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It's been a crazy couple of years for startup funding in Colorado — especially for a couple companies. Zayo Group and Xero both hauled in tons of cash, but other companies also did really well. See below for our list of the 11 largest fundings from Jan. 1, 2010 through May 27, 2015. The list is based on our records and includes only digital tech companies located in Colorado.
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11. Datalogix, $45 million, May 28, 2014
Investors: Wellington Management Company, IVP and Breyer Capital
Bio: "As a company, we made it our mission to leverage the power of purchase-based audience targeting to drive measurable online and offline sales. As a result, we’re able to bring real targeting and accountability into the digital space like never before."
News: Just before Christmas in 2014, Oracle announced it was acquiring Datalogix.
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10. Xero, $49 million, November 30, 2012
Investors: Matrix Capital Management and Valar Ventures
Bio: Xero is the emerging leader in online accounting software, providing business owners with real-time visibility of their financial position in a way that’s simple, smart and secure.
News: A couple of months ago Xero and Shopify partnered up, giving tons of vendors access to Xero’s accounting software.
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9. Craftsy, $50 million, November 13, 2014
Investors: Led by Stripes Group, Foundry Group, Tiger Global, Adams Street Partners, Access Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank participated.
Bio: Craftsy is the fastest-growing online crafting community on the web. Browse online classes, patterns from indie designers, deals and more.
News: Late last year, in addition to announcing that massive funding, Craftsy went mobile.
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8. Alteryx, $60 million, October 10, 2014
Investors: Insight Venture Partners
Bio: Alteryx is the leader in data blending and advanced analytics software.
News: Alteryx has been hiring gaming programmers to produce and develop its software and make it more usable.
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7. ViaWest, $65 million, April 3, 2012
Investors: Solar Capital Ltd., Solar Capital Partners and Barclays Private Credit Partners.
Bio: ViaWest provides colocation, hosting, cloud computing, and managed services to businesses nationwide.
News: ViaWest was sold in 2014 for $1.2 billion to a Canadian telecommunications company called Shaw Communications.
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6. Solidfire, $68 million, July 25, 2013
Investors: Samsung Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Valhalla Partners.
Bio: SolidFire is a cutting edge data-storage company that is revolutionizing the way the world uses the cloud. We live in the largest data centers in the world.
News: SolidFire shook up the storage scene by offering an unlimited solid-state drive wear guarantee.
5. Solidfire, $82 million, October 6, 2014
Investors: Greenspring Mills of Maryland and an undisclosed sovereign wealth fund led the round. NEA, Novak Biddle, Samsung Ventures and Valhalla Partners participated.
4. Xero, $111 million, March 12, 2015
Investors: Accell Partners and Matrix Capital
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3. Zayo Group, $128 million, March 1, 2015
Investors: Charles Bank and Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners.
Bio: Zayo helps the world run on bandwidth. When you're watching YouTube, streaming a live broadcast, or posting on social media, you might be using our network—without even knowing it.
News: Zayo Group and Hibernia Networks have teamed up to provide Zayo customers with a fast transatlantic network.
2. Xero, $150 million, October 14, 2014
Investors: Matrix Capital Management, Valar Ventures and others.
1. Zayo Group, $472 million, July 1, 2012
Investors: GTCR
