Venture Partners News
From Tech Transfer Central — Since launching its Licensing with EASE® express agreement for start-up entrepreneurs in 2018, CU Boulder has seen its number of startups “increase dramatically,” according to Brynmor Rees, associate vice chancellor for research & innovation and managing director of Venture Partners.
Twelve teams of University of Colorado faculty, researchers and graduate student innovators competed for a combined $1.25 million in startup funding grants in this year’s Venture Challenge (LVC).
Vitro3D, a CU Boulder startup pioneering volumetric 3D printing for life sciences, just closed its first investment round of $1.3 million. The hard-won vote of confidence from the investment community will allow the promising new venture to pursue ambitious technical advances while continuing to build critical business capacity.
Deep tech cohort pitches progress after inaugural accelerator.
These grants will help companies accelerate their entry into Colorado's deep-tech industries and increase access to early-stage capital.
Delegates from Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology Innovation Office visited Boulder to begin talks for future collaborations with not only CU Boulder, but the Front Range’s premier research labs.
Mercure was described as a “revolutionizer” of the university’s process for transforming research at CU Boulder into commercial applications. The former CU tech transfer director co-founded CU spinout Ball Aerospace, launching Boulder into the pantheon of aerospace science and engineering.
Investment records in sight for regional university ventures.
Seven teams pitched new startups after seven months of entrepreneurial training and guidance.
When it comes to translating ideas into impact at CU Boulder, the tangible results from 2021 are eye-popping, even record-breaking. Venture Partners at CU Boulder, the university’s commercialization arm, has documented this new level of performance in its 2021 Annual Report.