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Foundry Group

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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 four 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

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  Foundry Group invested in Fitbit. (1/24/12)
  Posted 1/24/12 at 5:02am via techcrunch.com
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  Foundry Group invested in SendGrid. (1/17/12)
  Posted 1/17/12 at 6:44pm via techcrunch.com
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  Foundry Group invested in Trada. (1/5/12)
  Posted 1/5/12 at 7:00pm via techcrunch.com
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  Foundry Group invested in Next Big Sound. (1/3/12)
  Posted 1/3/12 at 4:40pm via techcrunch.com
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  Foundry Group invested in Zynga. (2/12/08)
  Posted 12/16/11 at 5:19pm via cnn.com
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  Foundry Group invested in awe.sm. (12/1/11)
  Posted 12/1/11 at 7:46pm via finsmes.com
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  Foundry Group invested in Standing Cloud. (11/10/11)
  Posted 11/10/11 at 7:43pm via finsmes.com
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  Foundry Group invested in Urban Airship. (11/7/11)
  Posted 11/6/11 at 9:09pm via gigaom.com
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  Foundry Group invested in SideTour. (10/17/11)
  Posted 9/7/11 at 4:02pm via techcrunch.com
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  Foundry Group invested in Yesware. (9/27/11)
  Posted 9/27/11 at 5:53pm via techcrunch.com
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  Foundry Group invested in TechStars. (9/21/11)
  Posted 9/21/11 at 7:26pm via techcrunch.com
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  Foundry Group invested in MakerBot. (8/23/11)
  Posted 8/23/11 at 7:36pm via techcrunch.com
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  Foundry Group invested in Crowdtap. (7/27/11)
  Posted 7/27/11 at 5:14pm via techcrunch.com
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  Foundry Group invested in Authentic8. (12/1/10)
  Posted 6/9/11 at 10:22am via authentic8.com
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  Foundry Group invested in Sifteo. (5/1/10)
  Posted 6/5/11 at 10:45pm via chubbybrain.com
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  Foundry Group invested in ObjectLabs. (5/11/11)
  Posted 5/20/11 at 8:53pm via techcrunch.com

Investments

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1. From Mobius Venture Capital ashes, arises Foundry Group with $160M-plus fund (venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Foundry Group Launches Second $225 Million Venture Fund (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Fitness Tracker Fitbit Raises $12M To Market New Wi-Fi Enabled Smart Scale, Aria (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Bessemer Leads $21M Round In Cloud-Based Email Delivery And Management Service SendGrid (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Google Ventures And Foundry Group Put $9M In Crowdsourced Search Advertising Marketplace Trada (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Another Data Play: The Next Big Sound Raises $6.5 Million From IA Ventures And Foundry (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. awe.sm Raises $4m in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
8. Standing Cloud Raises $3M (finsmes.com) [edit]
9. GigaOm (gigaom.com) [edit]
10. From Graffiti Lessons To Olympic Luging: SideTour Raises $1.5 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Google Ventures, Foundry Group Put $1M In Yesware, Email Tracking And Productivity Platform For Salespeople (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Startup Incubator TechStars Raises $24M, Increases Funding For Each Company By $100K (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. MakerBot Takes $10 Million In Funding From Foundry Group, Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Crowdtap Raises $7 Million To Help Brands Connect With Their Influential Customers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. Cloud Database Provider MongoLab Raises $3 Million From Foundry, Baseline, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. nline Search, Advertising Company Lijit Networks Lands $10 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. Openspace Receives Seed Investment from Foundry Group (finsmes.com) [edit]
18. Orbotix Scores $5 Million. Because You All Want Smartphone-Controlled Robotic Balls (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. Spanning Apps Raises $2M As Rival To Backupify For Google Apps (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
20. Foundry Group Puts $500,000 Into Attachments.me (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. I Can Has Funding: Cheezburger Raises $30M For LOLcats, FAIL Blog And Other Memes (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. mashable.com [edit]
23. Integrate Closes $4.25M Series A Round of Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
24. Great investors make the world of difference (authentic8.com) [edit]
25. Standing Cloud Raises $3 Million, Fends Off Font Snobs With New Logo (techcrunch.com) [edit]
26. Urban Airship Closes $5.4 Million Funding Round To Help Power Mobile Apps (techcrunch.com) [edit]
27. StockTwits Grabs $4 Million More In Inside Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
28. Fitness Tracker Fitbit Gains Another $8 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
29. Medialets adds $6m, new investors to grow mobile rich media (medialets.com) [edit]
30. AdMeld Raises $15 Million Round; Time Warner Among New Backers (paidcontent.org) [edit]
31. Gist Gets $4 Million and the Catalyst is the Cloud (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
32. Trada Raises $5.75M From Google Ventures To Crowdsource Search Engine Marketing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. Triggit Raises $4.2 Million For Its Demand Side Ad Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
34. Lijit Gets $6M More (techrockies.com) [edit]
35. BigDoor’s First BigRound: $5 Million From Foundry Group (techcrunch.com) [edit]
36. SimpleGeo Digs Up Another $8 Million And A Group Of Former Digg Employees (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. chubbybrain.com [edit]
38. SendGrid Raises $5 Million, Sends A Bajillion E-mails (techcrunch.com) [edit]
39. Cap Funding Report [edit]
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41. Cloud Engines floats on $3M for rich media sharing (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
42. TechCrunch Staff [edit]
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44. paidContent (paidcontent.org) [edit]
45. EmSense Raises $9 Million Series C Round of Financing Technology Partners Leads Investment (emsense.com) [edit]
46. Organic Motion captures $7.4 M for motion-sensing tech (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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48. Smith & Tinker Secures $29 Million in Venture Funding (pr-inside.com) [edit]
49. Ad Optimizer AdMeld Raises $8 Million, Opens UK Operations (techcrunch.com) [edit]
50. Foundry Group (foundrygroup.com) [edit]
51. Medialets Raises $4m Series A Financing (medialets.com) [edit]
52. How Foundry Group Got the Gist of T.A. McCann’s Startup: Anatomy of a Software Deal (xconomy.com) [edit]
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54. Industry Moves: AdMeld Taps Former FIM Exec Barrett As CEO, Secures New Funding (admeld.com) [edit]
55. techcrunch.com [edit]
56. Blog Searcher Lijit Gets $7.1 Million Third Round; Plans Ad Net (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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58. Topspin Media Gets Second Round For Online Music Marketing (paidcontent.org) [edit]
59. techcrunch.com [edit]
60. finance.fortune.cnn.com []
61. Prime Newswire (primenewswire.com) [edit]
62. dmwmedia.com []
63. Cap Funding Report [edit]