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Daily Camera—��������Ƶ Boulder’s commercialization, including startup companies, had an economic impact of $8
billion nationally and $5.2 billion in Colorado from 2018-2022, according to a 2022 report
from ��������Ƶ Boulder’s Leeds School of Business. Ball Aerospace was one of the first startup
companies out of ��������Ƶ Boulder. Another is Solid Power, which creates electric vehicle batteries
and other components and has partnered with Ford and BMW.

Destination Startup brings groundbreaking startups built on novel discoveries from top national labs and universities together with investors from throughout North America to catalyze real-world impact. This showcase demonstrates a powerful way to invest in and get funding for innovative research and translate it into impactful business ventures.

��������Ƶ Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science—It’s been six years since the launch of startup company Aspero Medical, co-founded by Professor Mark Rentschler of the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering. The company has seen great success, including the development of a medical device designed to enable more efficient procedures in the small bowel region.

The second cohort of Entrepreneurs in Residence in the Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator will pitch their newly built startups bringing to market ten groundbreaking technologies developed within ��������Ƶ Boulder's research labs. Investors and business

��������Ƶ Boulder Today—When it comes to putting science into action, last year was one for the record books. From July 2023 to June 2024, ��������Ƶ Boulder helped to launch 35 new companies based on research at the university—a big tick up from the previous record of 20 companies in fiscal year 2021.

U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—“EPA congratulates PAGE Technologies on receiving this grant award,” said EPA Regional Administrator KC Becker. “The company’s development of low-cost, handheld printable sensors for water quality monitoring will deliver an innovative, new tool for safeguarding water quality and public health."

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel—Brandon Regensburger, founder and CEO of ExoPower, a ��������Ƶ Boulder startup, is developing a technology that can wirelessly charge robots as they move and work. He has set up shop in the Grand Junction Business Incubator Center, where he continues developing technology he has worked on for years as a graduate student at ��������Ƶ Boulder and Cornell University.

FY 2023-24 was another tremendous year for innovation and entrepreneurship at the ��������Ƶ. University researchers, inventors and creators began working with Venture Partners at ��������Ƶ Boulder to advance 144 breakthrough innovations, and 36 ��������Ƶ startups were launched through Venture Partners based on campus discoveries.

Innovation at the University of Colorado Boulder reached an unprecedented milestone in fiscal year 2023-24 by launching 35 startup companies based on university innovations. This achievement shattered ��������Ƶ Boulder’s previous record of 20 startups in FY 2021 and placed it among the most prolific single-campus institutions in the country.

Composites World—Mallinda Inc., a ��������Ƶ Boulder spinout and global developer of vitrimer resin systems, announces the commercial launch of Vitrimax versatile hot melt (VHM) resin, a vitrimer-based composite resin system. According to the company, this technology combines the optimal mechanical properties of thermosets with the processing flexibility of thermoplastics, while enabling economic recyclability and reuse for high-performance composites.