Prior to co-founding CirrusMD, Blake McKinney MD was an emergency physician who often helped his friends and family answer general medical questions. After an experience helping his sister with a sick baby over text and FaceTime, he realized there was a huge opportunity to connect doctors and patients by using smart devices...
Read MoreThe Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network in Colorado (BEN Colorado) is pleased to announce that CBRE’s Denver office will participate as a Cornerstone Partner in the program's new sustainability campaign, launched in July. As part of the partnership, Senior Vice President Alex Hammerstein who leads CBRE’s Tech & Media Practice in Denver will work closely with BEN Colorado to support the continued growth of entrepreneurial businesses in Colorado.
Read MoreSince 2004, Trueffect has said that brands should be at the center of the customer relationship—not agencies or walled gardens, like Facebook or Google. Trueffect’s 1st Party Universal ID puts enterprise brands back in the driver's seat to gain 100% ownership of their customer data and build 1:1 engagement across their entire marketing operation.
Read MoreLed by CEO David Brunel, Biodesix has pioneered tests that require only a simple blood draw to deliver results within 72 hours. The company’s genomic and multivariate protein diagnostic tests, GeneStrat™ and VeriStrat ®, let physicians make faster and more personalized treatment decisions and provide more accurate prognoses for their patients.
Read MorePlayerLync, nestled in Englewood, Colorado is helping companies adopt mobile devices to share content and collaborate in innovative new ways. Their platform offers a highly flexible and easy to use mobile content management (MCM) engine and user application which eliminates the challenges of accessing current content in low bandwidth or offline scenarios.
Read MoreThere’s an unassuming factory in Longmont, Colorado, on the eastern edge of Boulder County. It might look ordinary from the outside, but there are miracles happening within.
Read MoreInnovation begins with revolutionary design and inventive ideas that modernize an outdated concept. Tony Wilbert and Rod Buscher founded Blinker to revolutionize the used car buying and selling industry. An industry which happens to be much larger than the new car buying and selling counterpart.
Read MoreTeatulia, led by founder and CEO Linda Lipsius, is poised to become one of the biggest tea distributors in the country. Tea is an unceasingly expanding industry, which grows by increasingly larger margins every year.
Read MoreUniversity Parent provides connections, support & information for high school & college parents. Through the platform, parents can find important resources such as: upcoming university events, guidance on supporting their student, details on graduation requirements, as well as off-campus and local resources like nearby hotels for campus visits, banks and safe student apartments.
Read MoreSchoolrunner presents an immediate solution to a problem that deters nearly every school and all teachers. When student data is spread out across various platforms it becomes difficult to use and manage. Schoolrunner’s system consolidates every relevant piece of data, regarding Academics, grades, behavior, attendance, communications, interventions, significant incidents or suspensions, business Intelligence, and reports into one system.
Read MoreSimple Energy is creating a more sustainable future. By implementing energy saving software that provides users with a rewarding experience to change their behavior around using energy and to make energy-saving decisions, Simple Energy the forefront of the changing energy industry.
Read MoreThe Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network in Colorado (“BEN Colorado”) today announced it has appointed veteran Colorado entrepreneur Greg Greenwood as its Executive Director, starting in the new year. In this leadership role, Greenwood will oversee all operations of BEN Colorado, which in less than two years has brought together more than 50 companies, nearly 200 advisors, and dozens of partners in a collaborative effort to support the scale up ecosystem in Colorado.
Read MoreCloud Elements solves a problem that plagues nearly every app developer – integration. With this company’s revolutionary app integration software, developers are relieved from worrying about the constant struggle managing the integration of Application Program Interfaces.
Read MoreScott Tibbitts is the CEO and Founder of Katasi, the startup company profiled in a recent New York Times article and Katie Couric feature segment Tibbitts has been a BEN Advisor since the inception of the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network in Colorado in 2014. Tibbitts’ involvement with BEN demonstrates the power of the Network and the rapid scale-up growth that startups experience when a well-connected and dense entrepreneurial network is leveraged.
Read MoreBlue Canyon Technologies, a small company that produces high quality Nano spacecraft systems and components, partnered with The Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network to sustain an impressive growth over the last year. BCT specializes in the development of precision star trackers, reaction wheels, attitude control systems, power systems, and complete small spacecraft.
Read MoreColorado companies that are looking to hire and keep talented staff, millennials could be the answer. The best part is this next generation of workers will cost less than you would think. We hear again and again that one major advantage work in Colorado offers the new generation of workers is work-life balance, and the active lifestyle of the Front Range, but those may not be the most important decision factors (Read more).
Read MoreA huge shout-out to BEN companies and entrepreneurs who have recently been selected as Colorado Companies to Watch and as Finalists for this region’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards: (Galvanize, Mobile Accord, Silvergate Pharmaceuticals, and Simple Energy)
Read MoreCEOs of rapidly-scaling, later-stage firms talk about culture in a different way than their peers at younger firms.
Eric Roza, CEO of Datalogix (and now Group VP at Oracle after the successful $1.25 billion sale earlier this year (More about the sale to Oracle), expresses the difference well in the interview we did with him last month.
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