Optimus recruits private investors

DENVER – Erik Ringkjob, president of Fort Collins-based Optimus Corp., is candid about his company’s biggest barrier to growth.

Laments Ringkjob: “Nobody knows who we are or what we do.”

About $1 million could help change all that.

And that’s why this late-summer night, at the Rockies Venture Club in a Denver skyscraper, Ringkjob is working the crowd or investment professionals, hoping to drum up seven figures’ worth of capital that could make Optimus an international company.

He’s just stuffed Optimus’ seven-year history and its hopes and aspirations into a 12-minute presentation that highlighted the club’s monthly meeting, attended by a record-breaking throng of…