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General Information

Websitefoundrygroup.com
Blogfoundrygroup.com/wp
Twitter@foundrygroup
Phone303-642-4050
Employees
Founded6/06

Funds

Total$675M
Foundry Venture Capital 2007, L.P., 9/07 $225M
Foundry Venture Capital 2010, L.P., 10/10 $225M
Foundry Venture Capital 2012, L.P., 9/12 $225M

Offices

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

People

Managing Director
Managing Director
Director of IT
VP Operations
Executive Assistant
Executive Assistant
Corporate Accountant
Executive Assistant & Office Manager

Former People

Managing Director

Tags

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 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.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Chute 5/13Series A$7M3
LinkSmart 5/13Series B$5M2
SideTour 3/13Series A$2.5M2
Spanning Cloud Apps 3/13Series B$6M1
Urban Airship 2/13Series D$25M5
Rover.com 2/13Series B$7M2
Cheezburger 12/12Venture Round$5M4
VictorOps 12/12Seed$1.6M4
Triggit 11/12Series B$7.4M2
BetaBrand 11/12Venture Round$6.5M1
isocket 11/12Series A$8M7
ObjectLabs 10/12Series B$5M5
Revolv 9/12Series A$2.7M6
PivotDesk 9/12Series A$3M5
Modular Robotics 7/12Venture Round$3M1
Cloudability 7/12Series A$8.7M4
FullContact 7/12Series B$7M9
Jirafe 6/12Series A$7M4
Pantheon 6/12Series A$5M1
Yesware 6/12Series A$4M4
Datahero 5/12Venture Round$1M7
Orbotix 5/12Series C$5M2
Mocavo 5/12Series A$4.1M2
Moz 5/12Series B$18M2
Singly 4/12Series A$7M7
BigDoor 4/12Series C$5M1
Attachments.me 4/12Series A$2M1
Integrate 3/12Series B$11M3
Fitbit 1/12Series C$12M4
SendGrid 1/12Series B$21.6M6
Trada 1/12Series D$9M2
Next Big Sound 1/12Series A$6.5M4
MobileDay 12/11Seed$1.48M6
awe.sm 12/11Venture Round$4.25M5
Standing Cloud 11/11Venture Round$3M2
Urban Airship 11/11Series C$15.1M5
SideTour 10/11Seed$1.5M3
Yesware 9/11Venture Round$1M2
TechStars 9/11Venture Round$24M7
MakerBot 8/11Venture Round$10M5
Crowdtap 7/11Series A$7M4
Oblong Industries 7/11Series B3
ObjectLabs 5/11Series A$3M5
Lijit Networks 4/11Series E$10M4
OpenSpace 4/11Seed1
Orbotix 4/11Series B$5M3
Spanning Cloud Apps 4/11Series A$3M1
Attachments.me 3/11Seed$500k1
Cheezburger 1/11Venture Round$30M4
Cheezburger Network 1/11Series A$30M4
Integrate 12/10Series A$4.25M1
Authentic8 12/10Venture Round2
Standing Cloud 11/10Series B$3M2
Gnip 11/10Venture Round$2M2
Urban Airship 11/10Series B$5.4M3
StockTwits 10/10Series C$4M2
Fitbit 9/10Series B$9M4
Medialets 8/10Series B$6M3
Admeld 8/10Series C$15M4
Gist 7/10Venture Round$4M2
Trada 7/10Series C$5.75M2
Triggit 6/10Venture Round$4.2M2
Lijit Networks 6/10Series D$6M3
BigDoor 6/10Series B$5M1
LinkSmart 6/10Series B$4.2M3
SimpleGeo 5/10Series A$8.14M5
Sifteo 5/10Series B$12M2
SendGrid 4/10Series A$5M10
Brightleaf 3/10Venture Round$3M1
Trada 3/10Series A$2.2M7
Pie Digital 2/10Series B$6.02M3
Cloud Engines 12/09Venture Round$3M1
Next Big Sound 12/09Seed$1M6
StockTwits 12/09Series B$3M2
LinkSmart 11/09Series A$500k1
EmSense 11/09Series C$9M2
Organic Motion 10/09Series B$7.4M1
Standing Cloud 10/09Series A$1.5M1
Smith & Tinker 8/09Venture Round$29M5
Admeld 6/09Series B$8M2
Cloud Engines 5/09Series A$3.25M1
Medialets 5/09Series A$4M3
Gist 5/09Series A$6.75M2
Standing Cloud 1/09Series A$500k1
Admeld 11/08Series A$7M2
Gnip 11/08Series B$3.5M3
Lijit Networks 8/08Series C$7.1M3
Zynga 7/08Series B$25M5
Topspin Media 7/08Series B1
Gnip 3/08Series A$1.1M3
Zynga 2/08Series A$5.03M3
Memeo 1/08Series B$8.1M1
Zynga 1/08Series A$10M11
Oblong Industries 12/07Series A$8.8M2

