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CHROMAPRAXIS, a tattoo ink innovation company with research developed in the Emergent Nanomaterials Lab聽and founded by Assistant Professor Carson Bruns and Jesse Butterfield, a mechanical engineering PhD student, has been accepted. The company has two product lines:
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Also accepted is LoopSketch, a聽remote, real-time collaborative software platform for "sketching" musical ideas with friends using user-recorded loops, AI-recommended loops聽and AI-created loops.聽 With research developed by ATLAS PhD Student聽Darren Sholes in the ACME Lab,聽LoopSketch聽focuses on group flow and brainstorming, allowing for a remote experience that feels more like an in-person jam session. It聽makes聽it possible for musicians in different locations to collaborate and quickly build rich, multilayered recordings. Sholes聽pitched LoopSketch to judges during 麻豆免费版下载Boulder鈥檚聽New Venture Challenge 14 Prize Night聽on March 17, winning first place in the newcomer competition (event聽video聽), which came聽with $5,000 in funding.聽
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ATLAS Board of Advisors member Kyle Kuczun is one of the coaches for聽this cohort.