Foundry Group Blog
At Foundry we organize our thinking about investing into what we call “themes”. The themes we pursue are horizontal in nature and are driven by underlying technology protocols and standards or emerging market trends and customer needs. Examples of the investment themes we are currently pursuing include Human Computer Interaction, Implicit Web, Email, Glue, and Digital Life.
As part of this approach we look to meaningfully participate in the ongoing conversation taking place within these thematic ...
Continue reading Join us at Glue
Posted by: Seth Levine
Last summer, we invested in a company called EmSense, which has developed a technology to measure an audience’s emotional and cognitive response to a media experience. EmSense does this by capturing real-time biometric data from a large group of test subjects by measuring brainwaves (via dry EEG sensors), heart activity, breathing, blinking, temperature and motion. Our investment in EmSense falls squarely into our Human Computer Interaction (HCI) theme.
As we detailed in our original blog post ...
Continue reading Shoot to Thrill
Posted by: Ryan McIntyre
Foundry Group attended the latest incarnation of CES this past week and thought we’d give some of our thoughts on the show. In no particular order, here is “What We Learned at CES.”
Don’t buy a television for the next 6 months. This is certainly counter to what retailers and producers would want us to say, especially given the current state of the economy, but all the major brands are introducing exciting technologies in the first ...
Continue reading What We Learned at CES
Posted by: Jason Mendelson
We are pleased to announce our investment in Brightleaf. Brightleaf, located in Westwood, MA, is a legal process automation company dedicated to providing business and legal solutions to in-house legal departments and law firms. Brightleaf has developed a software platform that automates much of the creation process for the legal profession’s most commonly used documents. For law firms, automating this process allows for both faster and more consistent document creation – saving them time ...
Continue reading Our Investment in Brightleaf
Posted by: Jason Mendelson
We invested in Topspin Media last summer, and they’ve been busy cranking out multiple releases of their Artist Manager platform while simultaneously supporting numerous album releases from established and new artists who have adopted Topspin’s technology to enable them to release their music direct-to-fan. As a reminder, Topspin provides advanced marketing tools and services to enable recording artists to build successful brands and businesses online.
Many musicians chose to release their music using Topspin’s platform in ...
Continue reading Topspin’s on the Road
Posted by: Ryan McIntyre
