Venture Partners at CU 色吧亚洲 has helped faculty and researchers from the University of Colorado build over 170 new ventures spun out of technology and innovation from CU 色吧亚洲, UCCS and CU Denver physical sciences. Explore our startups and investment opportunities.
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AmideBio, LLC
AmideBio discovers and develops novel peptides for the treatment of metabolic diseases. In addition, AmideBio leverages its proprietary BioPure鈩� peptide manufacturing technology to supply ultrapure peptides for research purposes.
Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Series A Round
Arpeggio Biosciences
Arpeggio makes better drugs by discovering mechanism of action sooner.
Industry:聽Genomics, Therapeutics
Funding Stage:聽Series A Round
Artimus Robotics, Inc.
Artimus Robotics is changing the way the world moves by enabling life like motion solutions in robotics and automation.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Robotics, Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage:聽Series A Round
Aspero Medical, Inc.
Aspero Medical focuses on improving gastrointestinal endoscopy for the patient and physician. Our technology enhances device performance, saving time and money, while improving patient outcomes.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Medical Devices
Funding Stage:聽Series A Round
Ayar Labs, Inc.
Ayar Labs solves the I/O bandwidth and power bottlenecks in computing systems by moving data using light.
Industry:聽AI & Big Data, Optics
Funding Stage:聽Series B Round or beyond
Bactria Pharmaceuticals, LLC
Bactria's聽mission is combating bacterial antibiotic resistance. The company's initial focus is on the discovery and development of small molecule therapeutics that reverse existing and emergent resistance to antibiotics in the most problematic and severe bacterial Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs).* 聽聽
Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Seed Round
BCell Solutions, Inc.
BCell Solutioions is commercializing proprietary immunotherapies computationally designed to treat newly discovered causes of unwanted inflammation.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Therapeutics
鈥婩unding Stage:聽Seed Round
Big Blue Technologies
Big Blue Technologies聽aims to demonstrate the world鈥榮 most energy and material efficient process for primary magnesium metal production to proliferate light-weight components in vehicles, aircraft and portable electronics.
Industry:听厂耻蝉迟补颈苍补产颈濒颈迟测
Funding Stage:聽Seed Round
BioLoomics
BioLoomics utilizes sythetic biology and cell imaging to discover and develop protein drugs.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Therapeutics
Funding Stage:聽Series A Round
BioSensor Solutions Inc.
Providing next-generation soil sensor technology to help meet the challenge of climate change聽and soil hazards for farmers.
Industry:聽Bioscience, Food and Agriculture
Funding Stage:听笔谤别-厂别别诲
BREK Electronics
BREK Electronics utilizes silicon carbide for power electronics in the renewable energy and electric vehicle industries.
Industry: Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage: Series A Round
Cascade Biocatalysts
Cascade Biocatalysts is creating more productive enzymes for economically biomanufacturing sustainable chemicals.
Industry: Chemicals, Advanced Materials
Funding Stage: 厂别别诲听搁辞耻苍诲
Chembotix
Chembotix is developing a robotic automation platform to dramatically speed up chemistry research.
Industry: Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage: Pre-Seed
Commutrics LLC
Commutrics is a commuting platform that allows organizations to implement multi-modal transportation programs seamlessly.
Industry: Environmentalism and Sustainability鈥�, Information Technology, Software, Smart Cities鈥�, Civic Engagement and Government
Funding Stage: Seed Round
Darwin Biosciences
Darwin Biosciences is developing saliva-based diagnostics for the early detection of infectious diseases that will change the way the world identifies and manages outbreaks.聽
Industry: Diagnostics
Funding Stage: Seed Round, Series A Round
Double Helix Optics
Double Helix Optics designs and manufactures sensors and imaging instruments for precision 3D imaging for use in scientific R&D, drug development, industrial inspection and machine vision utilizing our patented phase mask technology and optimization imaging algorithms.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Optics, Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage:聽Series A Round
Eat Meati鈩� (Meati Inc.)
Eat Meati鈩� (Meati Inc.)聽believes food should be simple, clean聽and delicious. That鈥檚 why they聽do everything, from growing and nurturing their聽mushroom root main ingredient to creating nutrient-rich, sustainable, whole-cut products.
Industry: Environmentalism and Sustainability,聽Food and Agriculture
Funding Stage: Series B聽and beyond
ExoPower
ExoPower uses novel wireless power transfer technologies to keep electric vehicles in the materials handling industry charged. They focus on vehicles in warehouses, airports and聽seaports to eliminate excessive downtime currenly experienced while batteries are recharged or swapped.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage:聽Pre-Seed
Flari Tech Inc.
Using Nobel Prize-winning frequency comb technology to detect diseases in breath.
Industry: Biotech鈥�, Software, Health and Wellness鈥�, Hardware and Instrumentation, Medical Devices, Quantum
Funding Stage: Pre-Seed
HiveTech Solutions, LLC
HiveTech's modular, climate-controlled apiary system dramatically improves honeybee survival rates.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Sustainability, AI & Big Data
Funding Stage:聽Seed Round
Icarus Quantum Inc.
