It's been a difficult few years for non, Silicon Valley venture capital firms, particularly in the area of raising new funds. However, one of the most active investors along the Front Range, Grotech Ventures (www.grotech.com), has bucked...

Colorado State University is getting into the venture capital investment game, saying this week that it has created a new, $1.5M venture capital fund specifically geared to support innovation and promote collaboration in higher education. T...

Phoenix-based private equity investor Najafi Companies said this morning that it has invested in MeeGenius, which provides Android and iOS children's book apps. Financial details of the investment were not announced. According to Najafi, it...

Phoenix-based datacenter developer IO has a great big chunk of new funding today, to the tune of $260M. According to IO, which develops data center technology, it raised the $260M in financing via a multi-year credit facility. The funding w...

Broomfield, Colorado-based Lanx, the medical devices developer which is developing devices used in spine surgery, has raised $15M in a Series C funding round. Lanx said the round was led by Credit Suisse Asset Management through its Customi...

Grotech Ventures, one of the most active venture capital investors in the Denver/Boulder/Front Range and surrounding region, has just raised a new, $225M fund, the firm said today, its eighth venture capital fund. Grotech, which is based in...

Boulder-based robotic ball developer Orbotix has rolled up with $4.0M in new funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Friday. The filing says that the firm raised $4.0M, the first tranche in an ongoing, $10.0M fundraising eff...

Boulder venture capital investors The Foundry Group has a better record than all of the venture capital firms on the Forbes Midas List, according to a report today. Fortune, citing numbers from the University of Texas Investment Management ...

Two high tech companies in the region--Tempe, Arizona-based LifeLock, and Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io, helped a number of venture capitalists make the ranking in the annual Forbes Midas List rankings, which was released Wednesday. Lifelo...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group is the lead investor in a developer of media pulbishing tools, Chute. Chute announced a $7M, Series A funding round this morning, led by Foundry Group, and also including Freestyle Capital an...

There's always been a shortage of capital in the region for startups, despite many successes (mergers, acquisitions, IPOs) of companies here--and there continues to be. However, that slowly is changing, as the area grows its reputation fo...

Westminster, Colorado-based DataLogix, which helps marketers, advertisers, and others understand the performance of their advertising across different digital channels, has raised $25M in a Series B funding. The firm said the funding was ...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital fund Kickstart Seed Fund has raised $26M in a second fund, the firm said today, for its investments in Utah and surrounding states. As part of the new fund, Kickstart said it has added former Skullcandy ...

The local region piled up $180.6M in venture capital during Q1, according to numbers released over the weekend by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, in its quarterly MoneyTree venture capital report. Acco...

Shout TV, a Lindon, Utah-based startup developing sports-themed mobile apps, has quietly scored additional backing from some of Utah's most experienced investors and entrepreneurs. Shout TV, which develops both Apple iOS and Android games w...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based Provista Diagnostics, a firm developing molecular diagnostics products aimed at predictive testing for cancer, said Tuesdya that it has raised $6.0M in a funding round. The Series A funding came from the firm's exi...

Boulder-based Biodesix, a developer of diagnostic tests for the personalized medicine market, has raised $8.8M in a follow-on sale of its Series D preferred shares, the firm announced. The firm said the funding came from its existing invest...

Denver-based Welltok, which develops health and wellness software used by health plans to encourage healthy activity by its members, has raised $18.7M in a Series B funding round. The firm said the funding came from Emergence Capital Partne...

Tucson, Arizona-based customer relationship management software developer SimpleView, which is focused on the destination marketing and travel business, has scored a new round of equity funding. According to buyout and growth equity investo...

MokiMobility, a developer of software used to secure, monitor, and manage mobile devices, said today that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The round was led by Epic Ventures, and also included individuals Spencer Tall (Allegis Cap...

Denver-based ViroCyt, a developer of technology aimed at helping researchers develop therapies and vaccines from viruses, has raised a round of growth funding, the firm announced this morning. The funding brings its total raised in this rou...

Denver-based UrgentRx, which develops over-the-counter, flavored medication packets, said today that it has raised $2.5M in a Series B funding round. The round came from JUMP Investors and Boulevard Capital Partners, along with investors Sa...

Chandler, Arizona-based appsFreedom, a developer of mobile productivity software for businesses, has raised $3.0M in a funding round. The round was led by Grayhawk Venture Fund, out of Grayhawk Venture Fund II. appsFreedom's cloud-based, mo...

Boulder-based venture capitalist Brad Feld has joined the board of directors of Harmonix, the firm said this morning. Harmonix is the videogame developer behind Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and Dance Central. Foundry did not say if it would be t...

EmiSense Technologies, a developer of particulate matter sensors for smog measurement, exhaust and intake oxygen sensors, and hydrocarbon sensors, has raised $6.5M in a third round of funding, the firm said today. The company--which is head...

EmiSense Technologies, a developer of particulate matter sensors for smog measurement, exhaust and intake oxygen sensors, and hydrocarbon sensors, has raised $6.5M in a third round of funding, the firm said today. The company--which is head...

Layton, Utah-based Pluralsight, the venture-backed provider of online programming courses and education for software developers, is hoping to recruit a new generation of software developers with a new set of courses for kids. The firm--whic...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group is one of the investors in a developer of cloud-based, data backup services for Google Apps. Spanning Cloud Apps, which is based in Austin, Texas, said it raised $6M in a Series B funding on ...

Tucson, Arizona-based Syncardia, a developer of artificial hearts, announced today that it has raised $19M in capital, including $15M in a structured financing and $4M in follow on equity. The firm said the structured financing came from At...

Lindon, Utah-based electronic discovery and digital forensics developer AccessData said today that it has gained a "significant" investment from Sorenson Capital Partners and Silicon Valley Bank. Size and terms of the funding were not discl...

Salt Lake City, Utah-based Pelion Ventures just reported with the SEC this week that it has raised $102.1M in funding for its fifth fund, Pelion Ventures V. The venture capital firm, headed by James Dreyfous, Carl Ledbetter, and Blake Moder...

Denver-based photo sharing site Photobucket has raised $5.6M, as part of an ongoing, $9.57M funding effort, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Wednesday. Financial details on the deal have yet to be announced by the company. The f...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital investor EPIC Ventures has led an investment in business intelligence startup HG Data Company, HG Data announced this morning. HD Data says it has created a cloud-based business intelligence database whi...

Provo, Utah-based business intelligence software development firm Domo disclosed today that it has raised $60M in a new round of funding. The funding came from GGV Capital, Greylock Partners, Bezos Expeditions, Founders Fund, Mercato Partne...

Anyone who has followed the high tech industry in Colorado over the years knows that--despite a lot of startup activity--there's really only a handful of local investors making investments in startups. However, Colorado Governor John Hickel...

Salt Lake City-based Aviacode, which provides medical coding services and software, has scored a strategic investment from healthcare investment firm Heritage Group, Heritage announced today. Size of the investment was not disclosed by the ...

Stealth mode solar startup Terawatt has raised a "significant" initial investment round from Sorenson Capital Partners, the firm said late last week, to take on the residential solar market. The firm said it is a residential solar power fir...

Boulder-based Tendril has raised $15.28M, part of an ongoing, $20M funding round for the firm, according to a recent regulatory filing from the company. The funding looks likely to be the official first close of a funding round announced by...

Salt Lake City-based HealthCatalyst, which develops healthcare informatics and data services for healthcare organizations, has added $8M in its Series B, bringing that round to $41M in funding. The new funding came from Kaiser Permanente Ve...

Venture Capital In the Rockies is gearing up for its winter conference, being held on March 5th through 7th in Beaver Creek, Colorado, and announced the presenting companies Thursday. According to the Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Associat...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based Intralign, a provider of healthcare services to help manage the cost for major joint replacement, has raised a round of venture capital. The funding came from Heritage Group, a Nashville-based venture capital inves...

OpenBook, a developer of computer and Internet property management systems for hotels and hospitality providers, said today that it has raised an investment round from Salt Lake City-based Accelerate Ventures. Financial terms of the deal we...

Aurora, Colorado-based Barofold, a developer of protein manufacturing technology for the biopharmaceuticals market, has now raised $1.7M in its latest funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm last week. Details on the fun...

Denver-based Channelinsight, which develops customer relationship management (CRM) software specifically aimed at channel sales organizations, has raised $1.8M in a new round of funding. Details on the funding came from a regulatory filing ...

SimpleEnergy, the Boulder-based provider of an online platform to encourage people to save energy, has raised $2.0M as part of an ongoing funding round. The details of the funding came via a regulatory filing. According to the filing, the...

Denver-based Secondary Interactive, a developer of mortgage pipeline risk management software and services, has scored an investment from private equity firm Serent Capital, via its parent firm, Optimal Blue. Serent Capital said the deal s...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital investor Pelion Ventures has made another, cloud-based software investment, this time in StormPath, which develops user authentication and management APIs for app developers. STormPath said it raised $8....

Scottsdale, Arizona-based Trax Technologies, which develops software-as-a-service for managing freight and logistics, said this week that it has raised $10M in a private equity investment. The funding came from River Cities Capital Funds an...

Englewood, Colorado-based digital marketing software developer Swiftpage said today that it has reached a deal with The Sage Group plc, to buy that firm's Sage ACT! contact management and Sage SalesLogix customer relationship management (CR...

Boulder-based startup accelerator TechStars has put some more funding behind one of its alumni, Leanplum, a developer of mobile website automation tools. Leanplum--which is based in San Francisco--said it raised $825,000 in funding from Tec...

Are you a software developer who needs to understand and parse through vast amounts of text data? Denver-based AlchemyAPI has just raised $2M to further develop its products, which do exactly that--helping developers understand unstructured...

Louisville, Colorado-based IT governance software maker Coalfire announced this morning that it has raised $3.6M in a funding round, which came from Bair Capital. Coalfire, which is led by Rick Dakin, develops software used by enterprises t...

TeamSnap, the online service which helps amateur sports teams manage their teams and activities, has scored $2.75M more in a funding round, the firm said today. According to TeamSnap, the new round was led by Canadian media company Torstar....

Are you an online retailer or manufacturer finding it difficult to manage all of your operations? American Fork, Utah-based DropShip Commerce has a solution for you, its own cloud-based, software aimed at helping retailers and manufacturers...

Boulder-based venture capital investment firm Foundry Group is the lead investor in an online marketplace for dog sitting services, Rover.com. Rover.com said it has raised $7M in a funding round, led by Foundry Group, for its online, peer-t...

Albuquerque, New Mexico-based biometric sensor firm TruTouch Technologies, which develops biometric, alcohol detection systems, said this morning that it has raised $4.3M in a Series B-1 funding round. The funding was led by iTulip Communit...

Louisville, Colorado-based Envysion, the managed video-as-a-service provider headed by Matt Steinfort, has just scored some major backing from a private equity firm. Parthenon Capital Partners, a growth and private equity firm based in San ...

Convercent, a Greenwood Village, Colorado-based developer of compliance software for the enterprise, has raised $10.2M in a funding round, the firm said this morning. The round was led by Azure Capital Partners and Mantucket Capital, and al...

Are you a website owner tired of online spammers scraping off your content and using it elsewhere on the web? Distil.it, a TechStars startup developing tools to specifically battle those web scrapers, said Thursday that it has received $1.8...

The deadline for applying to present at Venture Capital In The Rockies Winter Conference, which is held somewhere in the Mountain West region every winter to help showcase local startups, is quickly approaching, and is now set for January 3...

Goal Zero, a Bluffdale, Utah-based startup developing portable solar power charging systems, has raised $7M in a growth funding from Mercato Partners, the two said today. Goal Zero said that the funding will go towards accelerating retail, ...

FlixMaster, the Boulder-based startup developing enterprise online video technology, said Wednesday that it has raised $1.125M in a funding round, led by angel investment group Golden Seeds. The firm, which is headed by Erika Trautman and i...

Denver-based JobApp, a developer of software-as-a-service for the recruiting and talent management industry, announced today that it has received a "substantial investment" from Frontier Capital. Size of the funding round was not disclosed....

The Rocky Mountain region saw a healthy uptick in venture capital investments in Q4 of 2012, trumping a overall national decline in investments -- thanks to a big quarter in both Arizona and Utah. According to numbers released via the lates...

Denver-based Levels Beyond, a developer of software used by video content producers for media management, distribution, and monetization, has raised $4.5M in a funding round, the firm said this morning. The funding came from TVC Capital an ...

Salt Lake City-based EPIC Ventures is having a busy week for follow on investments, as Silicon Valley Hadoop management software firm Zettaset announced a new funding round. Zettaset said that it raised $10M in a Series B funding, which was...

Denver-based Altitutde Digital, a provider of online display and video advertising, has raised $5M in a growth funding. The funding came from Mercato Partners, and also included a credit facility from Silicon Valley Bank. Altitude is led by...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital investor EPIC Ventures has joined in a big funding round for user registration and login software developer Janrain. Janrain said today that it has raised $33M in a funding round, which came from Millen...

Highland, Utah-based Photopharmics, a firm developing treatments for Parkinson's disease, has quitely raised $2.0M in a funding round, part of a $3.11M round, according to a recent filing by the firm. Source of the funding was not disclosed...

In the second, major funding round for a Utah startup today, Provo, Utah-based InsideSales.com said that it has raised $35M in a Series B funding round, which was led by U.S. Venture Partners and which also included Hummer Winblad Venture P...

In what is the second, major venture capital deal to be announced along the Wasatch Front in 2013, Salt Lake City-based Health Catalyst said this morning that it has raised $33M in a Series B funding, which will go towards its platform for ...

Graphicly, the developer of publishing tools for comic book and other content publishers, has raised $647,388 in what looks like a convertible debt round, which has a target of $1.0M, according to a regulatory filing this week. The firm, wh...

Chandler, Arizona-based Infusionsoft, which develops sales and marketing software for small businesses, announced today that it has raised $54M in a growth capital financing round from Goldman Sachs. According to Infusionsoft, the funding w...

Gilbert, Arizona-based Infusion Software, a developer of sales and marketing software for small businesses, has raised around $60M in a Series C funding round, according to a series of regulatory filings by the firm this week. The developer...

Denver-based GoSpotCheck, a company developing mobile apps to help retailers keep tabs on their retail locations, has raised nearly $1.0M in funding, part of an ongoing $1.9M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this ...

Layton, Utah-based Pluralsight, a provider of online education courses aimed at software developers, has raised $27.5M in a funding round. The funding came from Insight Venture Partners. Pluralsight said the funding its is first, outside in...

Boulder-based VictorOps, a stealth mode firm providing technology for 24x7 IT operations, said over the holiday that it has raised $1.58M in a seed funding round. The round was led by the Foundry Group, and also included Tango. As part of t...

Lindon, Utah-based Digicert, a provider of enterprise, SSL certificates and other digital security products, has scored a majority investment from private equity firm TA Associates. Size and terms of the investment were not announced by the...

Westminster, Colorado-based Cerapedics, a developer of peptide-enhanced bone graft products for cervical spine applications, said today that it has raised $19M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by MedImmune Ventures and CVF LLC...

Aurora, Colorado-based Sharklet Technologies, a developer of materials technology which inhibits the growth of bacteria on surfaces, said today that it has raised $2M in a funding round. The round came from Altria Ventures. Sharklet is head...

Are you a Rocky Mountain startup, hoping to get the word out about your startup? The Venture Capital In The Rockies Winter conference (VCIR Winter 2013) has just opened up applications for companies to present at the event, which is being h...

Boulder, Colorado-based venture capital firm Foundry Ventures has backed a developer of software which helps advertisers retarget Facebook users with advertisements. Triggit, which is based in San Francisco, said it raised $7.4M in a Series...

Park City-based iSchool Campus, a developer of educational systems which use iPads to help with K-12 learning, has raised $2M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Crocker Ventures. iSchool Campus develops a "smart school" syste...

Colorado Springs-based Cherwell Software, a provider of IT service management software, said this morning that it has raised $25M in a minority equity investment round. The round came from Insight Venture Partners. Cherwell said the new fun...

Many early stage Internet startups are now using AngelList--an online service which lets startups provide information on their companies to prospective angel investors. Those same startups can now apply to Boulder-based >TechStars, accordin...

Salt Lake City-based Remedy Informatics said Tuesday that it has scored a growth capital investment from Merck, via Merck's Global Health Innovation Fund (GHIF). The investment was worth $6M, with Merck taking a seat on Remedy's Board of Di...

VerbalizeIt, a startup out of Boulder's TechStars accelerator, is the latest firm to score a round of venture funding after participation in the program. VerbalizeIT said today that it has raised $1.5M in a private equity funding, which cam...

Boulder-based Techstars, the startup acceleration program, is holding its annual FounderCon startup conference this week, and released a few figures about the program Monday. Techstars said that so for, 175 companies out of its programs hav...

The deadline for applying to the Telluride Venture Accelerator, a new startup accelerator based in Telluride, Colorado, is November 15th, the group said today. The accelerator says it is focused on outdoor recreation, tourism, natural produ...

Boulder-based venture capital investor Foundry Group made an investment today, saying it has led a $6.5M Series B funding in Betabrand, an online clothing firm which lets users participate in creating their own fashions. Betabrand lets user...

A new study, released this week by a professor at the University of Utah, has found that discussion by popular bloggers--as has long been suspected by entrepreneurs--can have a "massive" effect on valuation of a company. The study, publishe...

Denver-based Club W, which operates an online, personalized wine subscription service, has been selected by Silicon Valley startup accelerator 500Startups, and received an investment from the accelerator. According to a post from 500Startup...

Scottsdale, Arizona-baesd Parchment, which provides electronic transcript exchange services for high schools and postsecondary educational institutions, recently raised $23.5M in a Series D round. The funding was led by The Raine Group, and...

Boulder-based venture firm Foundry Group has put its muscle behind a firm which helps publishers manage their premium online advertising inventory, iSocket, and has led an $8M, Series A funding in iSocket. Other backers also include Costano...

Lehi, Utah-based AtTask, which develops project management software, said this morning that it has raised a new round of funding worth $17M. The funding was led by Greenspring Associates, and also included Escalate Capital, University Ventu...

Lakewood, Colorado-based ZeaChem said Monday that it has raised $25M in a Series C funding round, as it completes construction of its cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Oregon. The firm said the new funding came from ITOCHU Corporation, a ne...

That investment in Denver-based Mersive by 3M last week? It was most likely worth $2.82M, according to a regulatory filing by the company. Mersive announced the investment by 3M without financial details last week, saying that 3M's venture ...

Denver-based Mersive, the developer of software which enables coordination of multiple displays, has received an equity funding from 3M's venture capital arm, 3M New Ventures. Financial deatils of the investment were not announced. 3M annou...

Boulder-based data center operator Ajubeo has scored a new round of funding, according to private equity firm Grey Mountain Partners. Grey Mountain said today that its affiliate, Infrastructure Investors LLC, has invested growth equity into...

The latest venture capital numbers from the MoneyTree report, the quarterly venture capital summary produced by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, finds that there was $261.8M in venture capital investd i...

Colorado Springs-based Accellos, which develops supply chain management software for SMBS, has scored a major investment from private equity firm Accel-KKR. Details of the investment were not announced. According to Accel-KKR, the funding g...

Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Aspen Avionics, a developer of enhanced, flight display systems, has raised $12.8M in a funding round, the firm said today. The round came from Granite Ventures, Sun Mountain Capital, Signal Peak Ventures, EPIC...

That big, $90M venture funding round for Scottsdale, Arizona-based IO Data Centers this morning? Just a funding injection before an expected, 2013 IPO for the company, according to a report from FORTUNE this morning. IO announced the fundin...

Phoenix-based IO, the developer of modular data center technology and services, said today that it has raised a huge, $90M funding round. The round was led by New World Ventures, the Chicago-based venture investment arm of The Pritzker Grou...

Phoenix-based IO, the developer of modular data center technology and services, said today that it has raised a huge, $90M funding round. The round was led by New World Ventures, the Chicago-based venture investment arm of The Pritzker Grou...

Two venture capital investment firms with office in Colorado have re-upped on a developer of IT management tools. Zenoss, which develops software used to manage physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure, said it raised $25M in a Series C ...

Salt Lake City-based C7 Data Centers has just scored some major resources to expand its data center footprint, the company is announcing today, with $25M in debt and equity funding. C7, which provides IT and data center services, said the n...

Brad Feld, venture capitalist at the Foundry Group, and co-founder of TechStars, said today that his latest book, Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City, is officially shipping. Feld's latest book pulls toge...

