Entrepreneurs / Small Business  September 23, 2014

Eight new startups join Innosphere in Denver

Rocky Mountain Innosphere on Tuesday announced a new group of eight companies that will begin working with the incubator on Friday, the first Innosphere group that will be based at its new Denver location.

Four Denver startups, three from Boulder and one from Fort Collins compose the group.

Five of those companies are in the digital health realm, focusing on technologies that bring smart devices and medical devices together. Digital Health will be a major focus area of Innosphere’s Denver site.

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Innosphere is a non-profit organization that works with startups for up to two years, helping them with things like launching their companies, crafting business models, building teams and raising capital.

Fort Collins-based Innosphere operates out of three locations in Fort Collins as well as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden. The incubator opened its Denver location in June in the new Industry Denver development, which focuses on housing technology companies of various sizes.

Innosphere chief executive Mike Freeman said the eight new companies will be part of the same group for the first several weeks as they work toward launching, but the digital health companies will be split off sometime later this fall. Innosphere is partnering on the push to help digital health companies with PrIME Health Collaborative, an economic development-type group focused on growing the digital health industry in Colorado.

“There was an area within the entrepreneurial community that needed support,” Freeman said.

He said eventually Innosphere will work with clean tech, medical device and more enterprise software companies at the Denver location. But the core focus will be on digital health.

Innosphere is working with 37 startups at various stages, including the new group, which Freeman said is about the non-profit’s capacity. He said there are no other plans to expand beyond the Denver site in the near term.

“That was really a big decision for our board and our team,” Freeman said of the Denver expansion. “We’re going to work to get the Denver program up and running around digital health, and that’s going to be the focus.”

The eight companies that are members of the new Innosphere cohort include:

Cardiac Technologies International Inc., a Denver-based firm that is developing a cardiac monitoring device to detect arrhythmias and other physiologic data.

Corvectra Inc., a Denver company that has created a hand-held biosensing platform that will enable health-care professionals to non-invasively diagnose and treat patients with a single point of care device.

Incendant, a Denver startup that facilitates engagement between patients and clinicians to help drive better outcomes using automation, email, text and apps.

Motus Health Technologies, a Denver company that creates digital health solutions aimed at increasing health-care quality and efficiency while lowering costs.

Sonaura LLC, a Fort Collins-based company that is developing a two-way communication system between patients and doctors that will allow women undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment to perform sonograms at home during the follicle stimulation cycle.

Campuscene, a Boulder software company that consolidates colleges’ digital presence to maximize engagement with potential students, evaluates the effectiveness of marketing mediums and predicts which students are likely to enroll.

Yonomi, a Boulder company developing a mobile app and cloud service that simplifies and automates consumers’ interactions with connected devices like Sonos, Nest and FitBit.

Zepheira, a Boulder startup that provides cloud solutions for putting the cultural holdings of libraries on the Web.

Rocky Mountain Innosphere on Tuesday announced a new group of eight companies that will begin working with the incubator on Friday, the first Innosphere group that will be based at its new Denver location.

Four Denver startups, three from Boulder and one from Fort Collins compose the group.

Five of those companies are in the digital health realm, focusing on technologies that bring smart devices and medical devices together. Digital Health will be a major focus area of Innosphere’s Denver site.

Innosphere is a non-profit organization that works with startups for up to two years, helping them with things like launching their companies,…

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