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

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

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

During a run several weeks ago, I was pondering the arc of several of our investment themes.  When we made our investment in Gist, we talked about it being at the intersection of our Email and Implicit Web themes.  It turns out to also include our RSS theme (which previously included investments in FeedBurner, NewsGator, and Technorati.) I’d just finished reading A Semantic Web Primer and was thinking about the various semantic web protocols that were the ...

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Posted by: Brad Feld

Reposted from Feld Thoughts. I’ve been an Internet email user since early 1984 when I got my first Project Athena account as an undergraduate at MIT.  Notwithstanding all the “email is dead” messages over the years, I continue to use email as my primary online communication mechanism.  There are an enormous number of things that frustrate me about email, most notably the lack of fundamental innovation in email clients and servers.  That said, as a messaging ...

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Posted by: Brad Feld

Of all the questions that we get, this one is the most common: “What do you guys like to invest in?” Unlike many venture capital firms that invest in certain geographic regions or specific technologies and sectors, Foundry Group’s investing activity is largely driven by a thematic approach. The themes we pursue tend to be horizontal in nature and are often driven by underlying technology protocols and standards or emerging market trends and customer needs. Rather ...

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Posted by: Jason Mendelson

We are happy to announce the latest addition to the Foundry Group family, Pie Digital. Pie has developed an affordable software platform, desktop device and service that, together, dramatically simplify the installation, maintenance and expansion of home computing equipment and networks. Pie makes it easy for consumers to connect and maintain their computers and the multitude of other digital devices in their home, enabling them to access and share documents, music and video files without ...

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Posted by: Jason Mendelson

As part of our ongoing discussion of the investment themes we focus on at Foundry Group, it is time to discuss digital life. Certainly anyone who is reading this blog post is living a digital life, and among the partners at Foundry Group, we are all gadget-lovers, early adopters of software and online services, part-time IT support staff for our own home networks, and digital media creators, curators and consumers. Our digital life theme evolved from ...

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Posted by: Ryan McIntyre

In a time when many folks view Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn as the new darlings of the Internet, we still believe that email has been and will long continue to be one of the Internet’s few enduring killer apps. Several of us at Foundry Group have been deeply involved with the email industry as insiders and investors at a number of email-related companies, including early email service providers (Email Publishing and MessageMedia), email hosting companies (Critical ...

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