Boulder-based Mobiplug Networks, the TechStars Boulder startup developing smart home monitoring devices and technology, said today that it has raised $2.7M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Foundry Group, and also included B...

The Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association has announced the names of the presenting companies at its upcoming, Venture Capital In The Rockies Fall Conference, being held later this week in Big Sky, Montana. According to the RMVCA, it w...

Two portfolio firms out of New Mexico's Flywheel Ventures have scored followup funding this morning. Both Tribogenics, a developer of futuristic technology for handheld X-rays, and Trackvia--who have received prior investments from Flywheel...

Denver-based TrackVia, which develops software which makes it easier for non-technical professionals build their own applications, said today that it has raised $7.1M in a new funding round. The firm, which is led by Pete Khanna, said the f...

Salt Lake City-based BioFire Diagnostics, a developer of molecular diagnostics tools, said today that it has raised $25M in a financing round, from the Athyrium Opportunities Fund. The firm said the funding will go towards accelerating comm...

A new, Salt Lake City-based startup, Text Me Tix, is gaining attention for its marketplace for last-minute ticket deals, saying that it won the first CROWDSTART Las Vegas pitch event Friday. The startup--headed by Mark Harmsen--lets user fi...

Two, 18-year old entrepreneurs, Kevin Zell and Brendan Karp, are behind a brand, new, crowdfunding platform launched Friday, First Funder, aimed specifically at community-based organizations. First Funder said its crowd funding campaigns ar...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group has raised another, $225M fund -- Foundry Venture Capital 2012 -- the same size of a fund it announced with its last fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2010, the firm said Friday. The firm said i...

Salt Lake City-based Central Logic, the developer of web-based systems for managing patient flow in hospital systems, reported it has scored new funding today from Mercato Partners. Financial details of the funding were not disclosed. Merca...

Albuquerque, New Mexico-baesd Exagen Diagnostics, which develops diagnostic testing for rheumatoid arthritis and other conditions, has raised $5.3M in a funding round. The round was led by Tullis Health Investors, and also included Sun Moun...

Denver-based PeakColo, a provider of colocation and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), said today that it has raised $7.5M in growth equity. The funding came from Meritage Funds and Sweetwater Capital. PeakColo said the funding will go tow...

Broomfield, Colorado-based remote database administration provider Datavail has replenished its coffers today, saying that it has raised $4.25M in a growth equity funding. The firm, which is run by Mark Perlstein, said the Series C funding ...

Albuquerque, New Mexico-based venture capital firm Flywheel Ventures has seen a big exit in its porfolio, after Astria Semiconductor Holdings, the parent firm of MicroProbe, was acquired in a $116.8M deal. FormFactor, a developer of semicon...

In a big funding injection, Salt Lake City-based HireVue, the startup developer of an online platform to help companies interview prospective employees via online video, has raised $22M in a funding round. The company said the funding inclu...

Belgrade, Montana-based Bacterin, a developer of bone graft materials and antimicrobial coatings, said Tuesday that it has raised $25M in a funding from OrbiMed Advisors. The company said the funding will towards executing its growth strate...

Boulder-based Sophono, a developer of implantable, medical devices for improving hearing, said that it has raised $7M in a growth funding. The Series B round was led by Wexword Capital. Sophono develops bone-implanted, medical hearing devic...

Orem, Utah-based AtTask has raised $13.0M, part of an ongoing round targeted at $16.5M, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. The filing indicates that so far, the...

Boulder appears to be the hub of a resurgent, online grocery movement, after Door to Door Organics announced that it had raised $2M in a Series A funding round. The grocery delivery firm, which delivers organic groceries in Colorado, Illino...

Provo, Utah-based Adaptive Computing, which develops private cloud management and high performance computing (HPC) software, said today that it is in a strategic partnership and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel, the investment...

Tucson, Arizona-based Apex Microtechnology said this morning that it has received $26M, to purchase its product line from Cirrus Logic and create the company. The new company said the acquisition of the Apex Precision Power was funded by a ...

Alta Ventures Mexico, the Mexican venture capital firm co-founded by Salt Lake investor Paul Ahlstrom, has announced that it has raised $70M for its first venture fund. Alta Ventures said investors in the fund included International Finance...

Scottsdale-based rSmart, a provider of educational software built on open source, said today that it has raised $10.75M in a Series B funding round. The round came from ASAHI Net, GSV Advisors, and other private investors. rSmart, headed b...

Denver-based LocationInsight, a developer of local search marketing software and services to retailers with physical locations, said Monday afternoon that it has raised $5M in a funding round. The round came from United Communications Group...

Provo, Utah-based InsideSales.com, a developer of a cloud-based platform used for tracking and managing call center sales, has raised a round of funding. The firm said the funding was led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, along with Omnit...

Bing Fund, the new incubator and angel investment fund run out of Microsoft's Bing group, said Thursday that it has made two investments in companies, and has identified some "great companies" in Boulder, which it expects may be among the n...

A new, Silicon Valley startup is hoping that Arizona State University graduates looking for startup capital might turn to the company, with a catch: it wants a portion of those students' future income for the next ten years. Upstart, a new ...

Salt Lake City-based Pelion Ventures, the venture capital fund headed by, James Dreyfous, Carl Ledbetter, and Blake Modersitzki reports in an SEC filing that it has now reached $83.15M in its goal to reach $127M in its fifth fund, Pelion Ve...

Provo, Utah-based Funium, which develops social games on Facebook focused on family trees, said today that it has raised $1.8M in a seed funding round. The round came from Jim Sorenson's Family Odyssey, along with other angel investors. Sor...

Denver-based Plink, the developer of loyalty rewards programs linked to Facebook and gift cards, announced this morning that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Grotech Ventures. According to Plink it will use the...

Boulder-based BlogFrog, the developer of an online product which helps brands tap into social media, announced a new office in New York City today, as well as a new product. The company, which is headed by Rustin Banks, said it has establis...

Boulder-based SpotRight, a developer of an online service which helps marketers analyze and understand their customers on social networks, said today that it has merged with Spot Influence, and raised $1M in a funding round. Financial detai...

Provo, Utah-based EcoScraps, a manufacturer of chemical-free, organic lawn and garden products, including compost, has raised $1.5M in a Series A funding, the firm said today. The round was led by Kickstart Seed Fund, and also included DBL ...

Boulder-based Sinopsys Surgical, a stealth mode firm in the biotech area, has raised $1.2M in a funding, according to a recent regulatory filing by the company. Details on the company and the funding have not been announced by the company. ...

Rocky Mountain venture investments totaled $341.0M in Q2 of this year, down from $472.75M raised in 2011, mostly due to a drop in investments in Arizona, according to the latest PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association Mo...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital firm Mercato Partners appears to be having some success in raising its second, venture capital fund, Mercato Partners Growth II, based on regulatory filing from the fund this week. The venture capital fi...

Greenwood Village-based Dizzion, a developer and provider of cloud computing services started by ViaWest veterans, has raised $680,000 in a seed funding round, according to a regulatory filing this week. The firm, founded by Steve Prather, ...

Denver-based FullContact, which runs a cloud-based, contact management service, said last night that it has raised $7M in a Series B funding round. The TechStars graduate said the funding was led by Foundry Group, and also included High Cou...

Cloudability, a TechStars startup out of the TechStars Cloud program in San Antonio, has raised $8.7M in a funding, the firm said this morning. The round was led by Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group. Jason Mendelson of Foundr...

Phoenix-based Athletes' Performance, a provider of performance training, nutrition, and physical therapy services for athletes, the military, and corporations, said today that it has raised $22.5M in a funding round. The round came from ABS...

Salt Lake City-based Needle, the developer of e-commerce software used to help link fans and experts on brands with shoppers, said Monday that it has raised $10.5M in a Series B funding round. The round was co-led by Shasta Ventures and Rem...

Boulder-based IT log security software provider LogRhythm has added more fuel to its tanks, saying this morning that it has raised $15M in a Series D funding round. The company, whose products are used in the computer security and cyber thr...

Boulder-based LinkSmart said this morning that it has launched out of stealth mode, and has raised $4.7M in funding from Foundry Group, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Costanoa Venture Capital. The firm is led by Pete Sheinbaum, who previously wa...

Boulder-based Foundry Group, the venture capital firm led by Brad Feld, Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre, and Jason Mendelson, has been busy. Two firms said today that Foundry played a lead role in their funding this morning. New York City-based ...

Boulder-based Standing Cloud, the developer of cloud computing software headed by David Jilk, has raised $2.0M more in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm earlier this week. Details of the funding have not yet been...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Ventures has backed Yesware, a Boston-based a maker of software that helps salespeople manage email with their prospective customers. According to Yesware, it raised $4M in a second round of fundin...

Boulder-based Mile High Organics, which operates an online, organically certified grocery store, said today that it has raised a seed round of funding. Exact size of the round was not announced, with the firm only said it was a "seven-figur...

Boulder-based clean technology investor Vision Ridge Partners is the lead investor in a developer of thermal windows inserts, Indow Windows, leading a $1.3M, Series A for that firm. Indow annoucned the funding Wednesday, saying that Vision ...

Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Incitor, a startup focus on developing a low-temperature, chemical process for converting biomass into renewable fuels and chemicals, has raised $1.5M in a Series A funding, the firm said late Monday. The fundi...

What's the latest investment from Boulder based venture capital firm Foundry Group? No, it's not a web startup, fitness device, or robotics firm: it's a batch of beer. Foundry released its "Liquidation Preference Spring Equinox Ale" Friday,...

New Mexico-based venture investor Flywheel Ventures appears to be having quite an active first half, telling its supporters today in an email that it has made investments in four new portfolio companies so far in the first half of 2012. Fly...

Greenwood Village, Colorado-based investor Keating Capital says it has taken a stake in privately held, venture backed company Stoke. Stoke develops technology used for the LTE and 3G telecommunications market. According to Keating Capital,...

Colorado Springs-based Spectranetics, a manufacturer of peripheral and cardiac laser catheters and other medical devices, said today that it has appointed B. Kristine Johnson, a venture capitalist at Affinity Capital Management, to its boar...

Boulder-based venture capital investor Foundry Group said today that it has led a round in Data Hero, a new startup developing data analytics and visualization software. Data Hero raised $1M in the round, which also included Neu Venture Cap...

Venture Capital in the Rockies, the venture capital conference series which run by the Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association, has just opened up a call for companies for its fall conference, being held September 26th through the 28th. ...

Boulder-based Orbotix said Friday afternoon that it has raised another $5M in funding, led by Foundry Group and Highway 12 Ventures, to help grow the company's business. According to a note posted by CEO Paul Berberian, the firm says it now...

Boulder-based Ajubeo, a provider of a cloud-based, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform aimed at the enterprise, said Wednesday that it has launched its service, backed by private equity firm Grey Mountain Partners. Ajubeo said it wi...

Orem, Utah-based GroSocial, the developer of an online service which helps businesses run their own contests, sweepstakes, and other promotions, has raised $1M in a Series A funding round, the firm said today. The round was led by Kickstart...

Phoenix-based DICOM Grid said Wednesday that it has raised $5M in an expansion funding round, for the firm's cloud-based, software-as-a-service for medical imaging. The funding was led by Canaan Partners, CHL Medical Partners, and individua...

Boulder-based Mocavo, which is developing an online genalogy search engine, is announcing this morning that it has raised $4M in a Series A funding. The round came from the Foundry Group. Seth Levine of Foundry joins the company's board as ...

What's Paul Ahlstrom, one of the founders of vSpring Capital doing nowadays? Kickstarting an entire venture capital industry in Mexico, that's what. In a fascinating story on Ahlstrom's journey from Salt Lake City to moving his family to Me...

Provo, Utah-based Qualtrics, a developer of enterprise data collection and analysis software headed by Ryan Smith, has raised a huge, $70M funding round for the firm from two high profile venture capital firms. The round looks to be the la...

Broomfield, Colorado-based Starboard Storage, a developer of storage systems which use both solid state and hard disk drive storage, has raised $13M in a Series B funding round, the firm said this morning. The round came from JP Ventures Gm...

Denver-based Regenerative Sciences announced this morning that it has raised $2M in an investment round, for the firm's development of treatments for orthopedic conditions. The investment came from John C. Malone, chairman of Liberty Media ...

A pair of Arizona State University students--who went on a leave of absence from the school to start their company--have just scored $10M in venture funding. Suhail Doshi and Tim Trefen, the founders of Mixpanel, met at school at ASU, and d...

Lujure, which develops an online service to help companies easily create a Facebook fan page, has scored funding from TechStars' David Cohen. According to Lujure, it raised $500,000 in a funding round from angels, which included David Cohen...

Missoula, Montana-based TerraEchos, a developer of a software system which is able to turn unstructured data streams to detect security threats in both the cyber and real world, said today that it has gained additional seed funding. Financi...

Longmont, Colorado-based TerraLUX, which develops solid state lighting products, reports that it has raised $18.3M in a new funding round, a Series B round for the company. The firm said the round was led by Generation Investment Management...

If you're looking to identify the most promising entrepreneurs in Utah, one of the most reliable sources over the years has been the v100, the annual listing of the top 100 venture-focused entrepreneurs in the state, which has been compil...

Littleton, Colorado-based Infinite Power Solutions, the developer of solid-state, thin-film energy storage devices headed by Jim Norrod, said Wednesday that it has raised $10M in a Series D funding round. The round came from Generation Inve...

Bozeman, Montana-based Schedulicity, the developer of online scheduling software headed by Jerry Nettuno, has raised another $2.3M in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. The filing indicates the company has no...

Boulder-based venture capital investor The Foundry Group, has led an investment in a developer of search engine optimization tools and services, SEOmoz. According to SEOMoz, Brad Feld from Foundry led the firm's $18M funding round, contribu...

Matt Galligan, the former co-founder of former Boulder-based startup SimpleGeo, has re-emerged at a new startup, Circa, with $750,000 in seed funding, including investments from David Cohen and David Tisch of TechStars. According to Circa, ...

Arvada, Colorado-based Boulder Ionics, which is developing energy storage products, has raised $4.3M in a Series A round, the firm said this morning. The company said the round was led by Pangaea Ventures, and also included 9th Street Inves...

Salt Lake City-based Wasatch Microfluidics, a developer of protein analysis equipment for the drug discovery and research market, has raised $470,000 in a funding round from an angel group, part of a targeted $1M funding for the company. Ac...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital investor EPIC Ventures has made another investment in online marketing firm BrightTag, as part of a new $15M funding for the startup. According to BrightTag, it has closed $15M in new funding, which was ...

Boulder-based miRagen Therapeutics, which is developing biopharamceuticals for treating cardiovascular and muscle disease, said Tuesday that it has raised $20M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Remeditex Ventures, and also i...

Boulder-based venture capital investor The Foundry Group announced Monday morning that it has invested in Singly, a developer of a software platform for storing personal data. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed, although r...

A firm which has licensed technology developed at the Utah Artificial Heart Institute has scored funding for its efforts to bring its products to market. Aggredyne, which says it is developing biomedical diagnostics products for measuring p...

Venture capital totals in the region slipped slightly in the quarter, according to the latest PricewaterhouseCooper/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report, which was released this evening. According to the report, $205.7M w...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based 41st Parameter, a developer of fraud prevention and online device recognition technology, confirmed it has raised $13M in a Series D funding. The firm said the round came from Georgian Partners, Kleiner Perkins Cau...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based NJOY, a developer of electronic cigarettes, said it has raised $20M in a private equity investment. The investment came from consumer focused private equity firm Catterton Partners. NJOY said the funding will go to...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based 41st Parameter, which develops fraud detection software used by the finacial industry, has raised $13.0M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. According to the filing, the ...

Denver-based data center services provider Viawest said Tuesday that it has raised $65M in a debt financing round, which it will use for growth initiatives and market expansion. ViaWest did not detail the terms of the new senior credit faci...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group has re-upped in web site gamification software developer BigDoor, leading a new round in the Seattle based company. BigDoor, whose software is used to add badges, points, awards, and other fe...

Denver-based Plink, the developer of a loyalty program which awards Facebook members with Facebook credits for visiting restaurants and stores, said today that it has raised $633,000 in an angel investment round. Investors in the round incl...

Salt Lake City venture capital firm vSpring Capital's annual ranking of the top entrepreneurs to watch in Utah, the vSpring v100, has become a staple of the local technology industry in Utah, and was closely watched for its naming of the mo...

Two Salt Lake City-based venture capital firms, vSpring Capital and Signal Peak Ventures, the newly formed VC fund headed by Ron Heinz and Brandon Tidwell, said this morning that the two have combined their partnership, and will operate und...

Evergreen, Colorado-based Wowza Media Systems, a developer of media server software aimed at helping service providers deliver streaming live video, video demand, and video chat services, said Tuesday that it has received a minority investm...

BiO 2 Medical, a medical device manufacturer which has its manufacturing operations in Golden, Colorado, said late Friday that it has raised $13.7M in a Series B funding round. The firm, which is developing a central venous catheter and Inf...

What's the downside of being one of the biggest venture capital firms in the region? Apparently, your portfolio firms poaching employees from one another. Boulder-based Foundry Group took the subject head on this week in a public post, tell...

Integrate, a developer of Internet advertising services focused on performance marketing, said this morning that it has raised $11M in a Series B funding round. The round came from Comcast Ventures, Liberty Global, as well as existing inves...

Boulder-based Albeo Technologies, a developer of solid state, LED lighting products for the industrial and commercial market, announced this morning that it has raised $8M in a Series C funding round. The firm said the round was led by Brae...

Louisville, Colorado-based Zayo Group, the bandwidth provider headed by Dan Caruso, has made a huge acquisition this morning, saying it is paying $2.2 billion to buy AboveNet, Inc.. Zayo said it will pay $84.00 per share in cash for publicl...

NEXThink, a developer of enterprise IT monitoring software, said Thursday that it has raised $5.5M in a Series C funding, and set up shop in Utah. The funding round came from Auriga Partners, Venture Incubator, and Mannai Corporation. NEXTh...

Boulder-based Foundry Ventures might be seeing some liquidity from its recent exit success at social gaming maker Zynga, after Zynga said this week that a number of its existing investors are seeking to offload shares in a $400M, secondary ...

Greenwood Village, Colorad-based Keating Capital, the venture investor which has the unique position of being publicly traded, reported that it invested $5M, in the recent $100M Series E funding round for LifeLock. Keating reported that the...

Mesa, Arizona-based PowerOneData International, a developer of hardware and software used for utility metering infrastructure, reported Thursday that it has scored an investment to build a manufacturing facility in India. Size of the invest...

Mesa, Arizona-based PowerOneData International, a developer of hardware and software used for utility metering infrastructure, reported Thursday that it has scored an investment to build a manufacturing facility in India. Size of the invest...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group has put more money into the maker of technology which inspired the futuristic user interface in the film "Minority Report". According to Oblong Industries>b?, it has raised a new, Series B fu...

Phoenix-based Provista Diagnostics, a developer of cancer detection and diagnostics technology, said today that it has raised $5.0M in a Series A funding round. The firm said the funding came from institutional investors, but did not announ...

Boulder-based BlogFrog, which develops a social marketing software product aimed at helping brands gain access to bloggers, said this morning that it has raised $3.2M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Grotech Ventures, and a...

Orem, Utah-based Kisstixx, a startup developing lip balm which is designed to react when people kiss, has raised $200,000 in a funding round from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. The startup--started by Dallas Robinson and Mike Buonomo in...

Provo, Utah-based Vivint, the installer of home automation, home security, and other products and services, reports today that it has raised $762M in senior bank debt financing. The firm said the round was $72M more than its last round. Th...

Boise, Idaho-based Micron is paying approximately $600M to Intel, to acquire the stake in two of Intel's wafer factories developing NAND flash. The two announced the deal Tuesday, saying that the move would expand their NAND Flash memory jo...

Denver-based Mersive, the provider of software which enables the creation of high performance, large scale displays, has scored new funding today, from two different investors. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Mersive, which is head...

Denver-based Wayin, an online social polling and entertainment site, said today that it has raised $14M in a Series B funding. The funding came from U.S. Venture Partners, along with TIBCO Software, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, and a...

The annual winter venture capital conference of the Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association, VC in the Rockies Winter 2012, has announced the companies which will be presenting at the event today. The group said it selected twenty four c...

Ft. Collins, Colorado-based VanDyne SuperTurbo, a firm developing suprercharging and turbocharging devices for automobiles, said Tuesday afternoon that it has raised $8M in a Series C equity funding round. The round was led by Northwater Ca...

Salt Lake City-based Peterson Partners, the private equity firm headed by Joel Peterson, the Chairman of JetBlue Airways, said today that it has invested $4M in a Brazilian developer of cell phone towers. Peterson Partners said it invested ...

