Five Things to Remember About Angels
Getting angels to invest in a project can be difficult. They’re risk adverse, conscious of market trends and often work in groups. Yet, these are some of the things that make angel investors so...
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Biotech and Healthcare Investing Event 2017
Biotech & Healthcare Investing Event February 13th, 2017 | 5-7:30PM Denver Metro SBDC, 1445 Market Denver, CO 80202 Meet the companies that will be at RVC’s Biotech & Healthcare Investing...
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Can Women be Angel Investors?
Women make up the fastest growing community of angel investors and it’s changing the face of Angel Capital for the better. Angel groups like Rockies Venture Club have been beating national averages for...
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Companies Pitching at RVC’s Edge of Venture Event
Meet the companies that will be at RVC’s Edge of Venture Event This event is available to be livestreamed Milton’s Local is a sustainable meat company that was founded to address the problem of the...
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What Colorado is Doing to Prevent Sexual Harassment in the Startup Community
Sexual harassment, gender based bias (both intentional and unintentional) have been a big part of Silicon Valley culture for years. Women have struggled as startup CEOs to get funded, or as investors,...
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Your Startup Just Cashed its First VC or Angel Check – Now What?
After the first angel or VC funding round closes and the checks are cashed, most startups go through a transformation, like from a caterpillar to a butterfly, that makes them fundamentally different...
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Is Denver the #3 U.S. Location for Micro Venture Capital?
We’ve known for years that Colorado has more startups per capital than anywhere else. Yes – per capita. It’s a great location to start up a company and maybe you’re wondering if there’s a Venture...
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How Angel Experience Can Help Social/Environmental Impact Companies
How Angel Experience Can Help Social/Environmental Impact Companies. The paradox in impact investing is that a large percentage of impact investors are hurting the very companies that they want to...
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Presenting Companies: Colorado Life Science Night 2018
Colorado Life Science Night Tuesday 2/13 | 5-7:30 PM | Polsinelli 1401 Lawrence St. AQ BioMed has developed an aqueous shunt used to prevent blindness due to over-pressurization in the $3B glaucoma...
View ArticleRVC closes 15 funding rounds in 2017
Denver, CO – Rockies Venture Club (RVC), one of the largest and most experienced Angel investing organizations in the country, led and closed 15 funding rounds over the past year. RVC has created a...
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Three Fallacies About Convertible Notes
Convertible debt is commonly used in seed stage transactions, and for anything but friends and family, or a true 90 day or less bridge, I cannot understand why anyone would use these to fund a company,...
View ArticleIndustry Outlook: Materials, The Forefront of Technologies
If you ask an engineer what stands between them and their dream, they’ll probably make a joke about debt. If you throw a pile of cash at an engineer and ask them again, the problem may be solved, or...
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Surfing the Silver Tsunami: How Silvernest is Changing the Housing Market
Hello RVC members, my name is Justin and I am a summer intern for RVC. One of our primary objectives for this summer is to provide an update on RVC portfolio companies for members. This week, I’m...
View ArticleIndustry Outlook: Augmented and Virtual Reality, from Gaming to Enterprise
The holodecks of the Star Trek universe once captivated millions of people’s imaginations. For the unfamiliar, holodecks were rooms that became any setting you wanted, from a dojo to a sprawling valley...
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Bigfoot Capital: 10 Lessons From the Venture Capital Graveyard
We all know a handful of busts in the venture capital world. Whether the lesson to be learned is for the entrepreneur or the investor, every failure is a learning opportunity. Bigfoot wrote an article...
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Announcing RVC Summer Pitchfest 2018!
Last weekend to register!! RVC’s Summer Pitchfest Tuesday Aug. 14th | 5-8:00 PM | Denver SBDC 1445 Market St. Denver, CO 80202 Meet the companies! Register Now Available Via Livestream Ascent360...
View ArticleSowing Disruption: AgTech Industry Outlook
What does sequencing the wheat genome have in common with corn that makes its own nitrogen, geodesic spheres for fish, and figuring out just what in meat makes meat taste meaty? They’re all...
View ArticleAgTech: Seeds Today for Food Tomorrow
According to the U.N. and the World Bank, the world population is set to reach just shy of 10 billion people by 2050. While a lot of focus has been put on the urban housing crunch that will create, as...
View ArticleWhat’s That in the Sky? – Drone Industry Outlook
Inspiring both controversy and the imagination, like many innovation before them, drones were built first by the military, for the military. Interestingly, the technology that enables drones, and...
View ArticleMile High Economy – Colorado Innovation Outlook
With the Colorado Capital Conference right around the corner, we had Ethan put together an outlook on Colorado alone. The Give First ecosystem is rapidly advancing on the global scale for startups,...
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