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鈥淩ather than just focusing on intellectual property and IP transactions, we are putting our effort and our resources toward developing entrepreneurs and helping them build businesses," says Brynmor Rees, assistant vice chancellor for innovation at CU 麻豆影院 and managing director for Venture Partners.

The Louisville-based CU 麻豆影院 startup company is moving into a 75,000-square-foot building in Thornton. The expansion comes as the company prepares to go public. In June, Solid Power announced a merger valued at $1.2B with Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corp. III.

Startup company founders who commercialize CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 research innovations will be getting a boost in 2022. Ascent, a startup accelerator specifically created for CU 麻豆影院 innovators, will help founders launch their companies, raise investment capital, and gain market and partnership traction.

Meati Foods is a CU spinout company hoping that fungi, not plants, could be key to winning the protein wars and confronting climate change. Co-founders Tyler Huggins and Justin Whiteley met as Ph.D. students at CU 麻豆影院, where Whiteley studied material science and Huggins studied environmental engineering.

With a new, $15 million dollar award announced by the National Science Foundation (NSF) on August 25, engineers and scientists from top research universities across the Western United States鈥攊ncluding CU 麻豆影院鈥攚ill form a new consortium, the I-Corps Hub West Region, to help advance new technologies and incubate emergent companies that can move breakthrough discoveries from the lab to the marketplace.

Xalud Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing therapies initially worked on and developed at CU 麻豆影院 for the treatment of neuro-inflammatory diseases and inflammatory joint disorders, including osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Aspero Medical Inc. received a U.S. patent for technology related to its planned medical device, a new balloon catheter for use in gastrointestinal endoscopies. The patent means Aspero can seek FDA approval this year and with commercialization to follow in early 2022 if successful. Aspero CEO Mark Rentschler invented the technology with Steven Edmundowicz and Karl Johannes. Rentschler and Edmundowicz are CU 麻豆影院 professors; Johannes was one of Rentschler鈥檚 PhD students.

A detailed article on Venture Partners' 鈥渉yper-accelerator鈥� program鈥擯andemic Hyper-Accelerator for Science and Technology (PHAST)鈥攁ppears in the July issue of Technology Transfer Tactics. PHAST leverages Economic Development Administration (EDA) funding while also rapidly bringing innovative solutions to market. That program is now beginning to bear fruit, with a first cohort of startups preparing for an inaugural Demo Day scheduled for January 2022.

SBIR and STTR grants are highly competitive programs that encourage research by small U.S. businesses with the aim of putting innovative, profitable products on the market. The STTR program also requires small businesses to collaborate with nonprofit research institutions such as CU 麻豆影院.

Forge Nano, a global leader in Atomic Layer Deposition technology, offers advanced nano coatings that drastically improve the performance and safety of batteries.