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The Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), hosted annually by Venture Partners at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä awards grants to campus researchers whose technologies demonstrate high commercial potential.
²ÊÃñ±¦µä spinoff Stateless, Inc. recently announced that the company received a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
This round of financing will enable Mallinda to scale up and to deliver its first commercial product of its high-performance materials for the transportation segment.
The domestic economic impact of commercialization activities at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä over the last five years amounted to a staggering $1.9 billion, according to the recently-released Economic Impact on Tech Transfer report.
Double Helix Optics, a 3D nano-imaging company spun out of ²ÊÃñ±¦µä technology, won SPIE’s 2019 Prism Award in the Diagnostics and Therapeutics category for its innovative SPINDLE® imaging system.
In hopes of making valuable industry connections to commercialize and advance their technologies, 25 university ventures spun out of Colorado research institutions and federal laboratories pitched to local investors and venture capitalists from both coasts.
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