Colorado Tech Weekly #347: There Were Once Companies in Colorado called “Galvanize” and “Plexus”
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I was not surprised to hear the news about Galvanize being acquired. They had a change in leadership which lead to consolidation which usually leads to a deal. It’s part of the circle of life of a company.
Now I was surprised to hear of Plexus closing up shop in Louisville because I don’t remember ever hearing about Plexus before. I keep thinking that since I’ve been doing this for 347 weeks in a row that I would know about every tech company in Colorado. That is not the case and that’s kinda awesome.
Have a great week!
Top Colorado Technology News
- Denver-based SendGrid VP tapped for DigitalOcean exec role [BizWest]
- Charges dismissed against Westminster-based Coalfire employees [CoalFire]
- Plexus to close Louisville design center eliminating 104 jobs [BizWest]
- Jefferson County-based Lockheed Martin Space tops strong 2019 with double-digit growth in Q4 [DBJ]
- 2019 Volunteering Report for Colorado’s Greystone Technology [Greystone]
- Westminster’s Maxar wins $142M NASA contract to demonstrate construction robotics in space [DBJ]
- Boulder’s Automox raises $30M [BizWest]
- Another San Francisco tech company, Gusto, is expanding in Denver. This one is banking on small businesses success [DenverPost]
- Following $1.5M raise, Portland startup Cloud Campaign to open Boulder office [ColoradoInno]
- Denver’s Galvanize acquired for $165M [ColoradoInno]
Top Upcoming Events
- 2/5 – Denver Modern Web – Infrastructure as Code: Creating Reusable AWS Projects with CloudFormation [Denver]
- 2/5 – JAMStack Denver – Flutter on the JAMstack w/ Jonah Walker + Publish: Swift SSG w/ Amy Holt [Denver]
- 2/5 – CTA – CTA 101 [Denver]
- 2/5 – Analyze Boulder – Planes, Trains, and Video Games [Boulder]
- 2/5 – WomenWhoCode – Career Returnship [Denver]
- 2/6 – Front Range Front-End – I Can’t See! Low Vision Accessibility & Users [Denver]
- 2/11 – Boulder Java Users Group – Ray Tsang and Matt Raible: Choose Your Own Adventure with JHipster & Kubernetes [Boulder]
- 2/11 – Polkadot Denver – Colorado “Buidl” Week: Substrate Workshop [Denver]
- 2/11 – Develop Happy Hour – February Develop Happy Hour [Denver]
- 2/11 – Colorado Game Developers Association + AR/VR Group – Annual COLORADO AFTER JAM 2020 [ParkMeadows]
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