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- Drivewayz placed second out of 35 teams in the IT Track finals, winning $2,500 at the New Venture Challenge at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØin March 2019.
- A group of three engineering students and one business student at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ are using their specialized skills to improve bike safety. Alex Mulvaney, who graduated from Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØin the spring, tells CBS4 he came up with the idea two years ago.
- A year and a half after starting the company, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder startup ShineOn has grown to five employees and is preparing to launch its first product for cycling enthusiasts.
- Corporate travel has a been a market in need of some desperate transformation. Pana, a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder spinoff company, hopes to facilitate this change with a $10 million Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Bessemer Venture Partners.
- Timothy Visos-Ely, Humsini Acharya, Andrew Plum and Max Watrous - founding members of company Stride Tech - won New Venture Challenge 11 and intend to continue their efforts after graduation.
- The Stride Tech team won the 2019 New Venture Challenge (NVC) and walked out of the Boulder Theater with $100,000 toward their invention and the opportunity to hobnob with venture capitalists, business leaders and more.
- 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.
- Bright Wearables, KartWheel, Stride Tech, Nimb.ly, TissueForm and Button Huggie will battle it out for $200,000 at the NVC 11 Championships.
- Competing against five teams in the NVC 11 Research & Development (R&D) Track Finals competition (hosted by Venture Partners at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder), TissueForm took home the first place prize and $6,000 after pitching their business idea to a panel of judges and a live audience.
- Bright Wearables brings both style and communication together in order to eliminate the need for business cards. Their micro-chip embedded fashion accessories allows contact information to be passed to smartphones with just a tap of the phone.