The Insider: Investors Edition - Quarter 3: 2021
Updates on venture investments, new milestones achieved andthe latest on emerging innovations from Boulder.
Boulder Startups in the News
Xalud Therapeutics completes oversubscribed $30M Series C financing
Xalud Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing therapies initially worked on and developed at Boulder for the treatment of neuro-inflammatory diseases and inflammatory joint disorders, including osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Solid Power to ramp up production of solid state battery cells for electric cars
The Louisville-based Boulder startup company is moving into a 75,000-square-foot building in Thornton. The expansion comes as the company prepares to go public. In June, Solid Power announced a merger valued at $1.2B with Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corp. III.
Tynt Technologies locks up $8.5M to engineer blackout windows
Co-founded by Boulder professor Mike McGehee, Tynt has raised $8.5 million in seed funding to scale its reversible metal electrodeposition (RME) technology, which is used to create blackout windows that aim to increase home comfort, privacy and energy efficiency.
ColdQuanta reaches quantum computer milestone by demonstrating immense scalability of ‘cold atom’ processor approach
“Our Cold Atom Method stands out among other modalities by demonstrating the potential for unmatched qubit scalability," said Paul Lipman, president of Quantum Computing at ColdQuanta. "We are on the brink of delivering a compelling platform and on the doorstep of commercialization.”
Welcome to the brave new world of Colorado-grown mushroom meat
Meati Foods is a spinout company hoping that fungi, not plants, could be key to winning the protein wars and confronting climate change. Co-founders Tyler Huggins and Justin Whiteley met as Ph.D. students at Boulder, where Whiteley studied material science and Huggins studied environmental engineering.
DOE awards $4.1M to Boulder spinout Otoro Energy to improve flow battery technology
Otoro Energy, spun out of technology developed in Assistant Professor Michael Marshak's lab at Boulder, has received $4.14M from the U.S. Department of Energy to improve the cost, scalability and performance of existing flow battery technology through a metal chelate flow battery system.
Investment Opportunities: Boulder Startups Seeking Funding
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APLU: Boulder’s bottom-up approach to innovation drives economic development
In the past year alone, Boulder spun out 20 new “deep tech” businesses from its research labs. At the same time, as we reflect on our progress as an Innovation & Economic Prosperity (IEP) University, we are careful not to lose sight of the very personal stories that are contained within the metrics of economic impact.
Venture Partners' new deep tech accelerator Ascent set to launch January 2022
Startup company founders who commercialize Boulder’s research innovations will be getting a boost in 2022. Ascent, astartup accelerator specifically created for Boulder innovators, will help founders launch their companies, raise investment capital, and gain market and partnership traction.