Interviews
 | June 10, 2008
Pat Gruber is CEO of Gevo (www.gevo.com), a venture funded renewable fuels startup based in Englewood, Colorado. Gevo recently moved to Colorado from California, where the firm started as a spinout of Caltech. The firm is venture backed by Vinod Khosla's Khosla Ventures, Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Green Fund, and Burrill & Company. We recently had a quick chat with Pat about the company and what it's working on.
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 | May 1, 2008
Few businesses go from inchoate idea to funded startup in less than six months, but such was the case with EventVue (www.eventvue.com), a Boulder, Colo.-based firm that develops social-networking software for conferences and related happenings. Credit EventVue's accelerated maturation to co-founders Josh Fraser and Rob Johnson and to the firm's good fortune of being one of the 10 inaugural companies selected for the TechStars startup incubation program. Techrockies.
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 | April 23, 2008
For our interview today, we thought we'd catch up with Denver-based Top of Asia (www.top-of-asia.com), a fledgling venture capital firm targeting wireless Internet access providers and related businesses in China. Founded less than a year ago, the company announced its first portfolio investment (United Wireless Ltd.) last month.
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 | April 21, 2008
Our interview this morning is with Jim Nevelle, CEO of Sorrento Networks (www.sorrentonet.com). Jim gave us the background on the newly created firm, which has taken the optical assets of Zhone Technologies -- originally acquired from the original Sorrento Networks -- and created a new company focused on the optical networking space.
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 | April 15, 2008
Michael Proper is the founder, president and chief executive officer of DirectPointe (www.directpointe.com), a provider of managed IT services to small- and medium-sized businesses for a monthly fee. Established in 2000, DirectPointe is headquartered in the Salt Lake City suburb of Lindon, Utah. Last year, the company acquired four businesses, completed a second round of venture financing (Zions Bank) and opened a new office in Phoenix. Recently, Techrockies.
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 | March 24, 2008
Thanks to sites like MySpace, YouTube and Facebook, social networking has taken the Internet by storm. But rather than address a specific need, those services cater to the general interests of the public, subsisting on advertising revenue as they run the gamut of personal blogs, humorous home videos, and snapshots from the latest family vacation.
However, one company in Boulder, Colorado, is trying to give social networking a space-specific focus. WellcomeMat (www.wellcomemat.
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 | March 17, 2008
Ron Zanotti is vice president of sales and marketing for Dynamic Card Solutions (www.instantissuance.com), a developer of software that financial institutions use to issue credit and debit cards and to assign the personal identification numbers (PIN) for those cards. Headquartered in the Denver suburb of Englewood, Colo., DCS signed its 375th customer earlier this month. Zanotti recently took a moment to discuss his company's growth and direction and the space in general.
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 | March 5, 2008
Jeff Bisberg is president and co-founder of Albeo Technologies (www.albeotech.com), a developer of next-generation, energy-efficient lighting systems. The company, which is headquartered in Boulder, Colo., bases its technology on the light-emitting diode, LED for short. In late February, Albeo concluded its first round of venture financing after securing some $1.5 million. Green Spark Ventures led the effort. Techrockies.
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 | March 3, 2008
Last week, Boulder-based HiveLive (www.hivelive.com) announced the close of a $5.6M Series A venture capital funding round for the firm's enterprise social networking software. To get a bit more color on the company, we spoke with John Kembel, CEO and Founder of the company.
Congrats on the funding. What's the idea behind HiveLive, and what are you trying to offer to companies?
John Kembel: We're an enterprise social software company.
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