Explore the latest news about Venture Partners at CU Boulder and keep up to date on the impact CU's startups and technologies are making.

ColdQuanta

CU Boulder startup ColdQuanta CEO discusses commercialization and academia on business innovation podcast

Dec. 6, 2021

ColdQuanta CEO Scott Faris was featured on the "Innovating with Scott Amyx" podcast to talk about the future of the CU Boulder-founded business and commercialization within academia.

Lim Profile

Chern Hooi-Lim, founder of CU Boulder startup New Iridium, named a C&EN Talented Twelve

Nov. 22, 2021

Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) identified young scientists who are trying to solve formidable global problems. Lim was recognized for developing organic molecules that spur on light-powered reactions.

APLU

CU Boulder named 2021 Innovation Award winner by APLU

Nov. 15, 2021

The IEP Innovation Award recognizes exemplary initiatives spurring innovation, entrepreneurship and technology-based economic development.

Quantum State

CU Boulder startup ColdQuanta featured in "Quantum State" film discussing Front Range ecosystem

Nov. 11, 2021

CU Boulder startup ColdQuanta, JILA physicists, and other university innovators are featured in a new film from the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) promoting Colorado's extensive quantum ecosystem.

Presentation

Groundbreaking CU Boulder innovators awarded $1.5 million in grants at Lab Venture Challenge finals

Nov. 8, 2021

Eleven university innovators pitched their innovations at Lab Venture Challenge (LVC) , an annual funding competition hosted by Venture Partners at CU Boulder that accelerates commercially promising technologies accelerate into impactful business ventures. Judges from CU Boulder’s entrepreneurial network awarded a record 15 grants totaling $1.475 million. Awardees were the...

CU Boulder attracts record $634.4 million for research

CU Boulder attracts record $634.4 million for research

Oct. 26, 2021

CU Boulder researchers attracted a record $634.4 million in fiscal year 2021 for studies that, among other things, examine how artificial intelligence can transform education, led to the United Arab Emirate’s Hope spacecraft orbiting Mars, and address threats posed by climate change in the Arctic.

CU Boulder spinoff company develops technology that could treat COVID-19 complications

CU Boulder spinoff company develops technology that could treat COVID-19 complications

Oct. 18, 2021

Respirogen, a company whose research is led by Biomedical Engineering Program Director Mark Borden and founded by Borden’s former student, Paul Mountford (PhDMechEngr’15), has developed microbubbles that can deliver oxygen to the blood stream independent of the lungs.

Tynt Technologies locks up $8.5M to engineer blackout windows

Tynt Technologies locks up $8.5M to engineer blackout windows

Oct. 14, 2021

Co-founded by CU Boulder professor Mike McGehee, Tynt has raised $8.5 million in seed funding to scale its reversible metal electrodeposition (RME) technology, which is used to create blackout windows that aim to increase home comfort, privacy and energy efficiency.

DOE awards $4.1M to CU Boulder spinout OTORO Energy to improve flow battery technology

DOE awards $4.1M to CU Boulder spinout Otoro Energy to improve flow battery technology

Oct. 6, 2021

Otoro Energy, spun out of technology developed in Assistant Professor Michael Marshak's lab at CU Boulder, has received $4.14M from the U.S. Department of Energy to improve the cost, scalability and performance of existing flow battery technology through a metal chelate flow battery system.

APLU: CU Boulder’s bottom-up approach to innovation drives economic development

APLU: CU Boulder’s bottom-up approach to innovation drives economic development

Sept. 13, 2021

In the past year alone, CU Boulder spun out 20 new “deep tech” businesses from its research labs. At the same time, as we reflect on our progress as an Innovation & Economic Prosperity (IEP) University, we are careful not to lose sight of the very personal stories that are contained within the metrics of economic impact.

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