The Boise Angel Alliance (BAA), an organization intended to help fund early-stage startups in Idaho, has retooled its investment fund to support larger projects. The BAA Board went through a process of strategic reassessment, beginning with a strengths/weaknesses/opportunities/threats analysis, said ...

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Retrolux Inc., a Boise-based software company, has received $100,000 in funding from the Gem State Angel Fund, a $1.3 million fund intended to help Idaho’s startup economy. The company has now raised about $370,000, said Leif Elgethun, CEO. “We have ...

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Rigorous research has shown that companies five years and younger are responsible for the vast majority of job creation in our country. The Kaufman Foundation released a new study on this topic in September. Simply put, if you want to ...

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Technology startup BasedIn has received $125,000 from angel investors, including two Boise-area angel funds, to develop and scale an online platform that ranks local businesses based on data from Yelp, Facebook, the Better Business Bureau and other websites. BasedIn is ...

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In its first year, Boise’s $1.1 million Capital City Angel Fund has invested $350,000 in seven different companies, five of them with Treasure Valley connections. The angel investing fund recently announced three more investments, in divorce mediation technology company WeVorce, ...

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