Scottsdale-based Parchment, a startup which operates a service to help transfer transcripts and educational data between institutions, said Monday that it has raised $6M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Salmon River Capital...

Alburquerque, New Mexico-based TruTouch Technologies, a developer of non-invaisve, biometric systems used for detecting intoxication, has raised $3M in a Series B funding, the firm announced Tuesday. The firm said the Series B round was led...

Missoula, Montana-based TerraEchos, a developer of data analysis software for the security market, has raised $1.55M in a seed funding round, the company said this morning. The round for the firm was led by Flywheel Ventures, and also inclu...

Salt Lake City-based Domo, the new business intelligence software startup headed by Omniture's Josh James, has raised $20M more in funding, the firm said last night. The funding came from Institutional Venture Partners, and was a Series A-1...

Denver-based Inspirato, the online luxury vacation club operator headed by Brent Handler, has raised $20M in funding, according to one of the firm's venture backers, CrunchFund. The new funding was led by Institutional Venture Partners. The...

Sandy, Utah-based uGenius, the developer of video-based ATM machines, has scored a strategic investment from NCR Corporation, NCR said this morning. Size of the investment was not disclosed. NCR said it has taken a minority stake in uGenius...

Phoenix-based StormWind, a provider of online IT and custom training, said today that it has raised $4M in a round of funding. The round was led by GSV Capital. According to StormWind, it will use the new funds to expand its offerings, plus...

Salt Lake City-based Solera Networks, which makes network security and traffic monitoring appliances, is announcing today that it has raised $20M in a new round of funding. The fourth round of funding is being led by Intel Capital, and also...

Spanish Fork, Utah-based H2O TECH, a developer of a water drill for the dental care industry, and Orem, Utah-based Aribex, a developer of portable x-ray products for the dental office, said today that Aribex has made an equity investment in...

Boulder-based venture investor Foundry Group has led a new round in fitness device maker Fitbit, according to Fitbit this morning. Fitbit said it raised $12M in a Series C funding, led by Foundry Group and True Ventures, along with its othe...

The local region saw $229.4M in venture capital investment activity in Q4 of 2011, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, form data provided by Thomson Reuters. According to...

Boulder-based Symplified, the developer of cloud identification management software headed by Eric Olden, said this morning that it has raised $20M in a funding round. The round was led by Ignition Partners, and also included prior investor...

Salt Lake City-basd Acteea, a developer of software-as-a-service used for e-commerce analytics, has been acquired by PivotLink, a developer of retail performance management software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Ac...

Boulder-based SendGrid said this morning that it has raised $21M in its Series B funding round. The startup, which provides email delivery services to companies, said the funding was led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The funding will go tow...

Boise, Idaho-based Balihoo, the developer of local marketing automation technology, said today that it has raised $5M in new funding for the company's growth plans. The company, which is headed by Pete Gompert, said the round was led by Ope...

Boulder-based Clarimedix, a developer of non-invasive therapeutics for treating vascular dysfunction, has scored an investment from the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Office of Science and Technology (COSAT). Financial details of the investmen...

Provo, Utah-based MoneyReef, a new startup headed by former Vivint co-founder Keith Nellesen, said Tuesday that it has raised $650,000 in a seed funding round. The company said it is developing mobile, financial tools to help consumers mana...

Denver-based Thought Equity Motion, which provides a hosted service for storage of video libraries, has a new minority investor, private equity firm Investcorp. Investcorp said it invested $28M in Thought Equity Motion, making it the larges...

Boulder-based Trada, which provides an online advertising marketplace for paid search and Facebook ads, said today that it has raised $9M in a Series D financing round. The funding came from Foundry Group and Google Ventures. Trada, which i...

Boulder-based Next Big Sound, which provides monitoring of online sales by bands and musicians, along with other analytics, has raised $6.5M in a new funding. The company, which is led by Alex White, said the funding was led by IA Ventures...

Salt Lake City-based HzO, a company which develops technology for protecting electronics from water, humidity, and liquids and is a spinoff of ZAGG, has received $3M in a preferred equity investment, the firm said this morning. The investme...

Greenwood Village, Colorado-based investment firm Keating Capital is the lead investor in an investment in plastics-to-oil firm Agilyx. Agilyx said yesterday that it has raised $25M in a Series C Convertible Preferred funding round, led by ...

Boulder-based Foundry Venture Capital scored a huge win Friday for its 2007 fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2007, as one of its portfolio companies, Zynga, hit the public markets. Zynga debuted on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on Friday at ...

Boulder-based Graphic.ly, the online comic book software and publishing firm headed by Micah Baldwin, has raised another $500,000 in an equity funding, part of an ongoing $1.0M fundraising effort by the company. The disclosure came through ...

Boulder-based PlaceIQ, a startup collecting location based information about the world, has raised 4.2M in a Series A funding--but is moving to New York City. The startup--headed by Duncan McCall--said the funding was led by US Venture Part...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital firm Pelion Venture Partners has re-upped on a round of venture capital for a cloud-based, performance testing firm. SOASTA said today that it has raised $12M in a new funding, which included Pelion, a p...

A new, joint venture between Microsoft and GE, is expected to have a "significant" presence in Salt Lake City, according to the two firms last night. Microsoft and GE said they are creating a 50-50 joint venture late Wednesday, which will f...

Santa Fe, New Mexico-based venture capital firm Flywheel Ventures has just led an investment in a firm, which is looking to perhaps make the "tricorder" of Star Trek a reality. According to Los Angeles-based Tribogenics, it has raised $2.5M...

Boulder-based venture capital firm The Foundry Group's latest investment is literally, Awe.sm -- in that is the startup's name. Awe.sm, which is based in San Francisco, said today that it has raised $4M in a funding round which was led by F...

Looking to poke some fun at his own profession, Brad Feld, the prolific blogger and venture capitalist at Boulder venture capital firm The Foundry Group, announced yesterday that he's launched his own, Internet "meme" site, I Can Haz A VC. ...

PortfolioDashboards.com, a new startup with operations in Utah, said this week that it has launched a new service to help early stage investors track their portfolios. PortfolioDashboards said it is looking to provide angel investors and ve...

Salt Lake City-based Sera Prognostics, which is developing diagnostics tests to predict preterm birth and other pregnancy complications, announced Tuesday that it has raised $19.3M in a Series A financing round. The round was led by InterWe...

Louisville, Colorado-based Nexgen Storage announced this morning that it has raised $10M in a new round of funding. The round was led by Next World Capital, and also included prior investors Grotech Ventures and Access Venture Partners. Nex...

Boulder-based Standing Cloud, the developer of application software for the cloud computing market, announced today that it has raised $3M in a new funding round. The round came from existing investors Foundry Group and Avalon Ventures. Sta...

Missoula, Montana-based Rivertop Renewables, a developer of renewable chemicals, said Friday that it has raised $1.5M in a bridge financing round. The round came from Cultivian Ventures. Ron Meeusen, Cultivian's co-founder and Principal, j...

New Mexico-based venture capital investor Flywheel Ventures has backed a San Francisco-based startup, AfterCollege. AfterCollege said that Flywheel led an undisclosed amount of funding in the company, which it will use to accelerate product...

Denver-based Digital Folio, which develops browser-based software to help consumers automatically compare prices from online retailers, has raised $1.2M in an angel funding, the firm announced today. The round came from un-named angels. The...

Salt Lake City-baseed Radiate Media, a newly formed company which is the combination of Matchbin and the NAVTEQ Broadcast Media Division, said today that it has raised $22M in a first institutional financing. The deal included $10M in equit...

Boulder-based SolidFire, a developer of solid state disk (SSD) storage systems, said Monday that it has raised $25M in a second round of funding. The round came from New Enterprise Associates, Valhalla Partners, and Novak Biddle Venture Par...

Phoenix, Arizona-based Grayhawk Capital has had a first close on its second fund, Grayhawk Venture Fund II, bringing the amount of the fund raised to $28.5M, according to the fund. The new fund is focused on venture capital investments in e...

Lakewood, Colorado-based Zeachem, a developer of renewable fuels biorefineries, said today that it has raised $19M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Birchmere Ventures, along with existing investors Firelake Capital, Globesp...

Boulder-based TechStars is growing out its TechStars Network effort, backed by Startup America, to two new incubation programs. Houston-based SURGE, an energy-focused startup incubator, and Los Angeles-based MuckerLab have both joined the T...

The latest venture capital numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report, based on data from Thomson Reuters, find that the region had just over a quarter billion dollars invested in venture c...

Orem, Utah-based GroSocial, a developer of social media marketing software, announced this morning that it has raised $450,000 in a seed round of funding. The funding was led by Kickstart Seed Fund, and also included Monarch Ventures, Rock ...

Phoenix-based VisionGate, a developer of non-invasive test for the early detection of lung cancer, said today that it has raised $2M in a first tranche of a financing round. According to the firm, the funding comes as part of an ongoing $3M...

Denver-based Inspirato, an online luxury vacation rental firm headed by Brent and Brad Handler, said today that it has raised $17.5M, in a round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The firm said that Access Venture Partners and New Yor...

Greenwood Village-based investor Keating Capital said today that it has invested $3M in TrueCar, a provider of online research and pricing information for new and used cars based in Southern California. Keating Capital said the common stock...

Greener Capital, a venture capital fund focused on clean technology, said today that it has scored a first close on its second fund, Greener Capital Partners II, and set up shop in ASU's Scottsdale innovation center, SkySong. The venture ca...

Salt Lake City-based Mindshare Technologies announced today that it has raised $20M in an investment round. The provider of enterprise feedback management products said the round was led by Sorenson Capital, and also included a credit facil...

Denver-based PaySimple, a developer of accounts receivable automation software aimed at small businesses, said Monday that it has raised $16M in a financing round. The round was led by Susquehanna Growth Equity. PaySimple said that Amir Gol...

Boulder-based TechStars, the venture accelerator, is currently among the hottest trends in entrepreneurship to hit the Rocky Mountain region, if not the nation. The accelerator--run by David Cohen--even has its own television show, "TechSta...

Yieldex, the developer of advertising inventory and revenue management software started in Colorado, but which is now headquartered in New York, said today that it has raised $10M in a third round of funding. The funding was led by Triangle...

Boulder-based Foundry Group has made an investment in a developer of software to help sales people track their emails with prospects and customers. Foundry, along with Google Ventures, has invested $1M in Watertown, Mass.-based Yesware, who...

Boulder-based Market Force Information, the developer of market intelligence software for retailers, restaurants, grocery, and convenience stores, announced this morning that it has raised $15M in a funding round. According to Market Force ...

Ogden, Utah-based Tech Media Network, the publisher of Space.com, Newsarama.com, TechNewsDaily, and other online publications, said today that it has raised $33M in a funding round. The round came from Village Ventures, ABS Capital, and Hig...

Denver-based Aventura HQ, a developer of clinical data access software, said Tuesday that it has raised a major funding round for the company. The round was led by HLM Venture Partners and Excel Venture Management, and also included Siemens...

Boulder-based TechStars, the startup accelerator run by David Cohen, said this morning that it has raised $24M in a new funding round, from The Foundry Group, IA Ventures, Avalon Ventures, DFJ Mercury, SoftBank Capital, SVB Financial Group,...

Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Skorpios Technologies, a developer of optical communications products based on composite silicon technology, said last week that it has raised $19M in a Series B funding round. The round came from Ericsson, Nok...

Greenwood Village, Colorado-based Keating Capital, an investment firm that invests in private companies, is one of the investors in New York-based Tremor Video. Tremor Video said today that it had raised $37M in a preferred stock offering, ...

Boulder-based Simple Energy, a developer of gamification software aimed at the utility industry and encouraging energy conservation, has raised $900,000 in angel funding. The funding came from TechStars, and also included Brad Feld, among o...

Denver-based IP Commerce, the developer of e-commerce and payment systems, has detailed its funding from Intel, saying Thursday that it has raised $20.7M in a growth funding. The round was led by intel Capital, and also included existing in...

Denver-based IP Commerce, which develops Internet e-commerce and payment systems as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS), has scored new funding, according to Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of Intel Corporation. Amount of the funding was ...

Taptu, the developer of a social news reader application for mobile platforms which has its U.S. headquarters in Denver, said today that it has raised $3.5M in funding. The funding came from DFJ Espirit and Sofinnova Ventures. According to ...

Denver-based Valen Technologies, the developer of predictive analytics software for the insurance industry, said today that it has raised $7.5M in a growth equity financing round. Valen said the funding came from QED Investors and Core Capi...

Last month, Signal Peak Ventures (www.signalpeakvc.com), a new venture capital fund located in Salt Lake City, announced it had acquired the assets of Canopy Ventures. The new fund is led by former Canopy Managing Directors Ron Heinz and Br...

Boulder-based Foundry Group latest investment? No, it's not a new, social web startup--it's a hilarious, spoof of a R&B music video, I'm a VC. The video, which was just posted this morning, features Foundry Group venture capitalists Brad Fe...

Phoenix, Arizona-based AFS Technologies, a developer of ERP software for the food and beverage industry, said Thursday afternoon that it has received a new equity financing led by Goldman, Sachs & Co. The firm said the recapitalization will...

Denver-based Sympoz, which operates a service which helps people learn skills online from experts, has scored a round of funding, according to Boulder-based Foundry Group, the venture capital firm backing the company. Size of the funding ro...

Greenwood Village, Colorado-based Keating Capital, an investor in private companies, said today that it was the lead investor in a funding round for Metabolon, a firm developing molecular diagnostics services and technology. Keating said it...

Ogden, Utah-based Infinia Corp., a developer of Stirling engine technology for the energy market, has raised $6.5M out of an ongoing $25M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Infinia's first product is being aimed ...

Lindon, Utah-based Signal Peak Ventures, a newly formed venture capital fund management firm, announced Tuesday evening that it has created a new fund focused on early stage investments in the Intermountain region, and also acquired "substa...

Salt Lake City-based Mercato Partners, the venture capital firm run by Alan Hall and Greg Warnock, is likely to raise a second fund, according to a report today from PEHub.com. Mercato, whose portfolio firms include Fusion-io, Skullcandy, C...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group said this morning that it has led a $10M, funding round for a maker of 3D printers, Makerbot Industries. According to Foundry, MakerBot is developing a low cost, commercial 3D printer. Brad F...

Boulder-based Pixoto, a startup which lets people find and vote on photographic images, has raised $360,000 as part of an ongoing, $500,000 funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Details on the funding have n...

Boulder, Colorado-based Infield Capital, an investor in early stage, clean technology companies in the transportation industry, has backed Mission Motors, a developer oe electric motorcycles. According to Mission Motors, it has raised $9.0M...

Broomfield, Colorado-based OpenLogic, the provider of enterprise open source software support, said today that it has raised another $2M in funding, plus converted exiting bridge financing, from investors converted existing bridge financing...

Salt Lake City-based HzO, a manufacture of industrial coatings, has raised $7M in a Series B funding, according to the firm. Investors in the round included Harris & Harris Group, Prudence Holdings, and Pike Capital Partners. HzO develops n...

Denver-based Thought Equity Motion, a provider of video footage licensing services, has raised $25M in an investment from a private equity firm. Thought Equity said the funding came from Shamrock Capital, a private equity firm focused on th...

Boulder-based Occipital, the developer of its mobile, panoramic imaging tools as well as computer vision technology, said this morning that it has raised $7M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by the Foundry Group. As part of th...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital fund Pelion Ventures is kicking off a new fund, looking to raise $155M for its investment efforts, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The filing said that Pelion Ventures V is targeted at $155...

Boulder-based Occipital, the developer of mobile applications now working on 3D, panoramic imaging tools, has raised $7.0M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. Source of the funding was not discl...

Ogden, Utah-based CampusBookRentals.com announced today that it has raised $20M in a growth equity funding. According to the firm, the round was led by Level Equity, Five Elms Capital, and Cherokee & Walker. CampusBookRentals.com is headed ...

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ThinkNear, a company out of Boulder-based TechStars New York program, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.6M in a seed funding round. The round was led by IA Ventures, and also included Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Metamorphic Venture...

In an unusual move, Boise, Idaho-based Highway 12 Ventures, the venture capital firm run by George Mulhern, Phil Reed, Mark Solon, and Glenn Michael, said today that it has decided not to raise a third fund. According to a blog post by Mana...

Boulder-based Mosaic Biosciences, a developer of synthetic materials to help promote new tissue regeneration, has raised $1.0M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. The firm's website indicates the ro...

Boulder-based Cool Energy, which develops Stirling-engine based, clean energy and power generation systems, said this morning that it has scored a round of funding. The funding came from Idealab, the California-based operator and incubator ...

The Rocky Mountain Region saw $413.5M in venture capital investments in Q2, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters. Accordin...

Mike Ahearn, the co-founder and former CEO of Tempe, Arizona-based First Solar, has just announced the launch of a $300M, venture capital fund focused on the clean technology industry. According to True North Venture Partners, it will inves...

Albuquerque-based nanoMR, a firm developing diagnostics tools for detecting pathogens in whole blood, has raised $13M in a funding round. The firm said the Series B round was led by Excel Venture Management, and also included Healthcare Ven...

Salt Lake City-based Domo, the business intelligence startup headed by Omniture co-founder Josh James, has raised $33M in a funding round, the firm said last night. The firm said the round came from Benchmark Capital, and brings the total i...

Salt Lake City-based Pelion Ventures has re-upped its investment in a Silicon Valley firm, Cloudflare, which provides web site optimization and security tools. CloudFlare said that it has raised $20M in a Series B round, which was led by Ne...

Salt Lake City-based EPIC Ventures is one of the lead investors in a data warehouse firm based on the Hadoop software stack, Zettaset. According to Zettaset, it has raised $3M in a Series A funding round, which was led by both EPIC Ventures...

Clean Urban Energy, a startup whose technology was developed at the University of Colorado, scored funding this week, saying it raised $7M in a Series A round. Clean Urban Energy, which is based in Chicago, is commercializing a software too...

Boulder-based OPX Biotechnologies, the developer of renewable, bio-based chemical and fuels technology, has confirmed that it has raised $36.5M in the first close of a Series C, private equity financing. According to the firm, the new round...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital investor vSpring Capital has scored another exit its its portfolio this morning, as enterprise software giant BMC Software said it is acquiring Aeroprise, a Silicon Valley startup backed by vSpring. Fina...

Boulder-based OPX Biotechnologies, the developer of biofuels technology, has raised a huge, $36.5M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Tuesday. The filing indicates the round is part of a larger, $45M fundraising e...

San Francisco-based social games make Zynga filed for an IPO Friday, in what could be potentially one of the biggest paydays for Boulder-based Foundry Venture Capital. Zynga said it is looking to raise up to $1 billion in its IPO, which is ...

Denver-based Altitude Digital Partners, which provides online advertising and publishing services for web publishers, has raised $1.5M in funding. The funding came from Cypress Growth Capital. The company said the new funding will go toward...

Two Colorado venture capital and investment firms -- Centennial Ventures and Meritage Funds, have scored an exit at portfolio firm Masergy Communications. According to Masergy, a provider of secure, virtual network services based in Texas, ...

Salt Lake City-based Allegiance, the developer of customer and employee feedback software, announced this morning that it has raised $12M in a funding round. The new funding was led by El Dorado Ventures, and also included Rembrandt Venture...

Denver-based Ping Identity, the developer of single-sign on software, said today that it has raised $21M in new funding. The round came from Triangle Peak Partners, Silicon Valley Bank, as well as prior investors Appian Ventures, Draper Fis...

Denver-based Daily Deals for Moms, a daily deals and coupon site aiming at moms and families, said Monday that it has raised a round of angel funding. Size of the funding round was not disclosed. The firm said investors included Victor Lazz...

Greenwood Village-based Keating Capital, an investment firm focused on allowing individual investors to invest in pre-IPO companies, said today that it has led a $3M, Series F funding in Xtime, a developer of automotive CRM software. Keatin...

Salt Lake City-based inContact, the developer of call center software and optimization tools, said today that it has scored a strategic investment from Siemens Enterprise Communications. The investment in inContact--which is public--came as...

Golden, Colorado-based Proterra, which makes zero-emission electric transit buses, said today that it has raised $30M in a funding round. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, GM Ventures, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Vision Ridge ...

Search engine giant Google confirmed this morning that it has acquired AdMeld, the firm confirmed this morning, although it did not disclose financial terms of the deal. The acquisition of AdMeld is a huge win for local Boulder venture capi...

