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The Embark program pairs seasoned entrepreneurs with university technologies to bring those breakthroughs to market in response to urgent societal needs. The recent Embark Showcase was the pinnacle of the program’s first year working with selected entrepreneurs to provide IP rights, salary support, grant funds and investor introductions to launch startups with real-world impact.

LiteWave Technologies, a spinout of CU Â鶹ӰԺ and a subsidiary of Orion Space Solutions, has been acquired by Arcfield, a leading government technology and mission support provider.

Yahoo! Finance—Standard BioTools announced that it has completed its merger with SomaLogic, a CU Â鶹ӰԺ spinout, creating a leading provider of differentiated multi-omics tools for research. The combined company is poised to realize significant benefits as a multi-omic technology leader, targeting large, high-growth markets with a diverse portfolio of life sciences tools that power industry-leading throughput and data quality.

BizWest—VitriVax, a CU Â鶹ӰԺ spinout developing vaccine technology, has received a $5 million, two-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will help the company further develop its proprietary single shot, thermostabilization vaccine technology and begin the development of pilot-scale manufacturing capacity, the company said in a press statement.

Digital Journal—Orbital Micro Systems (OMS), a CU Â鶹ӰԺ spinout and leader in the collection, aggregation and dissemination of commercial weather and climate data together with its partner Black Swift Technologies, has been selected for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to conduct expedited assessments of soil integrity for landing strips in unconventional locations.

OEDIT—Tattoos. Soybeans. Video games. All are behind the three startups—Afference, HYPRSKN and Seedling Biosystems—from CU Â鶹ӰԺ that just won $250,000 in grants from the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT).

Coloradan Alumni Magazine—According to the latest report from the Association of University Technology Managers, which assessed startup creation by universities in 2021, CU ranked fifth nationwide, ahead of Stanford and MIT. CU Â鶹ӰԺ produced 20 startups that year and has spun out 179 companies to date. The pace of startup formation is surging, having nearly doubled in recent years.

Shoppe Black—Tynt Technologies, a CU Â鶹ӰԺ spinout, is a company on a mission to optimize human health and comfort within the home. Their innovative approach involves dynamic windows that intuitively control daylight and privacy, challenging the traditional notion of windows as mere openings to the outdoors.

The Colorado Sun—Before Colorado was named a quantum Tech Hub, an ecosystem existed with roots dating back to the 1950s. Now, a push to commercialize quantum.

CU Â鶹ӰԺ Today—Leaders from Colorado’s growing quantum ecosystem convened on campus last week to roll up their sleeves and begin mapping out a roadmap for workforce development in this new and growing field.