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Simple Energy partners with Xcel Energy to offer discounted smart thermostats
Xcel Energy and Boulder-based Simple Energy are offering customers rebates for buying smart-thermostats. If you’re interested, you can go here and buy one of six programmable thermostats and receive $50 off, plus free shipping. [Xcel Energy, Simple Energy offer smart thermostats and rebates online, Denver Business Journal]
Find My Audience raises another $1.2M
The Boulder-based company Find My Audience announced they had raised $1.2 million in new funding from a single investor. The company's platform will provide insights to writers looking to find and connect with new readers. This round of funding brings the company’s total to $2.2 million. [Software startup Find My Audience raises $1.2M in new funding, Biz West]
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Tolls have begun on the U.S. 36 express lanes
If you drive U.S. 36 regularly, you probably already know; the express lanes are no longer free. The price to use the lanes is based on the time of day, and can reach $6.70. Looks like the commute to/from Boulder and Denver just got a little worse. [Tolls begin Wednesday on new U.S. 36 express lanes: What you need to know, Daily Camera]
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Zayo Group to help EAGLE-Net Alliance
Boulder-based Zayo Group has agreed to take an oversight and supporting role of the quasi-governmental agency EAGLE-Net Alliance. The agency was formed with federal bailout money to provide broadband Internet to underserved communities. So far, however, the agency has spent about 96% of its grant money and completed just half of the work. [Boulder-based Zayo takes over troubled EAGLE-Net broadband program, Denver Post]
Welltok to integrate Healthy Dining restaurant nutrition data into CafeWell app
Welltok announced they would be integrating Healthy Dining’s restaurant nutrition data into their CafeWell Concierge app. The app will now recommend healthy meal options based on a person’s dietary restrictions. [Healthy Dining and Welltok Partnership Bring Cognitive Computing Technology to Healthy Eating in Restaurants, Press Release]
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Colorado Springs Startups Raised $6.83M in the Second Quarter of 2015
Two Colorado Springs startups hauled in a combined $6.83 million. Pathar Inc, makers of software that finds social media influencers on specific topics, received $6.58 million. BurstIQ Analytics, who helps companies move to cloud computing, pulled in $250 thousand. [Two Colorado Springs startups land biggest venture funding haul since 2012, The Gazette]