A reported acquisition of New York-based online advertising firm AdMeld by Google would be a huge exit for Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group, if confirmed. The acquisition has not yet been announced by either of the firms, bu...

Park City, Utah-based XYDO, which is developing a social news site which uses social networking sites to rank articles, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.25M in a funding round. The round was led by EPIC Ventures, as well as un-named angel...

Boulder-based venture capital firm The Foundry Group has invested in a new startup headed by the founder of email security firm Postini, Foundry said Tuesday. Foundry said it has backed Authentic8, a new startup developing secure Internet ...

Denver-based Pawngo, an online pawn shop formerly known as Internet Pawn, said today that it has launched its services. The firm has also raised $2.3M in a Series B funding, which includes an investment from Lightbank, the venture arm of th...

Denver-based eWise, a provider of global payment technology, said this morning that it has raised $14M in a financing round. The round was led by Wellington Partners, and also included Balderton Capital, TTV Capital and Patagorang. eWise sa...

Boulder-based Rally Software announced this morning that it has raised another, $20M in funding, led by Meritech Capital Partners. Rally, which is headed by Tim Miller, provides Agile software management tools used for the software developm...

Salt Lake City-based Alliance Health Networks, which operates a network of health condition-specific, vertical social networking websites, announced today that it has raised $11M in a funding round. The round was led by New World Ventures, ...

Boulder-based Napkin Labs, a developer of customer collaboration software, has raised $1.0M, as part of an ongoing $1.3M fundraising effort, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Source and details of the funding have not been...

Salt Lake City-based Pelion Ventures, the venture capital firm which is a combination of Utah Ventures/UV Partners and Novell Ventures, has re-upped its investment in a developer of digital pen capture technology. Adapx, which develops digi...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital firm vSpring Capital has released its yearly ranking of top Utah entrepreneurs, the vSpring 100. The yearly listing identifies and recognizes entrepreneurs with Utah ties that are most likely to experien...

Provo, Utah-based Shacho, a new startup headed by Omniture founder Josh James, said this morning that it has raised $10M in an angel funding round from a huge list of well known angels and a few venture capital firms. According to the firm,...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group has backed a San Francisco developer of cloud-based databases, MongoLab, the firm said today. Foundry said it led the $3M, Series A investment in MongoLab, which also included Baseline Ventur...

South Jordan, Utah-based Allegiance, which develops web-based feedback management software, has scored $7.15M as part of an ongoing, $8.65M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Details on the funding have not yet bee...

Boulder-based TechStars, the startup mentoring and acceleration program run by David Cohen, has scored its first exit in its Boston 2009 class, the firm said this week. TechStars said that Sensobi was acquired by GroupMe. Financial terms of...

Salt Lake City-based venture accelerator BoomStartup (www.boomstartup.com) is one of a new class of programs aimed at helping get companies out of the idea phase, and off the ground and funded. Like YCombinator and TechStars, BoomStartup is...

Salt Lake City-based BoomStartup, the mentoring and venture acceleration program, has announced the ten companies in its 2011 class this morning. BoomStartup said that ChampionVillage, CircleFive, Explorer.io, FaceTags, Golf Compete, Jumba...

Boulder-based startup incubation and mentoring effort TechStars took the top spot in a list released this week of the top "venture accelerators", with Salt Lake City incubation effort BoomStartup also making the list. According to a ranking...

Denver-based IP Commerce, a developer of Internet payment systems and software, has raised another round of funding, according to details disclosed in a quarterly roundup of deals by Holland and Hart LLP, the firm's legal counsel. Details o...

Denver-based Inspirato said this morning that it has raised $11M in a funding, for what it calls "the next generation destination club." The firm, founded by Brent Handler, co-founder of destination club Exclusive Resorts, said it will use ...

Denver-based Channelinsight--formerly InfoNow--a developer of sales channel management software, has raised $10M in a Series C funding round, the firm said today. The funding was led by Rho Ventures, and also included Sevin Rosen Funds, Seq...

Denver-based Encoding.com, which provides an online, service for encoding videos, has raised $2M in a new funding round. The round was led by Metamorphic Venturs, and also included angel investors Patrick Condon (Rackspace), John Engates (R...

One of the investments of Boulder-based Mobius Venture Capital, RFID chip maker Impinj, has filed for an IPO. Impinj, which is based in Seattle, said Thursday afternoon in an IPO filing that it is looking to raised $100M on the markets. Mo...

Boulder-based Lijit Networks has raised another $10M in funding, the firm said this morning. Lijit provides site search tools, plus runs its own online advertising network. The new round was led by new investor Highway 12 Ventures, and also...

Salt Lake City-based Instructure Canvas, the startup developing education management systems, and which is headed by Mozy founder Josh Coates, said today that it has raised $8M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by OpenView Vent...

The Rocky Mountain region saw a boost in its venture capital investments in Q1, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reu...

Moscow, Idaho-based GoNano Technologies, a firm developing materials for the pollution control, catalysis, composites and sensory technology market, has quietly raised $1.26M in funding. The funding came to light via a regulatory filing. Th...

Boulder-based Openspace Store, the company behind the Developers Cooperative open app marketplace, has raised a seed invetment from venture capital firm Foundry Group, Foundry said today. Foundry said the investment was made back in October...

Boulder-based Orbotix, the developer of the Sphero robotic toy, has raised $5M in a new funding round. The round came from Highway 12 Ventures and Foundry Ventures. Orbotix develops a robotic ball, the Sphero, which allows users to control ...

Forbes magazine has again published its Midas List of the top venture capitalists, with only one area venture capitalist--Brad Feld--on the list. Feld, of Boulder-based Foundry Group, was #100 out of 100 venture capitalists, placed there fo...

Greenwood Village, Colorado-based UsingMiles.com, which operates an online service for managing mileage on airline and hotel loyalty programs, has raised $2.7M in a Series A funding, the firm announced today. The firm, out of the Boulder Te...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group has backed a firm developing backup service for Google Apps, Spanning Cloud Apps. According to Spanning Cloud Apps, it has raised $2M in a funding, and added Foundry's Seth Levine to its boar...

Phoenix-based Tallwave, which bills itself as a "venture accelerator", said this morning that it has hired Robert Wallace as Executive Vice President of Venture Serviecs. Wallace was most recently at strategic marketing firm Katallaxy, and ...

Alteryx, a developer of GIS software for the business intelligence market which has its technology center in Boulder, said today that it has raised $6M in a funding round. The firm, which is based in Orange, California, said the funding cam...

Boulder-based LogRhythm, the developer of log and security analysis software, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Adam Street Partners, and also included prior investors Access Venture Partne...

Boulder-based business incubation effort TechStar has scored $8M more in funding for its programs, according to reports today. According to TechCrunch, the funding came from over fifty venture funds and 25 individual angel investors. Names ...

Westminster, Colorado-based AgInfoLink, which develops systems for tracking and monitoring livestock, has raised $1.92M, raising a recent funding round up to $5.245M, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. The filing indica...

Maricopa, Arizona-based Yulex, a developer of rubber compounds based on the guayule plant, said Wednesday that it has raised $15M in a private placement. The funding came from Argonaut Private Equity. The firm said it sill use the funding t...

Boulder, Colorado-based IDmission, a stealth mode startup, has raised $2.0M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. No details on the firm, or its funding, have been announced. The firm's President and CE...

Tuscon, Arizona-based HTG, a developer of molecular analysis products for gene expression profiling, miRNA and mRNA measurement, and related applications, has raised $10.0M out of a $14.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing. Th...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group announced today that it has funded Attachments.me, a firm which is developing natural language based software to extract and find information from email attachments. Financial details of the ...

Salt Lake City-based ContentWatch, the developer of Internet filtering software, has raised $3.5M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. The filing indicates the funding is part of a nearly complete, $...

Orem, Utah-based Funium, a new startup focused on developing a family tree focused online community, said Monday that it has raised $1.2M in an angel funding round. The round came from Family Odyssey, the investment firm of Jim Sorenson, al...

Salt Lake City-based Fuze Network, a developer of financial payments technology, said today that it has raised $1.2M in a seed financing round. The round was led by Metamorphic Ventures and Kickstart Seed Fund. According to the firm, the ne...

Boulder-based job matching service RoundPegg has raised $1.27M, from Access Venture Partners and Croghan Investments, according to regulatory filings this week and reports. RoundPegg, a TechStars startup, is headed by Tim Wolters, who co-fo...

South Jordan, Utah-based Lendio, which is focused on helping small business owners find lenders and secure loans, said today that it has closed a Series A round of funding, raising $6M. The firm, which is led by Brock Blake, said the fundin...

Centennial, Colorado-based Intern Inc. revealed this week that it has scored funding from Google CEO Eric Schmidt, for the firm's social networking community focused on job internships. The relationship was revealed as part of a promotion b...

Salt Lake City-based Control4, the developer of home automation products, said today that it has signed a deal with Cisco to deliver its products to Cisco, including a Cisco branded Control4 product line, and has scored an investment from C...

New York-based Ignighter, one of the companies which participated in the TechStars incubation effort as part of the 2008 class, has scored funding, the firm said this week. The firm said it raised $3M in a Series A investment. David Cohen o...

Louisville, Colorado-based Coalfire Systems said this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Baird Venture Partners. The company, which develops IT audit and compliance management services to small...

A developer of education technology, Docufide, said this morning that it has raised $4.5M in a funding round, set up headquarters in Scottsdale, and named Matthew Pittinsky as its CEO. Pittinsky is the founder of Blackboard, one of the bigg...

Mesa, Arizona-based Ulthera, a developer of ultrasound devices used for the aesthetics market, has raised $10.5M in a Series C funding round, the firm announced today. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, and also included Apposi...

Louisville, Colorado-based NexGen Storage, a new startup headed by former LeftHand Networks' founders John Spiers and Kelly Long, said this morning that it has raised a Series A round of financing. Size of the financing round was not disclo...

Aircell, the provider of the Gogo in-flight Internet access services, announced this morning that it has raised $35M in a new financing round. The round came from existing investors, including Ripplewood Holdings, Blumenstein/Thorne Informa...

Brad Feld, of Boulder-based The Foundry Group and TechStars, has ranked number one in a listing of top respected venture capitalists which was released this week. The list, from Seeking Omega, said it used technology from Lithium, review of...

SolidFire, a developer of cloud computing storage products, said Wednesday that it is setting up an office in Boulder, where it will be hiring engineering, marketing, and sales. The announcement came as part of a funding announcement for th...

David Cohen, one of the co-founders of Boulder's TechStars, is one of the lead angel investors in a new social e-commerce firm, Storenvy. According to Storenvy, it raised $1.5M in a funding round, led by Spark Capital and First Round Capita...

Greenwood Village-based UsingMiles, an online site which helps consumers manage their airline mileage and other loyalty points, has raised $2.7M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thursday. Details on the fun...

Boulder-based Graphic.ly, the online comic book software developer, has raised $3.0M, the firm announced today. The funding was led by DFJ Mercury, and also included 500 Startups, Dundee VC, Ludlow Ventures, and others. The round had earlie...

Salt Lake City-based EmiSense, a developer of oxygen sensors, electrostatic particular matter sensors, and nitrogen oxide sensors used in clean emissions measurements, said this morning that it has raised $3M in a Series B funding round. Th...

The latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters, were released this evening, finding that investments in the Rocky Mountain region totaled $292M in Q4. The ...

Boulder-based BlogFrog, an online operator of a network of "mom blogs", said today that it has received a Series A round of funding, and launched its services. According to the firm, investors in the round included David Cohen of TechStars;...

Boulder-based security software provider Webroot is one of the strategic investors in Massachusetts-based Sonian, a developer of cloud archiving services. According to Sonian, it received $9M in a Series B funding from strategic investors W...

The Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association and KPMG unveiled the companies presenting at the Venture Capital in the Rockies 2011 Winter Conference this morning, saying it has divided companies into a clean technology and general technol...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group is the lead investor in Cheezburger, a publisher of Internet humor and "meme" sites, Cheezburger announced this evening. According to Cheezburger, it raised $30M in funding, led by Foundry Gr...

Phoenix, Arizona-based Televerde, a provider of sales lead and demand generation for IT hardware and software companies, has raised $7.5M in a combination of debt and equity, according to funder Main Street Capital. Main Street said it inve...

Phoenix-based GlobalTranz, a provider of logistics management services, said this week that it has raised a $10M, institutional round of financing. The round came from Volition Capital, and is the firm's first round with institutional inves...

Albuquerque, New Mexico-based TruTouch Technologies, a developer of non-invasive biometric intoxication detection systems, said this morning that it has close an $2.1M, expanded Series A-1 investment round. The round came from venture and a...

Boulder-babsed Symplified, a developer of identity management and security products, said today that it has raised $9M in a Series B funding round, and is planning a Series C expansion capital fundraising later this year. Symplified said th...

Salt Lake City-based Lineagen, a developer of diagnostic and healthcare services, said today that it is in the midst of a $15M, Series B funding round. The firm said it is "progresisng towards a close" of the round, which currently includes...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based Fluidic Energy, a developer of energy storage technology, has raised $17.3M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. No details on the funding have been announced. The firm's website ...

New Mexico-based Flywheel Ventures, the early stage venture capital firm run by Trevor Loy and Kim Sanchez Real, has received $7.5M in the firm's second fund, Flywheel II, LP, according to a recent regulatory filing. The firm kicked off fun...

Centennial, Colorado-based Ciris Energy, a developer of technology aimed at the natural gas production market, said today that it has scored a second round of funding, led by clean technology investors Khosla Ventures. Financial terms of th...

Louisville, Colorado-based Wireless Seismic, a firm which develops wireless, seismic data acquisition systems used by the oil and gas industry, announced Tuesday that it has raised $19.5M. The funding came from Chesapeake Energy and Energy ...

Boulder-based Graphic.ly, a developer of software for comic book publishers, has raised $2.6M as part of an ongoing, $3.3M fundraising effort, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Details on the funding have not been anno...

Boulder-based Foundry Group has re-upped its investment in a developer of a device for providing cloud-based backup and storage, Cloud Engines. San Francisco-based Cloud Engines said Foundry--its original investor--participated in a new fun...

Earlier this week, Denver-based Integrate (www.integrate.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding, for the firm's performance marketing technology. We caught up with Jeremy Bloom, the firm's founder and CEO, to hear more...

Denver-based Next Great Place, an online travel startup, said today that it has scored $1M in seed capital and is launching its online travel service. The firm, which says it was co-founded by Tom Filippini and Erik Mitisek, said the site w...

Denver-based SpotXchange, an online video advertising network, said today that it has raised $12M in a financing round. The round came from H.I.G. Growth Partners. SpotXchange, which is headed and was founded by Michael Shehan, said the fun...

Loveland, Colorado-based Abound Solar, which manufactures cadmium telluride, thin-film photovoltaic solar modules, has raised $110M in an equity funding, and also closed on a $400M loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy. Accordin...

Phoenix-based WebPT, a developer of electronic medical records and documentations software for physical therapists, said this morning that it has raised $1M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Canal Partners, the investment fir...

Boise, Idaho-based CradlePoint Technology announced this morning that it has raised $7.5M for the firm's 4G/3G routers and software. The firm said the Series B was led by OVP Venture Partners, and also included current investors Highway 12...

Denver-based Integrate, a provider of technology for running performance marketing campaigns, said this morning that it has raised $4.25M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by the Foundry Group. Integrate said it provides a sing...

Boulder-based Giveo, the developer of cause-marketing software headed by Ed Messman, said today that it has raised $1.5M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Access Venture Partners, and also included Grotech Partners, Sentinel...

Boulder-based Standing Cloud, a provider of a cloud-based, application hosting service, said today that it has raised $3M in a Series B financing. According to Standing Cloud, the round came from Avalon Ventures, and also included prior inv...

Boulder-based Splickit, the developer of mobile ordering applications for the iPhone, has raised $449,711 in a funding round targeted at $450,000, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. Source of the new funding was not discl...

The Open Angel Forum, a national angel investment group, is returning to Boulder with an event on December 9th, according to the group. The group--originally started in Southern California by Jason Calacanis-last ran an event in Boulder in ...

Denver-based Mersive Technologies, a developer of software for managing multiple projection displays into a single, seamless image, said this morning that it has raised a new round of funding. Amount of the funding was not disclosed, but ca...

Broomfield, Colorado-based Biodexis, a developer of tests for non-small cell lung cancer, said today that it has raised $7.1M in a Series C financing round . The round came from the firm's existing investors, plus another five new investors...

Phoenix-based DICOM Grid, a developer of medical imaging software, said this morning that it has raised $7.5M in a Series A financing. The round was led by Canaan Partners, and also included CHL Medical Partners and others. DICOM is a provi...

Boulder, Colorado-based investment firm Foundry Group is the lead investor in Portland-based Urban Airship, a developer of real-time, push notification software for mobile applications, in what is Foundry's first investment out of its recen...

Two, Denver-area investors have had one of their portfolio firms file for an IPO today. Centennial Ventures and Meritage Funds together own most of Plano, Texas-based Masergy, which said this morning it has filed for a $100M IPO on the NYSE...

Phoenix-based BioAccel, a nonprofit focused on helping to accelerate scientific research into commercial products and viable businesses, said today that it is part of a joint venture to accelerate the growth of U.S. technology startups. Bio...

Salt Lake City-based World Heart Corporation, a developer of implantable heart assist pumps, has raised $25.3M in an investment from a number of venture capital investors. The publicly held firm said the private placement came from Special ...

Phoenix-based Telesphere, a provider of PBX, VoIP, business phone and Internet services, said late Friday that it has closed on additional funding. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Telesphere said the new round brings the firm's tot...

Boulder-based venture firm Foundry Group has re-upped its investment in New York-based financial and stock investment community StockTwits. StockTwits said Tuesday that it has raised another $4M in funding, from Foundry and True Ventures, b...

Boulder-based Tendril, a maker of energy management systems, said Tuesday that it has raised $23M in a funding, and acquired GroundedPower, a Massachusetts firm which develops energy management and efficiency software. Financial terms of th...

Windsor, Colorado-based Ice Energy, a developer of energy storage technology, said this morning that it has raised $24M in a first close of a Series C financing round. The round came from TIAA-CREF, Energy Capital Partners, Good Energies, S...

The Rocky Mountain region saw a total of $150.5M in funding, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters, released last night. According to the...

Cody, Wyoming-based Eleutian Technology, a provider of English teachers to students via the internet, has merged with Chinese firm Idapted Ltd.. According to the two firms, they have merged to become Eleutian Technology Inc. The firm is ven...

Salt Lake City-based 7 Degrees, developer of business network mapping tool PeopleMaps, said today that it has raised $6.8M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Rho Ventures, vSpring Capital, and Parkview Ventures. As part of th...

Denver-based GutCheck, a provider of do-it-yourself, online market research services, has raised $2M, the firm said this morning. The funding came from Highway 12 Ventures, Village Ventures, iModerate Research Technologies, and Benenson Str...

Scalar Partners, a provider of business valuation and other services to private equity firms, said today that it has hired away Jeremy Neilson, the managing director of the State of Utah's private equity program, the Utah Fund of Funds. Sca...

Boulder-based BrowseNPay, a stealth mode firm whose tagline is "commerce made simple," has raised $500,000 in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. The firm, which is headed by OneRiot co-founder Robert Re...

Venture capital totals in Q3 totaled around $437.7M, according to the latest numbers tallied from Techrockies.com proprietary venture capital database. Among the bigger deals included in the totals was $30M raised in a combination of debt ...

Salt Lake City-based Lineagen, a provider of genetic testing and related services focused on autism spectrum disorders, said Monday that it is in the midst of raising $10M in new commitments as part of a $15M, Series B funding round. The ro...

Nonprofit Utah Youth Village, a group which supports disadvantaged youth and at-risk children in the state, said today that it is recognizing Dinesh Patel with its 2010 Helping Hand Award. The award recognizes supporters of efforts to help ...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group has announced that it is the lead in an investment in San Francisco-based Fitbit, the developer of a device for tracking fitness and exercise. Foundry lead a $9M investment round for Fitbit, ...

Boulder-based Miragen Therapeutics, a firm focused on discovery and development of therapies for cardiovascular and muscle disease, has raised $3.0M in a convertible note funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Source of th...

The University of Utah Eccles School of Business said yesterday that it has opened up a new, student-run venture capital fund. According to the school, the new fund, the University Impact Fund, will focus on socially responsible investing, ...

Salt Lake City-based Wasatch Funds, the provider of no-load mutual funds, is one of the firms backing online business recommendations site Angie's List. According to Angie's List, which is based in Indianapolis, it has closed on $22.5M in f...

