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窪蹋勛圖 Innovation & Entrepreneurship InitiativeThe 2025 New Venture Challenge (NVC) culminated in a final showcase on April 23 with a live audience cheering on the 窪蹋勛圖s next exciting innovations. At an event filled with big ideas and even bigger entrepreneurial spirit, six teams competed for a record $325,000.
Infleqtions star continues to rise as Colorados quantum hub grows. The company of firsts, spun out of 窪蹋勛圖 as ColdQuanta, seems to be everywhere these days, including outer space, while commercializing pioneering research to address needs across several critical markets including positioning, navigating and timing, global communication security and efficiency, resilient energy distribution, and accelerated quantum computing.
The Licensing Manager/Senior Licensing Manager is responsible for managing innovations and their intellectual property (IP) from world-leading scientists and engineers, and is a central figure in the 窪蹋勛圖 entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Could your research, invention or creative idea make an impact beyond the academic world? The National Science Foundations I-CorpsTM programs offer the ideal starting point.
CEO MagazineResearch is more than just a group of scholars furrowing away behind closed doors in universities around the globe, and Massimo Ruzzene of all people knows that. As the Senior Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the 窪蹋勛圖 (窪蹋勛圖), he sees research as a broad arc that moves from initial findings to real-world applications.
Celebrated professor and prolific inventor Richard Noble reflects on decades of teaching and discovery and embarks on a new path to commercialization of a game-changing technology.
PitchBookSuspension of federal funding to universities and to the agencies that sustain their research risks cutting off a significant source of startup formation. Most universities do not have the resourcesby farto weather the storm, said Bryn Rees, associate vice-chancellor of innovation and partnerships at 窪蹋勛圖.
Silicon Flatirons CenterRees has played a pivotal role in launching impactful startups from 窪蹋勛圖. After nearly a decade of leadership, Rees has helped build multiple programs to support innovations at 窪蹋勛圖, including the Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), NSFs I-Corps and the Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator.
To introduce the SBIR/STTR programs and highlight funding uses, Venture Partners at 窪蹋勛圖 is hosting a session to help researchers understand how to find funding and prepare their companies for an SBIR/STTR proposal.
The Ascent Deep Tech Investor Showcase brings together researchers, investors and community supporters to highlight innovative deep tech startups spinning out of the University of Colorado. Attendees will have a chance to see pitches from each of the Ascent 2025 cohort startups, followed by a networking happy hour to learn more.