FORT COLLINS -- Innosphere is working with the nation of Israel to create the Israel-Colorado Innovation Fund, a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at transforming innovative Israeli startups into global leaders in the water, energy, transportation and IoT spaces. The initiative has been in the works since last fall as Colorado and Israeli [...]
A week of creative thinking, planning, lightbulb ideas and revisions on old ones; This is what Fort Collins Startup week is made of. This year hundreds of entrepreneurs gathered together in various venues throughout Fort Collins to network with those new and old to the startup business at the Fort [...]
Jemez Technology Also Awarded “Technology Innovation Partner of the Year” for Unprecedented Second Year by Axis Communications Jemez Technology’s Eagle-i Edge® advanced video analytics solution for real-time threat detection and tracking has been deployed as an integral part of the security technology selected by The City of Houston Office of Public [...]
Innosphere, Colorado’s leading technology incubator with headquarters in Fort Collins and an office in Denver, has announced a merger that will take place with the Boulder-based Innovation Center of the Rockies (ICR), where ICR will become part of Innosphere’s 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Innosphere’s Board of Directors approved the merger on [...]
The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) released the winners of this rounds Advanced Industries grant cycle this week. Six out of the twenty-three recipients are clients of the Fort Collins-based technology incubator, Innosphere. Innosphere current and recent graduate clients Eximis Surgical, SiILion, PetroDE, VAIREX, and VisibleHand, [...]
The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) released the winners of this rounds Advanced Industries grant cycle last week. One of the winners was VAIREX air systems (https://vairex.com/), a boulder-based startup that develops blowers for fuel cells. The company received a $100,000 award to continue developing of [...]
Written by: Alan Curtis Valuing a startup for exit can be difficult for the founding team, investors, and potential acquirers. Traditional valuation methodologies like discounted cash flow can come up short and other value drivers like market timing, buyer interest, and the startup founding team’s price expectation tend to drive M&A [...]
By: Alan Curtis & Belle Raab Last week we posted a blog introducing the concept of Early Exits. The content was derived from research completed by author and exit strategy thought leader, Basil Peters. Now that you have an understanding of the prevalence of Early Exits, we want to delve [...]
Siemens predicts that by 2050, 70 % of humanity will live in urban centers. As the population of city dwellers increases, so will urban problems such as traffic congestion, pollution, and wasted energy. Coloradans have experienced these issues first hand as the second fastest growing state in the nation. As a [...]
By: Alan Curtis & Belle Raab Traditionally, investors and entrepreneurs believe there is a direct correlation between the amount of capital raised and exit price. Seems reasonable, right? Not so fast. Early Exits Basil Peters was the first to challenge this idea with his 2009 book called Early Exits. The author [...]
