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By translating breakthrough research into new businesses, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØcreates economic opportunities while addressing many of the world’s greatest challenges. In the past year, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder has burned especially bright through Venture Partners’ record-setting performance.

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Today—Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Chancellor Justin Schwartz announced that Massimo Ruzzene, vice chancellor for research and innovation, will begin reporting directly to him, effective Aug. 30. Ruzzene currently reports to Provost Russell Moore, the chief academic officer of the campus.

The University of Colorado is a proud partner of the Colorado-Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine (CO-WY Engine), one of ten inaugural awardees under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Regional Innovation Engines initiative. The CO-WY Engine announced the launch of its use-inspired and translation grant opportunities to accelerate the research, development and commercialization of innovations into tangible products, services or solutions that address climate resiliency. Selected projects will receive funding from $250,000 to $750,000.

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Today—Elevate Quantum, of which Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder is a key partner, announced today that it has received a Tech Hub Phase 2 implementation award from the Department of Commerce, unlocking more than $127 million in new federal and state funding.

Venture Partners at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder is proud to unveil Sophia, the university's new portal for university innovators—a sophisticated tool designed to streamline and enhance the innovation disclosure process for inventions and copyrighted materials.

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Today—Colorado Gov. Jared Polis ushered in a new bill to support the state’s rapidly growing quantum industry. Polis signed the bill from the top floor of the JILA Tower, one of the epicenters of quantum research on campus, with a view of the Flatirons in the background.

Now in its second year, the Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator, offered by Venture Partners at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder, matches business minds outside the university with breakthrough inventions created within its walls and provides funding for those

2023 was another tremendous year for innovation at the University of Colorado Boulder. Campus researchers and inventors created a strong crop of 162 breakthrough technologies this past year. These spanned the breadth of Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder’s research expertise, with innovations in climate tech, biotechnology, quantum science, optics and aerospace, to name a few. Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder's commercialization arm, Venture Partners at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder, supports a groundbreaking pipeline translating research into real-world impact, as highlighted in their 2023 Annual Report. 

The Intermountain West innovation ecosystem came together at the sixth annual Destination Startup Investor Showcase hosted by Venture Partners at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder. In a highly competitive field, twenty-three select ventures from the region’s research institutions presented at the showcase.

The New Venture Challenge (NVC) and Venture Partners at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder teamed up to present the NVC Deep Tech competition, awarding $53,000 to groundbreaking new ventures.