90% of Colorado VC dollars in Q1 flow into Boulder Valley

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 …

Continue Reading >

file under: Blog, Startups

Podcast: A Conversation with HiveLive’s John Kembel

Social networking. It’s all the rave these days thanks to major players such as MySpace, Facebook and BeBo. Social networks have traditionally been associated with computer-savvy teens and young adults sharing photos with their friends, embedding music on their profiles and writing notes to their mini-blogs. Now, companies are vying for more than just young, …

Continue Reading >

file under: Blog, Startups

Todd Vernon is also liveblogging VCIR

If you don’t give a crap about VCIR, at least you only have to deal with these posts all in one day. At least you’re not me, currently sitting through a pitch on semi-conductors in a language that I don’t recognize at all. I just noticed that Todd Vernon is also live-blogging VCIR, and making …

Continue Reading >

file under: Blog, Startups

HiveLive announces 5.6M in new funding at VCIR

HiveLive (covered previously, but significantly evolved since then) announced 5.6M in new funding from GroTech Capital and existing investors today. It was fun to watch John Kembel start off his pitch today with “Well, some stuff has changed since two months ago when we started preparing for VCIR, and now we’re done (fund raising)!” Previously, …

Continue Reading >

file under: Blog, Startups