Community Impact
- CU Boulder spinout ColdQuanta, the leader in Cold Atom Quantum Technology, has been awarded two development contracts from U.S. Government agencies worth $2.55M in total. Both projects are based on the company's Quantum Core鈩 technology that uses atoms cooled to a temperature of nearly absolute zero, and lasers to manipulate and control the atoms with extreme precision.
- Inscripta, Inc., the digital genome engineering company, today announced the first commercial shipment of its Onyx鈩 platform and the closing of a $150 million Series E financing round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
- When their business needed help during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, EsoTerra Cider founders Elizabeth Philbrick and Jared Scott put out a call for help on an online tool for small business owners called the Startup baby直播app Network. The network was launched in 2020 by Startup baby直播app, an outreach program within Silicon Flatirons at CU Boulder. It connects rural entrepreneurs with business resources, as well as fellow business owners, mentors and funders.
- Through this program, CU Boulder students and postdocs in the sciences join artists and arts organization leaders from Boulder County to learn how to facilitate art + science partnerships that catalyze community action on interrelated social and environmental issues. These cohorts receive mentorship from scientists and community-engaged scholarship professionals through workshops and other consultations.
- The first episode of the inaugural season of Buff Innovator Insights, a new podcast from the Research & Innovation Office (RIO), will premiere on Thursday, March 18. The podcast will offer a behind-the-curtain look at some of the most ground-breaking innovations in the world鈥攁ll emanating from the CU Boulder campus鈥攁long with the personal journeys that made those discoveries possible. New episodes will air each Thursday, from March 18 through May 6.
- It鈥檚 inevitable that at some point we must all 鈥済et our affairs in order,鈥 and when we do, there are checklists, policies and professionals to help create everything from wills and trusts to advance directives. But a key element鈥撯揼uidance surrounding technology and end-of-life planning鈥撯搃s missing, says Jed Brubaker, an assistant professor in Information Science.
- ColdQuanta,聽a CU Boulder spinout company co-founded by聽Physics Professor聽Dana Anderson,聽is a fast-growing startup focused on Cold Atom Quantum Technology, a scalable, versatile, and commercially viable area of quantum tech. Caruso鈥檚 involvement with the company began late last year, as he joined as an investor. After additional conversations with the leadership team, Caruso saw an opportunity to help.
- One by one, a team of often-siloed CU Boulder scientists began to pivot, back-burnering their own research and personal lives to face a daunting challenge: to bring 31,000 students back to campus safely in the midst of a deadly virus easily spread by young people who don鈥檛 know they have it.
- LongPath Technologies, Inc. has been awarded $5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy鈥檚 Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The award will support the commercial scaling of LongPath鈥檚 innovative approach to continuous emissions monitoring and mitigation from the oil and gas sector, including the launch of Basin-SCAN (Basin Scale Continuous oil and gas Abatement Network).
- OnKure, a privately-held biopharmaceutical company developing best-in-class, targeted oncology therapeutics, announced that it has raised $55 million in a Series B financing. Proceeds will be used to advance the Company鈥檚 next generation histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors further into clinical development and fund a growing pipeline of earlier stage molecules.