Promo Kit—Destination Startup® 2024 Application

This page contains all the information available to help you promote this opportunity to your network and community. If you have questions or suggestions, please reach out to Daniel Leonard, senior marketing and communications specialist for Venture Partners at daniel.leonard@colorado.edu

Opportunity Information

Destination Startup® brings groundbreaking researchers together with hundreds of investors from throughout North America to catalyze real-world impact. This showcase demonstrates a powerful way to advance innovative research and translate it into impactful business ventures. Any startup that is commercializing an innovation from, or in formal partnership with, one of the region's research institutions or federal laboratories is eligible to apply. A competitive, independently juried pre-event selection process will determine which applicants will be invited to the March showcase. A two-page summary is all that is needed to start the process

Application Details:

  • Aug. 28, 2023: Application opens
  • Oct. 8, 2023: Extended application deadline

Where: The showcase takes place in Denver in March 2024. Live pitch practice takes place virtually.

Who: Any startup that is commercializing an innovation from, or in formal partnership with, one of the participating university research institutions or federal laboratories is eligible to apply. A competitive, independent selection process will determine which applicants will be invited to showcase at the February showcase.

Information and Application Page: colorado.edu/venturepartners/researchers-inventors/funding-opportunities-support/destination-startup
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Set in the heart of our university's bold, innovative community of scholars and learners, Venture Partners at CU Boulder brings the university's world-class researchers together with business, startup and entrepreneurial communities to translate groundbreaking solutions into economic and social impact.

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