Teaching kids to code

BOULDER — A former software engineer at Google, Scott Lininger was naturally excited when his young daughter showed an interest in coding. But perhaps unsurprisingly for a kid with a Google parent, she quickly outgrew the products on the market at the time that were geared toward teaching kids to code. That conundrum, at least in part, was what led Lininger and cofounder Aidan Chopra to start Bitsbox in 2014.

Just more than 2½ years later, the company is on pace to finish 2016 with more than $1 million…