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University of Colorado soars into top five for launching startups

May 18, 2023

The University of Colorado is a national leader in startup creation with a growing suite of entrepreneurial resources giving innovative researchers opportunities to spin ideas into businesses.

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'One-of-a-kind' project: Sustainable artificial muscles could enable life-like movement in robots

April 24, 2023

Interesting Engineering—The primary goal of soft robotics is to achieve smooth and complex movement by mimicking the locomotion of soft bodies found in the environment. Researchers at CU Boulder and CU Boulder startup Artimus Robotics are leading innovation with a new type of "artificial muscle" to enable life-like movements.

Solid Power battery

CU Boulder spinout Solid Power is building a better battery for consumers and the climate

April 24, 2023

In taking its technology from the lab to the streets, Solid Power is changing how electric vehicles run with less expensive, more efficient and safer battery technology.

HASEL actuators

Grad student helps design ‘artificial muscles’ you can toss in the compost bin

April 21, 2023

Say “hello” to the robots of the future: They’re soft and flexible enough to bounce off walls or squeeze into tight spaces. And when you’re done with them, you can toss these machines into a compost bin to decompose.

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Braskem partnering with photocatalysis startup—and CU Boulder spinout—New Iridium on decarbonization technologies

April 14, 2023

Chemical Engineering—The partnership with New Iridium focuses on CO2 conversion via photocatalysis, the startup’s expertise, which is an innovative solution based on the use of light sources (for example, LEDs) and CO2 from industrial emissions in combination with low-cost raw materials.

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5 startups poised to make pitches a reality, thanks to annual New Venture Challenge

April 14, 2023

What if improving one’s athletic performance through supplements was simpler and more affordable? What if, instead of producing emissions, airplanes could take carbon out of the air? These ideas and more are realities in the making, thanks to many aspiring entrepreneurs who pitched their products at the 16th annual New Venture Challenge (NVC) finals.

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New laser-based breathalyzer sniffs out COVID, other diseases in real-time

April 10, 2023

Scientists from CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) made an important leap forward in the quest to diagnose disease using exhaled breath, reporting that a new laser-based breathalyzer—born of Nobel Prize-winning technology from CU—powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can detect COVID-19 in real-time with excellent accuracy.

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OnKure Therapeutics nabs $60M as HDAC inhibitor awaits solid-tumor readouts

April 4, 2023

Endpoints News—OnKure Therapeutics has lined up $60 million in a new private funding round, adding to the CU Boulder spinout’s bank account as it works through a Phase II trial. The startup is attempting to create an inhibitor of histone deacetylases, or HDACs, which are DNA-manipulating enzymes that alter how genes get expressed.

Lab equipment

CEO Loren Burnett sees a path to decarbonizing concrete via manufacturing with novel biotechnology.

April 2, 2023

Company Week—"This whole thing started with a project with the Department of Defense, between the Department of Defense and four University of Colorado professors," says Burnett of the genesis of CU Boulder startup Prometheus Materials.

Design it move it prove it

OMC Hydrogen wins first place in DOE competition

March 30, 2023

US Department of Energy—OMC Hydrogen, a CU Boulder spinout from Professor Alan W. Weimer's lab, won first place at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Most Epic Cleantech Pitch Competition. The company is developing green hydrogen technology that eliminates the significant carbon emissions found in other hydrogen production methods.

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