Explore the latest news about Venture Partners at CU Boulder and keep up to date on the impact CU's startups and technologies are making.

Ayar Labs

Ayar Labs Raises $130M Series C Funding

May 11, 2022

This CU Boulder-founded leader in chip-to-chip optical connectivity announced that the company has secured $130 million in additional financing to drive the commercialization of its breakthrough optical I/O solution.

Mallinda

Mallinda to present at international World Materials Forum in June

April 25, 2022

The CU Boulder startup has been nominated for the 2022 Scale Up Challenge for the industrialization of Vitrimax, their malleable thermoset and composite technologies.

Cold Quanta

ColdQuanta in running for Innovation Award in Quantum Technologies

April 25, 2022

One of CU's top quantum startups has been named as one of the top three exhibitors in Quantum Technologies at LASER World of PHOTONICS 2022 and the new World of QUANTUM for their quantum matter platform, Albert.

LongPath

LongPath Technologies presents at Colorado's first industry expo

April 20, 2022

From searching for life in other galaxies to detecting minuscule amounts of contaminants in the air, Colorado’s photonics companies, including CU startup LongPath, met as an industry.

NVC

Venture Partners' startup Chembotix takes home $45,000 at New Venture Challenge championship

April 20, 2022

Five startup ventures, led by CU Boulder students and faculty, competed for more than $100,000 in prize money Tuesday evening at the 14th annual New Venture Challenge championship, CU Boulder's premier entrepreneurial program and competition.

Doug Campbell

Solid Power CEO interviewed on CNBC's Squawk on the Street

April 4, 2022

Doug Campbell, CEO of Solid Power, discussed the opportunity for solid state battery production from the Defense Production Act and next steps for the CU spinout.

Mercure

Venture Partners remembers late entrepreneur R.C. "Merc" Mercure

March 30, 2022

Mercure was described as a “revolutionizer” of the university’s process for transforming research at CU Boulder into commercial applications. The former CU tech transfer director co-founded CU spinout Ball Aerospace, launching Boulder into the pantheon of aerospace science and engineering.

Meati

Meatless cutlets now available to consumers outside of restaurants from CU startup

March 23, 2022

Eaters can now get their hands — and mouths — on Meati’s fungi-based offerings as the company began direct-to-consumer sales.

SomaLogic

SomaLogic to aid in cancer research

March 22, 2022

CU Boulder diagnostics startup SomaLogic will analyze more than 210 million protein samples to study cancer development over 20 years in partnership with the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.

LongPath

LongPath Technologies installs methane monitoring network in Texas basin

Feb. 23, 2022

To detect and mitigate methane emissions, the CU Boulder spinout installed its Basin-SCAN technology

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