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In 2016, faculty at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business and industry partners noticed an underserved vertical in the world of accelerators—financial services. More specifically, technology and its impact in the industry. ScratchWorks , born from this recognition, is now entering its second year of transforming and advancing...

Last spring, we kicked off a pilot fellowship program immersing MBA students in academic and hands-on experiences unique to growth-stage companies. Over the summer, these High Growth Venture (HGV) fellows interned with startups all over the country for invaluable experience behind the scenes of a growing startup. We captured some...

Entrepreneurial Solutions 2018 has been on a whirlwind of a ride since starting operations in March this year. From a challenging business development period, to a variety of industry clients, and finally the biggest contract we’ve signed yet, it has been the most eventful and exciting experience we could have...

The Deming Center Venture Fund (DCVF) is a graduate student-run investment fund that provides capital support for emerging companies based in Colorado or founded by CU students or alumni. Our goal is to provide an applied venture capital experience for MBA, JD and graduate engineering students at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä and...

Meet Brandon Seifert, the Co-Founder and Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer for Atomos Nuclear and Space . Atomos provides in-space power technologies and transportation services for commercial, civil, and military space operations. Brandon has a degree in astrophysics from ²ÊÃñ±¦µä and the business acumen to scale and drive growth...

Catalyze CU, the university’s flagship venture accelerator program, celebrated the close of its fifth annual 10-week program on Thursday (July 26th). As we’ve come to expect from this event, the caliber of startups coming out of CU is only growing stronger annually, with everything from smart fencing solutions to early...

The dog days of a Denver summer - a blissful time to be in the cool of the Denver Performing Arts complex, attending the Digital Summit Denver . With Keynote Speakers like Chelsea Handler and Scott Dikkers (co-founder of the Onion), attendees enjoyed a pleasant, comedic break from conference norms...

I'm so fortunate to be leading our Entrepreneurship & Empowerment in South Africa program. Fifty student consultants from U.S. universities and the University of Western Cape form teams and consult with disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the townships around Cape Town. We have one goal: to make the biggest difference possible in...

The Leeds tradition of producing impactful, high-quality entrepreneurship research is alive and well thanks to PhD alumni like Dr. Michael Conger and Dr. Siddharth Vedula. Our entrepreneurial research faculty and alumni are consistently producing nationally-recognized research assessing the impact of entrepreneurship and startups. Leeds PhD alum (2014) Dr. Michael Conger...

Sana Packaging is a startup that designs and develops 100% plant-based hemp plastic packaging solutions for the cannabis industry. The founders, Ron Basak-Smith and James Eichner, are both Leeds MBA alumni. In fact, they started working on Sana Packaging in Jeff York’s Sustainable Venturing class and George Deriso’s Business Plan...