Golden, Colorado-based GeoSynFuels, a firm developing processes to convert cellulosic biomass into biofuels, has raised $3.13M as part of a $12.24M fundraising effort, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. No details on th...

Boulder-based Kapost, an online service which allows publishers to crowdsource and edit news and submissions, has raised $1.1M in a Series A funding. The firm--which is part of TechStars' Boulder 2010 class--received the round from High Cou...

Provo, Utah-based Adaptive Computing, a developer of cloud computing management software, said today that it has raised $14M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Intel Capital, and also included Tudor Ventures and EPIC Ventures...

Fort Collins-based Orbotix, a stealth mode firm developing devices that connect consumer electronic devices to phones, has raised a round of venture capital funding from the Foundry Group. According to Ian Bernstein, the CTO and co-founder ...

Englewood, Colorado-based RentBits.com, and online site for finding and searching for property rentals, has raised $575,000 in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Friday. Source of the new funding was not d...

Boulder-based INTIO, a developer of oncology-focused technology for improving the interpretation of thermal ablation using CT scan imaging, has raised $4.1M in a funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Source of the new...

Salt Lake City-based Amedica said Monday that it has raised $30M in a financing effort. According to the firm, the funding included $15M in private equity, and $15M in debt. The debt came from Zions First National Bank, and the placement ag...

Pleasant Grove-based NetSteps, a developer of software for the management of direct sales channel companies, said Friday that it has received an investment from private equity firm Gemini Investors. Amount of the investment was not disclose...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital firm EPIC Ventures has scored an exit with one of its portfolio firms, TriCipher, a developer of single-sign on software. According to virtualization giant VMware today, it acquired TriCipher, along with...

Denver-based MapMyFitness, a developer of online and mobile fitness applications, said today that it has raised $5.0M in a Series A financing round. The round was led by Austin Ventures. According to MapMyFitness, it will use the funding to...

Salt Lake City-based Lineagen, a firm which develops genomic tests and services for screening and diagnosis of autism, said this morning that it has raised $5M, completing its Series A funding. The firm said the new funding brings its Serie...

Provo, Utah-based QuickClass, a developer of online learning systems and online courses, has raised $1.8m out of an ongoing, $2.87M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Source of the funding was not disclosed. ...

Boulder, Colorado-based Gearbox, a stealth mode firm in TechStars which is developing products related to phone controlled open devices, has raised some angel funding, according to TechStars. According to the startup acceleration effort, th...

Boulder-based Aztek Networks, a developer of switching and IP gateway products for the telecom market, has raised $6.0M more in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. No details on the funding have been announced b...

Littleton, Colorado-based Infinite Power Solutions, a developer of solid state, rechargeable, thin-film energy storage devices, said today that it has raised $20M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by existing investors D. E. Sh...

Boulder-based Symplified, a provider of identity management software, has raised $9.0M as part of a $15.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. According to the filing, the round came from six investors. Names of the...

Englewood-based Latisys, a provider of colocation, managed hosting, managed services, and disaster recovery said Monday that it has scored new funding via a senior credit facility. The firm said it has refinanced an existing, $65M senior cr...

Salt Lake City-based C7 Data Centers, a provider of colocation, disaster recovery, and other data center services, is announcing today that it has raised $9M more in growth capital. The funding was led by Canopy Ventures, and also included ...

Orem, Utah-based SpotterRF, a developer of miniaturized radar systems used for tactical surveillance by the military, has scored a funding round from In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA. SpotterRF did not disclose financial terms o...

Boise, Idaho-based Balihoo, a developer of local marketing automation software, has raised $2.0M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. Balihoo has previo...

New Mexico-based venture firm Flywheel Ventures announced today that General Partner Scott Caruso is stepping down to a new role as Venture Partner, and will instead be pursuing a "dedicated leadership" role at an un-named entrepreneurial c...

Flagstaff, Arizona-based Southwest Windpower, a developer of wind microturbines for generating wind based energy, has raised $3.63M in a debt funding round. The details came through a regulatory filing by the firm, and no details have been ...

eWise, a provider of online payment and online financial management software, said today that it has raised $12.1M in a funding round. According to the firm, the round came from Balderton Capital, and also included Total Technology Ventures...

Lindon, Utah-based Solera Networks, which develops network forensics and monitoring equipment, announced this morning that it has raised $15M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by new investor Trident Capital, and also included ...

Draper, Utah-based HireVue has raised $5.0M in a Series B funding round, the firm is announcing tomorrow. According to HireVue, the round was led by Granite Ventures, and also included Utah investor JCP Capital. HireVue provides an online s...

Draper, Utah-based HireVue, a developer of a service which allows employers to screen employees using a web camera and video interviews, has raised $5.0M in new equity funding, according to the firm. The funding was first found by Techrocki...

Fort Collins, Colorado-based Colorado State University announced today that it has created a new, private equity investment fund it says will go to fund early-stage companies associated with the school. The school said CSU Fund I LLC, which...

Tempe, Arizona-based Limelight Networks, a provider of content delivery network services, is backing a developer of video game streaming technology, Gaikai. According to Gaikai, Limelight and Intel Capital have backed the firm as strategic ...

Boulder-based Trada, which operates an online marketplace for paid search agencies and experts, said today that it has raised $5.75M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Google Ventures, and also included prior investor Foundry...

Denver-based TopSchool, a developer of software-as-a-service for managing higher education, including college admissions, said yesterday that it has raised $8M in a third round of venture capital funding. The new round was led by MK Capital...

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) have released their quarterly venture capital numbers for Q2, reporting that venture deals in the US in the quarter totaled $6.5 billion. According to the two, using...

Boulder-based Mandelbrot Project, a stealth mode startup headed by Pete Sheinbaum, has raised $4.1M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. No details on the startup have been announced. Sheinbaum is the form...

In a report today, National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Thomson Reuters said that fundraising dropped for venture capital firms, to the slowest quarter since the third quarter of 2003. According to a report released today, thirty...

Tucson, Arizona-based Keyware, a developer of Internet security tools for families and businesses, has scored $250K as part of an ongoing, $1.0M fundraising effort, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the funding was not...

The latest analysis of Rocky Mountain area startup activity tallies up around $306.12M in venture capital investments in the region during Q2 of 2010. The analysis--based on the proprietary venture capital database maintained by Techrocki...

Englewood, Colorado-based Fluensee, a developer of RFID tracking software, has raised $300,000 in equity funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Wednesday. Details and source of the funding were not disclosed. Fluensee has pre...

The New Economy Venture Accelerator (NEVA), part of Colorado State University, said today that it has signed the first three tenants as part of its program. The incubator said that it has selected AYZH, Cradle Naturals and Small Engines for...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital firm UV Partners has come Pelion Venture Partners, according to the firm. The venture firm, whose partners includes managing directors from Utah Ventures/UV Partners and Novell Ventures, said "now was th...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group is one of the investors in a Bay Area advertising technology firm, Triggit, Triggit said Thursday. According to Triggit, it raised $4.2M in a Series A led by Seth Levine of Foundry Group, alo...

Boulder-based Lijit, which develops search software for blogs, in addition to operating a related advertising network, has raised $6M in funding, according to the firm. The funding came from Foundry Group, Boulder Ventures and High Country ...

Denver-based SafetyWeb, a developer of a subscription service that helps parents monitor their children on social networking sites, said this week that it has raised $8M in a venture funding round. The round was led by Battery Ventures, and...

Denver-based InfoNow, a developer of sales channel and inventory data management software, has raised $1.5M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The round was made up of $1.492M in convertible notes and warr...

Tempe, Arizona-based LifeLock, the controversial provider of identity theft protection services, has raised $14.1M in a new, $15.0M equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing filed Wednesday. Source of the new funding was not di...

Denver-based Format Dynamics, a developer of software which reformats printed web pages from web publishers into a magazine-like format, said today that it has raised $5.5M in a Series B funding round. The firm said the funding came from an...

The Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association has just issued a call for presenting companies at its VCIR Fall 2010 venture capital conference, saying it has a deadline of July 30th for companies interested in presenting this year. The eve...

The Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association has just issued a call for presenting companies at its VCIR Fall 2010 venture capital conference, saying it has a deadline of July 30th for companies interested in presenting this year. The eve...

Golden, Colorado-based Proterra, a maker of zero emission city buses and other electric vehicles, has raised $20M in a new venture funding round, the firm said Wednesday. According to the firm, the round came from MK Energy and Infrastructu...

Boulder-based TeamSnap, which opeates an online service which allows sports teams and other groups to manage their operations, said yesterday that it has raised $700,000 in a funding round. The round came from Denver-based eonBusiness. Team...

Park City, Utah-based KeyVive, which operates a social media site focused on diabetes, announced today that it closed on a $1M, Series A funding round, and named Gary Long as its Chairman of the Board. Long is co-founder of Strategic Busin...

Santa Fe, New Mexico-based JackRabbit Systems, a developer of online travel software, said today that it has raised $1.33M in a private equity funding. The funding was co-led by Kickstart Seed Fund and Sun Mountain Capital. JackRabbit said ...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group and Brad Feld are backing Seattle-based BigDoor Media, which develops software which allows web sites to implement game-like features such as badges, leaderboards, and virtual currency. Accor...

Longmont, Colorado-based Irrigation Water Technologies America, a developer of capillary water irrigation systems, has raised $2.1M in an equity funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the funding and d...

Move Networks, the developer of adaptive streaming software for transmitting high definition video over the Internet, has quietly moved its headquarters to Southern California, and has raised $3.0M in a new funding round. The funding round ...

Greenwood Village-based Virtela, a provider of virtual private network (VPN) services, has raised $5.13M in an ongoing, $6.3M funding round, according to regulatory filings by the firm this week. Source of the new funding was not disclosed,...

A report released Thursday by the Mountain West Capital Network (MWCN) tallies up $663M in investments in Utah during 2009, as the state saw 94 venture capital, angel, and seed stage deals, 31 mergers and acquisitions, and one public offeri...

Boulder-based SimpleGeo, a developer of location based technology and a TechStars company, said Tuesday that it raised $8.14M in a funding round. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures, and also included First Round Capital, Lowercase Capit...

Santa Fe, New Mexico-based JackRabbit Systems, a developer of online travel software, has now raised a total of $1.3M funding, according to recent regulatory filing by the firm. Details on the funding have not been announced. A representati...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group has backed an innovative, MIT spinout developing tabletop game consoles, the firm said this week. Sifteo, which is based in San Francisco, said that Foundry Group joined True Ventures in its ...

Boulder-based N30 Pharma, a firm developing treatments for respiratory, cardiovascular, and inflammatory diseases, announced today that it has raised $10M in a new financing round. According to the firm, it is adding Dr. Howard Furst of Dee...

Colorado State University said today that Professor Ken Reardon and the school's commercialization effort, Cenergy, have co-founded a new company called OptiEnz. According to CSU, the new firm is focused on developing, manufacturing, and se...

Boise, Idaho-based venture capital firm Highway 12 Ventures said Wednesday that it has named Derek Keller as a new, full time associate at the firm. According to the company, Keller previously worked at the University Venture Fund (UVF) and...

Boulder-based Lijit Networks, a developer of web search tools and online advertising products for web publishers, has raised $1.0M in what looks like a convertible debt round for the firm, according to a regulatory filing filed Wednesday. D...

Denver-based Internet Pawn, which says it is creating an online, dedicated pawn shop, said yesterday that it has raised $1.5M in a venture funding round. The funding came from Daylight Partners and Access Ventures. According to the company,...

Longmont-based Storage Genetics, a firm develop non-volatile memory products, has raised $1.0M, as part of an ongoing $12.54M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Source and details of the funding have not been...

Mesa, Arizona-based Acoustic Technologies, a developer of hands-free, audio processing algorithms used in consumer electronics, has upped its funding to $5.7M, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. No details on the fund...

Bozeman, Montana-based LigoCyte Pharaceuticals, a biotechnology firm focused on treatments for gastrointestinal and respiratory conditions, has raised $6.5M in a debt funding round, according to a recently regulatory filing by the firm. Acc...

Boulder-based SendGrid, one of the firms out of TechStars, said today that it has raised $5M in a round of funding, from Foundry Group and Highway 12 Ventures. The firm, which develops email software which helps ensure delivery and gather a...

Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io, a manufacturer of flash-based, solid state disk drives, has scored another $45M in a venture funding round. According to the firm, the Series C preferred stock financing was led by Meritech Capital Partners, ...

Rocky Mountain area startups raised $81.65M in Q1, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters. According to the groups, in their quarte...

Provo, Utah-based Zinch, which operates an online site that helps students connect with colleges and graduate school, has scored an investment from New World Ventures, the early stage venture firm investing the funds of the Pritzker family....

Durango, Colorado-based Mercury Payment Systems, a provider of payment processing services, has received a strategic growth investment from private equity firm Silver Lake, the firms said today. According to the two, Silver Lake will acquir...

An analysis of Q1's venture capital deals and investment activity in the Rocky Mountain Region find that venture capitalists invested $472.9M in the area in Q1. The analysis--based on tracking of venture capital, angel, and private equity d...

Boise, Idaho-based Cradlepoint, a developer of 3G/4G wireless broadband routers, has raised a round of funding from Highway 12 Ventures. According to Highway 12, the funding was actually made early in 2009; amount of the investment was not ...

Missoula, Montana-based Goomzee, a developer of mobile marketing product for the real estate industry, has raised $1.5M in a round of funding, the firm announced today. The firm said the Series A round was led by Highway 12 Ventures, along ...

New Mexico-based Flywheel Ventures said today that it has added Lillian Montoya-Rael as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the venture capital firm. According to Flywheel, Montoya-Rael joins the firm from LMR Consulting, and also served as a W...

New Mexico-based Flywheel Ventures said today that it has added Lillian Montoya-Rael as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the venture capital firm. According to Flywheel, Montoya-Rael joins the firm from LMR Consulting, and also served as a W...

Boulder, Colorado-based business incubation and startup effort TechStars has opened up applications for the group's Seattle program, the group said Tuesday. TechStars, which provides seed capital and mentoring to help companies get their st...

Draper, Utah-based Lingotek, a developer of translation collaboration software, announced Monday that the firm has received an additional strategic investment from In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm. Financial terms of the deal were no...

Boulder-based TerraLUX, a developer of energy efficient LED modules for the solid state lighting market, announced today that it has raised $5.6M in a Series A investment round. Emerald Technology Ventures led the funding round, which also ...

Boulder-based Trada, a new startup which runs an online marketplace for paid search experts, announced today that it has raised $2.2M. The funding came from The Foundry Group and angel investors Alan Warms, Carlos Cashman, Dan Murray, James...

Denver-based Cadre Technologies, a developer of warehouse management software, said today that it has receivd a new round of funding from its original investors. Amount of the investment was not disclosed by the company. According to Cadre,...

Lindon, Utah-based The SCO Group, the firm behind a long running software lawsuit over the Linux operating system, announced today that it has received $2M in funding, with approval of the Bankruptcy Court. According to SCO, the funding cam...

Denver-based OpSec Security Group plc, a developer of anti-counterfeiting technology, said Thursday that it has raised $23.5M in funding from Investcorp Technology Partners. The firm, which is listed on the AIM, said the funding will allow ...

Englewood, Colorado-based BitWise Controls, a developer of IP-enabled control systems for the home and commercial automation market, reported today that it has received a strategic investment from Denver-based ProLink Solutions. Financial t...

Boulder, Colorad-based ProStor, a developer of removable hard disk format and related products, has received $5M in an investment from Imation Corp.. Imation announced the deal today in conjunction with a new, license agreement with ProStor...

Taking a cue from startup incubation efforts YCombinator and TechStars, a new business incubation program, BoomStartup, has launched in Utah. The new incubator, headed by angel investor John Richards and involving Omniture CEO and co-founde...

Orem, Utah-based orange Soda, a provider of search engine optimization (SEO) services for small businesses, has gained a strategic investment from CitySearch, the online local business guide business of IAC. Financial terms of that investme...

A California angel investment group, the Maverick Angels, announced Thursday that the firm is starting up two chapters in Utah. Maverick Angels, which has been active in Southern California, said that it is opening up two new chapters of th...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based Arkayne, a developer of interactive marketing software, announced this week that it has raised a $1M round of angel funding. The firm said that the round included the Arizona Technology Investor Forum (ATIF) along ...

Salt Lake City-based Upstart Life Sciences Capital, a venture firm focused on Unversity life science spinouts, has reached $7.18M in commitments to its $28.5M fund, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Thursday. The fund's General ...

Salt Lake City-based vSpring Ventures founder Paul Ahlstrom is leaving the firm, and has moved to Mexico to launch a new venture capital firm, says industry publication VentureWire this morning. Ahlstrom represents vSpring as a board member...

New Mexico-based venture capital firm Flywheel Ventures is one of a long list of mostly Silicon Valley venture capital firms behind a new, $3.5 billion investment effort led by Intel, aimed at helping invest in U.S.-based technology compani...

Boulder-based venture capital firm High Country Venture, has closed on $25M in funding for its second fund, Colorado Fund II LP, according to reports today. VentureWire reports that the fund closed the fund in January with $25M in funding, ...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based Hypercom Corporation, a provider of electronic payment services, and investment firm The McDonnell Group, announced yesterday that the two have closed on the formation of a joint venture. The two said they are deve...

Boulder, Colorado-based RoundPegg.com, a new startup looking to match job applicants to hiring companies based on their culture, has raised $230,336 in a round of convertible funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Sour...

Early stage venture capital investor Grotech Ventures, which has invested in such local firms as HiveLive, LogRhythm, Collective Intellect, Skyetek, and Aztek Networks, said Wednesday that it has named Lawson DeVries to the position of Prin...

Cody, Wyoming-based Eleutian Technology, a provider of online, English-language training courses, has raised $10M in a private equity funding, the firm announced Wednesday. Eleutian said the funding came from Cheyenne Capital Fund. Eleutian...

Boise, Idaho-based Highway 12 Ventures, the venture capital firm run by Mark Solon, announced Friday that it has named Jason Christensen as its new Entrepreneur-In-Residence. The firm said that Christensen will help mentor new entrepreneurs...

Little, Colorado-based Infinite Power has raised $1.625M in an ongoing, $5.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Wednesday. According to the filing, the round includes both debt and warrants. Details on the funding ...

Denver- and San Francisco-based Encoding.com, which operates an online, software-as-service video encoding services, announced today that it has raised $1.25M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Metamorphic Ventures, and also incl...

Park City-based iFollo.com, an online site focused on celebrity sightings and encounters, said Tuesday that it has raised $1M in an investment round. The firm said the investment came from Robert S. Trump, who is also an investor in ZeniMax...

Boulder-based AmideBio, which announced a seed round of funding last month, raised $274,997 in that round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. The firm had announced the round, but had not disclosed the amount of seed fundin...

Boulder-based AmideBio, which is looking to commercialize technical challenging peptides for the R&D market, said earlier this week that it has raised a round of seed financing. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, nor was the so...

The Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association announced the first set of companies presenting at the upcoming Venture Capital in the Rockies winter conference Monday, saying that BioVantage Resources, DICOM grid, Infopia, TopSchool, TruEff...

Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Comet Solutions, a developer of software for modeling products, said Friday that it had raised $2M in a Series B round of funding. According to the firm, the round was led by Athenian Venture Partners, and also...

Aircell, a developer of in-flight Internet and communications systems, said late Thursday that the firm has raised $176M in a private placement, which will go to fund network expansion and growth at the firm. The company, which has operatio...

Another firm which was part of the Boulder-based TechStars business incubation effort, Vanilla Forums has raised venture funding. According to the firm--which is based in Montreal--it raised $500,000 (Canadian) in funding. The funding was l...

USTAR, the Utah Science Technology and Research initiative, an effort to spur high technology jobs in the state, said today that it has launched a new, Renewable Energy Incubator in St. George. According to USTAR, it officially opened the d...

Boulder-based TechStars, the startup incubation and mentoring effort headed by David Cohen and Brad Feld, said today that it has opened up applications for the firm's Boulder summer program. The announcement came as the company said its Bos...

Ogden, Utah-based TopTenREVIEWS confirmed it has raised $1.5M in funding, from existing investors Highway 12 Ventures and Village Ventures, the firm said Tuesday. The funding had first been disclosed via regulatory filing. The firm said the...

Ogden, Utah-based TopTenREVIEWS, which operates comparison shopping and ranking web sites focused on software, electronics, video games, and more, has raised another $1.5M in funding, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. The...

