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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鈥檚 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.聽
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鈥檚 premier research labs.
Mercure was described as a 鈥渞evolutionizer鈥 of the university鈥檚 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鈥檚 commercialization arm, has documented this new level of performance in its 2021 Annual Report.
Artimus credits Venture Partners and the growing startup community in receiving funding and entrepreneurial education.