Videos

Sources

  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. Foundry Group Raises Another $225M Fund; Recycles Last $225M Blog Post To Announce It (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Chute Raises $7M To Help Publishers And Brands Manage User-Generated Photos (And Use Them In Ads) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. Audience Development Startup LinkSmart Raises $5 Million From Foundry And Costanoa (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. Experience marketplace SideTour raises $2.5 million in Series A-1 (pandodaily.com) [edit]
  7. Spanning Cloud Apps Raises $6M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  8. Urban Airship Raises $25 Million As It Expands Beyond The Mobile Backend (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Rover.com Secures $7M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  10. I Can Has Funding: Cheezburger Raises $5M From Foundry, Madrona , Softbank For LOLcats, FAIL Blog And Other Memes (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  11. Stealthy Collaboration Platform For Developers, VictorOps Raises $1.6M From Foundry Group (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. ‘Facebook DSP’ Triggit Raises $7.4 Million From Existing Investors (adexchanger.com) [edit]
  13. Cult Clothing Retailer Betabrand Raises $6.5 Million From Foundry Group (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  14. isocket Nabs $8M From Foundry, Tim Draper & More To Bring Modern Tech, APIs To Premium Online Advertising (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  15. MongoLab explains why everyone loves MongoDB (and raises $5M) (gigaom.com) [edit]
  16. Mobiplug Nabs New CEO and Raises $2.7m (pandodaily.com) [edit]
  17. The Next Web (thenextweb.com) [edit]
  18. Foundry Group Backs Modular Robotics with $3M for Robot Kits (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
  19. Cloudability Raises $8.7 Million From Foundry Group For Service To Track Cloud Spending (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  20. FullContact Announces $7 Million Series B Financing Round Led By Foundry Group (fullcontact.com) [edit]
  21. Jirafe Grabs $7M From Foundry, FirstMark To Bring Better Analytics To eCommerce (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. Pantheon nabs $5M from Foundry, others for smarter Drupal site development (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  23. Yesware’s Email Platform For Salespeople Raises $4 Million From IDG, Google Ventures, Foundry Group & Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  24. Datahero Wants To Democratize Data Visualization And Analysis, Raises $1M Round Led By Foundry Group (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  25. All Systems Are Go for Orbotix – New Financing Round Closed (gosphero.com) [edit]
  26. TechStars alum Mocavo grabs $4M to help you find your ancestors (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  27. SEOmoz Memenounces $18 Million in Series B Funding (freshnews.com) [edit]
  28. Singly Receives $7M Investment (allthingsd.com) [edit]
  29. Gamification Platform BigDoor Raises $5 Million From Foundry Group (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  30. Attachments.me Closes $2M Series A Investment from Foundry Group (finsmes.com) [edit]
  31. Comcast Ventures Leads $11 Million Investment in Integrate (in.finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
  32. Fitness Tracker Fitbit Raises $12M To Market New Wi-Fi Enabled Smart Scale, Aria (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  33. Bessemer Leads $21M Round In Cloud-Based Email Delivery And Management Service SendGrid (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  34. Google Ventures And Foundry Group Put $9M In Crowdsourced Search Advertising Marketplace Trada (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  35. Another Data Play: The Next Big Sound Raises $6.5 Million From IA Ventures And Foundry (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  36. Boulder startup Skedul.me raises nearly $1.5M (dailycamera.com) [edit]
  37. awe.sm Raises $4m in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  38. Standing Cloud Raises $3M (finsmes.com) [edit]
  39. GigaOm (gigaom.com) [edit]