Salt Lake City-based MediProPharma, which is identifying and developing pharmaceuticals for the treatment of CNS diseases, has raised a round of angel funding, according to the Salt Lake Life Science Angels. The Salt Lake Life Science Angel...

Yesterday, Boulder-based Rally Software announced it had raised another round of funding, worth $16M. We caught up with Tim Miller, CEO of the firm, to hear a little bit about the latest round and what's going on with the company. Congra...

The upcoming investment conference in Midway, Utah, run by the Wayne Brown Institute, the Investors Choice Venture Capital Conference, has drawn the ire of a high profile technology pundit, Jason Calacanis. Calacanis, who is in the midst of...

Boulder-based Rally Software, which develops Agile software development tools, announced today that it has raised $16M in a venture funding round. The round was led by Greylock Partners, with Greylock's Tom Bogan joining the firm's board of...

Boulder-based Graphic.ly, a TechStars firm developing software for comic publishers, creators, and enthusiasts, said today that it has raised $1.2M in a funding round. The round came from DFJ Mercury, as well as Starz Media, Northstar Equit...

Golden, Colorado-based Olocity, a developer of open source, storage management tools, has raised $90,000 in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm last week. The firm's founders include Kurt Krems, Hope Hines, and Sco...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based 41st Parameter, a developer of online security and fraud detection technology, has raised $3.8M in funding, according to a recently regulatory filing by the firm. No details on the funding have been released by the...

Mark Solon, a venture capitalist at Highway 12 Ventures, posted this piece--which he originally wrote last year for the Idaho Statesman--on his blog this morning, and gave us permission to reprint it here. Solon invests here in the Rocky Mo...

Draper, Utah-based DAZ 3D, a publisher of 3D models and 3D software, said today that it has merged with Israeli software provider Gizmoz. The two said the merger will create an online marketplace for high-quality, and inter-compatible digit...

Salt Lake City-based The American Academy, a provider of online high school educational services, said today that it has raised $5.9M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Austin Ventures, and also included prior investor vSprin...

Loveland, Colorado-based Special Application Robotics, a developer of robotics and manipulators, particularly for the nuclear decontamination and decommissioning industry, has raised $1.95M in an equity funding round, according to a regula...

Albuquerque, New Mexico-based TrueTouch Technologies, which is developing non-invasive, detection systems for measuring intoxication, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.3M in a combination of venture and angel investment funding. The firm s...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based TPI Composites, a developer of wind turbine blades, said last week that it has raised $26M in Series B-1 funding. The funding came from Element Partners, along with prior investors Landmark Growth Capital Partners,...

Boulder-based SendGrid, a firm developing email delivery software, has raised a new round of funding, according to Highway 12 Ventures, which led the investment in the firm. Amount of the investment was not disclosed. A recent regulatory fi...

Boulder-based venture firm Foundry Group is the lead investor in stock Twittering site StockTwits, Foundry said today. According to StockTwits, it raised $3M in a Series B funding round, which was led by Foundry Group, and also included Bou...

Boulder-based SimpleGeo, a startup developing location-based technology for integration into web and mobile applications, has raised $1.5M in a funding. According to a number of sources, the funding includes First Round Capital, Redpoint Ve...

Fort Collins, Colorado-based Solix Biofuels, a developer of biofuel reactor technology for the alternative energy industry, has raised $3.0M out of an ongoing, $11.0M funding, in the firm of convertible notes and warrants, according to a re...

Boulder-based TechStars, the Internet startup incubation program, has opened up its applications for its Boston program, one of the group's organizers said today. Brad Feld, a venture capitalist and founder of TechStars, said that the group...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital firm vSpring Capital appears to have kickstarted efforts to raise its third fund, vSpring Partners III, L.P., according to a regulatory filing by the firm. According to the recent filing, the firm has no...

Boise, Idaho-based Ready Financial, which provides a prepaid Visa card and related online bill payment and check writing service, said today that it has raised $7.0M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Rockbridge Growth Equity...

Boulder-based TechStars, the technology business incubation effort, reported Tuesday that, out of the its 2009 class of companies out of its Boulder location, six out of ten of them are set to announced deals led by venture capital firms. T...

Fort Collins-based Solix Biofuels, which is developing algae-based biofuels reactor technology, has raised $500K in convertible note funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. No details on the funding have been anno...

Boulder-based SimpleGeo, a firm developing software for location-based infrastructure, has raised $195,000 in a debt funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the funding was not disclosed, although the f...

Boulder-based Mandelbrot Project, a stealth mode startup headed by Peter Sheinbaum, former President of DailyCandy, has received $500,000 in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. No details on the funding have...

Boulder-based Everlater, an online site which allows users to keep an online travel journal, said today that it has raised a Series A funding. The round was led by Highway 12 Ventures. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Everlater--whi...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group has reinvested in a company making brainwave measurement technology, EmSense, as part of a $9M, Series C funding. According to San Francisco-based EmSense, the round was led by Technology Par...

Golden, Colorado-based Ampulse, which develops crystalline-silicon (c-Si) thin-film technology for solar cells, said Tuesday that it has raised $8M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Globespan Capital Partners and El Dorado V...

Infinity Pedals, a firm which designs bike pedals and shoe cleats, is the winner of Grow Utah Ventures' latest Concept to Company Contest. Runners-up in the contest, which awards a combination of cash and services to promising firms, includ...

Louisville, Colorado-based Envysion, a provider of web-based, surveillance products, has raised its latest funding round to $2.3M, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. The firm, which uses web-based video to provide surveil...

Mesa, Arizona-based Kemeta, a firm developing hand held analyzers for measuring fat metabolism, has received funding from Catapult BioAccel. According to Catapult BioAccel, an Arizona nonprofit, it is providing Kemeta with a $200,000 grant ...

Chandler, Arizona-based Amkor, a developer of wafer-level packaging and testing services for the semiconductor industry, is in a joint venture with two Japanese firms in Japan. According to Nakaya Microdevices Corporation, Amkor, and Toshib...

Boulder-based venture firm Foundry Ventures has led an investment into a New York company, Organic Motion, the firm announced Tuesday. Amount of the investment was not disclosed. Organic Motion is a developer of computer vision and motion c...

Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io, a developer of solid state storage, announced Tuesday that it has received an investment from Samsung. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. According to Fusion-io, the investment comes alongside a deal be...

Boulder-based Standing Cloud, an online software-as-a-service firm focused on managing and deploying cloud applications, has raised $500,000 in a funding round, according to a filing from the firm last week. The funding came from the Foundr...

Colorado Springs-based Redwood Collaborative Media, a media firm focused on connecting software professionals, said Friday that it has raised a second round of funding. Source of the funding, or amount, was not announced. The firm said it h...

Provo, Utah-based Zinch, which operates an online site to help students connect with colleges and graduate schools, has raised $4.0M in a funding round, according the firm Thursday. Zinch said the funding came from New World Ventures. Zinch...

Last Week, Mark Solon, of Highway 12 Ventures, wrote this response to the many "template" venture capital legal documents being floated around the Internet. Solon invests here in the Rocky Mountain region, and we thought it was well sharin...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital firm EPIC Ventures announced Thursday that it has named Christopher Stone as a Managing Director at the firm. The venture capital firm is an affiliate of Zions Bank. Stone has served as an EVP/Vice Chair...

Phoenix-based Telesphere, a provider of hosted PBX and Internet phone services, reported Wednesday that it has raised $32M in funding over the last 24 month. The firm said it is using the capital to reinvest in the company. Telesphere revea...

Fort Collins, Colorado-based Inviragen, a developer of vaccines for infection disease, said this week that it has merged with SingVax, and raised $15M in a Series A investment. According to the firm, the investment came from Charter Life Sc...

Boulder-based Vico Software, a developer of software for the construction industry, said today that it has raised $3.6M in a round of funding from its existing investors. Investors in the round included Borealis Ventures, Highway 12 Venture...

Boulder-based Next Big Sound has raised $585,000 in its initial round of funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. The filing indicates the round is targeted at just over $1.0M. The funding comes from the Foundry Group,...

Rocky Mountain companies raised around $340.2M in Q3, down a bit from the $648M raised in the region last quarter, according to an analysis of Techrockies.com proprietary venture capital database. According to our analysis, around $183M ...

Saratoga Springs, Utah-based The Women's Information Network, an online social media site focused on women, said today that it has raised an initial round of funding, as part of the firm's launch. Financial details and name of the private i...

A report released today finds that Colorado was second in the nation, in terms of venture capital deals in the cleantech space for the quarter, with $47M in investments in Q3. According to The Cleantech Group and Deloitte, analyzing Q3 clea...

Salt Lake City-based HireVue, which provides video interviewing tools for companies, said today that it has raised a Series A round of funding. The round was led by Peterson Ventures, The Garber Fund of Penn State University, and un-named, ...

Boulder-based Next Big Sound, a firm developing online music analytics and measurement tools, has raised a round of funding, according to the Foundry Group. Amount of the investment was not disclosed. Next Big Sound was incubated in TechSta...

Provo, Utah-based EnticeLabs has raised another $2M in funding, according to reports, from First Advantage and Omniture's Josh James and John Pestana. The firm operates a job recruiting advertising network called TalentSeekr. The funding br...

A group of state and local business organizations in Arizona is hoping to spur Arizona startups, with the formation of a $200M "fund of funds", according to a report in the Arizona Republic. According to the report, AERO, the Arizona Econom...

Denver-based Mocapay, which develops a mobile payment system used for gift cards, loyalty programs, and marketing, said Wednesday afternoon that it has raised $3.0M in funding. The round came from Spartan Mobile, Lacuna, and other unnamed i...

Salt Lake City-based Alliance Health Networks announced today that it has raised $3.3M in a Series C venture round, led by Highway 12 Ventures. The firm, which develops social networks for the healthcare industry, said that EPIC Ventures a...

The Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association has announced its lineup for their fall venture capital conference, VCIR Fall, saying Thursday that it will be highlighting companies from Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Eight firms from Utah ...

Boulder, Colorado-based Mix 1, a maker of specialty sports drinks, said today that it has raised $6M in a funding round. The round came from Highland Consumer Fund. The firm said the new funding would go to accelerate its national rollout, ...

New Mexico-based Flywheel Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in seed and early-stage information technology and physical sciences firms in the region, is on the prowl for $35M in a new fund. According to Flywheel, in a letter to ...

Salt Lake City-based vSpring Ventures has made a $2M investment into a women's health firm, Athena Feminine Technologies. Athena said Tuesday morning that it received the Series A investment from vSpring, which it will use for accelerating ...

Boulder-based OneRiot, a developer of real-time search tools, has landed $7.0M in a Series C funding round the firm confirmed late Thursday. The round was led by Appian Ventures, and also included backing by other existing investors Commonw...

Longmont, Colorado-based COPAN Systems, a developer of storage arrays being used for secondary data storage, has raised $3.0M out of a $6.2M funding round, according to a filing from the firm today. Details on the funding have not been anno...

Boise, Idaho-based Balihoo, a provider of technology used for local marketing and advertising planning, said Wednesday that it has raised $7M in a enw funding round. The round was led by OpenView Venture Partners. Prior investors Highway 12...

Draper, Utah-based NextPage, a developer of software for tracking changes and versions of Microsoft documents, has raised $714,594 in what looks to be an ongoing $3.0M equity fundraising for the company. The funding came to light through a ...

Salt Lake City-based Coherex Medical, a medical device firm developing treatments for heart defects, said today that it has raised $16.5M in a Series B funding round. The funding was co-led by vSpring Capital and Oxford Bioscience Partners,...

Ubidyne, a developer of embedded radio antenna technology for the wireless industry, said today that it has raised $14.4M in a funding from Gimv, boosting its Series B funding to $43M. The firm, which has U.S. headquarters in Scottsdale, Ar...

Flagstaff, Arizona-based Southwest Windpower, a developer of small wind turbines, said Wednesday that it has raised a new round of funding. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. The firm said that the round included PCG Clean Energy and ...

Missoula, Montana-based Tipu's Tiger Chai Tea, a provider of retail chai tea drinks, has raised a round of equity funding. The funding was first reported by MATR. The funding came from Frontier Angel Fund, LLC, with two members of the angel...

Salt Lake City-based CrimeReports.com, which operates a crime mapping web site, said today that it has raised $7.2M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Austin Ventures, and also included prior investor vSpring Capital. CrimeRe...

Boulder-based Lifepics, which operates an online service focused on helping photographers and photofinishers present their photos to their clients, has raised $1.9M in a funding round. Source of the funding was not disclosed. The funding wa...

Bozeman, Montana-based LigoCyte Pharamceuticals has raised additional funding in the firm's most recently round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Friday. According to the filing, the firm has now raised $29.49M in its latest f...

Denver-based BroadHop, a developer of software for the fixed and mobile broadband network market, said Friday that it has raised $4.25M in a round of expansion funding. The round came from Peninsula Ventures and Boulder Ventures. BroadHop s...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based iMemories, which operates a service which captures and digitizes home movies for consumers, said this morning that it has raised $6.2M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Capital Southwest. The compan...

Englewood, Colorado-based Gevo, a firm developing biofuels technology, has now raised $30.0M out of a $40.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Gevo has previously raised funding from Virgin Green Fund, Khosl...

Venture capital firm Boulder Ventures has scored an exit for one of its portfolio firms, Everest Software, which was acquired Friday. Everest Software, a developer of business operations software for small and mid-sized companies based in V...

Denver-based RavenBrick, a firm which is developing "smart windows" for the building materials industry, disclosed Monday that the firm has been selected to provide its technology for a new research facility being built for the U.S. Departm...

Two Colorado firms led a resurgence in clean technology investments in Q2, according to a report released this week by Ernst & Young. According to an analysis of clean technology investments for the quarter, based on data from Dow Jones Ven...

Draper, Utah-based Lingotek, which develops language translation technology and services, disclosed this morning that it has raised another financing round. The firm did not disclose the size of the round, but said the internal round--the f...

Amended Silicates, a joint venture between Denver-based CH2M Hill and ADA Technologies, recently closed a venture capital financing, techrockies.com has learned. No details have been released by the firm. Amended Silicates is commercializin...

Salt Lake City-based Sparxent, which has been on an acquisition roll in the last few months of IT consulting firms, has raised around $24.4M which it put into two of its acquisitions, according to regulatory filings from the firm. According...

The Rocky Mountain region looks to have had a very good, venture quarter in Q2 of this year, according to an analysis of Techrockies.com proprietary venture capital database, racking up $648m in venture capital investments in the quarter. T...

Salt Lake City-based Control4, a developer of home automation hardware and related products, reported this morning that the firm has raised an additional $17.3M in equity funding. According to Control4, the investment came from Best Buy Cap...

Midvale, Utah-based Wavelink, a developer of software for managing wireless infrastructure, reported today that it has raised a round of investment from private equity firm Westview Capital Partners. Amount of the investment was not disclos...

Park City, Utah-based SpectrumDNA, a developer of social media software, disclosed this morning that it has snagged prominent venture capital blogger and social media expert Jeff Nolan for its board of directors. Nolan, who was a Venture Pa...

Park City, Utah-based SpectrumDNA, a developer of social media software, disclosed this morning that it has snagged prominent venture capital blogger and social media expert Jeff Nolan for its board of directors. Nolan, who was a Venture Pa...

We're kicking off the inclusion of insightful guest posts and authors this week, with a post from Mark Solon of Highway 12 Ventures, a venture firm which invests here in the Rocky Mountain region. Mark originally posted this on his blog, an...

Denver-based InfoNow, a developer of software-as-a-service for managing sales channels, announced today that the firm has raised $5M in a Series B financing round. According to InfoNow, the funding round was led by Vedanta Capital, and also...

Fort Collins, Colorado-based Solix Biofuels reports this morning that the firm has raised a Series A funding round worth $16.8M. The funding came from Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd., along with I2BF Venture Capital, Bohemian Investments,...

Santa Fe, New Mexico-based venture capital firm Flywheel Ventures reported Thursday that the firm has hired on seven "Flywheel Fellows" for the firm's summer apprenticeship program. The firm--which hires students every summer for the progra...

Tucson, Arizona-based SynCardia, a developer of artificial hearts to treat people with biventricular heart faliure, has raised $10.3M in a Series D funding, the firm said today. According to SynCardia, the round was led by Highway 12 Ventur...

Salt Lake City-based seed-stage, investment fund Kickstart Seed Fund has raised $3.65M as part of an ongoing fundraising effort for the venture fund, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Kickstart Seed Fund is looking to fund...

Boulder-based Tendril, a developer of wireless sensors, and being applied to the energy efficiency space, announced this morning that it has raised $30M in a Series C funding round. according to Tendril, the funding was led by VantagePoint ...

Denver, Colorado-based Zerista, a developer of software for conference and trade show management, announced Friday that the firm has raised a seed funding round. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Zerista said that the funding round w...

Boulder, Colorado-based miRagen Therapeutics, which is developing microRNA-based therapeutics targeted at cardiovascular and muscle disease, said this morning that it has now raised $12M in its Series A funding. According to the firm, it re...

Park City, Utah-based Catheter Connections, a developer of a medical device to prevent hospital-acquired infections resulting from catheter use, said today that it has raised $1.3M in seed capital. The funding came from Kickstart Seed Fund/...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based MedTrust Online LLC announced Saturday that it has concluded a second round of financing. The provider of oncology-focused technology applications and solutions declined to disclose the extent or source of the fund...

Salt Lake City-based InnoVentures Capital said Thursday that the firm has loaned $150,000 to IntelliSchematic, which is developing a web-based application to help mechanics troubleshoot machinery. IntelliSchematic is located in the small to...

Tempe, Arizona-based LifeLock, which operates an identity theft prevention service, has raised $40M in new funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Source of the funding and details were not announced by the company. Accordi...

Phoenix, Arizona-based Telesphere, which operates a business phone and Internet service, said Wednesday that the firm has raised $15M in a private equity funding. The funding came from Rally Capital, Hawkeye Investments LLC and Greenspun Co...

Longmont, Colorado-based Kozio, a developer of in-circuit board diagnostics software for the electronics industry, said last week that it has raised a Series A financing from the Boulder Angels. Amount of the financing was not disclosed, ho...

Boulder, Colorado-based Clovis Oncology reports today that it has raised a huge, $145M funding round, for the firm's efforts to acquire, develop, and commercialize anti-cancer agents. The funding came from Domain Associates, New Enterprise ...

Louisville, Colo.-based biotechnology research firm GlobeImmune announced Friday that it has received $40 million from pharmaceutical manufacturer Celgene Corp. According to GlobeImmune, the money represents an equity investment as well as ...

Park City-based Control Medical Technology, a medical device manufacturer developing an aspiration platform to remove fluids, tissue, thrombus and other pathology in medical procedures, said it has raised a Series A financing. The firm said...

David Cohen, one of the angel investors behind the Boulder TechStars effort, said today that he has launched a new, startup seed fund. The $2.5M fund will invest in early stage web and software startups. Cohen--who regularly invests in star...

Boulder-based venture firm Foundry Group has made its second investment of the week, saying today that it has invested in Silicon Valley firm Cloud Engines, maker of the Pogoplug, a device which allows users to easily share their storage on...

Boulder-based Foundry Ventures has invested in a New York firm providing mobile analytics and advertising for mobile application developers, Medialets. According to Medialets, it raised $4M in a Series A funding Tuesday, with both Foundry G...

Denver-based ZettaCore, which is developing advanced materials for the electronics market, announced over the weekend that it has raised $21M in a Series C funding round. The funding round came from Globis Capital Partners, Itochu Technolog...

Salt Lake City-based CrimeReports.com, a provider of online maps and information about crime, has scored $1.5M in convertible debt, Techrockies has learned. Details on the funding have not been released by the company. ...

Lafayette, Colorado-based Porous Power Technologies, which is developing components for lithium batteries, has scored a round of investment, according to angel investment group the Wyoming Angels, based in Laramie. Amount of funding was not...

Fort Collins, Colorado-based Solix Biofuels, a developer of algae-based alternative energy technology, has raised an additional $6.3M in funding in a round of funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thursday. According to th...

American Fork-based Move Networks has raised $7.783M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Source of the funding was not given, however, the firm's filing said the funding came in connection with the firm's acquisi...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group is venturing into a Seattle company, Gist, incubated by Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital. According to Gist, Foundry led a $6.75M Series A venture round in the firm, which develops software which ...

Tempe, Arizona-based SDCmaterials announced this morning that it has raised $14M in a second round of venture funding. The catalyst and additives producer said the Series B effort was led by first-time investor Invus Financial Advisors of N...

