One of our portfolio companies, Organic Motion is hiring.  They are a really exciting company right in the middle of our Human Computer Interaction Theme.  In the company's own words: "Organic Motion is a global leader in the development of breakthrough markerless motion capture and analysis technologies. Our software products utilize state-of-the-art computer vision techniques and high performance graphics...Continue reading

Today, Foundry Group portfolio company Memeo announced the newest product in their suite of applications: Memeo Connect for Google Apps, which leverages new functionality announced by Google: the ability to upload all file types to Google Docs' cloud-based storage. In addition to providing the ability to upload arbitrary file types to Google Docs, the Official Google Enterprise Blog also announced...Continue reading

Today StockTwits announced (release here) that it had raised a $3m Series B financing led by Foundry Group and returning investor True Ventures. For us, StockTwits represents a unique opportunity to leverage the increasingly active conversation taking place on (and off) the Twitter platform around stocks and markets.  We've witnessed in other investments the power of 3rd party networks...Continue reading

As we previously reported, we've recently invested in a computer vision company called Organic Motion. This is another one of our Human Computer Interaction investments.  To give you an idea of one of the markets they are targeting, check out the these marketing materials designed for the defense industry. In it, you can see some specific use cases that the...Continue reading

Our company Oblong was recently the subject of the new Bloomberg Series, Innovators.  If you want to see 30 minutes of great TV about innovation and entrepreneurship focused around our portfolio company, it's a great watch.  They are in episode "Turning Point."  We are really excited about our partnership with Oblong and all that they've accomplished, so we are proud...Continue reading

Brad and I were lucky enough to see the Bilski argument at the Supreme Court.  We were both beyond impressed and each wrote about our experience.  Jason's recap is here.  You can find Brad's summary here.  We are hopeful that as a result of this case, business method patents will be forever dead and gone.  Given the tenor...Continue reading

We are pleased to announce our investment in Organic Motion, Inc. The company is based in New York City and is a leading innovator of computer vision and advanced motion capture systems. Organic Motion's core computer vision technology dramatically increases a computer's ability to see and understand the motion of humans and other living organisms. The company offers groundbreaking turnkey...Continue reading

Last week we hosted what we called the "Foundry Group Digital Life Summit" here in Boulder, Colorado. While we are no strangers to helping host conferences such as Defrag and Glue, this was a much more intimate event that we arranged ourselves. The genesis of the idea was to get our three portfolio companies in our Digital Life Theme...Continue reading