Venture Partners News
Venture Partners at CU Boulder is identifying new innovations that address problems related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In hopes of securing investments to advance their companies, 18 university ventures spun out of Colorado research institutions and federal labs pitched to local and out-of-state investors at the state's Destination Startup showcase on Feb. 27.
This year's event — hosted again by Venture Partners at CU Boulder on Feb. 27 — will feature 18 startups from CU Boulder, CU Anschutz, CU Denver, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado State University, Colorado School of Mines and NIST.Â
This year's LVC winners included SickStick, Exocure Therapeutics, Programmable Gectosomes, Ultrathin Endoscopes, iFeather, Octave Photonics and Theia.
The Lab Venture Challenge is hosted over two days and broken up into Biosciences on Wednesday, Nov. 13 and Physical Sciences & Engineering on Thursday, Nov. 14. This showcase is the can't-miss event of the year to see CU Boulder's next wave of breakthrough innovations.
On August 17, eight University of Colorado startups founded on faculty research traveled to Silicon Valley for a day-long retreat with CU Boulder alumni investors and friends.
The article, 'Universities find a fertile source of industry partnerships: Their own start-ups,' appeared in the June 2019 issue of University-Industry Engagement Advisor.
The inaugural Research-to-Market (R2M) program—hosted by Venture Partners at CU Boulder—guided researchers-turned-startup founders through the iterative process of finding a product-market fit and refining a value proposition for their respective technologies.
The study was conducted by Brian Lewandowski at the Business Research Division of the Leeds School of Business, a CU Boulder organization that conducts economic impact studies and customized research projects for the university and local business communities.
Colorado’s innovation ecosystem was represented in full force at the state’s first-ever Destination Startup showcase on Feb. 1 at the Omni Interlocken Hotel in Broomfield.