One of our portfolio companies, Organic Motion is hiring.  They are a really exciting company right in the middle of our Human Computer Interaction Theme.  In the company’s own words: “Organic Motion is a global leader in the development of breakthrough markerless motion capture and analysis technologies. Our software products utilize state-of-the-art computer vision techniques and high performance graphics hardware to deliver an industry first set of production, entertainment, and research tools for use in a ...

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Posted by: Jason Mendelson

Today, Foundry Group portfolio company Memeo announced the newest product in their suite of applications: Memeo Connect for Google Apps, which leverages new functionality announced by Google: the ability to upload all file types to Google Docs’ cloud-based storage. In addition to providing the ability to upload arbitrary file types to Google Docs, the Official Google Enterprise Blog also announced that Google Apps Premier Edition users will soon be able to use the Google Documents ...

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Posted by: Ryan McIntyre

Today StockTwits announced (release here) that it had raised a $3m Series B financing led by Foundry Group and returning investor True Ventures. For us, StockTwits represents a unique opportunity to leverage the increasingly active conversation taking place on (and off) the Twitter platform around stocks and markets.  We’ve witnessed in other investments the power of 3rd party networks to drive the scale and reach of new businesses and we believe StockTwits represents a ...

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Posted by: Seth Levine

As we previously reported, we’ve recently invested in a computer vision company called Organic Motion. This is another one of our Human Computer Interaction investments.  To give you an idea of one of the markets they are targeting, check out the these marketing materials designed for the defense industry. In it, you can see some specific use cases that the company can deliver today.  (Be patient, it’s a 5mb file, so it takes a bit ...

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Posted by: Jason Mendelson

Our company Oblong was recently the subject of the new Bloomberg Series, Innovators.  If you want to see 30 minutes of great TV about innovation and entrepreneurship focused around our portfolio company, it’s a great watch.  They are in episode “Turning Point.”  We are really excited about our partnership with Oblong and all that they’ve accomplished, so we are proud that others are recognizing their successes.  (As a technical note, we find that in Windows, ...

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Posted by: Jason Mendelson

We are pleased to announce our investment in Organic Motion, Inc. The company is based in New York City and is a leading innovator of computer vision and advanced motion capture systems. Organic Motion’s core computer vision technology dramatically increases a computer’s ability to see and understand the motion of humans and other living organisms. The company offers groundbreaking turnkey and customized motion capture systems that utilize its patent-pending breakthrough computer vision technology. This investment is ...

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Posted by: Jason Mendelson

Last week we hosted what we called the “Foundry Group Digital Life Summit” here in Boulder, Colorado. While we are no strangers to helping host conferences such as Defrag and Glue, this was a much more intimate event that we arranged ourselves. The genesis of the idea was to get our three portfolio companies in our Digital Life Theme together – namely Cloud Engines, Memeo, and Pie Digital – for a day or two of knowledge ...

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Posted by: Jason Mendelson

We are very happy to announce our investment in Next Big Sound, Inc. (“NBS”). NBS is an online music analytics and insights company located in Boulder, Colorado. They measure the growth and popularity of bands across major web properties and sell actionable insights around those data to band managers and other industry professionals. NBS has developed a scalable architecture that can quickly add new sources of information and aims to be the definitive source of ...

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Posted by: Jason Mendelson

In the spring of 2008, we announced our initial investment in Seattle-based Smith & Tinker, a company founded by veterans of the toy, internet and gaming industries. At that time, the company was heads-down in development mode and wasn’t quite ready to talk about the product they were developing, so our initial blog post was somewhat short on details about what the company was up to. Beyond repeating Smith & Tinker’s mission, “reinventing play for ...

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Posted by: Ryan McIntyre

Last Fall, we met the fine folks at Cloud Engines, the company behind the pogoplug, a wonderfully easy-to-use gadget that turns any USB storage device into a web and smart-phone accessible file system, giving users easy control over who they allow to access their files. In short, the pogoplug allows you to take the hard drive attached to your computer (or hanging off your router in the basement of your house) and make it accessible ...

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Posted by: Ryan McIntyre