We are pleased to announce that Foundry Group has invested in SimpleGeo. SimpleGeo, based in Boulder, CO, provides a hosted geospatial platform for web and mobile application developers, enabling third party app developers to build sophisticated location-based functionality into their applications on web-based and mobile platforms, including Android devices and the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. With the widespread availability of GPS-enabled smartphones, the market for location-based applications and services is going mainstream. Once the province ...

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Posted by: Ryan McIntyre

Oblong founder John Underkoffler was recently profiled where he spoke about the origins of the company.  When we speak about the history of Oblong, we tend to start with the movie Minority Report, where John was Steven Spielberg’s science advisor.  If you haven’t seen the movie in a while, check it out.  It is one of the only movies that we’ve seen that holds up in its vision of the future even 8 years later. ...

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Posted by: Jason Mendelson

We are excited to announce that Foundry Group has invested in Sifteo, Inc.  Sifteo is a game-platform development company that has developed “Siftables” the world’s first table-top gaming platform. Siftables are sets of cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication capabilities that act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them by piling, grouping and sorting to interact with digital information and media. As cool as this sounds, ...

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Posted by: Jason Mendelson