Pixie Maté to Fuel Local VC’s 50 by 50 Marathon Goal

Pixie Maté is proud to announce that it will be sponsoring Brad Feld, Managing Director of the Foundry Group, in his effort to complete a marathon in each of our 50 states by his 50^th birthday and support his goal to raise $100K for the Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis.

For those who don’t know Brad, he’s a long time staple of Boulder’s entrepreneurial community. As a cofounder of Foundry, and previously Mobius Venture Capital, he has provided many software companies the launching pad required to become successful. Last year, he helped found Techstars, a summer incubator program for fledging entrepreneurial ventures. He’s also a friend of the entrepreneurship program at CU’s Leeds School of Business, offering a helping hand to budding entrepreneurs. Brad has a popular blog of his own, Feld Thoughts, which covers a wide array of topics from techie to environmental. [I love the nerdiness of a recent math music video post].

All of us at Pixie Maté are glad that we can help support a goal that allows Brad to take a break from the technology age and get a little sunshine. Brad has until 12/1/2015 to finish his fiftieth marathon. Fortunately, he has already completed 11 to date and has 2 more scheduled this year. Still, he’s going to have to average more than 5 marathons per year for the next 7 years. Looks like were going to be seeing Brad in his running shorts quite a bit (alternatively, maybe he can get one of his fledgling software companies to hack a database and revise his birth certificate).

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