Rancher Energy Corp. announced that it retained Growth Capital Partners LP as the company’s financial adviser to consider strategic alternatives, including the possible sale of the company.
Parascript LLC, a Boulder-based image-analysis and pattern- recognition software provider, will be acquired by Authentidate Holding Corp. for up to $10 million in cash; a five-year, 10 percent note in the principal amount of $20 million; 30 million shares of Authentidate common stock; and all of the shares of Authentidate’s German subsidiary, Authentidate International AG.
Quest Product Development and partner University of Colorado have been awarded a $1 million Small Business Technology Transfer grant by the National Institutes of Health to continue the development of a next-generation endoscope for minimally invasive surgery.
Atrato Inc., a Westminster-based provider of high-volume on- demand storage for high-performance computing, announced that Network Products Guide, a publication about technologies and solutions, named Atrato’s Velocity1000 high-density storage system a winner of the 2008 Best Products and Services Award.
XeDAR Corp., a Denver-based provider of homeland security consulting and information-technology services to national intelligence agencies, and the Department of Defense announced that its subsidiary, Point One Inc. of Arlington, Va, has been selected by the Maryland Procurement Office as a lead contractor for implementing the National Military Strategy for Cyberspace Operations.
AlloSource, a Centennial-based provider of skin, bone and soft-tissue allografts, announced it came in third place in the 2008 Best Companies to Work for in Colorado Awards, sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management — Colorado State Council.
Level 3 Communications’ European Markets Group announced that it has been selected to provide content delivery services to Sueddeutsche Zeitung, one of Germany’s national newspapers.
Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. of Denver announced the pricing of a stock offering of 6 million shares of its common stock at $2.75 a share.
CIBER Inc., a Greenwood Village- based global systems integrator, and LLamasoft Inc. announced they have formed a partnership to introduce a new suite of CIBER services to the enterprise supply chain market.