  40. From Graffiti Lessons To Olympic Luging: SideTour Raises $1.5 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  41. Google Ventures, Foundry Group Put $1M In Yesware, Email Tracking And Productivity Platform For Salespeople (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  42. Startup Incubator TechStars Raises $24M, Increases Funding For Each Company By $100K (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  43. MakerBot Takes $10 Million In Funding From Foundry Group, Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  44. Crowdtap Raises $7 Million To Help Brands Connect With Their Influential Customers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  45. Foundry Group Leads New Round In Oblong Industries To Push Computing Into “The Minority Report” Age [edit]
  46. Cloud Database Provider MongoLab Raises $3 Million From Foundry, Baseline, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  47. nline Search, Advertising Company Lijit Networks Lands $10 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  48. Openspace Receives Seed Investment from Foundry Group (finsmes.com) [edit]
  49. Orbotix Scores $5 Million. Because You All Want Smartphone-Controlled Robotic Balls (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  50. Spanning Apps Raises $2M As Rival To Backupify For Google Apps (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  51. Foundry Group Puts $500,000 Into Attachments.me (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  52. I Can Has Funding: Cheezburger Raises $30M For LOLcats, FAIL Blog And Other Memes (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  53. mashable.com [edit]
  54. Integrate Closes $4.25M Series A Round of Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  55. Great investors make the world of difference (authentic8.com) [edit]
  56. Standing Cloud Raises $3 Million, Fends Off Font Snobs With New Logo (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  57. Gnip Collects $2M After Turnaround (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
  58. Urban Airship Closes $5.4 Million Funding Round To Help Power Mobile Apps (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  59. StockTwits Grabs $4 Million More In Inside Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  60. Fitness Tracker Fitbit Gains Another $8 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  61. Medialets adds $6m, new investors to grow mobile rich media (medialets.com) [edit]
  62. AdMeld Raises $15 Million Round; Time Warner Among New Backers (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  63. Gist Gets $4 Million and the Catalyst is the Cloud (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
  64. Trada Raises $5.75M From Google Ventures To Crowdsource Search Engine Marketing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  65. Triggit Raises $4.2 Million For Its Demand Side Ad Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  66. Lijit Gets $6M More (techrockies.com) [edit]
  67. BigDoor Inc. Secures $5 Million in Venture Financing (bigdoor.com) [edit]
  68. Citation Needed [add]
  69. SimpleGeo Digs Up Another $8 Million And A Group Of Former Digg Employees (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  70. chubbybrain.com [edit]
  71. SendGrid Raises $5 Million, Sends A Bajillion E-mails (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  72. EDGAR [edit]
  73. Citation Needed [add]
  74. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
  75. Cloud Engines floats on $3M for rich media sharing (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  76. TechCrunch Staff [edit]
  77. techcrunch.com [edit]
  78. paidContent (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  79. EmSense Raises $9 Million Series C Round of Financing Technology Partners Leads Investment (emsense.com) [edit]
  80. Organic Motion captures $7.4 M for motion-sensing tech (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  81. Citation Needed [add]
  82. Smith & Tinker Secures $29 Million in Venture Funding (pr-inside.com) [edit]
  83. Ad Optimizer AdMeld Raises $8 Million, Opens UK Operations (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  84. Foundry Group (foundrygroup.com) [edit]
  85. Medialets Raises $4m Series A Financing (medialets.com) [edit]
  86. How Foundry Group Got the Gist of T.A. McCann’s Startup: Anatomy of a Software Deal (xconomy.com) [edit]
  87. Citation Needed [add]
  88. Industry Moves: AdMeld Taps Former FIM Exec Barrett As CEO, Secures New Funding (admeld.com) [edit]
  89. techcrunch.com [edit]
  90. Blog Searcher Lijit Gets $7.1 Million Third Round; Plans Ad Net (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  91. techcrunch.com []
  92. Topspin Media Gets Second Round For Online Music Marketing (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  93. techcrunch.com [edit]
  94. finance.fortune.cnn.com []
  95. Prime Newswire (primenewswire.com) [edit]
  96. dmwmedia.com []
  97. EDGAR [edit]
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