Fivetran raised $100 million. The Oakland-headquartered data automation startup helps businesses combine data from multiple sources into a single cloud information warehouse. It plans to grow its 40-person Denver office to 150 by 2021. Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst led the Series A. [Built In Colorado]
Techstars managing director to step down. Natty Zola plans to spend more time on Matchstick Ventures, which he co-runs. He first became the managing director in 2015. [Daily Camera]
Techtonic to hire 100 Black and Latinx people for paid apprenticeships. The Boulder company’s 14-week program gives students on-the-job training for coding and for how to operate in an office. They’ll work directly on projects with a company’s clients, and then have the potential to be hired after the program finishes. [Built In Colorado]
Black founders weighed in on diversity and inclusion in Colorado. Some think the Colorado startup world has a long way to go in terms of diversity and inclusion. There is no community or central organization in the state for tech workers of color. [ColoradoInno]
Havenly starting to rehire. The Denver company had let go of five full-time employees and some temporary workers when the pandemic lockdown began. Now it’s hired six people over the past few weeks, plus five temps. [BusinessDen]
