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Websitefoundrygroup.com
Blogfoundrygroup.com/...
Phone303-642-4050
Employees
Founded12/07

Funds

Foundry Group with $160M-plus fund, 9/07 $159M

Offices

Boulder, USA
1050 Walnut Street
Suite 210
Boulder, CO, 80302
USA

People

Managing Director
Managing Director
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Foundry Group

Foundry Group is a venture capital firm focused on making investments in early-stage information technology, Internet and software startups. Their passion is working alongside entrepreneurs to give birth to new technologies and to build those technologies into industry-leading companies. They are centrally located in Boulder, CO, but invest in companies across North America.

Their current venture fund of $225m was launched in late 2007 and is managed by five managing directors. Collectively, they have almost five decades of experience in venture capital investing. During that time they have invested in over 70 companies as institutional investors and over 50 companies as angel investors. Additionally, they have over three decades of entrepreneurial experience in founding and working in senior operating roles inside technology startups.

Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Mandelbrot Project 11/09Series A$500k1
Ecast 10/09Unattributed$17M5
Organic Motion 10/09Series B1
Smith & Tinker 8/09Unattributed$29M5
AdMeld 6/09Series B$8M2
Medialets 5/09Series A$4M3
Gist 5/09Series A$6.75M2
AdMeld 11/08Series A$7M2
Gnip 11/08Series B$3.5M3
Lijit 8/08Series C$7.1M3
Zynga 7/08Series B$29M4
Topspin Media 7/08Series B1
Gnip 3/08Series A$1.1M3
Memeo 1/08Series B$8.1M1
Zynga 1/08Series A$10M10

Videos

Sources

  1. From Mobius Venture Capital ashes, arises Foundry Group with $160M-plus fund (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  2. paidContent (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  3. Ecast Raises $17 Million For Its Digital Jukebox Ad Network (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  4. Organic Motion Secures B Round Venture Financing from Foundry Group (freshnews.com) [edit]
  5. Smith & Tinker Secures $29 Million in Venture Funding (pr-inside.com) [edit]
  6. Ad Optimizer AdMeld Raises $8 Million, Opens UK Operations (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. Medialets Raises $4m Series A Financing (medialets.com) [edit]
  8. How Foundry Group Got the Gist of T.A. McCann’s Startup: Anatomy of a Software Deal (xconomy.com) [edit]
  9. Industry Moves: AdMeld Taps Former FIM Exec Barrett As CEO, Secures New Funding (admeld.com) [edit]
  10. techcrunch.com [edit]
  11. Blog Searcher Lijit Gets $7.1 Million Third Round; Plans Ad Net (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  12. techcrunch.com []
  13. Topspin Media Gets Second Round For Online Music Marketing (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  14. techcrunch.com [edit]
  15. Prime Newswire (primenewswire.com) [edit]
  16. dmwmedia.com []
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