Based on semiconductor quantum dot technologies perfected over the past 30 years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Icarus Quantum is developing the first of the building blocks of quantum internet.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Quantum
Funding Stage: Pre-Seed
Infleqtion (prev. ColdQuanta, Inc.)
Infleqtion is a quantum atomic company developing quantum computing, sensing and signal processing hardware.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Quantum, Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage:聽Series B Round or beyond
Inscripta
Inscripta is a digital genome engineering company providing tools based on CRISPR gene editing technology.
Industry: Genomics, Hardware and Instrumentation
Funding Stage: Series B聽Round or beyond
Latimer Controls Inc.
Building cutting-edge utility-scale control systems that enable stand-alone dispatchable solar power.聽
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Environmentalism and Sustainability鈥�, Cleantech, Software, Civic Engagement and Government鈥�, Hardware and Instrumentation
Funding Stage:聽Seed Round/Series A
LongPath Technologies, Inc.
LongPath Technologies continuously monitors methane for oil & gas infrastructure.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Optics, Sustainability
Funding Stage:聽Seed Round
LumenAstra
LumenAstra鈩� is commercializing a patent聽for a non-invasive, wearable core body temperature sensor.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Medical Devices
Funding Stage:聽Seed Round
Mallinda, Inc.
Mallinda is an industry-leading developer of malleable thermoset and composite technologies that enable materials鈥� moldability, rehealability聽and recyclability.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Advanced Materials, Sustainability
Funding Stage:聽Series B Round or beyond
MedShape
MedShape developed聽innovative, commercial-stage medical devices for fracture fixation, joint fusion and soft tissue injury repair. They were acquired by Enovis in 2021.
Industry: Medical Devices
Funding Stage: Exit
Minus Materials
Minus Materials uses microalgae to produce CO2-storing biominerals for the cement and concrete industry.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Advanced Materials, Sustainability
Funding Stage:聽Seed Round
Mosaic Biosciences
Mosaic is a biopharmaceutical company that provides experienced biopharma leadership and cross-functional teams that can participate at almost any stage of protein therapeutic research and development.
Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Series B Round or Beyond
Mycobacteria Therapeutics Corporation
Mycobacteria Therapeutics聽is innovating development of novel strains of mycobacteria as nutritional supplements and pharmaceuticals.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Therapeutics
Funding Stage:聽Seed Round
Myogen
Myogen developed a series of FDA approved medicines treating cardiovascular disease. The company was acquired by Gilead for $2.6 billion.
Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Exit
Nanoly Bioscience, Inc.
Nanoly Bioscience has developed a low cost polymer that stabilizes temperature-sensitive molecules so they don't need refrigeration and can concentrate molecules so that more can be injected at once without loss of activity.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Therapeutics
Funding Stage:聽Series A Round
New Iridium, Inc.
New Iridum's聽patent-pending next-gen photocatalysis platform provides unprecedented efficiencies in pharma and chemical manufacturing.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Therapeutics
Funding Stage:聽Series A Round
Nucleic Designs
Nucleic Designs聽are commercializing a proprietary method of gene assembly that uses uniquely modified DNA oligonucleotides.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Genomics
Funding Stage:聽Seed Round
OnKure, Inc.
OnKure discovers and developes next generation Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors for the treatment of various cancers and neuropathies.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Therapeutics
鈥婩unding Stage:聽Series B Round or beyond
OPX Biotechnologies
OPX Bio processed biofuels and green chemistry products from renewable feedstocks.They were acquired by Cargill in 2015.聽
Industry: Chemicals
Funding Stage: Exit
Orbital Micro Systems
Orbital Micro Systems is empowering humanity by managing environmental risk with real-time global weather intelligence.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Aerospace, AI & Big Data
Funding Stage:聽Series A Round
OTORO Energy Inc.
OTORO Energy provides a proprietary flow battery technology for grid-scale stationary energy storage.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Hardware & Instrumentation, Sustainability
鈥婩unding Stage:聽Seed Round
Point Designs
Point Designs聽develops innovative and robust prosthetic devices for people with partial hand amputation.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Medical Devices
Funding Stage:聽Seed Round
Polaris Electro-Optics Inc.
Empowering integrated photonics for communications and computation.
Industry: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning鈥�, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)鈥�, Information Technology, 颁测产别谤蝉别肠耻谤颈迟测鈥�, Hardware and Instrumentation, Optics, Robotics, Quantum, Advanced Materials
Funding Stage: Seed Round
Prometheus Materials Inc.
Inspired by the composition of coral and seashells, their process combines microalgae with other natural components to form a zero-carbon bio-cement and bio-concrete.
Industry: Manufacturing鈥�, Environmentalism and Sustainability鈥�, Cleantech, Advanced Materials
Funding Stage: Series A Round
Recreo Pharmaceuticals
Recreo Pharmaceuticals is developing next-gen antibiotics to overcome resistance.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Therapeutics
Funding Stage:聽Series A Round, Seed Round
Resilient Analytics
Resilient Analytics helps organizations and communities protect against the impacts of climate change with their proven climate, engineering聽and economic models.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Software
Funding Stage:聽Exit
Respirogen, Inc.
