BLACK BEAR ENERGYCommercial SolarACQUIRED
BOULDER
VENTURES
EARLY-STAGE IT + BIOTECH
Two places. Thirty-one years.
One deliberately concentrated firm.
PEARL STREET, JULY 4, 1896 · J.B. STURTEVANT · BHS 222-5-15 · CARNEGIE LIBRARY FOR LOCAL HISTORY5,430 FT ABOVE SEA LEVEL
9,192,631,770 CESIUM OSCILLATIONS = 1 SECOND
1941 PEARL STREET
FOUNDED 1995
Not a backdrop.
An operating system.
Move through the map. Each address explains a different part of the firm.
1941 PEARL STREET
The office is part of the thesis.
In the middle of town. Second floor rented to entrepreneurs. Close enough to walk into the relationships that make the place useful.
40.0197° N / 105.2698° WNBS—20000000000ATOMIC OSCILLATIONS SINCE YOU ARRIVED
FIELD 02 / THE STANDARDBoulder keeps
Boulder keeps
the nation’s time.
In 1960, NBS-2 became the first U.S. atomic time standard. Precision is not foreign to this town. Neither is patience.
Realized returns are venture capital’s equivalent of keeping time: the measurement still standing when the story stops.
Thirty-one years.
Built one decision at a time.
Every brick contains something. Move across the wall; click to leave a mark.
BRICK 01 / 48
Hover over the wall to open the archive.
What’s being
built inside?
Pull the shutters. The logos are the least interesting part.
STARDOGKnowledge GraphsACTIVE
ANTITHESISSimulation TestingACTIVE
FIELD 05 / THE READING ROOM
There is no instruction manual.
But there are field notes, profiles, market calls, mistakes and a few laws named after the people who earned them.
READ PERSPECTIVES →PEARL STREET ADVOCACY AREA5 FT × 6 FT
One message. No bigger than it needs to be.