Overview

Colorado has a vibrant entrepreneurial community. A group of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, lawyers, and The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County have created the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado to work with local entrepreneurs to help endow Colorado.

Since entrepreneurial success is uncertain and the vast majority of entrepreneurial endeavors fail, we decided to approach the problem in a unique fashion. Rather than wait for success to encourage philanthropic activity, at which point the successful entrepreneur is likely to be besieged by requests, we decided to create a new program to help all entrepreneurs contribute early in the creation of their companies to the long term health and sustainability of Colorado.

Founding Trustees

• Brad Feld - Past CEO 2007-2008 Foundry Group
• Ryan Martens - Current CEO 2009-2010 Rally Software Development
• Joshua Forman - Symplified
• Karyn German - Newsgator
• Mike Platt - Cooley Godward Kronish
• Bill Roberts - William Roberts Law
• Tom Keller - (former CEO of Intense Debate - an EFCO member company)
• Kirk Holland - Vista Ventures
• Frank Amaroso - Silicon Valley Bank
• Seth Levine - Foundry Group

Community Foundation Liasons

• Josie Heath, The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County
• Betsy Mangone, The Denver Foundation
• Sheila Bugdanowitz, Rose Community Foundation

For more information, contact Brad Feld.

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