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In taking its next-gen all-solid-state battery technology from the lab to the streets, Solid Power is changing how electric vehicles run. The spinout went public in 2021 with many past ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder students—undergraduate, Master’s and PhD—working within its ranks, major partnership deals with BMW and Ford, and a new facility in Thornton.

ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder researchers and inventors created a strong crop of 145 breakthrough technologies in 2022, with innovations in climate tech, biotechnology, quantum science, optics and aerospace, to name a few. Read more in Venture Partners at ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder's 2022 Annual Report.

“We're looking for companies that have the most interesting, disruptive technology, that are managed and are founded by the strongest people ... [and] that are targeting products that really fit an unmet need in the market,” said Mark Lupa, co-founder and general partner of Buff Gold Ventures.

The intermountain west innovation ecosystem came together at the fifth annual Destination Startup® showcase on Feb. 15 and 16, hosted by Venture Partners at ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder. In a highly competitive field, 21 university ventures from intermountain west research institutions were selected to present at the showcase.

Solid Power—a ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder spinout company that specializes in solid-state, sulfide-based electrolyte technology—will develop a 3D-structured Li metal anode and novel sulfur composite cathode to enable high-energy and fast-charging EV battery cells. It hopes to scale so that energy-dense cell costs are reduced.

A ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder startup that builds laser systems to monitor methane emissions, LongPath has received regulatory approval by the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Department of Public Health & Environment and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency—the first emissions-monitoring technology to be approved at both state and federal levels.

According to a new report from the Leeds School of Business, commercialization activities led by Venture Partners at ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder had an economic impact of $8 billion nationally and $5.2 billion in the state of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ over the last five years—a four-fold increase in impact since 2019.

Twelve teams of University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ faculty, researchers and graduate student innovators competed for a combined $1.25M in startup funding grants in this year’s Lab Venture Challenge. Judges from ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder’s entrepreneurial network heard pitches in biosciences, physical sciences and engineering.

A global quantum ecosystem leader, ColdQuanta's product portfolio for commercialization includes quantum computing, quantum algorithms, atomic clocks, sensors and components—all of which have a wide range of applications in communications, radio frequency (RF) technologies and more.

Arpeggio’s technology isolates a drug’s effect on entire transcriptomes and has identified new modulators of hard-to-drug proteins like transcription factors. Funding was led by Builders VC and will support ongoing development of Arpeggio’s drug pipeline as well as its transcription-monitoring technologies.