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Launching a Startup? You Should Think About Denver.
Here’s our insider’s megathread on all the places to find talent, obtain funding and connect with mentors around the Mile High City.
Jonathan Greechan
Expert Contributor
Co-founder of the Founder Institute, a global pre-seed accelerator that runs programs in more than 200 cities across the world.
February 19, 2021
Expert Contributor
Co-founder of the Founder Institute, a global pre-seed accelerator that runs programs in more than 200 cities across the world.
February 19, 2021
Colorado is naturally primed for entrepreneurs. Not only is our governor, Jared Polis, the co-founder of successful seed accelerator Techstars, but the state’s capital of Denver is fast becoming recognized as a more affordable and greener alternative to Silicon Valley. Companies like Salesforce, Google, Facebook and, soon, Palantir, all have offices there. But it’s not just the big players who have recognized Denver’
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DENVER, Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ The longest actively running angel investment group in the U.S., Rockies Venture Club (RVC), closed 2020 with 25 early-stage company investments. This is on track with the number of financings that RVC has completed annually since 2016, but amid the global pandemic and extreme economic uncertainty, the investment activity is a strong signal that the Colorado-based investor group believes in the potential of entrepreneurs.
Early in the year, many expected startup fundraising to decrease by close to $28 billion globally when compared to the investment activity of 2019, according to Startup Genome. Angel investing and venture capital have historically required face-to-face meetings to build relationships, conduct due diligence, and to ultimately make investments. Entrepreneurs have had to adjust to raising capital in a virtual environment in 2020; this virtual setting was influential in early projections of capital being restricted thi