Monthly Archives: January 2010

Bioscience Day at the Capitol

CBSA held its second annual day at the Capitol, which featured brief remarks from several state legislators affirming their support for the industry along with a presentation from Patrick Kelly of BIO and a panel discussion on state legislative priorities.
Kelly rehashed some points from last year’s presentation on the key state attributes to create a [...]

AmideBio Brings in Seed Funding

AmideBio, LLC announced that it has closed a round of seed funding. The source and the amount of funding were not disclosed by the company. The proceeds of the round will be used to complete initial product optimization using its recombinant hydrid manufacturing technology. AmideBio has an exclusive license, announced two week ago, [...]

The Week Ahead: Jan 25 – Feb 1

The week begins with an Entrepreneurs Unplugged at CU Boulder featuring the leadership team from Rally Software. Tuesday brings a workshop on Term Sheets from the RVC and a Colorado Cleantech Initiative. Wednesday sees CBSA’s Colorado Bioscience Day at the Capitol in the morning and the first meeting of the Denver/Boulder Chapter of [...]

NewsGator Acquires Tomoye

NewsGator announced that it has acquired Tomoye, which provides a community and social platform for organization’s using SharePoint. Along with its product offering, Tomoye brings a strong presence in the government sector including the social community for the US Army with over 150,000 users. NewsGator, whose previous customer base was concentrated in the [...]

January New Tech Meetup – Denver

New Tech Meetup held its Denver edition last night and featured two new company presentations along with Matt Emmi (new gadgets) and Su Hawk (potential changes to CO software tax law), who revisited their presentations from the Boulder meeting.
ProVault allows individuals going through a divorce to prepare their sworn financial disclosure online, a process [...]

GlobeImmune Brings in $17.5M Round

GlobeImmune, Inc. today announced a $17.5M Series E Preferred Stock financing round. The round was led by Generali Financial Holding and BSI SA, both new investors, and participated in by several existing investors. Both the new investors are focused in the healthcare market. According to GlobeImmune CEO Timothy C. Rodell M.D. , [...]

The Week Ahead: Jan 18 – Jan 25

The week kicks off with two events tonight: a Mobile Monday Colorado Meetup and a DaVinci Institute Event featuring Filtrbox founder Ari Newman. Tuesday brings the Denver Edition of New Tech Meetup. Friday and Saturday offer PodCamp Boulder and next Monday brings the leaders of Rally Software out for an edition of Entrepreneurs [...]

OneRiot Launches RiotWise Real-Time Ad Network

Today, OneRiot announced the broad availability of RiotWise, an ad network for the real-time web. The network can provide contextually relevant ads to real-time applications, clients and search engines. Developers have flexibility in displaying the ads from traditional banner displays to integration into the real-time stream. Based on its pilot, OneRiot reports [...]

miRagen Establishes Scientific Advisory Board Including Nobel Winner Cech

miRagen Therapeutics announced the formation of its Scientific Advisory Board. The board will be led by miRagen’s Chief Scientific Adviser and Co-Founder Eric Olson, Professor and Chairman of Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Among the first appointees to the board is Thomas Cech who won the Nobel Prize [...]

AmideBio Licenses Protein Manufacture Method from CU

AmideBio LLC has executed an exclusive license with the University of Colorado to develop, manufacture, and commercialize peptides based on the work of CU Boulder Associate Professor Michael Stowell. The technology licensed encompasses a method to manufacture recombinant proteins and peptides that is believed to be both economically viable and sustainable. Recombinant proteins [...]