Foundry Group adds $225M to its venture capital pool

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Foundry Group, the Colorado venture capital firm that’s backed Seattle area upstarts such as Big Door, SEOMoz and Cheezburger as well as Portland-based Cloudability, announced today the closing of their third fund — Foundry Venture Capital 2012 LP. The fund clocks in at $225 million, the same amount that it raised in its previous fund. Foundry Group invests in software and… Read More…

Tech Moves: Mobilisafe adds marketing VP; Theraclone names CEO; BigDoor; etc.

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Sajal Sahay has joined Seattle mobile security upstart Mobilisafe as vice president of marketing with the goal of helping to bring the company’s first products to market. “Device security is one of the key megatrends in the mobile industry, and Mobilisafe is poised to transform the category with a simple yet effective solution that is… Read More…

Rapping VCs: This one goes out to all of you entrepreneurs

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For those of you having a hard time getting back into the startup groove following the holiday weekend, here’s a little lighthearted fare courtesy of the rapping VCs at Foundry Group. This boy band of khaki and multi-colored suit-wearing investors certainly impresses. Led by Foundry’s Brad Feld, Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre and Jason Mendelson, the quartet belts… Read More…

IPOs, startups and market volatility: How do you make sense of what’s going on?

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The wild ups and downs of the stock market this week would be enough to send most sane investors to the medicine cabinet for a strong dose of Pepto-Bismol. But, as the gyrations shake confidence in the markets, I can’t help but think of Impinj. After all, how would you like to be a company… Read More…

GeekWire Podcast: Gamification, Chromebooks, and Microsoft’s Skype deal finally explained

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This week on the GeekWire Podcast we explore the world of gamification with guest Keith Smith, CEO of BigDoor, a Seattle company bringing the principles of video games — badges, rewards, leaderboard, etc. — to the world of online publishing. In our weekly news roundup we dive into the big news of the week, Microsoft’s agreement… Read More…

Amazon.com’s real problem isn’t the outage, it’s the communication

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Guest Commentary: Like many companies running on Amazon’s Web Services, BigDoor has been affected by the AWS outage today.  And like most startups, we are braced for bad stuff to happen, and we do our best to learn from the painful stuff.  We spent a better part of the day in constant contact via Twitter,… Read More…