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Twelve teams of University of Colorado 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 ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä 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.

The merger is addressing pressing needs in quantum research for ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder spinout ColdQuanta—as well as the quantum industry. Both companies are affiliates of Q-NEXT, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Quantum Information Science Research Center led by Argonne National Laboratory.

Global cement production accounts for 7% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Now, a ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder-led research team has figured out a way to make cement production carbon neutral—and even carbon negative—by pulling carbon dioxide out of the air with the help of microalgae.

Scientists at LongPath Technologies, a startup spun out of ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder, are using the company's Nobel Prize-winning tech to do what other technologies have struggled to do for years: detect natural gas, which is invisible to the eye, leaking from pipes in real time at oil and gas sites across Colorado.

Because breakthrough technology can be so substantial economically and socially (think sustainable energy, personalized medicine and quantum computing), the "deep tech" startup scene is rapidly growing—but it faces special challenges. The Ascent accelerator helps founders effectively address them.

Seven university startups were awarded $1.75M in early-stage capital and retention grants last week from the Global Business Development division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) Advanced Industries Accelerator Grant Program.

Delegates from Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology Innovation Office visited ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder last week to begin talks for future collaborations. KTH identified Boulder, Colorado as an emerging hotspot for their program Brighter, which aims to support early startups seeking international expansion.

Seven university companies pitched to investors during the Pandemic Hyper-Accelerator for Science and Technology (PHAST) Demo Day on Jan. 25, hosted by Venture Partners at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder and Rockies Venture Club (RVC).