PlanetiQ to hire ‘one or two dozen’ at new Boulder office

BOULDER — Officials for Bethesda, Md.-based startup PlanetiQ — which earlier this year inked a collaboration deal with Boulder-based Blue Canyon Technologies to build a constellation of 12 weather satellites — announced Monday that the firm has opened a permanent office in Boulder, where it plans to make “one or two dozen” new hires over the next several months.

PlanetiQ has had 12 employees in Boulder since January collaborating with Blue Canyon on the constellation. Those employees had until now been co-located with Blue Canyon at 2425 55th St. But PlanetiQ recently leased 5,500 square feet of its own space in…