Monthly Archives: January 2010

The Week Ahead: Jan 11 – Jan 18

Activities pickup this week with the first Rockies Venture Club meeting of the year featuring leaders from several Colorado companies on the INC 500 Companies list. For the clean tech crowd, Wednesday offers a CORE Sustainability Breakfast in Denver and Thursday sees a Green Tech Meetup at CU Boulder. CSIA presents two events: [...]

January New Tech Meetup – Boulder

New Tech Meetup kicked of the year to a full house and a full slate of presenters. First up was Lorenzo Carver presenting Liquid Scenarios, which makes it easy to calculate the value of illiquid assets such as stock in a private company. According to Carver where the product really excels is when [...]

Filtrbox Acquired by Jive Software

Filtrbox announced that it has been acquired by Jive Software. Both companies are venture backed and play heavily in the social media space. Filtrbox allows users to set up “filtrs” for specific words to monitor mentions on both traditional and social media sites, including Twitter and Facebook. Jive expects to integrate Filtrbox [...]

Rally Software Scores $16M Funding Round

Rally Software announced that it has secured a $16M round of funding led by Greylock Partners. Rally is a leader in Agile application lifecycle management, providing products and services that facilitate software development using the Agile method. The new funds will allow for accelerated hiring of engineers. Rally has continued on a [...]

TechStars Alum Graphic.ly Attracts $1.2M

2009 Boulder TechStars Alum Graphic.ly (formerly Take Comics) has raised a $1.2M round of funding. The round was led by DFJ Mercury and was participated in by several other venture capital firms and individuals including TechStars Executive Director David Cohen. Graphic.ly aims to create a marketplace similar to iTunes for digital comic books, [...]

The Week Ahead: Jan 4 – Jan 11

In advance of the students returning from break, the first week on the New Year eases in with just a few events. Tuesday night sees the popular New Tech Meetup in Boulder. The DaVinci Institute also offers two events: a Night with a Futurist discussing nuclear power tonight and a Bootcamp on [...]