Privacy Networks gone, but not forgotten

FORT COLLINS – Timing recently took down the first startup to inhabit the Fort Collins Technology Incubator.

Privacy Networks in February quietly shut its office at 200 W. Mountain Ave., in what is now called the Rocky Mountain Innovation Initiative incubator. The startup was on its way to record sales in the second half of last year and was seeking a second round of financing when the economy came crashing down.

Privacy Networks was founded in 2002 by technology veteran and serial entrepreneur Todd Massey. The company’s first product was an e-mail security and spam-filtering program. Soon, it expanded to include e-mail…