Founded Colorado

Today a group of us launched Founded Colorado. Eleni Angelides is the Executive Director. She spent nearly eight years in Governor Polis’s office, most recently as Legislative Director, where she ran the Governor’s agenda at the Capitol. She worked on housing, land use, tax policy, RTD reform, and the allocation of more than a billion dollars in COVID recovery funds. Founded Colorado is an advocate for Colorado’s innovative companies - the ones “founded here, growing here, and working with lawmakers and regulators to keep Colorado a place where great companies start and stay.” If your company is based in Colorado, we are your home team. This started with SB 24-205, Colorado’s first AI law. The legislature passed it in May 2024. Governor Polis signed it “with reservations,” and within a month he, the Attorney General, and the bill’s sponsor were promising to revise it. SB 24-205 was ill-fated, poorly drafted, and idiotic. It went straight to broad restrictions on how companies use AI…