According to a MoneyTree Survey (via BCBR), “eighteen companies in the Boulder Valley received venture capital funding totaling $266.8 million during first quarter 2008.” This doesn’t include angel investment – we’re just talking about reported VC investment. Outside of Boulder Valley, just eight more Colorado companies were funded in Q1 meaning that nearly 70% (18 …
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, …
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.
Storage Markets of Boulder was founded in January, and is building a prediction market in order to help spot trends, anticipate future prices, values and events, and to generally predict the future of the storage industry. “A prediction market is an online financial market where traders buy and sell a virtual security that is usually …
After my recent switch to Mac, I edited episode #4 of podcast with Collective Intellect using GarageBand. Previously, I had been using Audacity on my PC. The difference was that GarageBand output a MPEG-4 file instead of a simple MP3. After posting it on ClickCaster, I discovered that it wouldn’t necessarily be distributed in the …