We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new online portfolio company careers portal (www.highway12ventures.com/portfolio/careers). This is a value-add service managed by StartUpHire and is designed to accelerate our portfolio’s recruiting effectiveness by channeling talented individuals to our portfolio companies. Interestingly, the service has the ability to automatically pull existing and new postings from our [...]
Archive for the ‘Portfolio’ Category
Jul
22
Apr
13
Our Investment In Goomzee & A Lesson For First-Time Entrepreneurs
Last week, there was a considerable amount of media attention regarding the announcement of our investment in Missoula, MT-based Goomzee. The company has developed a very elegant and innovative mobile marketing platform that helps real estate professionals connect with potential buyers. The platform has applications beyond the real estate market, including retail and auto. Even [...]
Apr
05
Our Investment In Cradlepoint
Early in 2009, we made an investment in Boise-based Cradlepoint. For a variety of reasons, we’ve kept this below the radar until now. We are very excited to finally announce our investment in this fast-growing company. Cradlepoint designs and manufactures 3G/4G wireless broadband routers and is a leader in this emerging space. Cradlepoint boasts the [...]
Mar
22
Feb
10
5 Minutes With Jerry Ropelato & Stan Bassett
Two years ago the folks at the Utah Fund of Funds introduced us to Jerry and Stan (CEO & President respectively) from TopTenReviews in Salt Lake City and were completely impressed with the amazing business they had built without raising any capital. They were looking to take the company to the next level and having [...]
Jan
11
The Story Behind The DAZ3D – Gizmoz Merger
About 3 years ago, we made an investment in DAZ3D, a very interesting company that markets 3D creation software and content to digital artists, including a family of very high quality 3D avatars that quickly became a standard. The company’s founders, Chris Creek and Dan Farr had successfully bootstrapped DAZ to profitability and had built [...]
Dec
07
Our Newest Investment: SendGrid
Early this summer, my partner George and I walked into the bunker at TechStars in Boulder and met with Isaac Saldana, a young entrepreneur who, along with his small team of three, has been working feverishly on creating a solution to help companies get their important emails delivered. We were instantly impressed with Isaac and [...]
Nov
05
Why We’re Excited About Our Investment In Everlater
We just made an investment in an exciting young Boulder, Colorado company called Everlater. They have developed a web based travel journal that enables users and travel partners (e.g. tour operators) to easily record, share and discover travel experiences. Unlike blogs, Facebook or picture sharing sites, Everlater encapsulates everything you want to share about [...]
Sep
22
Why We Invested in Alliance Health Networks
We recently invested in Alliance Health Networks based in Salt Lake City, an exciting company that is using the power of social networks to provide patients of chronic conditions the ability to support one another through an open discussion of patient experiences. Their first network, Diabetic Connect, has over 50,000 diabetes patient that participate in [...]
Jun
23
The “Heart” Of The Matter
This past December, I attended a dinner and sat next to a delightful young woman named Vanessa Cirillo. Vanessa had an incredible joie de vivre, a striking smile and she was wearing a beautiful evening dress with a plunging neckline (okay, I know this is a strange way to start a blog post but stick [...]