The Insider: Deep Tech Partners Edition—December 2024
CU Â鶹ӰԺ Startups and Technologies in the News
New device could deliver bedside blood test results in an hour
CU Â鶹ӰԺ Today—Go to the doctor to provide a blood sample and you’re typically faced with a needle and syringe and hours or even days of waiting to get results back from a lab. CU Â鶹ӰԺ researchers hope to change that with a new handheld, sound-based diagnostic system able to deliver precise results in an hour with a mere finger prick of blood.
GM Ventures invests $10M in Forge Nano’s game-changing EV battery technology
Electrek—Capital investment into Forge Nano, a CU Â鶹ӰԺ spinout, now exceeds $100 million; GM joins Volkswagen, LG, Hanwha, and Mitsui Kinzoku as shareholders.
CU Â鶹ӰԺ teams among first winners of the NSF-funded Colorado-Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine
CU Â鶹ӰԺ teams are among the first winners of the NSF-funded Colorado-Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine, which supports innovative climate resilience projects across the region1. This initiative, backed by the U.S. National Science Foundation, aims to address key issues like water security, wildfire prediction, and extreme weather modeling through interdisciplinary collaboration.
CU Â鶹ӰԺ spinout LongPath Technologies to expand methane detection with $162M DOE loan
CU Â鶹ӰԺ Today—A small crowd, including representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy, gathered on a wide stretch of lawn on the CU Â鶹ӰԺ campus to witness a one-of-kind technology demonstration—a laser device that could soon transform the oil and gas industry in the American West and keep potent greenhouse gasses out of the atmosphere.
Pioneering sodium-ion batteries: a sustainable energy alternative
CU Â鶹ӰԺ College of Engineering & Applied Science—CU Â鶹ӰԺ researchers are exploring using sodium-ion batteries as an alternative to lithium-based energy storage. Chunmei Ban, associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, and her research team are developing new electrolytes and studying how they interact with battery electrodes to enhance performance and longevity.
OEDIT announces grants to University of Colorado startups and researchers in the advanced industries
The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) announced that seven University of Colorado companies and three researchers are among the awardees of the Proof of Concept and Early-Stage Capital and Retention grants through OEDIT’s Advanced Industries Accelerator Program.
AI ambition is pushing copper to its breaking point
The Register—Ayar Labs, a CU Â鶹ӰԺ spinout, contends silicon photonics will be key to scaling beyond the rack and taming the heat of increasing AI model demands. Many photonics startups are looking to overcome the limitations of copper interconnects and improve the efficiency of optical I/O, but Ayar is among the first.
