Foundry Group Blog
Today, Fox Business reporter Adam Shapiro spent some time in Boulder talking to folks about what is special about creating a company here. He began the day at the Boulder Open Coffee Club, an informal twice-monthly gathering for those to talk tech, startups, geek and anything else of interest. Stay tuned for our personal blogs to see what we individually had to say on the subject. Continue reading Fox Business Reports on California Companies Headed to Boulder
Posted by: Jason Mendelson
During our careers, we’ve invested in a number of companies that sell consumer-electronics devices. In the past several years, we’ve invested in companies like Sling Media, Pogoplug, Smith & Tinker, Pie Digital, Sifteo, and most recently, FitBit and Orbotix.
In recent years it has become dramatically less expensive to design, build, and bring a consumer electronics device to market. The emergence of low-cost and low-power processors, DSPs and SOCs (systems-on-a-chip), the declining cost of all forms ...
Continue reading Atoms Are the New Bits
Posted by: Ryan McIntyre
We are very happy to announce today the closing of our second fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2010, L.P. The fund is the same size as our last one: $225,000,000 in limited partner commitments. We are pleased to be working with a great group of investors.
We will continue to do exactly what we have always done: invest in seed and early-stage investment opportunities in the software and IT space that are located across the United States. ...
Continue reading Foundry Group Version 2.0
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’ve been flattered with the feedback on our new Foundry Group website design. We had a lot of fun putting it together and are really happy with how it turned out. Websites for venture firms can be a challenge and in our case we wanted to create a site that was informative, serious but not stuffy and corporate. It was also important to us that it reflected our personalities.
The front page picture for us ...
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Posted by: Seth Levine
