Spanning Cloud Apps Raises $2 Million Series A Round of Venture Funding From Foundry Group
Spanning Cloud Apps, the makers of Spanning Backup for Google Apps, today announced that the company has secured $2 million of funding from Foundry Group, a Boulder-based venture capital firm. Launched in September 2010 and spun out of Spanning Sync, Inc., Spanning Cloud Apps will apply the resources to continue to build on the company’s [...]
Got Google (Ventures)?
Today we welcome Google Ventures to the Trada family. Can I just say for one second, “Woot!” For those of you who have not read the news today, we announced that Trada closed a $5.75M Series C round of financing lead by Google Ventures and participated in by our other existing (and awesome) friends at [...]
Product Launch Versus Market Launch
The blog post on staying in stealth is generating debate and a great conversation about playing your own game. Harry DeMott asks Stealth Mode Redux: Are you building a moat? and Brad Feld (@bfeld) wrote New Thoughts on Stealth Mode (Foundry Group is an investor in Trada.) When the blog post was first posted, Eric [...]
The Venture Singularity
At a somewhat recent dinner with Brad Feld (@bfeld) and some other great Boulder tech entrepreneurs we got into a discussion about Ray Kurzweil’s book on the Singularity. A heated debate ensued whether his theory about the convergence of technological computing capacity, and our ability to understand (and thus integrate computing into) the brain was [...]
