Venture Partners at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder News
- Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder researchers led by engineer Mark Rentschler have built a robot the size of a C battery designed to seek out and even take biopsies of intestinal polyps and other signs of illness. The group hopes that the machine will one day make colonoscopies easier for patients and more efficient for doctors.
- The Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), hosted annually by Venture Partners at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder awards grants to campus researchers whose technologies demonstrate high commercial potential.
- Ford Motor Co. is the most recent company to invest in Solid Power, a Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder spinoff based in Louisville, CO that develops solid-state batteries.
- Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder spinoff Stateless, Inc. recently announced that the company received a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
- Big Blue Technologies, TissueForm and New Iridium will spend the next 18-24 months in the incubation program.
- This round of financing will enable Mallinda to scale up and to deliver its first commercial product of its high-performance materials for the transportation segment.
- The domestic economic impact of commercialization activities at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder over the last five years amounted to a staggering $1.9 billion, according to the recently-released Economic Impact on Tech Transfer report.
- Double Helix Optics, a 3D nano-imaging company spun out of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder technology, won SPIE’s 2019 Prism Award in the Diagnostics and Therapeutics category for its innovative SPINDLE® imaging system.
- In hopes of making valuable industry connections to commercialize and advance their technologies, 25 university ventures spun out of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ research institutions and federal laboratories pitched to local investors and venture capitalists from both coasts.