Printer-friendly version MINNEAPOLIS and WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Officials from DTN, a global insight and analysis company, announced Friday (March 30) that the company has closed its acquisition of ag precision technology company Spensa Technologies Inc., in a strategic move to expand its global agricultural business and mobile presence.
Despite a national trend in the reduction of business starts, local leaders insist this is a good time for startup companies in Colorado Springs. A handful of industry leaders say the local landscape is primed for startup success, thanks to a variety of factors.
Colorado-based startup Pipeline, an artificial intelligence (AI) SaaS platform engineered to stop unconscious bias in the workplace, today announced it has joined the Salesforce Accelerate program. The program includes 18 startups in total and kicked off on January 31, 2018.
BOULDER — Techstars Boulder has selected its 12th class of 10 companies to go through its accelerator program. The lineup includes a mix of companies from Colorado, California, Minnesota, Tennessee, France and the United Kingdom. Founders from the companies represent seven different countries.
DURANGO — A high tech startup with its origins in Durango now ranks among the largest credit card processing companies in the world. Vantiv, originally Mercury Payment Systems when created, has purchased London-based Worldpay for $11 billion, according to a report in the Durango Herald.
The round of financing was led by one of the company's existing backers, the Foundry Group.
The next San Francisco startup adding an office in the Mile High City: campus food ordering app Tapingo.
The company, which handles mobile food orders on university campuses, leased 4,500 square feet downtown on the sixth floor of 1700 Broadway.
TORONTO -Colliers International Group Inc. (Nasdaq:CIGI) a commercial real estate services company based in Toronto, said Wednesday it has partnered with Boulder-based Techstars to launch the Colliers Proptech Accelerator. The accelerator program will identify and mentor startups around the globe that are developing new technologies for the real estate industry.
COLORADO -- More than $1 billion was invested in Colorado companies in 2017, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and CB Insights.
Techstars, the Boulder-based startup accelerator, is teaming up with two Minnesota companies — agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. and manufacturer Ecolab Inc. — to launch a startup accelerator in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
The Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association is inviting technology startup companies to make pitches to attendees of the group’s fourth annual conference.
BOULDER — The city of Boulder is joining a national “startup in residence” program that connects government agencies with technology startups that can address civic and administrative challenges. Boulder is one of 11 cities to join the public-private partnership network that has startups work with local government to modernize it. Startups, individuals or teams are encouraged to apply for the program and applications are due Dec. 10.
The Boulder startup accelerator's new fund would dwarf the $150M VC fund it raised in 2015.
By Peter Adams Executive Director Rockies Venture Club We've known for years that Colorado has more startups per capita than anywhere else. Yes ndash; per capita.
DENVER -- Colorado companies with technologies that could prevent blindness in glaucoma patients, create more effective ways of delivering medications in the body, and even a workforce development app.
DENVER -- Choozle, a self-service programmatic ad platform, today announced it has raised $6 million in a Series B funding round from previous investors.
Innosphere announced a three-tiered program Thursday afternoon to scale up its abilities, including building a $15 million Denver facility and $3 million Fort Collins expansion. The incubator, which focuses on early-stage science and technology startups, held presentations in Denver and Fort Collins sharing its plans.
Boulder’s MergeLane is one of 20 winners in the U.S. Small Business Administration’s competition highlighting accelerators.
Catalyst Accelerator Program Director Rebecca Decker said the extension gives Catalyst Accelerator and Air Force Research Lab teams more time to meet with potential participants and mentors nationwide, and “to nationally market this program, the campus, [the Center for Technology, Research and Commercialization] and Colorado Springs as a center for research and development.”
Nymbl Science took the first-place award of $45,000 at the 2017 Prime Health Challenge for developing a comprehensive system for measuring, tracking, and improving balance for patients
The funds will be used for a new accelerator in Texas geared toward companies solving social or environmental problems through tech.
This week, Denver-based SendGrid filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The Techstars grad, which delivers cloud-based email services for more than 55,000 customers worldwide, was founded in 2009 and has since grown steadily, opening offices in London, San Francisco and Orange County and expanding to a team of more than 400 employees across markets.
Denver is one of the top U.S. cities for entrepreneurs and tech startups, but companies starting here aren’t adding as many jobs as quickly or growing as large as they are in the most entrepreneurial American metro areas, two surveys found this week.
