Lijit, the search widget for blogs, and Me.dium, a friend activity tracker, both closed rounds of funding this week. Lijit and Me.dium are both based in Colorado, home of Brad Feld, and up and coming startup hub. Brad was the seed backer of both companies.
Lijit raised $3.3M from Boulder Ventures. I have written about Lijit and use it for search on my blog. See this post for more details about Lijit and widgets in general.
Me.dium raised $15M, led by Elliot Katzman at Commonwealth Venture Capital. Me.dium is a funky new tool to track "attention", where your friends are congregating, and other similar web pages your friends are viewing. It is available on Flock and Firefox, and they are working on the Microsoft Explorer release now.
Disclosure: Both Brad Feld and Elliot Katzman are my personal friends.
The second week of July I will be visiting with Lijit, Me.dium, Newmerix, Electric Rain, Newsgator, and the TechStars group, all based in Colorado. TechStars is an entrepreneur boot camp and mentoring group started by Brad Feld, David Cohen, Jared Polis, and David Brown.
Colorado is an emerging center for tech startups. There are a surprising number of VCs located in Colorado and many excellent universities. I am looking forward to my trip to Boulder and Denver. I will file a report here after my visit.
