Foundry Group Blog
Today we’re happy to announce that Federated Media Publishing has acquired Foundry Group portfolio company Lijit Networks. The deal is a great outcome for the company and its investors. As part of the transaction, Foundry Group Partner Seth Levine will join the Federated Media board of directors and Todd Vernon (Lijit’s CEO and founder) and Walter Knapp (Lijit’s COO) will take on senior operating roles at the combined business (both will report directly to Federated’s ...
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Tired of not finding what you are looking for when you search your email system? If you know the person who sent the message you are looking for, you might have some luck. But if you are looking for information contained within an attachment, link, or if you’ve forgotten who the sender was, you are most likely in trouble.
But maybe not. We are pleased to announce our investment in Attachments.me, which is building a natural-language ...
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Posted by: Jason Mendelson
As we’ve written about in the past, we use what we call a thematic approach to what we invest in. Our current themes are Human Computer Interaction, Glue, Digital Life, and Protocol. We’ve been hinting about two new themes that we’ve been investing in for a while – one that’s a derivative from our Glue theme (which we’ll discuss in a separate post) and the Distribution theme.
In general, we avoid investing in vertical markets. The one exception is a set ...
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Posted by: Brad Feld
Recently, we were fortunate to have the kind folks from MSNBC come visit us to see why Boulder is such a special place for entrepreneurship and innovation. Continue reading Boulder – Our Small City of Innovation
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As we reflect back on 2010 it is fun to remember the new companies we invested in during the year. We ended up making investments in 11 new companies this year – eight in our 2007 fund and three in our new fund which we announced in October.
When we look back and see when the investments were made, our timing is very lumpy. We’ve always been this way – we don’t have a particular pacing, ...
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Posted by: Brad Feld
