Rowdy Mermaid Kombucha raised another $3.5M. It offers 100 percent recyclable cans of kombucha. KarpReilly led the round, which brought the Series A total raised to $7 million. [Built In Colorado]
Curu gained $3M. The startup helps people improve their credit score. Vestigo Ventures led the seed funding round. [Built In Colorado]
Boomtown held virtual demo day. Barbara Corcoran hosted the startup accelerator’s event. It featured videos from the founders pitching their firms to investors and receiving feedback from the judges. [ColoradoDaily]
Four Denver companies won Air Force innovation funding contracts. Greetly, Invictus Health, The Fluency Score and Link to Learn all received SBIR contracts. The contracts total a quarter of a million dollars in non-dilutive funding. [PRWeb]
Palantir may leave California. The software company specializes in big data analytics. CEO Alex Karp blames the “increasing intolerance and monoculture” of Silicon Valley and named Colorado as an example of where it might go instead. [Axios]
