Michael Davidson
Michael Davidson is an award-winning journalist whose career as a business reporter has taken him from the garages of aspiring inventors to assembly centers for billion-dollar satellites. Most recently, Michael covered startups, venture capital, IT, cleantech, aerospace, and telecoms for Xconomy and, before that, for the Boulder County Business Report. Before switching to business journalism, Michael covered politics and the Colorado Legislature for the Colorado Springs Gazette and the government, police and crime beats for the Broomfield Enterprise, a paper in suburban Denver. He also worked for the Boulder Daily Camera, and his stories have appeared in the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News. Career highlights include an award from the Colorado Press Association, doing barrel rolls in a vintage fighter jet and learning far more about public records than is healthy. Michael started his career as a copy editor for the Colorado Springs Gazette's sports desk. Michael has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan.
Recent posts
Two different Boulder, CO software startups, two different ways to finance growth.
Kapost raised $10.25 million in an equity round it announced Tuesday. Its neighbor a few blocks away, VictorOps,... Read more »
Surviving an industry crash is one thing. Scaling up and seizing a place in a global market—especially with a commercially unproven technology—is another thing entirely.
That’s the position Joule Unlimited,... Read more »
Next week sees the return of Boulder Startup Week, bringing with it dozens of panels, hundreds of entrepreneurs, developers, and job seekers—and a seemingly endless supply of craft beer and... Read more »
SessionM, a mobile marketing startup based in Boston, is on a hot streak. The latest win came Tuesday, when the company announced it has raised a $12 million funding round.... Read more »
One of the leaders in computational neuroscience is taking a role with Nara Logics, a Cambridge, MA, spinout from MIT that marries advanced brain-science research with computer science to create... Read more »
Anyone who has tried to park his or her car on a busy day has thought there must be a better way to find a spot. Parkifi, a Denver-based startup,... Read more »
CyPhy Works’ co-founder and CEO Helen Greiner knows what it takes to get robots into the hands of consumers. As a co-founder of iRobot, she helped create the Roomba vacuum,... Read more »
Search for information about Infinidat, the latest data storage company founded by industry legend Moshe Yanai, and you’ll come up with surprisingly little. At least, you would until today.
That’s... Read more »
What might be one of the biggest IT security companies you’ve never heard of is trying to make inroads in the U.S. market, and it’s making Boston its bridgehead.
Quick Heal... Read more »
SnowShoe, a startup founded in Wisconsin, continues trying to make its mark. This week, it announced the release of new software it says will let anyone “build digital experiences” out... Read more »
Hilmi Ozguc, founder and CEO of Swirl Networks, has thought for years that wireless devices that push ads to shoppers’ smartphones while they shopped are the future of marketing and... Read more »
Despite a career spent trying to defeat increasingly skilled and sophisticated hackers, Marc van Zadelhoff remains an optimist—at least a cautious one.
Van Zadelhoff, IBM Security’s vice president of strategy, isn’t... Read more »
Let’s be honest—digital picture frames are pretty lame gifts, especially for mom and dad, let alone grandpa. But that could change if a Boston startup named Glimpse has its way.
Glimpse... Read more »
The Massachusetts tech and life sciences community might have reason to boast, following a second-straight quarter during which companies in the state raised more than $1.3 billion from venture investors. The... Read more »
Localytics continues its roll. The Boston-based mobile marketing and analytics company announced today it has snapped up Splitforce, a New York startup that Localytics CEO Raj Aggarwal said will help... Read more »
The past week has been good for Boston-area solar energy startups—and not just because the sun is finally shining in New England.
Silicon wafer manufacturer 1366 Technologies announced it has raised... Read more »
Two prominent names in Boston’s startup world are joining forces—and shacking up together.
Startup accelerator MassChallenge has acquired Start Tank, a Boston-based incubator run by PayPal, which provided select startups... Read more »
Our workplaces might be getting a little bit more energy efficient, not necessarily because of solar panels or new insulation, but because of the air we breathe inside them.
At least,... Read more »
Clypd, a Boston-area startup that wants to make TV advertising more like its digital cousin by incorporating programmatic ad selling, has raised a $19.4 million Series B round, the company... Read more »
It’s a truism in the computer security world that the bad guys have gained the upper hand. Just think about all the major security breaches over the past few years for... Read more »
