Foundry Group Blog
We are pleased to announce that we have made our initial investment in Awe.sm. The company provides a powerful analytics platform for social media to developers, marketers, agencies and publishers. We first met Awe.sm’s co-founder and CEO Jonathan Strauss at the Glue Conference in 2009 and have been following the evolution of Awe.sm with interest since then. As Awe.sm’s user adoption increased and their platform vision evolved and came into sharper focus (see today’s launch ...
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Posted by: Ryan McIntyre
Today, Foundry Group, a venture capital firm investing in seed and early stage US-based technology companies, premiered a documentary film illustrating through complex metaphors and stunning montages the secret lives of venture capitalists which has been rarely seen or understood, until now. Set amidst a backdrop of a highly competitive investment environment, the film follows four venture capitalists as they explore the intense relationships between themselves and the entrepreneurs in which they invest. While these ...
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We are pleased to announce that we have completed our initial investment in Sympoz,. Sympoz, located in Denver, CO, creates enthusiast communities at the intersection of education, publishing, social and commerce, which inspire and educate enthusiasts while enabling experts to grow and monetize their followings.
Our distribution theme, including our investments in Zynga and Cheezburger, has shown us that delivering engaging content on a vast distribution network can make for a compelling company. One of the ...
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Posted by: Jason Mendelson
We are pleased to announce that Foundry Venture Capital 2010, L.P. has completed its initial investment in Occipital Inc., (“Occipital”). Occipital, located in Boulder CO and San Francisco, CA is creating world-class computer vision products for mobile platforms.
As part of our Human Computer Interaction investment theme, we’ve become firm believers that computer vision technology is fundamentally changing many of the ways that people interact with computers. With our prior investments in Oblong and Organic Motion, ...
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Posted by: Jason Mendelson
This week, NVCA sent a letter signed by more than 70 of its member firms to the chairman and president of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) supporting the recommendations of its Blue Ribbon Panel on Private Company Financial Reporting (BRP). Two of the significant recommendations are 1) the development of more relevant and useful private company accounting standards and 2) the creation of a separate board to develop and maintain them. Currently, private ...
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Posted by: Jason Mendelson
