A new Inrix Inc. study ranks the Interstate 70 corridor through Colorado as the fourth most suitable spot in the U.S. to deploy driverless trucking technology.
Seven researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) won awards and fellowships from the American Meteorological Society. Fei Chen, an NCAR senior scientist, will receive the Helmut E. Landsberg Award recognizing an individual or team with exemplary contributions to the fields of urban meteorology, climatology or hydrology.
The Israel-Colorado Innovation Fund has made an investment in the Israeli startup Kando. Kando monitors wastewater in real-time through a cloud-based software solution that tracks and monitors key wastewater quality parameters, making it ideal for wastewater utilities to gain insight into their system dynamics. The ICI is joining other investors in Kando’s Series A round of financing. Kando will use the funds for product and business development as the company grows.
A new pitch competition is coming for Adams County startups. The StartUp North Adams County Pitch Competition is the first to be open exclusively for business owners and entrepreneurs specifically in Adams County. The winners are competing for a $20,000 prize package that includes legal services from Lewis Brisbois, marketing services from Honest Films and pitch preparation and advice from Rockies Venture Club. The prize package is being raised through private funds.
The Colorado Department of Transportation doesn't have much money to pay for big ideas. But big ideas are still bubbling at the state agency. The Vail Town Council on Tuesday, Sept. 4, heard a presentation from Peter Kozinski, a one-man department for the department's RoadX Program. That program is designed to envision how technology can improve the state's transportation system.
Sponsored research funding at the University of Colorado Boulder reached a record-breaking $511.1 million in the 2017-2018 fiscal year, topping the $507.9 million recorded the prior year. Numbers for the 2017-2018 fiscal year are preliminary, with final numbers expected later this year. The CU system as a whole also saw record levels of research funding, bringing in $1.053 billion in 2017-18.
The Colorado Small Business Development Center (SBDC), a division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade, received a $125,000 grant in support of its technology program.
It started with eBay and Craigslist. Then came Uber. Airbnb disrupted the hotel industry and new startup TaskRabbit promises to do the same thing for temporary staffing firms. Increasingly, people are turning to what’s now being called the shared economy for goods and services, cutting out corporations and creating a peer-to-peer ecommerce network.
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All systems are go for a small airport east of Denver to become Spaceport Colorado, a take-off spot for tourists catching rides to space. The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday approved a commercial spaceport license for Front Range Airport in Adams County, six miles south of Denver International Airport, the county said.
Adams County will receive the 11th license in the United States to operate a spaceport, according to a news release distributed on Friday afternoon. The Federal Aviation Administration granted the county north of Denver the license after a 180-day review period. This designation would allow vehicles to make horizontal takeoffs and landings at the former Front Range Airport site.
Uber e-bikes have officially hit the streets of Denver, joining hundreds of electronic, dockless scooters that are already zipping around the city. Denver is the eighth city that Uber has launched its new service in following its acquisition of bike-sharing startup Jump in April.
A Seattle-based financial company that offers incentives to homeowners in exchange for listing their space on Airbnb has quietly moved into the Denver market, although it appears to be experimenting with a different business model.
The Greater Colorado Venture Fund announced this morning that it has officially launched its venture capital fund, which is specifically aimed at investing in early stage companies outside of the Front Range in Colorado.
Democratic nominee Jared Polis, a tech millionaire, just dropped a blockchain technology policy into the Colorado governor’s race, while also inviting those who are into cryptocurrency to use it to donate his campaign.
AF CyberWorx has launched its first-ever open design challenge. The online competition is designed to allow people to participate from around the nation, bringing together a greater mix of ideas from industry, government and academia, according to a news release issued by CyberWorx.
The Defense Department is concerned that enemies could use data from American soldiers GPS-empowered fitness trackers to track U.S. military operations. The rapidly evolving market of devices, applications and services with geolocation capabilities presents a significant risk to the Department of Defense personnel on and off duty, and to our military operations globally, Pentagon spokesman Col. Robert Manning said.
Agribotix LLC, a Boulder-based drone-enabled software company, soon will have a new owner. AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. based in Neodesha, Kan., has signed an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Agribotix, the companies announced. AgEagle provides drone imagery data analytics for the precision and sustainable agriculture markets.
Jared Polis spoke at the first-ever DISCON blockchain conference in Boulder on Saturday. Polis officially appeared at the event in his capacity as a congressman, not as the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, so he focused his remarks on his efforts as a congressman to fairly regulate blockchain.
Blockchain’s role in potentially transforming real estate transactions will be discussed at the first-ever DISCON, or Distributed Consensus, blockchain conference in Boulder Friday and Saturday.
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and Panasonic Corporation of North America announced they are building on a successful pilot program to begin real-world deployment of the most advanced vehicle-to-everything (V2X) environment in the country. The collaboration represents the largest shared investment in V2X technology in the U.S.
PuppTech launched an Indiegogo Campaign for the award-winning PuppComm, a portable, cloud-connected monitoring device that gives dog-owners peace of mind to know their dog is always in a safe environment.
Radar Relay, a blockchain-based wallet-to-wallet cryptocurrency trading platform, has secured $10 million in Series A funding, it announced Wednesday. The Colorado-based company is on something of a roll. In May, Radar Relay became the first blockchain-based and cryptocurrency-related company to receive funding from the state of Colorado through the Advanced Industry Accelerator Program.
Denver officials forced electric scooter companies to cease operations in the city two months ago. Now, the scooters are back and operating under new rules. Here's what you need to know.