July was not a huge month for Colorado tech fundings, and almost all of the fundings we did see were in the second half of the month. That said, as the second half of July started to heat up, so did the pace in new fundings, and some really exciting companies ended up getting funded. Check out Colorado’s 5 biggest fundings of July 2015.
Stryd, $300 thousand, July 8
Investors: Unkown, but you can find the SEC filing here.
Bio: Stryd is a Techstars-backed startup bringing power-based training to the world's half billion runners. Stryd makes it possible for runners to train at the right intensity and run more efficiently.
News: In March Stryd launched a Kickstarter that surpassed its goal in less than four hours and ended up doubling it by the end of the first day.
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Find My Audience, $1.2 million, July 16
Investors: The funding came from a single, unnamed investor, and you can find their SEC filing here.
Bio: Find My Audience’s software gives the creative community (writers, artists, musicians, craft workers, et al.) the power to locate, engage with and advertise to targeted individuals who are predisposed to like their work via social media and online channels.
News: Find My Audience hasn’t actually launched yet, but they are reportedly getting set to launch both their publisher and author platforms by the end of the year.
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Self Lender, $1.5 million, July 10
Investors: Silverton Partners
Bio: 1 in 4 American adults do not have a credit score. These 70 million Americans are classified with "subprime credit scores" purely because they lack sufficient payment history data on their credit report. Self Lender helps consumers build credit, save money, and gain access to affordable, financial products.
News: Since last September Self Lender partnered with Austin Capital Bank, allowing the company to send credit data to all three major credit scoring firms.
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SlamData, $3.6 million, July 24
Investors: True Ventures, Access Venture Partners, Flywheel Ventures, LaunchCapital, PV Ventures, Series Provider Capital, and Seven Peaks Ventures.
Bio: SlamData, Inc., was formed in early 2014 as the commercial developer of the SlamData open source project. The initial release provides native SQL based ad hoc analytics for MongoDB. SlamData allows for unrestricted ad hoc queries on data stored in MongoDB.
News: Besides being named one of Colorado’s 50 Startups to Watch in 2015, the company announced recently that they had seen over 300% growth in users of their platform.
Occipital, $13 million, July 29
Investors: Intel Capital, Shea Ventures, Grishin Robotics and the Foundry Group.
Bio: Occipital develops state-of-the-art mobile computer vision applications with natural user interfaces. Located in downtown Boulder, Occipital is venture-funded, was backed by Techstars in 2008, and is also known for developing RedLaser, a barcode-scanning application that was acquired by eBay Inc.
News: Occipital launched its Structure Sensor for the iPad in 2013 and has been pretty quiet since. The company says the new influx of cash will allow them to speed up and advance their structure platform.
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