Boulder, Colorado-based venture capital firm Foundry Group's Jason Mendelson has been appointed to the board of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the group said Thursday, as it appointed a new set of directors to its board. T...

Online publishing platform Associated Content announced late last night that it has concluded a third round of venture financing worth $6 million. The Denver-based firm credited second-round investors SoftBank Capital, Canaan Partners and a...

Denver-based Altira Group, a venture capital and private equity firm, has been busy this week, investing in two firms focused on the renewable energy sector. Altira was the lead investor in California-based EPS Corp, a developer of energy e...

American Fork, Utah-based Netvision, a developer of identity and access monitoring software, announced today that the firm has completed a Series B funding round. Amount of the funding was not disclosed by the firm, however, according to a ...

Denver-based investor Meritage Funds is backing a Seattle-based developer of wireless antenna carrier networks for the cell phone infrastructure market. According to private equity firm Charterhouse Group, Meritage invested $10M in a prefer...

Venture capital firm Morgenthaler, an investor in information technology, life science, and private equity, said Tuesday that it has hired on an Investor Relations Partner based in its Boulder, Colorado offices. Morgenthaler said it has hir...

Lindon, Utah-based Solera Networks announced this morning that the firm has raised $7M in funding. According to Solera, the Series B venture funding was led by Allegis Capital, and also included prior investor Canopy Ventures. Solera said t...

Denver-based Brightkite, a provider of mobile, social networking applications, said today that it has combined with Silicon Valley-based Limbo. Financial terms of the merger were not disclosed. According to the two firms, they will combine ...

Boise, Idaho-based venture capital firm Highway 12 Ventures reported Monday that it has launched a company blog. Mark Solon, Highway 12's managing partner, said in an e-mail that the blog will feature commentaries on topics relevant emergin...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital firm vSpring Capital said this week that the firm has promoted Jon Walker, an analyst at the company, to the position of manager of marketing and investor relations. vSpring, which has $394M under manage...

Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io, a developer of solid state disk drives, has scored an astounding, $47.5M funding round, the firm announced this morning. According to Fusion-io, the Series B funding was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, an...

Boulder, Colorado-based Opx Biotechnologies, a developer of technology for transforming biomass into biofuels, said Monday that the firm has closed on a $17.5M, Series B funding round. According to the firm, the round was led by Braemer Ene...

Flagstaff, Arizona-based Southwest Windpower said today that the firm has raised another $10M for the firm's small wind turbine technology. The firm said the funding came from GE, along with Altira, Rockport Capital Partners, NGP Energy Tec...

Louisville, Colorado-based EnVysion, which operates a hosted, remotely managed video surveillance service, has raised nearly $1.18M in venture funding, out of a $1.9M venture round, according to a regulatory filing. According to the regulat...

Westminster, Colorado-based Cerapedics announced today that the firm has completed a Series B round of private equity financing, worth $15M. The round was led by NGN Capital, and also included prior investor OrbiMed Advisors. Cerapedics is ...

Lakewood, Colorado-based CeraPedics, a developer of products for the orthopedic bone substitutes market, has raised $15M in a equity funding, according to regulatory filings from the firm. According to those filings, the funding came om Mar...

Rocky Mountain area firms raised around $368M in Q1 of this year, according to an analysis of the techrockies.com venture database. According to the numbers, the investment level was up significantly from Q4 of last year, when only $197.5M ...

Boulder, Colorado-based LogRhythm, a developer of log management and analysis software for the IT industry, has reportedly raised $3.1B in a Series B funding round. The funding was disclosed in a regulatory filing made today. According to t...

Louisville, Colorado-based Envysion, which operates a hosted, remotely managed video surveillance service being used by the retail industry, is apparently seeking a new investor, according to chairman Dan Caruso. Caruso, in his personal blo...

Analytical instrumentation firm BiOptix Diagnostics Inc. announced recently that it has closed an initial round of institutional funding worth some $3 million. The Boulder, Colo.-based company credited Boulder Ventures Ltd. with leading the...

Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology is the lead investor in a developer of flash memory-based servers based in Sweden. Stockholm, Sweden-based Edgeware, whose servers are used to deliver TV and video servers, said that Micron led its $8M, ...

Three Colorado venture capital firms have had the dubious honor of being listed as a "Zombie" venture capital firm -- a firm which still exists, but has not been able to raise new capital or make new investments in a number of years -- by P...

Phoenix-based The World Egg Bank announced Thursday that the firm has raised $1.5M in funding, for its frozen egg registry for the fertility industry. The source of the funding was not disclosed. The firm said it will use the funding to gro...

Denver-based TopSchool, a developer of software-as-a-service for educational institutions, said today that it has raised $7M in a second round of venture capital funding. The round was led by New World Ventures, and also included Alsop Loui...

Career Step LLC, a provider of online vocational training for the health care industry, announced Wednesday that it has raised some $22 million in equity funding. The Springville, Utah-based business identified its investors as DW Healthcar...

Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter is kicking off in earnest this morning in Beaver Creek, Colorado, with 24 companies set to present to a gathering of investors and others. The conference, which is being held at the Park Hyatt in Beaver...

Louisville, Colorado-based Zayo Group announced today that the firm has closed on its Series B round of equity funding, bring the company's raise to $128M in the round. The firm, which is a provider of fiber-based telecommunications service...

Provo, Utah-based FamilyLink announced this morning that the firm has raised $2.85M in a Series B funding round. According to the firm, which runs social networking sites focused on families, the funding came from vSpring Capital, TTP Capit...

Boulder, Colorado-based Rally Software Development said Monday morning that the firm has raised $8M in a credit facility from Square 1 Bank. Rally said that the financing will go towards continued growth at the firm, which develops Agile so...

Colorado-based biotechnology firm BioAMPS International LLC announced Tuesday that it has received a $100,000 proof-of-concept investment from the University of Colorado's Technology Transfer Office. The funding, BioAMPS noted, is the resul...

Longmont, Colorado-based COPAN Systems, a developer of data storage products, said today that the firm has raised $18.5M in a new round of funding, led by Westbury Partners. According to COPAN Systems, the round also included investments by...

Yieldex, a provider of technology used for online advertising forecasting, said today that the firm has raised $8.5M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included Amazon.com, Sequel Venture Partn...

Boulder-based TechStars, the startup incubation program run by David Cohen, Brad Feld, and others, has open sourced a set of legal documents focused on seed funding, the group said over the weekend. The documents include a typical seed fund...

A Silicon Valley-based maker of web widgets, iWidgets, disclosed today that Salt Lake City, Utah-based University Venture Fund is one of its new investors. University Venture Fund--an effort which pulls college students into the role of ven...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital firm vSpring Capital has promoted David Anderson from Chief Financial Office to Administrative Partner. Anderson has been at vSpring since 2001, and has managed the firm's finance, marketing, human resou...

Lakewood, Colorado-based HomeSphere said earlier this week that it has secured an equity investment from venture capital firm Greenhill SAVP, for the firm's web-based, supply chain service for the construction industry. Amount of the fundin...

Boulder, Colorado-based Techstars, the program that helps to seed fund and mentor startups, opened up applications for the firm's 2009 class over the weekend. Techstars takes aspiring entrepreneurs, provides a small amount of funding for an...

Rocky Mountain region venture capital investments are up year to year, bucking the national trend, according to a report released by Dow Jones VentureSource over the weekend. According to the quarterly venture capital survey by Dow Jones...

Boulder, Colorado-based MD-IT said Monday that the firm has raised $11M in a Series B funding round. The firm, which provides medical documentation services and software for physicians, said the funding came from private equity firm J. Burk...

Greenwood Village, Colorado-based Open Range Communications, which provides high speed broadband Internet to rural communities, said late Friday that it has scored $100M in an investment from One Equity Partners. Open Range provides high s...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based FIREapps, a provider of foreign exchange management software, said today that it has raised $8.75M in a funding round. The round came from Trilogy Equity Partners and return investor Ignition Partners, who invested...

Lakewood, Colorado-based ZeaChem said this morning that it has raised $34M in a Series B funding round, for the firm's technology for converting biomass to fuel. According to the firm, the round was led by Globespan Capital Partners and Pra...

Avon, Colorado-based Resort Technology Partners, which develops point of sale software for the resort and recreation business, said Wednesday that it has scored an investment from SKIDATA AG, a provider of RFID access control products based...

Gilbert, Arizona-based Infusionsoft reported this morning that it has gained $7.9M in a Series B funding. The developer of business marketing automation software said the funding was led by vSpring, and also included prior investor Mohr Dav...

Boulder, Colorado-based Foodzie, an online marketplace focused on artisanal food, has scored $1M in a seed financing round, the firm said Tuesday. The funding came from Jeff Clavier of SoftTech VC, First Round Capital, and other angel inves...

Park City, Utah-based Skullcandy has scored an investment from a private equity firm, Goode Partners LLC. According to New York-based Goode Partners, it has completed a minority investment in Skullcandy, which makes headphones and earbuds f...

Longmont, Colorado-based Rebit announced today that it has raised $5.7m in a Series B round of financing. The firm, which develops software for continuous backup of PCs, said the round came from Access Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, an...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based i/o Data Centers, which operates Internet data centers, has scored $56M in an investment from private equity firm Sterling Partners. According to Sterling Partners, the funding will go to expanding i/o Data Center'...

Littleton, Colorado-based Infinite Power Solutions, which is developing solid-state, rechargeable thin-film batteries, said today that it has raised $13M in a Series B funding roudn. According to the firm, the round was led by D.E. Shaw ven...

Superior, Colorado-based StillSecure said Monday that the firm has raised $5M in a venture debt financing, from Silicon Valley Bank. According to StillSecure, it will use the financing to "maximize investments" across its business, and to b...

Longmont, Colorado-based MicroPhage said earlier this week that it has raised a round of venture capital, bringing the company's total raised to $11M. Amount of the round and specific ivestors were not disclosed. MicroPhage said that the ro...

ServiceMagic Inc., operators of a comparison-shopping Web site for domestic services, announced Thursday that it has made a strategic investment in Zip Express Installation. The extent of ServiceMagic's investment, which closed Nov. 10, was...

Broomfield, Colorado-based Accera announced Tuesday that the biotechnology firm has raised $35M in a Series C funding. According to Accera, the round was led by Inventages Venture Capital SA, and also included POSCO BioVentures and other pr...

Salt Lake City-based Prolexys Pharmaceuticals announced Thursday that it has raised $20M in a Series A1 funding round. The round was led by Friedli Corporate Finance, as well as Peter Friedli, chairman of Prolexys. Prolexys is developing a ...

Boulder, Colo.-based Gnip Inc., publisher of a hosted extensible messaging platform, announced Tuesday that it has closed its second round of institutional financing after raising $3.5 million. The Series B effort came from existing investo...

We recently spoke with Alan Hall, who is at Grow Utah Ventures (www.growutahventures.com), a nonprofit helping to promote entrepreneurship in Utah. Alan is also regional director of Enterpreneurship Week Utah (www.gewutah.com), a weeklong e...

Salt Lake City, Utah-based Mercato Partners, a growth equity venture fund headed by former Marketstar founder Alan Hall and former vSpring Capital VC Greg Warnock, has closed on a $53M venture capital fund. Managing Director Alan Hall told ...

Fort Collins, Colorado-based Ice Energy said today that it has raised $33M in a first tranche of Series B funding, focused on utility-scale distributed energy storage projects. Ice Energy said the funding round was led by Energy Capital Par...

N30 Pharma announced Tuesday that it has completed a second round of venture financing and added two directors to its board. The Boulder, Colo.-based biopharmaceutical firm declined to divulge the source or amount of its recent funding. N30...

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Assocation released their MoneyTree venture capital report over the weekend, reporting that venture capital firms invested $7.1 billion in 907 deals nationally in the third quarter of ...

Buildproof, a construction services e-commerce firm based in Scottsdale, Arizona, has scored a round of funding from new venture firm NotePad Ventures, NotePad Ventures announced Tuesday. NotePad Ventures said it also orchestrated a strateg...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based OrthoScan, a medical device company, said Wednesday that it has closed on $7.5M in Series B financing. The round was led by River Cities Capital Funds and also icnluded prior investors Aphelion Capital, California ...

Salt Lake City-based VisualShare, a developer of software-as-a-service for medical imaging collaboration, has scored a seed round of funding from the Salt Lake Life Science Angels. Amount of the investment was not disclosed. The Salt Lake L...

Salt Lake City-based Great Basin Scientific said Tuesday that the firm has raised $3.9M in a financing round. Source of the funding was not disclosed. According to Great Basic Scientific, it is commercializing technology for molecular, rapi...

COMPLETExRM, a publisher of customer relationship management platforms for small- to mid-sized businesses, announced Tuesday that it has secured a second round of venture financing. The Salt Lake City, Utah-based company declined to disclos...

An analysis of the Techrockies.com venture capital database finds that $300M in funding has gone to Rocky Mountain area startups in Q3, down slightly from last quarter and well below last year's venture totals. According to tracking done by...

Colorado-based Accellos, a provider of logistics management software, said Tuesday that it has raised $28.5M in a Series B funding and acquired a software firm. Accelos said the funding came from funds affiliated with Monitor Clipper Partne...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based American Traffic Solutions, a maker of electronic toll collection and photo traffic enforcement systems, said Thursday that the firm has scored a round of funding from Goldman Sachs. Amount of the funding was not d...

Boulder, Colorado-based Leximancer said today that the firm has raised $1M in an investment round. The firm, which develops software for brand managers and marketers to gauge customers' opinions on brands or products, said the funding came ...

No presentation turned more heads—or spurred more talk—at the Venture Capital in the Rockies Fall Conference earlier this month than Hyperion Power Generation. The New Mexico-based startup is trying to turn an old idea into a novel techno...

Orem, Utah-based Omniture has lost an executive, Mike Dodd, to a Texas venture capital firm, Austin Ventures. According to Austin Ventures, a $3B private equity and venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, Dodd has joined the firm as a ...

KETCHUM, Idaho -- The inaugural Venture Capital in the Rockies Fall Conference concluded Thursday after spending all of Wednesday observing company presentations and corporate speakers. Many attendees used Thursday as a chance to unwind ...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based Lendability.com said today that it has launched a new web site focused on mortgage products and lending. The new online mortgage startup, which is headed by two former executives of Ditech.com, said it has scored a...

Boulder-based venture capital firm The Foundry Group said this week that it has invested in San Francisco-based Pie Digital, a firm developing software to simplify the installation, maintenance and expansion of home computing equipment and ...

Ketchum, Idaho -- The Venture Capital in the Rockies Fall 2008 Conference debuted Tuesday at the Sun Valley Resort here in this secluded mountain town.The 13 presenting companies selected from nearly 100 applicants spent the afternoon rehea...

One of the region's most prominent venture capital groups is hosting a fall conference this week, and Techrockies.com will be on-hand to provide its readers with in-depth coverage. Set in the mountain resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho, ...

Denver-based venture capital firm Meritage Funds has invested in a London-based interactive advertising provider, the recipient announced Monday. Miniweb Interactive, which specializes in delivering targeted, Web-style advertisements to tel...

Next week marks the beginning of the Venture Capital in the Rockies Fall 2008 Conference, which Techrockies will be covering. Our editors will be on site at the event talking with companies at the conference. The event, occurring in Sun ...

Boulder, Colorado-based Eco-Products, a supplier of food service items made from renewable resources, said this week that it has raised $2M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Boulder-based private equity firm Greenmont Capital Par...

Arizona State University said Tuesday that the firm has spun out a new company, Heliae Development, with $3M in funding and technology derived from research at the university. ASU said that it is in a research and commercial collaboration w...

Broadband Internet access provider WildBlue Communications Inc. announced Wednesday that it has obtained $50 million in equity financing. The Greenwood Village, Colo.-based company credited Liberty Media, Intelsat, the National Rural Teleco...

Secure64 Software Corp. announced Wednesday that it has closed an initial round of preferred funding worth some $3.7 million. The Denver area-based server applications developer said several private investors and institutions participated i...

AFS Technologies Inc., a developer of software applications for the food and beverage industry, announced Tuesday that it has raised $13M in an equity funding, and acquired two software firms. AFS said taht the funding round was led by CIBC...

Fort Collins, Colorado-based AVA Solar, a developer of thin-film photovoltaic modules for the solar energy market, said this week that it has raised $104M in a second institutional round of financing. According to AVA Solar, the round was l...

MIOX Corp., a supplier of water treatment systems, said today that has raised a third round of venture financing worth $19 million. The Albuquerque, N.M.-based company said international venture capital firm DCM led the Series C effort. Exi...

American Fork, Utah-based Move Networks, a provider of technology for streaming HD video, announced this morning that the firm has added Microsoft as an investor in the firm's Series C funding round. According to Move Networks, the strategi...

Information technology consulting startup Sparxent Inc. announced Monday that it has acquired one IT outsourcing firm and has agreed to buy another. Sparxent, which was recently founded by software and semiconductor industry veterans Steve ...

Envysion Inc., a provider of hosted video surveillance services, announced late Friday that it has closed a third round of venture financing worth some $3 million. The Louisville, Colorado-based business said prior investor Columbia Capital...

Boulder, Colorado-based Lijit Networks has raised $7.1M in a Series C investment, the firm said today, in a round led by Foundry Group. Lijit, which provides online search widget applications, said that its other existing investors, Boulder...

Boulder-based NextFoods, a maker of probiotic drinks, said this week that it has scored $16M in a round of investment, from a Seattle venture firm co-founded by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. According to NextFoods, the deal was led by Maver...

Sprinville, Utah-based Five Star Painting, a provider of call center support and estimating software for commercial painting franchisees, has scored $300K in an investment. According to InnoVentures Capital Partners, which provided the fund...

Lumidigm Inc., an Albuquerque, N.M.-based manufacturer of biometric sensors, announced Wednesday that it has received a strategic investment from automotive supplier Methode Electronics Inc. A specific dollar amount was not disclosed. Lumid...

Flypaper Studio Inc., a Phoenix-based publisher of rich-media content creation software, announced Tuesday that it has concluded a second round of venture financing after securing some $3.5 million. Flypaper said two previous investors were...

Sierra Neuropharmaceuticals Inc., a developer of direct-to-brain treatment methods and medications, announced Thursday that it has concluded its initial round of venture financing after raising some $21.5 million. Sierra credited HealthCare...

Orem, Utah-based DigitalBridge said Thursday afternoon that it has raised a "significant" funding from Sorenson Capital Partners, a Salt Lake City-based private equity firm. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. DigitalBridge, which deve...

Orem, Utah-based ClassTop, a developer of software for connecting learning management systems for schools with Facebook, said today that it has been selected for a grant by Facebook and its fbFund program. Amount of the funding was not disc...

Denver-based Vericept Corporation, a provider of data leakage prevention products, said Wednesday that it has raised $8M in an additional funding round. The funding was led by Sigma Partners. vericept said the funding would allow the firm t...

Salt Lake City-based venture capital firm vSpring Capital has tapped one of its portfolio companies for a new Executive In Residence. According to San Francisco-based Penguin Computing, Frank Matson, the firm's CEO, has stepped down from hi...

Phoenix, Arizona-based Flypaper Studios, which is venture backed by Sierra Ventures and SCF Arizona, said Tuesday that the firm has released a "pro" version of the firm's interactive presentation software. According to the firm, its Flypape...

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released its quarterly venture capital survey over the weekend, saying that there was $7.4B invested in 990 venture deals nationally in the second quarter. The MoneyTree Re...

Provo, Utah-based Lingotek said Wednesday that the firm has scored a Series B round of funding, and inked a strategic investment from In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Lingotek, which develops techn...

Lindon, Utah-based Canopy Ventures said today that it has made a $1M investment commitment in Provo, Utah-based eFileCabinet, a provider of electronic document management and online backup services. According to Canopy Ventures, the financi...

Boulder-based venture capital firm The Foundry Group said today that it has made an investment in Topspin Media, a high profile Southern California firm focused on helping music artists manage their media catalogs and other assets. Amount o...

Salt Lake City-based AlloCure said Wednesday that the firm has raised $14.5M in a Series A financing round. The round came from SV Life Sciences, which led the round, along with Novo A/S. AlloCure is a biotechnology firm developing therapie...

Ogden, Utah-based TopTenREVIEWS said Tuesday that it has raised $6M in a venture round from Highway 12 Ventures and Village Ventures. TopTenREVIEWS said the funding will use the funding to expand its online review site, and increase its wor...

Lindon, Utah-based venture capital firm Canopy Ventures said this morning that it has hired Joe Levy as Technologist-in-Residence for the firm. Levy joins the firm from SonicWALL, where he was its Chief Technology Officer. According to Cano...

