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The Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator pairs seasoned entrepreneurs with Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ technologies to bring those breakthroughs to market to address urgent societal needs. Embark has launched its third cohort of Embark Startup Founders and will provide intellectual property rights, funding for the founders and their companies, startup accelerator programming support and investor introductions to launch startups with real-world impact.

In an ongoing effort to bridge a pervasive investment gap in innovation funding, the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ has awarded pre-seed funding to Illumen Therapeutics, developing cancer treatments based on discoveries from startup co-founder Roy Parker’s lab at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder.

The Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ actively incubates and supports nonprofit and for-profit ventures with broad societal impact, from far-reaching educational and wellness tools to vaccine accessibility and water security.

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Today—More than ever, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder is a destination for faculty, students and staff who want to change the world through innovative research, scholarship and creative work.

A new program providing funding, support and community for faculty teams in the arts, humanities and social sciences to transform their ideas and creative works into real-world impact.

Whether you're developing new technologies, pioneering creative works or advancing scientific discoveries, Venture Partners at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder provides support to help transform your ideas into real-world solutions—while securing funding to advance your work.

Launched in 2018, Destination Startup® connects investors with groundbreaking startups built on novel discoveries from leading national labs and universities in the Intermountain West. Participating startups must be actively raising and are selected through a competitive review process and robust pitch preparation.

This Thanksgiving, we asked the Venture Partners team to celebrate each other, and invite you to explore—in their words—the extraordinary team behind an extraordinary engine for innovation and entrepreneurship.

OEDIT—The Global Business Development division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade announced that five companies based on innovations from the University of Colorado and one Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØresearcher have been awarded Proof of Concept and Early-Stage Capital and Retention grants through OEDIT’s Advanced Industries Accelerator Program.

Could your research, invention or creative idea make an impact beyond the academic world? The National Science Foundation’s I-CorpsTM programs offer the ideal starting point.