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Center for American Entrepreneurship Launches to Advocate on Behalf of Economic Opportunity & New Business Formation

The Center for American Entrepreneurship (CAE) has launched today. The new organization is non-partisan in its make up but clearly is designed to help the little guy by advocating on behalf of entrepreneurship, startup innovation and the plethora of economic benefits created by new business… Read More

Kickstarter Alum Formlabs Raises $35M Durning Series B Funding Round Led by Foundry Group

This week, Kickstarter success Formlabs announced it had secured $35 million during a Series B Funding Round, which was led by Foundry and Autodesk with participation from existing investors such as DFJ Growth, Pitango Venture Capital, and Pascal Cagni. Formlabs’ total investment to date is… Read More

Glowforge Captures $22M From Foundry Group & True Ventures During Series B Investment Round

This week, Glowforge announced it has raised an additional $22 million from Foundry Group and True Venture during its recent Series B investment round. Last year, Glowforge secured $28 million for its highly-anticipated 3D printer through its self-running crowdfunding campaign. The printer debuted to the public for the first time… Read More

6SensorLabs Rebrands to Nima & Captures $9.2M During Series A Funding Round For Consumer Food Technology Expansion

San Francisco startup 6SensorLabs announced on Thursday it has secured $9.2 million during a series funding round as it prepares to expand its consumer food technology products. The round was led by Foundry Group, with participation from Upfront Ventures, SoftTech VC, SK Ventures, Lemnos Labs, Mitch Kapor… Read More

Foundry Group Founder Brad Feld Shares AngelList Syndicate Experience as “Experiment” Ends

Brad Feld, co-founder of VC firm Foundry Group, has taken to his personal blog to talk about his experience in running a syndicate on AngelList. Feld announced earlier this week that they were ending their FG Angels Syndicate experiment. AngelList launched their syndicate option in… Read More

Bluetooth TrackR Raises $8.7M, Foundry Group Leads Round

TrackR, a pioneer of the Bluetooth tracker and digital inventory space, has raised $8.7 million in funding for expansion. Foundry Group led the round with participation from Resolute Ventures and several angel investors. The TrackR team is revolutionizing how people keep track of their personal… Read More

Glowforge Raises $9 Million During Series A Funding Round to Bring 3D Laser Printer to Consumers

Glowforge announced a $9 million Series A funding round to bring their 3D Laser Printer to market this year. The round was led by Foundry Group and True Ventures, with participation from Bre Pettis, cofounder and former CEO of MakerBot, and Jenny Lawton, former CEO… Read More

CircleUp Introduces Investment Funds or “Circles”

As part of the inevitable evolution of investment crowdfunding portals, consumer product platform CircleUP has introduced diversified investment funds giving them the title of “Circles”.  CircleUp was launched two years ago with the objective of creating a “more efficient and personalized market for individual private… Read More

Brad Feld: The 99 Investor Problem

Brad Feld is a venture capitalist with the Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. He invests in software and Internet companies around the United States. The following post was shared with permission. When the JOBS Act was finalized, one of the rule changes that had a lot of… Read More

WATCH: Steven Dresner, Bob Rice Talk Crowdfunding On Bloomberg

Bob Rice is Managing Partner at Tangent Capital Partners and Bloomberg TV’s Alternative Investment Editor. He sat down with Steven Dresner of Dealflow.com to discuss crowdfunding, the JOBS Act and some perhaps unforeseen hangups for equity crowdfunding in the US. Interestingly, Rice and Dresner discuss something… Read More

Kickstarter Alum Occipital’s Structure Sensor Nets Awards From CES, PopSci

On his blog, noted Colorado-based VC Brad Feld shares good news from the Occipital camp: two awards for their “Structure Sensor.” The Structure Sensor is a 3D scanner for the iPad that raised over $1.2 million on Kickstarter. The campaign closed on November 1st of… Read More

FoundryGroup’s AngelList Syndicate To Funnel $2.5M Into Startups

Foundry Group is a VC fund focused on early-stage IT, internet and software startups. The firm has just announced the formation of FG Angels, an AngelList Syndicate that aims to funnel $2.5 million in funding into 50 companies between now and the end of 2014…. Read More

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