Phoenix-based The Legal Broadcast Network announced Thursday that it has found a new chief executive and received an equity investment from Miller Capital Corp., a venture capital and financial services firm headquartered in Scottsdale, Ari...

Salt Lake City-based Control4 disclosed a $20M investment round in the firm, a company spokesperson confirmed with Techrockies today. According to the firm, the investment round in the company actually closed on February 8th. The round was ...

Crocker Ventures, a Utah-based private equity firm focused on biotechnology startups, announced Tuesday that it has contributed $3.3 million toward Merrimack Pharmaceutical's sixth round of venture financing. To date, Crocker said, it has i...

Denver-based IQNavigator, a developer of software for managing outsourced labor and services, has scored an investment round from private equity firm GTCR Golder Rauner, LLC. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. GTCR announ...

Boulder, Colorado-based Symplified said today that it has raised $6M in a Series A round of venture capital financing. The funding was led by Granite Ventures and Allegis Capital. The firm said that it will focus on web identity management,...

Salt Lake City-based Infopia, a provider of e-commerce tools, said Thursday afternoon that it has raised $12M in a Series C financing round. The round was led by UV Partners, and also included prior investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners...

Rally Software Development Corp., a publisher of software development applications, announced Wednesday that it has closed its third round of venture financing after raising $16.85 million. The Boulder, Colo.-based business said first-time...

Denver-based payment software publisher IP Commerce Inc. announced Tuesday that it has raised $17 million in a third round of funding. IP Commerce said venture capital firm Venrock led the effort. Total Technology Ventures also participated...

Albuquerque, N.M-based VeraLight, which is developing medical devices for screening for diabetes, said this morning that it has raised $20M in a Series C funding round. According to Veralight, the round was led by Psilos Group and CMEA Vent...

Medical device developer Medipacs Inc. announced last week that it has raised an initial venture capital investment worth $1.65 million. Medipacs credited Mesa Verde Venture Partners and investors from San Diego, Washington D.C., Phoenix an...

Lindon, Utah-based Canopy Ventures, an early stage venture firm focused on information technology and life sciences in Utah, said Tuesday that it has raised a $100M, second fund managed by the firm. According to the company, Canopy Ventures...

Boulder, Colorado-based Miragen Therapeutics said this morning that it has raised $8M in a Series A investment. The funding was co-led by Atlas Venture and Boulder Ventures, along with unnamed individuals. The firm said it is focused on dis...

Ubidyne Inc., a manufacturer of embedded radio antennas for wireless devices, announced Wednesday that it has closed its second round of venture financing after securing some $34 million in funds. Ubidyne credited Doughty Hanson Technology ...

Regional venture capital firm Highway 12 Ventures Inc. reported Tuesday that it has hired Miles Mahoney and Glenn Michael as general partners. Highway 12 described Mahoney as a 20-year veteran of the technology and enterprise software indus...

Lafayette, Colorado-based Evolutionary Genomics has recently raised a round of investment from Altira Group LLC, for the firm's biofuel feedstock technology. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. According to Altira, the investment came ...

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...

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released their MoneyTree venture capital report over the weekend, reporting that venture capital activity dropped to $7.1B in 922 deals nationwide for the first quarter of ...

Boulder, Colorado-based Collective Intellect, which provides services for tracking blogs and other social media sites for insights into companies and businesses, said Wednesday that it has raised $6.6M in a Series B funding. The round was l...

Santa Fe, New Mexico-based Hyperion Power Generation has scored a round of venture capital from Altira Group LLC, Altira said Wednesday. Altira said that Hyperion Power Generation is developing small, self-contained, transportable nuclear p...

Boulder, Colorado and Dundee, Scotland-based Realtime Worlds, which develops video games, said this morning that it has raised $50M for the company in a second round of funding. The firm said the round was led by Mavrick Capital, and includ...

Broomfield, Colorado-based Range Fuels said this morning that it has raised $100M in a Series B round of funding. Range Fuels said the round was led by Passport Capital, and also included BlueMountain, Khosla Ventures, Leaf Clean Energy Com...

Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io said Monday that it has raised $19M in a Series A funding, led by New Enterprise Associates. Other investors in the firm were not disclosed. Fusion-io said it is developing solid state data storage devices, st...

Solera Networks, a developer of network-traffic analysis technology, announced Thursday that it has raised a second round of venture financing, raising $5 million. Solera said Canopy Ventures led the effort, noting that Canopy had also led ...

Boulder-based Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy, a retail chain of pharmacies providing what it calls "integrative medicine", said Wednesday that it has raised $20M in a financing. The round was led by Highland Capital Partners, and also includ...

Bozeman, Montana-based LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals said Tuesday that the company has raised $28M in a Series C funding round for the firm's vaccine development. LigoCyte, which is developing vaccine candidates against norovirus and influenza, ...

Dow Jones VentureSource reported today that $1.34B was invested in 178 Web 2.0 deals in the US, and investment levels in the Rockies increased significantly over last year. Dow Jones tallied $31M and 7 Web 2.0 deals in Colorado, Arizona, an...

Axial Biotech Inc., a developer of DNA-based diagnostic tests for common spinal diseases, announced Monday that its second round of venture financing has received a $6 million tranche. The additional funding in the firm's Series B follows a...

New Mexico was named as the fastest growing region for venture capital investments, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The NVCA said in its report that there was a 650% increase in the...

Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Tred Displays, which is designing eco-friendly technology for the digital signage industry, has scored a first round of funding. The firm said the round was led by Flywheel Ventures and Sojitz Pla-Net Corporati...

Denver, Colorado-based Top of Asia, a new venture firm focused on the Chinese market, said today that it has invested in United Wireless Ltd., a Chinese wireless and wired systems integrator. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based Cayenne Medical, a firm focused on the sports medicine market, said today that it has closed on $15M in a Series C funding round. The funding was led by Investor Growth Capital, and also included SplitRock Partners...

HiveLive Inc., a developer of enterprise social-networking software, announced Wednesday that it has concluded its first round of venture financing after raising $5.6 million. HiveLive credited Grotech Capital Group with leading the effort....

Boulder, Colorado-based Foundry Group said Monday evening that the firm has closed a new, $225M early stage venture capital fund. The firm, which is managed by Brad Feld, Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre, Jason Mendelson, and Chris Wand--all form...

Salt Lake City, Utah-based Portal-Tek, a developer of an off-road axle for the automotive industry, has received $200,000 from venture debt provider InnoVentures Capital Partners, InnoVentures said Tuesday. According to InnoVentures, the fu...

Greenspark Ventures (www.greensparkventures.net) is a new, clean technology focused venture capital firm based in Denver. The firm recently made its first investment in Albeo Technologies, and we thought it would be interesting to get more ...

Boulder, Colorado-based Peak8 Solutions said Friday afternoon that it has raised $5M in a Series B funding. The firm, which provides technical support services, said the funding came from Lacuna Venture Capital and other firms. According to...

Atrato Inc., a manufacturer of high-volume digital data storage systems, revealed Tuesday that it has officially launched as a business after concluding its initial round of venture financing. Atrato said its Series A effort yielded $18 mil...

Denver-based QualVu, a startup developing web-based video platforms for qualitative research, said Monday that it has raised $750K in a Series A funding. The round came from the co-founders of ServiceMagic.com, Mike Beaudoin and Rodney Rice...

SiC Systems Inc., a manufacturer of silicon carbide substrates, announced Monday that it has raised a Series A venture capital funding. The amount of the funding and the firms responsible for providing it were not disclosed, however. SiC, w...

Phoenix-based Flypaper Studio Inc., a publisher of Web design software, announced Wednesday that it has raised $3M in a first round of venture financing. Flypaper said Sierra Ventures of Menlo Park, Calif., and SCF Arizona of Phoenix served...

Mark Solon is the managing partner of Highway 12 Ventures (www.highway12ventures.com), a venture capital firm headquartered in Boise, Idaho. The company currently manages two funds comprising more than $100 million. In November, it closed...

Biotechnology firm Taligen Therapeutics announced last week that it has concluded its second round of venture financing after securing $65 million. The company credited Alta Partners and Clarus Ventures with leading the effort. Existing inv...

Lumidigm Inc., a manufacturer of biometric devices, announced Tuesday that it has concluded its third round of venture financing after raising $7 million. Lumidigm credited existing investor Epic Ventures (formerly Wasatch Venture Fund) wit...

Colorado Springs-based XAware said today that it has raised $7.4M in a new round of funding. The round was led by vSpring Capital, and also included new investor GMT Capital. Other investors in the round included prior investors Sequel Vent...

Salt Lake City, Utah-based InnoVentures, a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) that provides venture debt to early stage firms, said Thursday morning that it has raised a $12M second fund for venture debt investments. The company said ...

Boulder-based technology incubator TechStars, the high profile venture acceleration program run by venture capitalist Brad Feld and angel investors David Cohen, Jared Polis, and David Brown, said this week that it is now accepting applicati...

Tempe, Arizona-based LifeLock annnounced Wednesday that it has raised $25M in a Series C funding round, led by Goldman Sachs. Prior investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Bessemer Venture Partners also participated. LifeLock, which ...

Dow Jones VentureSource reported today that venture capital investments in U.S. companies rose to $29.9 billion in 2007, the highest level of venture capital investment since 2001. The firm reported that there was an 8% increase in capital ...

Square 1 Bank, a technology focused business bank, said Friday that it has opened up a new office in Boulder. Square 1, which provides banking services to high technology and venture-backed firms, credited the move to what it calls the "vib...

Mesa, Arizona-based Ulthera said Thursday afternoon that the firm has raised $22.5M in additional venture capital funding, in a round led by New Enterprise Associates. Venture investor 3i also participated in the funding. Ulthera is develop...

Denver-based NewsGator, a publisher of software and services for monitoring RSS feeds, said Thursday that it has named Jeff Nolan as the firm's Vice President of NewsGator's Software-as-a-Service business. Nolan was previously the firm's VP...

Newman Venture Advisors, a Boulder area firm that provides advice and strategic consulting to early and mid stage startups, said today in its blog that it has added Jerry Newman as a Senior Partner at the firm. Newman was most recently at B...

Boise, Idaho-based Balihoo, a provider of software for media planning, said Thursday that the firm has raised $4M in a Series B funding round. Balihoo said the funding came from Highway 12 Ventures, along with existing investor Lacuna Capit...

Denver, Colorado-based LgDb, which operated an online database of state and federal legislation, said Monday that it has suspended its operations. According to a notice posted by LgDb founder Scott Yates to the company's web site, the firm ...

Salt Lake City, Utah-based LineaGen said today that it has raised $5.8M in funding from vSpring Capital and Sanderling Biomedical Ventures, along with Mesa Verde Venture Partners. The firm said it is looking to discover and commercialize si...

Salt Lake City, Utah-based LineaGen said today that it has raised $5.8M in funding from vSpring Capital and Sanderling Biomedical Ventures, along with Mesa Verde Venture Partners. The firm said it is looking to discover and commercialize si...

Castle Rock, Colorado-based AuctionShark said today that the firm has raised $350,000 in a financing round. The firm, which operates an online shopping comparison service, said the round of funding came from Boat Capital Partners. AuctionSh...

Denver-based Newsgator said today that it has raised $12M in a new venture round. The round was led by Vista Ventures, and also included Mobius Venture Capital and Masthead Venture Partners. Newsgator develops software used for aggregating ...

Venture capital investment firm Peterson Partners announced Thursday that it has invested $4.6 million in Packsize Corp., a supplier of on-demand corrugated packaging materials. Originally founded in Northern Europe, Packsize is now headqua...

Zayo Group (www.zayo.com) recently raised a gigantic, $225M round of venture capital from a consortium of venture capital firms, to start a company focused on regional fiber optic networks. Dan Caruso is co-founder and CEO of the firm. Dan ...

Boulder, Colorado-based OPX Technologies announced today that it has raised $3.6M in a funding from MDV - Mohr Davidow Ventures, to develop economically viable biofuels and biorefined chemicals. X/Seed Capital and Rob Chess also participate...

Denver and Boston-based Buzzwire, a provider of streaming content to mobile phones, said today that it has raised $8M in a Series B financing. The round came from Sequel Venture Partners, along with existing investors Matrix Partners and Sp...

Wasatch Venture Fund, a regional venture financing firm that specializes in technology startups, announced Friday that it has changed its name to EPIC Ventures. The Salt Lake City, Utah-based business explained that it re-branded itself in ...

Boise, Idaho-based M2E Power said this morning that it has raised $8M in a Series A funding. The firm said the funding came from OVP Venture partners, @Ventures, Highway 12 Ventures, and existing investors. M2E Power is developing technolog...

MediaNews and Hearst have purchased a majority stake in Kaango, a Denver-based firm which develops software for posting online classified ads, according to a 10-Q filing by MediaNews. MediaNews, which is also based in Denver, disclosed as p...

Denver-based Valen Technologies, a publisher of predictive analytics software for the property and casualty insurance industry, has concluded its third round of venture financing after receiving some $6.5 million, one of the round's lead in...

Centennial, Colorado-based venture firm eonBusiness said Tuesday that it has invested in a Los Angeles-based digital marketing firm, mobileStorm. eonBusiness announced the funding Tuesday, saying that it was the sole investor in the company...

Boulder, Colorado-based Socialthing Inc., operator of a yet-to-be-launched social-networking-management Web service, has concluded its initial round of venture financing, one of its investors, eonBusiness, reported Tuesday. The Denver-based...

Tucson, Arizona-based High Throughput Genomics said late Monday that the firm has raised $10M in a Series C funding, for the firm's gene expression assay technology and services. The round was led by Merck Capital Ventures, and included Sol...

Altela Inc., a developer of water desalination and purification technologies, announced Monday that it has concluded its initial round of venture financing after raising some $7.1 million. Altela credited CCS Income Trust, a Canadian enviro...

Companies raised $7.1B in venture capital, spread across 887 deals for Q3, according to the latest PricewaterouseCoopers and National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree Report, a quarterly venture capital survey the two issue based on da...

Denver, Colorado-based InfoNow Corp., a publisher of channel sales and inventory data software-as-a-service, announced Thursday that it has concluded its first round of venture financing, raising $6 million. InfoNow said Sequel Venture Part...

Infusion Software Inc., a publisher of customer-relationship-management software for small businesses, announced Wednesday that it has received $9 million in first-round financing from a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, MDV-Mohr D...

Boulder, Colorado-based Yieldex, a stealth startup working on online advertising inventory allocation software for optimizing CPMs, has quietly added venture capital firm First Round Capital as an investor. No details of the funding have be...

Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Wellkeeper has closed on $850,000 in a venture investment round, from New Mexico Community Capital, Verge Fund, and angel investors, the firm said this week. The company, which develops a remote monitoring prod...

Salt Lake City, Utah-based COMPLETExRM, a provider of web-based tools for customer relationship management, said Monday that it has received funding from Donald L. Lucas, LongBow Holdings Company, and the University Venture Fund. Lucas is p...

Louisville, Colorado-based GlobeImmune said today that it has raised $41.2M in a Series C financing round, led by Wexford Capital. Other new investors in the firm included GlobeImmune included Celgene, Inc., Mellon Family Investment Company...

COPAN Systems, a manufacturer of massive array of idle disks data storage systems, announced Monday that it has raised $32.4 million in Series D venture funding. COPAN said Battery Ventures led the effort, while existing investors Austin Ve...

Tempe, Arizona-based vSocial has raised a Series B funding round, the firm said Wednesday. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. The round was led by Phoenix-based Biltmore Ventures, and also included Consor Capital. vSocial operates an ...

Denver, Colorado-based NewsGator Technologies said today that it has hired Jeff Nolan as VP of Corporate Development. Nolan is based in Silicon Valley, and has previously served at Teqlo, was a General Partner at venture capital firm SAP Ve...

Phoenix, Arizona-based TeleSphere, a provider of managed telecommunications and Internet services, said Thursday that it has received an investment from Hawkeye Capital LLC. Financial size of the investment was not disclosed. John Chapple o...

Zayo Bandwidth, a regional provider of fiber optics-based network services, announced Thursday that its focus as a business now lies in the telecommunications industry. The Louisville, Colo.-based company added that it has secured $225 mill...

Denver, Colorado-based LgDb.com, a provider of an online database of state and federal legislation, has received an unspecified amount of venture capital, according to venture firm eonBusiness. eonBusiness said it led a round in LgDb.com, b...

Boulder Nonlinear Systems Inc., a manufacturer of liquid crystal devices, announced Monday raised a round of venture capital funding. Coherent Investments LLC, which specializes in funding technology startups in the Rocky Mountain region, w...

Boulder, Colorado-based Aztek Networks said Wednesday that it has closed on $7.5M in a Series B funding. The round came from the Telecommunications Development Fund, which led the financing, along with Sequel Venture Partners, Grotech Capit...

Venture capital firm Vista Ventures reported today that Lisa Reeves has joined the firm as a general partner. Previously, Reeves served as senior vice president of SAP Ventures for SAP AG. Vista said she has more than 14 years of experience...

The 41st Parameter, a developer of online fraud detection and prevention software, announced Tuesday that it has concluded a round of venture financing and expanded its executive staff. Though the Scottsdale, Arizona-based company declined ...

Denver, Colorado-based Associated Content announced this morning that it has raised $10M in a venture capital funding round. The round was led by Canaan Partners, and also included prior investors Softbank Capital and investor Tim Armstrong...

Gilbert, Arizona-based Microblend Technologies has raised $3.1M in a preferred stock round, the firm disclosed earlier this mo nth. The firm said that the funding came from Amerivon Investments, and will be used to launch the next stage exp...

Louisville, Colorado-based Medivance reported Thursday that it has raised $23M in a Series D funding. The funding came from Cross Atlantic Partners, Camden Partners, Skyline Ventures, Partisan Management, and MDY Healthcare. Medivance is de...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based iCrossing said Thursday that it has raised $62M, in an investment from Goldman, Sachs & Co., along with its existing investors Oak Investment Partners, RRE Ventures and StarVest Partners L.P. iCrossing, which provi...

Stratavia, a developer of IT run book automation software, revealed Wednesday that it has closed its second round of funding after securing $6.25 million in financing. Stratavia said previous investor Asset Management Company led the effort...

Westminster, Colorado-based SkyeTek is announcing today that it has raised $10M in a Series C funding round. The venture round was led by Grotech Capital Group, and also includes participation by TD Fund, Appian Ventures, Sequel Venture Par...

A report released Monday by Dow Jones VentureOne and Ernst & Young found that there was $371M in venture deals in the region in Q2 of this year. Colorado led the region in the amount raised, with $284.87M raised in the quarter, followed by ...

Highway 12 Ventures, a Boise, Idaho-based venture capital fund, said today that it has raised a $75M second venture capital fund. The new fund, Highway 12 Ventures II, will focus on early-stage investments in the Intermountain West states o...

Boise, Idaho-based PakSense, a firm developing temperature sensing labels for the perishable goods market, has raised $4.16M in an angel investment round from the Keiretsu Forum. According to the Keiretsu Forum, an angel group, members from...

Boulder, Colorado-based FEED, a firm developing a service that allows merchants to receive payments from mobile phones, has raised $3.25M in a Series A round. The round came from Lacuna Venture Fund and other investors. Rawleigh Ralls of La...

Santa Fe, New Mexico-based Flywheel Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona and other companies, has quietly added Tempe, Arizona-based 4Blox to its list of portfolio firms. 4Blox, which is currentl...

Albuquerque, New Mexico-based ENERPULSE, a firm developing spark plug technology, said Friday that it has raised $5.5M in a Series B funding. The round came from SAIL Venture Partners and Denver-based Altira Group. ENERPULSE said that its a...

Denver, Colorado-based online database developer Trackvia reported Tuesday that it has procured funding from Flywheel Ventures, a venture capital firm that targets companies in the Rockies and Intermountain West. The funding amount was not ...

Louisville, Colorado-based Lijit Networks said Monday it has raised $3.3M in a Series B investment. The firm said that the round was led by Boulder Ventures, who joined Colorado Fund I, managed by High Country Venture, and venture capitalis...

Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Advent Solar said Tuesday that it has raised more than $70M in venture capital funding, in a Series D funding round. The investments came from ZBI Ventures, Sun Mountain Capital, and Globespan Capital Partners,...

Denver, Colorado-based PaySimple, a provider of payment-management solutions for businesses, reported Monday that it has added Eric Dunn to its board of directors. PaySimple said that Dunn, currently a general partner with Cardinal Venture ...