MISSOULA--TerraEchos Inc. announced that it has closed on additional seed financing from True Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. True Ventures focuses on investments in commerce, consumer devices, infrastructure services, media, mobile, and software and services. Earlier this year, TerraEchos raised an initial seed round led by Flywheel Ventures, with participation from strategic investors, including S&K Technologies, a Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribally-owned company, and GCS Research, a leader in geospatial IT solutions.

 

The new investment will be used to continue expansion of the company’s software development team and to work with key U.S. Government customers to expand the application of TerraEchos’ Kairos™ real-time cyber-physical security software solution.

 

“In life, timing is everything. Whether telling a joke, starting a company or defeating cyber threats against a country's infrastructure or company's assets – timing is the crucial factor. TerraEchos has created the world's leading analytic solution that turns peta-bytes of seemingly unrelated data into precisely the right insight – at precisely the right instant in time,” said True Ventures Partner John Burke. “The TerraEchos’ Kairos™ solution moves the state-of-the-art from data collection and analysis to real-time comprehension. True Ventures could not be more excited to have partnered with the team at TerraEchos as they overcome some of the most difficult challenges our country has ever seen."

 

On Monday & Tuesday, May 14th & 15th, the Yogo Inn in Lewistown will be presenting a timely event, entitled “OIL… Pitfalls & Preparations from the Veterans”, of interest to community leaders and other parties from every Montana community west of Sidney, and east of the Rockies.  While there probably won’t be any better answers from this event to the BIG questions on virtually everyone’s mind in Montana (Is the oil business coming?…If so, how soon?...If so, how big?) than they’ve gotten from a myriad other sources to-date, there’ll be answers to more tangible and “down-to-earth” questions like “What’s really going on in Sidney?” (not necessarily what’s in the media, or the rumor mills), “What would you have done differently given the chance?”, and “How does the geology in my area compare to the geology in the Sidney area?”.

 

MISSOULA ―The University of Montana’s School of Extended & Lifelong Learning will offer an experiential learning opportunity unique in nature and curriculum this summer. The course, Discover the Crown of the Continent: A Glacier National Park Experience, will take participants on a three-day journey Monday through Wednesday, June 18-20, through areas of Glacier not often explored by the average park visitor.

 

UM geography lecturer Rick Graetz and scientists from the Glacier Institute will lead the noncredit course, giving participants an insider’s view of Glacier National Park through their combined years of research, observation and first-hand knowledge.

 

Graetz, founder of Montana Magazine and American Geographic Publishing, is a writer, photographer and world traveler whose focus is the geography of each land he visits. Graetz also helped develop the Crown of the Continent Initiative, which seeks to “make important and interesting information about the Crown available to the general public in a variety of accessible forms.”

 

 

Helena, MT -The Governor's Office of Community Service announced that 70 Montana high school senior students from 62 schools are receiving a $1,000 Youth Serve Montana Scholarship. These scholarships are in recognition of students who have volunteered more than 100 hours in the last year.

 

"These young leaders have shown a commitment to Montana through their service," said Governor Brian Schweitzer. "We are happy to thank them by making it a little easier to pay for college."

 

Visit serve.mt to find the list of scholarship recipients in your area.

 

These $1,000 Youth Serve Montana Scholarships are for continued education at one of Montana Campus Compact's twenty two-year, four-year, public, tribal, private, or community colleges and universities.