Weekly Refresh: VPiX Mapping COVID-19, Denver Offers Relief, and More

Read our latest weekly refresh for trending Colorado tech news.

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Published on Mar. 23, 2020
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Guild Education CEO and former American Express CEO encouraged community leaders to #StopTheSpread. In an open letter published on Medium, Rachel Romer Carlson and Ken Chenault asked leaders to act now and encourage strict social distancing practices. Some prominent leaders signed onto the pledge, including Steph Curry and leaders at Mailchimp and Zoom. [Built In Colorado]

StackHawk raised $2.5M. Its security software helps engineers find and fix bugs during the development process. This brought its total funding raised to $4.6 million. [Built In Colorado]

MyVillage to offer coronavirus relief. The startup offers a way for people to become licensed, home-based early childhood educators. It raised emergency grant funding to ensure their educators can continue teaching into April. [Yahoo Finance]

Denver announced economic relief package. The initial package aims to support businesses so they can support their employees. A range of measures are being taken to reduce the impact of coronavirus on small businesses, artists and more. [ColoradoBiz]

VPiX working to map the outbreak. The company offers 3-D virtual reality solutions. It aims to help fight coronavirus using geographic data-mapping. [KRDO]

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