Startups

Denver-based Optiv, which advises customers on how to prevent, detect and clean up after security breaches, opened a funding round on June 20 and has landed $2 million in new investment.

Companies aiming to help surgeons – and singles – were among 30 up-and-comers claiming a chunk of the $41 million invested in Colorado startups last month.

Co-owner Taylor Romero said the money comes from a Minnesota Techstars accelerator program sponsored by big-box retailer Target.

Rob Sigmon knows his pitch sounds a little cliché. “Everybody wants to be the next Uber,” said Sigmon, the founder of Centennial-based startup iRef, which has just raised $200,000. “But we’re kind of designed around that concept of being an Uber for referees.”

A Colorado Springs startup that rents skis and parkas to out-of-state visitors is looking to raise $1 million, as it adds more summer gear and lets customers use rentals as credit toward buying equipment.

The founders of a Westminster startup have their hearts in the right place. CardioNXT co-founders Jerome Edwards and Dr. Bobby Kurian raised $1.5 million to test a tool they say will let doctors see inside the heart without increasing the cost of surgery. They like to say the heart is like a house, with plumbing… Read more »

Denver-based compliance software startup Convercent has raised $11 million as it prepares to increase its workforce by a third.

Cameron Smith is betting that all those Denver transplants moving into smaller and smaller dwellings will need a separate place to squirrel away those skis and mountain bikes. And snow tires.

This is no child’s play: Two local brothers found a niche making sturdier balloons that float above car lots and apartment rental offices.

A fast-growing Colorado packaging company just sealed a big expansion deal.