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Commercialization activities led by Venture Partners at the University of Colorado Boulder had an economic impact of $8 billion nationally and $5.2 billion in the state of Colorado over the last five years, according to a new report from the Leeds School of Business, a four-fold increase in impact since the previous report published in 2019.

With this technology, once accessible only to professional scientists but now free to all, researchers can remotely use CU Boulder startup ColdQuanta’s quantum-matter machine to design potentially transformative innovations.

CU Boulder's Deming Center brought its expertise to scientists and researchers who don't always recognize the commercial applications of their important discoveries.

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’s Venture Challenge (LVC). Judges from CU Boulder’s entrepreneurial network heard Shark-Tank-style pitches across two nights, one for innovations in biosciences and another for physical sciences and engineering.

Robots help build cars, fly planes, and provide healthcare; they play a role in countless industries, but for the most part, they don't work in chemistry labs. A team of CU Boulder scientists plans to change that.

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.

The live performance/forum for new works, which will officially change its name from Pendulum to CU Boulder SoundWorks, doesn’t place the same emphasis on formal categorization that obsesses many music fans and scholars alike. According to Egemen Kesikli, Pendulum/SoundWorks’ newly appointed artistic director, the focus of the concert series is more about inclusion, exploration and innovation than it is about classification.

John Melanson credits CU Boulder with putting him on the path to a successful engineering career. Growing up in Boulder, Melanson was always making things—or unmaking them.

Bang Bang—who has inked the likes of Rihanna and LeBron—teamed up with CU Boulder research scientists Carson Bruns and Jesse Butterfield to develop a new kind of light-sensitive ink.

Alumnus is working with nonprofit to help kids across the globe achieve academic goals through skateboarding.