“It’s fun.” Sometimes, it’s that simple. Making a sphere controllable is no easy feat and the team at Orbotix has some pretty impressive chops when it comes to sophisticated robotics. As a result, we’re excited to announce our newest investment in Orobtix (based in Boulder, Colorado). Orbotix is the company behind Sphero, the world’s first [...]
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Portfolio News | March 2011
Click on the links to read the complete articles. MARCH 17, 2011 | SYS-CON MEDIA Medical marketing, Portland style. MARCH 9, 2011 | THE IDAHO STATESMAN A $25-million-a-year Boise company makes portable devices you can put in your backpack to create instant Wi-Fi hot spots. MARCH 25, 2011 | CNET CradlePoint receives great reviews from [...]
Mar
30
Contribution, Community & Mentorship
Last night, I was reading the article that appeared in TechCrunch about TechStars raising an additional $8 million for its programs and was reflecting on being a part of the TechStars community. As investors who’ve had a front row seat to the TechStars phenomenon for the last few years (and invested in a handful of TechStars [...]
Mar
08
Focus, Filter and Forget
Hi, my name is George and I am a recovering multi-tasker. Based on the incredible advances in information and communications technology it would seem that the productivity of business leaders must be skyrocketing. Having access to more and better information and being able to reach out to people around the world and get a near [...]
Mar
07
CEOs: Want More Productive Board Meetings?
It’s Monday morning and I’ve just reviewed my bi-weekly board email from Jerry Ropelato, CEO of Tech Media Network. As a board member of Jerry’s company, I know that I’m going to receive a thoughtful review of the business from him every other week. It includes some high-level MTD, QTD & YTD numbers and how [...]
Mar
02
Portfolio News | February 2011
Click the links below to read the full articles: FEBRUARY 9, 2011 | PRWEB Diabetic Connect releases “21 Days to Better Diabetes Control”. FEBRUARY 10, 2011 | PRWEB High-performance healthcare – transparency, accountability, accessibility and action – emerge in Carefx white paper. FEBRUARY 16, 2011 | PRWEB Carefx Interoperability Platform to be Demonstrated at HIMSS11 [...]
Mar
02
GutCheck Steals the Show (and $1 million)
A few months ago I posted a blog titled “5 minutes with Matt Warta, CEO of GutCheck“. You can check that out, if you want to learn more about Matt and the vision for GutCheck. At the time, Matt and the GutCheck team were busy gathering feedback on their beta, incorporating the changes into their [...]
Feb
22
TechStars Boulder Early Application Deadline – Feb. 24th
The early application deadline for TechStars Boulder is rapidly approaching. The deadline is February 24th, 2011 and you can apply here. Over the years, Highway 12 Ventures has invested in a number of TechStars graduates and based up the terrific performance of these companies, we strongly believe that this program gives startups a tremendous advantage [...]
Feb
22
Carefx Acquired by Harris Corporation
Eight years ago, we invested in the Series A financing (Fund I) in Carefx, and we and our limited partners are about to reap the benefits of the just announced acquisition by Harris Corporation for $155 million. Today’s announcement represents the culmination of almost a decade of hard work by all of the people who [...]
Feb
17
Lendio – Our Latest Investment
At Highway 12 Ventures, we believe the customer/bank relationship has changed. This phenomenon first started during the dotcom meltdown in 2001-2003 and again saw radical change in late 2008. Historically, most small businesses went to the bank on the corner. That is no longer the case as we have all read about the difficulties small [...]