Filtrbox, Format Dynamics, HiveLive, SocialThing, Yieldex, and others. And, although it’s outside my area of interest, I’m excited to see Isonas here. I’m a customer at my office, and this is …

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Colorado companies to present at upcoming “Under the Radar” event

I recently received the list of presenting companies at the Dealmaker Media Under the Radar conference being held at Microsoft’s Mountain View campus on March 20th. Colorado companies presenting there include: DocSyncer (covered 10/15/07) Filtrbox – A Techstars company from 2007 which has not yet had their coming out party. HiveLive (covered 12/14/06) Knock em …

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My Sex Life, Your Money

Let’s say you’re a woman of a certain age and you’re seeking funding for your startup from a Venture Capital firm. You don a skirt, heels and mascara and knock at the VC’s door. Somewhere during the conversation he “slips in” a question about your marital or reproductive status. The investor asks about what happens …

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