CENTENNIAL -- Innovation Pavilion's TechrIoT, Colorado's first Internet of Things (IoT) entrepreneurial collaborative, announced it hosted its inaugural IoT-focused Demo Day for eight graduating...
We’re getting a look, from a unique angle, at the destruction Hurricane Matthew did to parts of Haiti. DigitalGlobe Inc., a Colorado company that does earth imagery taken from satellites, took pictures of six Haitian towns, before and after Hurricane Matthew hit the area. The towns are along the western side of Haiti’s southern peninsula. The after pictures were taken on Oct. 9, a few days after the hurricane moved through the area. More than 500 people were killed when the hurricane pummeled…
More than 100 educators from elementary, middle and high schools in Academy School District 20 will play games Friday, all in the name of learning. Next semester, some students will apply the strategies of Warrior, Sage and other gaming characters in math, science, social studies and English lessons. Eagleview Middle School is hosting a day-long training in the developing classroom trend of gamification, or game mechanics.
More states are tapping into the power of technology innovation to stimulate local economies...
The Colorado School of Mines in Golden is getting in on the crowdfunding game, launching a platform where students, faculty and staff can share their projects and collect donations. "By showcasing some innovative projects from our talented faculty and students, the Mines community can help them reach their goals," said Brian Winkelbauer, Mines Foundation president and CEO. The website, called "Gold Mine," launched Tuesday...
FORT COLLINS -- Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) conduct research, fix equipment, perform space walks ... and they vacuum. Although it has high-efficiency filters installed on...
The City of Fort Collins, Colorado State University, and Innosphere, Colorado’s leading technology incubator, have announced the winner of the first Innovate Fort Collins competition.
AURORA -- StartUp Health today announced the launch of StartUp Health Colorado, its second Regional Network Affiliate, and a model it pioneered last year with the launch of...
The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Investment and Innovation divvied up $3.4 million to 68 growth accelerators, including three in Colorado. Each of the accelerators has won $50,000 in the third annual competition meant to draw attention to financing gaps in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
DigitalGlobe Inc. said it's teaming with Amazon Web Services and other companies in an effort to broaden the availability of satellite imagery to scientists. Westminster-based DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) said "SpaceNet" will be "an online repository of satellite imagery and labeled training data that will advance the development of machine learning and deep learning algorithms that leverage remote sensing data."
It's almost time for Denver Startup Week, and already things are heating up. Event organizers and the University of Denver's Project X-ite recently announced the Denver Startup Week Challenge, asking the most innovative companies in Denver to give their best pitched to a panel of judges. The best pitch will win awards, which have not yet been named.
Tucked into home offices, rented shops and basements around town is the next batch of Steamboat Springs entrepreneurs.
Some are starting with modest ideas, like a duo of young clothing designers who want to help animals, while others bring decades of experience to operations that seem destined for success...
Six Colorado Springs companies made the 2016 Inc. 5000 list, up from just four last year and the most since 10 local firms made the list in 2012.
BombBomb, which was started in 2006 and develops software that makes it easier to record, send and track video email, topped the local companies on the list, ranking 665th with three-year revenue growth of 590 percent to $5.3 million last year...
A Denver customer-engagement software company is among the businesses helping to build the technological backbone of a 2.5 million-square-foot "smart city" development in the Washington, D.C., area. The Gramercy District is a planned $500 million development in Ashburn, Virginia, some 30 miles northwest of Washington. Denver-based Neon Mobile is a "strategic advisor" to 22 Capital Partners, the private equity firm behind the project. Key to Gramercy District is the idea that technology can be…
FORT COLLINS -- Proposals are sought for the first Innovate Fort Collins EV Charging Competition on Sept. 28-29. Finalists will present their proposals on how to charge electric vehicles in a way
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker joined Representative Jared Polis’s (D-CO 2nd District) in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday to recognize the contributions of America’s small and innovative firms in honor of Startup Across America Day. Speaking before an audience of entrepreneurs, Secretary Pritzker affirmed the Department of Commerce’s commitment to providing innovative small businesses like those in Boulder with the tools to compete in the global economy.
Redesigning Cities How Florida and Colorado are trying to build smart cities from the ground up Ambitious new cities Songdo and Masdar may not have lived up to their promise, but smaller projects in the US aim to be laboratories for sustainable city planning Plans for the development around Peña Station, led by Japanese tech giant Panasonic...
The last time U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker was in Boulder, she held court at Ball Aerospace with executives from some of the area's largest employers. On Thursday, it was young and eager startup entrepreneurs who got to shake her hand and bend her ear, as Pritzker joined Boulder Congressman Jared Polis to celebrate Startup Day Across America.
Tech jobs in data processing, hosting and related services saw the highest percentage of growth in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood area, according to a comprehensive report released Thursday by the Brookings Institute. The report looked in-depth at trends in America's advanced industries from 2013 to 2015. Advanced industries, as defined in the report, are those that conduct extensive research & development (R&D) and that employ a disproportionately level of high-tech, highly-skilled workers. "With…
On Monday, we launched into the Colorado Tech Tour with a roundup of incredible companies and organizations quietly doing amazing work in Colorado Springs that's putting our state on the map. Here's just a sample of what the night held, but dig in further to see what Southern Colorado is up to.
National Cybersecurity Center
Kickstarted by Gov. John Hickenlooper last year and given legislative backing this past session, the 501c(3) nonprofit National Cybersecurity Center dedicated to helping respond the threats, train officials and conduct research is getting ready for early operations to begin November 1....
July 29, 2016 Updated: Today at 7:30 am 0 Innovators in the Colorado Springs area will soon have the opportunity Monday to see a handful of local companies from various industries discuss how they use technology to their advantage. Monday is the first day of the Colorado Technology Association's Tech Tour, designed to build relationships among companies across the state. The group will include representatives from the association as well as various sponsor organizations throughout Colorado...
CENTENNIAL -- Steve Pearse, an entrepreneur and technology leader for 30 years, has been named chairman of the board at Innovation Pavilion. Pearse also has committed to an undisclosed investment in
BOULDER — Brad Feld, a national venture capital investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, has committed $100,000 to kick off the Blackstone...
FORT COLLINS -- In recognition of its strong commitment to economic engagement, Colorado State University has been designated as an Innovation amp; Economic Prosperity University by...