Catalyze CU Startups in the News

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.

Developing mobility solutions for seniors, StrideTech's Smart Step system detects and corrects movements and behaviors that can lead to potentially fatal or debilitating falls.

The company competed in NVC8 and was founded in 2016 by PhD student Murad Kablan and Assistant Professor Eric Keller from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Teaching children to code is no simple task, but Boulder’s Sphero continues to bet big on play as a primary driver for education. Sphero has now delved into a new arena to teach coding: music.

Specdrums offers app-controlled rings worn on a user’s fingers that can turn color into sound with a simple tap. The company’s team is headlined by founder Steven Dourmashkin, who was earning his graduate degree in aerospace engineering at CU Boulder when his idea began to take off. Jenna Palensky (ethnomusicology) and Jack FitzGerrell (marketing) both earned their degrees from CU Boulder and help lead the Specdrums team.

Engineers have developed a new class of soft, electrically activated devices capable of mimicking the expansion and contraction of natural muscles, a major advance in the field of robotics.

Catalyze CU and Techstars Boulder graduate Stateless has raised $1.4 million in a seed stage funding round. Funding was led by European VC Speedinvest, with additional funding from EVO Venture Partners, Techstars, PV Ventures, Service Provider Capital and angel investors.

Give & Go, an automated film editing platform for sports teams and coaches, took home top honors at the New Venture Challenge (NVC) Championship on Thursday night, winning first place in the annual event that showcases entrepreneurial innovation from across campus.

Shinesty, a Boulder-based retail apparel company that has been growing at a fast clip since its launch two years ago, is the focus of a reality TV show on MTV2.

Last year, a startup named Kitables was one of a few companies that unleashed working Lego drones into the world. Now the startup is back, and it’s attempting to build an even smaller version of its drone, which it’s calling the Mini Lego Drone.