Respirogen鈩� Micro-Oxygen (RMO) technology provides systemic oxygen delivery to the body without using the lungs, treating systemic hypoxia in lung injury COVID and ARDS patients by creating novel breakthrough therapy.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Therapeutics
Funding Stage:聽Seed Round
Rigid Biotech
RIGID Enzyme Immobilization reduces聽the time to integrate engineered enzymes within pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, reducing cost and environmental impact while increasing the search space for candidate compounds.
Industry: Advanced Materials, Sustainability
Funding Stage: Seed Round
Sachi Bioworks, Inc.
Sachi Bioworks is a high-precision, accelerated, cloning-free gene targeting and SARS-CoV2 therapeutics.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Therapeutics
Funding Stage:聽Seed Round
SiILion, Inc.
SilLion, Inc. developed high energy, non-flammable Li-ion systems for solid state batteries. They were acquired by Tesla in 2021.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Advanced Materials
Funding Stage:聽Exit
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Sionic Energy
Sionic Energy unlocks聽the performance of low cost silicon for the next generation Li-ion batteries.
Industry: Advanced Materials, Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage: Seed Round
Sirna
Sirna pioneered platform RNA interference technology and was acquired by Merck for $1.1 billion.
Industry: Therapeutics, Genomics
Funding Stage: Exit
socialcontext.ai
socialcontext.ai provides an AI-powered brand safety floor that protects and enables the monetization of diversity, equality聽and inclusion news and social media content.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听AI & Big Data
Funding Stage:聽Seed Round
Solid Power Inc. (SLDP)
An industry-leading developer of next-generation all-solid-state battery technology. With considerably higher energy and greatly improved safety, all-solid-state batteries have the potential to revolutionize future mobile power markets.
Industry: Environmentalism and Sustainability, Advanced Materials
Funding Stage: Exit
SomaLogic Operating Co. Inc.
SomaLogic boasts industry-leading reliability metrics that include sensitivity, specificity, and reproducibility.
Industry: Biotech鈥�, Genomics, Health and Wellness鈥�, Therapeutics, Diagnostics
Funding Stage: Exit
Soya Biosystems, Inc.
Soya Biosystems is developing novel methods for the production of cannabinoids and other small molecules.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Therapeutics, Chemicals
Funding Stage:聽Seed Round
Stateless
Stateless' software platform enables enterprises and service providers (cloud MSP, colocation and network providers) to easily define and build a portfolio of elegant multi-hybrid cloud connectivity solutions.
Industry:聽Information Technology, Security
Funding Stage:聽Series B Round or beyond
Suvica, Inc.
Suvica is focused on the discovery and development of small molecule cancer therapeutics targeting a unique mechanism of action.聽
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Therapeutics
Funding Stage:聽Series A Round, Seed Round
Think Bioscience
Think Bioscience programs microbial systems to discover, build, and evolve small-molecule drugs.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Therapeutics, Genomics
Funding Stage:聽Seed Round
TissueForm Inc.
TissueForm improves life for people affected by volumetric tissue loss by harnessing the natural, restorative power of extracellular matrix to correct and repair defects or injuries with a novel, regenerative biomaterial.
Funding Stage: Pre-Seed
Tusaar Corp.
Tusaar Corp. transformed generic coconut carbon from a basic water treatment media to one for criticial appliications like removing lead, mercury, uranium and other toxic metals from water and the environment.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Advanced Materials, Sustainability
Funding Stage:聽Series B Round or beyond
Tynt Technologies Inc.
Elegant, ultra-climate-friendly windows adapt to changing needs throughout the day, giving complete control of visible light and solar heat gain.
滨苍诲耻蝉迟谤测:听Manufacturing鈥�, Environmentalism and Sustainability鈥�, Cleantech, Smart Cities鈥�, Advanced Materials
Funding Stage:聽Series A Round
Vesicle Therapeutics, Inc
Vesicle Therapeutics is developing programmable extracellular vesicles to deliver聽macromolecule drugs to the intracellular space.
Industry:听罢丑别谤补辫别耻迟颈肠蝉
Funding Stage:聽Seed Round
VitriVax, Inc.
VitriVax, Inc. is a biotechnology company working to eliminate barriers to global vaccination, and has developed a novel stabilization and delivery platform for vaccines and therapeutics, ALTA鈩�.
Industry: Vaccines
Funding Stage: Series A Round
Vitro3D Inc.
Vitro3D聽is bringing dental aligner manufacturing to the patient's point of care using a brand-new volumetric 3D printing method.
Industry: Advanced Materials, Health and Wellness, Hardware and Instrumentation
Funding Stage: Seed Round
Xalud Therapeutics
Xalud Therapeutics is developing a non-viral gene therapy targeting immune modulation, harnessing the power of interleukin-10.
Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Series B聽Round or beyond