Wednesday morning’s CBSA BioBreakfast offered perspectives from two companies seeking to control bacterial infections, Sharklet Technologies and BioAmps, LLC. Up first was Mark Spiecker to describe Sharklet’s approach to controlling bacterial growth and especially difficult to kill biofilms. The company’s Sharklet surface technology creates a pattern that can be imprinted onto many plastic surfaces that [...]
Digital Globe Inc has set the IPO terms for its planned $250M offering. The Longmont, Colorado-based company plans to sell 14.7M shares at $16-18 each. If shares sell at the high-end of this range, the company’s valuation would be in excess of $800M. Digital Globe provides the most complete and accurate library [...]
April’s Colorado Cleantech Initiative began with Ron Ondechek of the Altira Group providing an overview of the energy-focused venture fund’s investment strategy. Altira, founded in 1996 and currently on its 5th fund, “defines energy technology very broadly” and as such invests across both clean and fossil based technologies. In investments, Altira is looking [...]
Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc, announced today that it has entered into its first joint development agreement (JDA) with MAST Biosurgergy, Inc, for the use of its Cerashield™ antimicrobial technology in one or more new surgical products. Under the JDA, MAST will have exclusive rights to develop specified products and negotiate commercialization terms for such products [...]
April 29, 2009 – 12:28 pm
Associated Content, Inc, announced it has closed a $6M Series C Round. The round was led by SoftBank Capital and Canaan Partners, both also Series B investors. Tim Armstrong, who provided the company’s founding investment, also participated in the round. Associated Content, based in Denver, operates an open content network. The [...]
A quick glance at the Ceragenix technology portfolio could likely result in the assumption that the company is developing two unrelated medical products. But CEO Steven Porter has a different understanding, seeing a connective theme behind the science of each product and similar types of business opportunities. Ceragenix possesses exclusive licenses to skin [...]
InDevR, Inc and the University of Colorado Technology Transfer office announced today that InDevR has licensed FluChip technology from the University. InDevR CEO Kathleen Rowlen, also a Professor at CU, was a lead investigator in the research behind FluChip in a combined effort between CU and the CDC in research sponsored by the NIH. [...]
April 28, 2009 – 11:16 am
Filtrbox and NewsGator announced a partnership today whereby Filtrbox will use some data collected by NewsGator to provide better results to their customers. Filtrbox, billed as “proactive market intelligence”, scours millions of traditional and new media news sources to provide a daily rated list of relevant content to users based on the “filtrs” (keywords) [...]
Albeo Technologies, Inc announced that its C-Series High Bay Luminaire has broken the $50 per kilo-lumen price barrier at an efficiency of 79 lumens per watt. The C-Series High Bay product uses white-LED lighting technology and is designed for industrial and commercial uses such as large retail facilities, warehouses, and data centers. For [...]
April 27, 2009 – 10:27 am
The final week of April offers the fourth edition of Ignite Boulder featuring a unique presentation style where each presenter has 20 slides which auto-advance after 15 seconds. Mid-week programming also includes a CORE Colorado Cleantech Initiative on Tuesday evening and a BioBreakfast on Wednesday morning. The week concludes with the first GreenFestival [...]
