August 31, 2009 – 5:05 pm
On August 25 Metzger Associates, Holme Roberts and Owen LLP, and Investor Avenue.com presented the Summer InvestorAvenue Forum at Metzger’s Boulder offices. This invitation-only event featured ten startups – nine technology companies and a real estate development company – that each presented for five minutes. The audience was comprised of accredited investors, qualified purchasers, [...]
August 31, 2009 – 10:07 am
All this week’s action happens on Tuesday as event organizers seem to have steered well clear of the approaching Labor Day weekend. Tuesday morning sees a Boulder Open Coffee and the afternoon provides a Bioscience Business Roundtable at the Denver Athletic Club. The evening features two user groups hosted at Microsoft – Access [...]
August 28, 2009 – 4:11 pm
That $1 Burger Costs How Much: Some of the more interesting conversations that have risen above partisan bickering in the recent health care reform debate are novel ideas to control costs, which will be important regardless who ends up footing the bill for and administering healthcare. Many of these ideas can be classified as [...]
August 28, 2009 – 8:58 am
OneRiot announced today that it has secured a $7M Series C round led by its existing venture capital firms, Appian Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures and Spark Capital. The company’s real-time search engine powers OneRiot.com and its API is used by third parties to deliver real-time search results. OneRiot differs from a traditional search [...]
August 27, 2009 – 11:00 am
The organizers of the Rocky Mountain Life Science Investor Conference (RMLIC) have announced the selection of the final 13 of the 30 total companies which will present at the event to be held September 17 in Denver. The event – co-hosted by the Colorado Bioscience Association (CBSA) and the Arizona BioIndustry Organization (AZBio) with [...]
August 26, 2009 – 11:27 am
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc (NASDAQ:ASTI) announced the successful completion of internal qualification of the packaging for its flexible thin-film modules. Ascent’s proprietary technique allows for the deposition of CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-diselenide) on a plastic substrate. Ascent tested its packaging solution based on guidelines set forth by the International Electrotechnical Commission in IEC 61646. [...]
August 25, 2009 – 3:13 pm
The Lunch Box, a new web portal providing practical nutritional information to school officials, officially launched its beta site today. The Lunch Box is a project of the Food, Family, Farming Foundation, which is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado and was founded by Chef Ann Cooper, a lunch lady, activist and author. The site [...]
August 24, 2009 – 1:54 pm
On Thursday the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (EFCO) held its first recruitment party at the offices of Rally Software. The non-profit is designed as a vehicle for charitable giving by start-ups and newly formed companies, whereby the young firms give EFCO 1% of their common stock. Were an exit event to occur – usually in [...]
August 24, 2009 – 8:30 am
The last week of August is relatively light in terms of events. The week provides several user groups throughout the week and a Front Range Blogger Meetup on Wednesday. For the BioScience crowd, CBSA will be offering a tour of the Incubator facilities at Fitzsimons on Thursday afternoon. The week also see [...]
August 21, 2009 – 12:56 pm
Playing without a net: The rumble heard over the northeastern horizon during the last week was not, in fact, late summer storms but instead the arrival of 55 tractor trailers carrying over two million pounds of equipment to (literally) stage the production of Cirque du Solleil’s KOOZA. Running until September 27th at Denver’s Pepsi Center [...]
