Joshua Bennett

Josh is one of Venture Partner’s four full-time licensing managers at CU Boulder. He manages a large part of the engineering and physics departments, specializing in quantum, photonics and phononics technologies.

Licensing Managers wear many hats at CU. Josh is their first contact when a faculty member or PhD student creates an invention. He analyses the technology for patentability, commercial viability and startup potential. If the technology is deemed valuable, Josh then shepherds the technology through all stages of its business development. Be it customer discovery, gap funding and business accelerator programming if there is a startup involved, or marketing efforts, industry relationship building and license drafting if not.

Josh has spent his entire career commercializing university technologies. He began his career as an intern at the CU Boulder Technology Transfer Office (now Venture Partners) while obtaining his law degree. Following graduation, Josh spent time at Colorado State University and the University of Utah before returning home to CU in 2019.

Josh is an avid hiker, soccer player, musician and entrepreneur playing drums and percussion in local bands and running a small music recording studio, “Josh Box Studio.” He strives to live his life to the five values of honesty, humility, compassion, courage and discipline.