David Cohen

Colorado Startups, LLC invests in Colorado-based early stage startups in the software and web application space. The following companies are currently in the portfolio. Note that most, but not all of these investments are companies which are located in Colorado.

Filtrbox significantly eases the pain and reduces the complexity of tracking mainstream news, blogs and other online content sources by providing an easy-to-use, affordable yet sophisticated productivity tool. Filtrbox addresses the shortcomings in current search mechanisms, keyword alerts and RSS feed subscriptions.

medioh! is leveling the playing field of the IPTV and emerging broadband video industry by creating the most comprehensive video search engine available powered by RSS video aggregation. Built to be integrated with existing solutions, the medioh! API allows developers to manipulate our database of aggregated video feeds and create their own customized customer-facing applications.

Oblong Industries, Inc. is the developer of g-speak, the world’s first gestural operating environment. Its next-generation interface technologies, toolkits, and APIs make possible a new sophistication in human/machine dialogue—one critical for tomorrow’s real time and data-massive work.

RouteSmith is professional route optimization and dispatch software that’s easy to use, affordable and designed to improve the profitability of your business. RouteSmith helps customers to control fuel costs, increase throughput and improve customer satisfaction.

Solidware Technologies delivers solutions for improving software quality, focusing development and testing teams on failure-prone code. Solidware has developed a software project auditing platform, SWaudit, which enables improved quality and predictability while saving time and cost.

SonicSwap helps users find all the music they wish they had, and has become the fastest growing collection of playlists available on the internet. SonicSwap focuses on helping you to discover new music, not just new artists.

Colorado Startups, LLC is also an investor in TechStars, and is thereby a small investor in each of those companies.

Historically, the fund held investments in the following companies.

ClickCaster.com was acquired in 2008 by NeXplore Corporation (NXPC).

Hypersites Corporation was sold to a private investor in 2007.

Colorado Startups, LLC also has a Kiva portfolio of microloans. It’s easy to help at Kiva.org.