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April 7, 14 and 21
Virtual Event

The I-Corps Starting Blocks Workshop is ideal for researchers, engineers and scientists who want to commercialize their technology or secure funding for their research. This program is designed as a three-day program spread over three weeks and introduces participants to the commercialization process.

Wednesday, April 12, 6-9 p.m.
Â鶹ӰԺ Theater, 2032 14th St. Â鶹ӰԺ

Join us at the Â鶹ӰԺ Theater to see who will win the 16th annual New Venture Challenge. CU Â鶹ӰԺ’s top student and faculty startups will pitch their business ideas to a panel of esteemed judges and you, a live audience. Come and support the next big CU Â鶹ӰԺ innovations as we give away over $100,000 in funding!

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Application deadline April 14

Catalyze CU is a summer-long startup accelerator program designed for CU Â鶹ӰԺ ventures created by students, faculty and staff. It combines world-class mentorship, funding and a dedicated co-working space to help the most promising ventures from across campus reach escape velocity—without taking any equity.

Presented by theÌýCollege of Engineering and Applied Science

Tuesday, April 18, noon-1 p.m.
Room X317, JILA

The Venture Partners at CU Â鶹ӰԺ team are experts at turning breakthrough scientific research into revenue-generating companies and products. Venture Partners has a plethora of services and funding to help start your company or find an industry partner. Come for a free lunch and to learn about translating your CU research into new solutions, businesses and partnerships.

Tuesday, April 18, noon-1 p.m.
Linfield Colloquium Room (A400), Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building

Gain Insights from our keynote speaker Daniel Labarbera, professor, director of CU AMC Center for Drug Discovery and co-director of Drug Discovery and Development Shared Resource (D3SR). As an expert in therapeutics research, Dan will share his insights into using system-wide resources to advance therapeutics research, including an open Q&A session.

April 24-28, noon-1:30 p.m.
Virtual April 24-27, in-personÌýApril 28

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants are key ways that university spinouts and innovation firms fund the early development and commercialization of their technologies. To highlight this program's strategic use, the Center for Translational Research willÌýhost a dynamic, week-long lunchtime conference featuring experts across the Colorado and national innovation ecosystem.

May 16-June 16
Virtual Event

Research-to-Market (R2M) is a four-week program that teaches science and engineering inventors and teams the process of customer discovery and how to find a market for their technology by getting out of the lab.

Monday, May 22, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Virtual Event

The Ascent Deep Tech Accelerator is for research teams building deep tech startups coming out of the University of Colorado campuses in Â鶹ӰԺ, Colorado Springs and Denver. The Ascent Investor Showcase will bring together researchers, investors and community supporters across two days to highlight innovative startups spinning out of Colorado laboratories.

Venture Partners provides faculty, research staff and graduate students with entrepreneurship tools, events, programs and training to learn how to leverage their intellectual property, start a company on campus, generate a licensing deal, assess product-market fit, develop successful commercialization strategies and generate options for increasing their technology's impact outside of the lab.
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