Cloud Elements Acquired, Spekit Raised $12.2M, and More Colorado Tech News

Read up on which companies made new developments last week with fresh funding and other moves. This is the Built In Colorado weekly refresh.

Written by Ashley Bowden
Published on Apr. 05, 2021
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Read up on which companies made new developments last week with fresh funding and other moves. This is the Built In Colorado weekly refresh.

Spekit pulled in $12.2MLooking to help companies increase their employees’ productivity, Spekit is planning to develop a personalized learning experience for its platform that provides tips and training. In addition to investing in its platform, Spekit is also planning to add 50 new employees remotely and at its Denver office. [Built In Colorado]

Cloud Elements was acquired by UiPathBased in Denver, Cloud Elements is an API startup whose platform integrates with over 200 programs. With the new acquisition, NYC-based platform automation company UiPath is able to offer a user interface and API-based automation capabilities in one place. [Built In Colorado]

Colorado Tech Quote of the Week

“Hardware manufacturers will give software their best shot, and it’ll work under a certain set of circumstances. But a lot of these robotics companies are doing something completely different. So once you get the sensor working with a use case that the hardware manufacturer didn’t really think about, now you have to connect all those different sensors, which all have completely different software.” —Tangram Vision co-founder and CEO Brandon Minor

Tangram Vision raised $1.5MWhile people tend to be impressed with how cool robots may look, this company prioritizes how these machines function. This Boulder-based startup does software infrastructure development for robots and drones. It closed on a funding round led by 2048 Ventures that’ll help it launch its SDK product and hire a couple new team members. [Built In Colorado]

CirrusMD secured $20MWorking to speedily connect patients to medical professionals via phone, text or video call, telehealth company CirrusMD closed on a Series C funding round led by Blue Venture Fund. The Denver-based startup plans to invest the new capital in expanding product capabilities and increasing its scalability. [Built In Colorado]

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