We are happy to announce that we’ve added another exciting company to our portfolio. EmSense, based in San Francisco, has created the first scalable physiological and brainwave measurement technology platform, which provides accurate and objective moment-by-moment analysis of how a large audience responds emotionally and cognitively to media messaging. EmSense marks Foundry Group’s third investment in our Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) theme (joining Smith & Tinker and Oblong), as well as our second investment in a company ...

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Posted by: Ryan McIntyre

Our portfolio company Zynga announced today that they have closed a $29 Million Round of Financing Led by Kleiner Perkins and IVP.   We participated in the financing alongside of our co-investors Union Square Ventures and Avalon Ventures.  Bing Gordon, a co-founder and former Chief Creative Officer of Electronic Arts and now a partner at Kleiner Perkins has joined Zynga’s board. Brad wrote about the financing and Zynga’s progress on his blog in a post titled Doubling ...

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Posted by: Brad Feld

As you may have read in a prior post on Boulder’s Culture of Entrepreneurship, we feel that one ingredient necessary to create and sustain this culture is engaged university activity. We are lucky to have the University of Colorado in our backyard and fortunate that it has consistently engaged in activities that foster and create entrepreneurship initiatives. While none of us attended CU, we’ve all adopted it as our “other school” and have become very involved ...

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Posted by: Jason Mendelson

We are extremely pleased to announce our investment in Topspin Media’s Series B financing. Topspin is a media technology company headquartered in Santa Monica, California, dedicated to developing leading-edge marketing software and services that help artists and their partners build businesses and brands. Topspin’s platform helps artists manage their media catalogs and other assets, connect with fans and generate demand for their music. Had our investment closed a couple of weeks earlier, we wouldn’t have been ...

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Posted by: Ryan McIntyre

One of our recent investments, Gnip, has launched its first service. Gnip is all about making data portability suck less. Remember our friend the Ping server? Gnip is the next generation of it designed specifically for the many-to-many webservice-to-webservice world. Data sharing between two services is no big deal. It happens every day using RSS, Atom, XMPP, and open APIs. Two years ago this was still a novel idea and the power of an API could ...

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Posted by: Brad Feld