Supporting Organizations


	Dorsey & Whitney Dorsey is a business law firm, applying a business perspective to clients' needs. We make it our first priority to know the context in which you do business - your market, your competitors, your industry. Because we understand your business, you can rely on Dorsey for legal solutions that fit your unique circumstances. Leading companies think globally, and we understand the challenges and opportunities of the global marketplace. To compete around the world, businesses must enter new markets, establish joint ventures overseas, and navigate international law. With offices on four continents, Dorsey offers access to native legal experience virtually anywhere in the world. We've earned our clients' trust because we understand that client service is a core value. In fact, our partnership began in 1912 to meet the specific needs of a prominent Minneapolis business. Quite literally, Dorsey exists to serve its clients. Companies turn to us because we understand how to manage even the most complicated legal matters. Our deep experience, supported by a formidable corporate infrastructure, allows us to resolve our clients' toughest projects: massive mergers, sophisticated contracts, complex litigation and more.
	Foundry Group Foundry Group is a venture capital firm focused on making investments in early-stage information technology, Internet and software startups. Our passion is working alongside entrepreneurs to give birth to new technologies and to build those technologies into industry-leading companies. We’re centrally located in Boulder, CO, but we invest in companies across North America.
	ViaWest ViaWest has established an excellent reputation for delivering proven solutions and for providing tremendous value to our clients by becoming their trusted advisor. With a customer satisfaction rating of 95 percent, it's not surprising that the average customer has been with ViaWest for over four years and a good portion of our revenues come from current customers. Our strong revenue and profitability growth are a testament to the company's overwhelming commitment to deliver a unique combination of first-class colocation and managed services to companies looking to focus primarily on their core business. This continued success has also seen ViaWest grow to become the largest privately-held colocation provider in North America.
	Ideas and Plans Ideas and Plans has experience working in several specific service areas. Our partners generally lead project teams, and both individually deliver project work as well as manage a team of additional consultants and affiliates who will be subject matter experts, or bring specific functional skills. We can also work as an integrated part of your internal team, filling any gaps left by time constraints, needed experience, or recruiting difficulties.
	Next Great Place Founded and launched in 2011 by a proven team of luxury travel entrepreneurs, Next Great Place is revolutionizing the way families and friends orchestrate remarkable vacations.
	Centennial Ventures Centennial Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in network companies and related enabling software and technology enterprises, with the potential to be market leaders. Our investment focus is on early and later-stage opportunities. Centennial Ventures VII, a $341 million partnership, is our most recent fund being invested.
	Orbotix When technologies combine in new, exciting ways, amazing things can happen. At Orbotix our goal is to continue to blend the real and virtual worlds to expand the boundaries of what we expect from technolgy. With our smart robots and innovative software we’re exploring and defining mixed-reality gaming—the next evolution of entertainment.
	Tendril Tendril is the Energy Platform company, delivering end-to-end consumer engagement products, applications and services powered by Tendril Connect™—an open, secure and scalable platform that takes the complexity out of the Energy Internet and creates a dialogue between energy service providers and their customers. With easy to integrate solutions such as Demand Response andEnergy Efficiency, Tendril offers unparalleled insight into energy decisions allowing providers to balance demand, mitigate peaks in real time and minimize operational costs. Consumers are consistently engaged using proven behavioral science models, allowing energy service providers to deploy energy programs while giving their customers the ability to manage their energy usage and costs. Tendril gives energy service providers and their customers the power to solve today’s energy challenges together.
	Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association The Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association represents the interests of venture capitalists and venture capital-backed companies in our region. It is the mission of the RMVCA to be a leading venture capital association with the strategic intent of making our region one of the top markets for venture activity. There are more than 180 venture capital professionals from 43 firms actively engaged in investing in the region. These firms represent more than $6.3billion in capital in aggregate.