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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
The Week Ahead: IT, April 27-May 4
IT
Tue, Apr 28: Boulder .NET UG, 6:00, ECCR-200 CU Boulder
Tue, Apr 28: Denver Boulder Drupal Meetup, 6:30, DeProduction, Denver
Tue, Apr 28: Front Range Blogger Meetup, 7:00, Gordon Biersch Brewery, Broomfield
Wed, Apr 29: Boulder Ruby Coffee and Code, 8:30 am, The Cup, Boulder
Thu, Apr 30: CO Springs Open Source Software [...]
Boulder-based Big Green Company and its Big Green Rabbit site scored two “Official Honoree” designations from the Webby Awards, which are equivalent to the Emmy Awards for websites. The company received designation in the Best Use of Animation or Motion Graphics as well as the Youth category. The development of the site was [...]
Today it was announced that TechStars alumni Foodzie and Brightkite were named among BusinessWeek Magazine’s Best Young Technology Entrepreneurs. The list of fifteen firms was compiled with inputs from readers, investors, and the magazine’s editorial staff, and included only those companies with founders 30-years-old or younger.Foodzie, a San Francisco based online purveyor of artisan foods, [...]
When asked how a typical customer uses his products, SurveyGizmo CEO Scott McDaniel admits, “We have 40,000 customers doing 40,000 different things.” While such an answer usually indicates a marketing nightmare, this Boulder-based company has had no problem growing right out of its office space twice in the past two years. What SurveyGizmo offers [...]
Ping Identity announced the release of PingFederate 6.0, an extension of its Internet Single Sign-On capabilities. Ping’s products, built for deployment within enterprises, enable users to access different systems – whether residing within the enterprise or in the cloud like many SaaS products – via a single username and password sign in. The [...]
The Week Ahead: IT, April 20-April 27
IT
Wed, Apr 22: Boulder Ruby Coffee and Code, 8:30 am, The Cup, Boulder
Wed, Apr 22: Denver LAMP Meetup, 7:00, Associated Content, Denver
Wed, Apr 22: Front Range PHP UG, 7:00, Rockrimmon Library, CO Spring
Miscellaneous
Mon, Apr 20: Startup Junkie: Winning Big in a Down Economy, 6:15, MADCAP Theater, Westminster
Tue, Apr 21: [...]
The Rockies Venture Club’s April Meeting opened with two companies offering pitches to the audience. To start, Monty George presented Fossil Energy, Inc.’s approach to oil production. The company seeks previously underdeveloped fields with proven production and relies on horizontal drilling technology to maximize output, obviating the need to drill more deeply. George assured the [...]
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