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Techstars Moved Its Headquarters Out of Boulder in 2024. Boulder Raised $1.7 Billion in Venture Capital the Same Year Anyway.
Techstars, the accelerator that put Boulder on the startup map, moved its headquarters to New York and shut down its Boulder programs in 2024. Boulder raised $1.7 billion in venture capital that same year anyway -- the ecosystem Techstars built didn't leave when the company did.
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IBM Anchored Research Triangle Park for 60 Years. It's Packing Up the Same Year the Region Pulled In $10.8 Billion.
Research Triangle Park opened in 1959 as a deliberate state bet on three nearby universities. IBM anchored it for sixty years as its larg...
A Company Founded in Bozeman, Montana Sold to Oracle for $1.5 Billion in 2011. Montana's Tech Sector Now Pays 2.4 Times the State's Average Wage.
RightNow Technologies, founded in Bozeman, Montana in 1997, sold to Oracle in 2011 for roughly $1.5 billion. That exit wasn't a one-off -...
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