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Excited to cheer Eva Y. and FLARI on at the Women's Venture Challenge next week! https://lnkd.in/eVdkMG69

Opportunity outside the University of Colorado! CPIA's (Colorado Photonics Industry Association) Rocky Mountain Photonics Summit and Expo 2026 is an opportunity to amplify your voice and showcase your brand in the evolving conversation about the future of photonics. 📅 Friday, April 17, Denver 🎟️ Register: https://lnkd.in/g4P4GxzM 💡 Find More Opportunities: https://lnkd.in/gwwc5wGq

The Colorado Sun—Google said Tuesday that it is entering the Colorado quantum realm in what seems like a very tiny way: It hired a quantum physicist in Boulder to speed up development of its first quantum computer. But by adding University of Colorado Boulder and federal lab researcher Adam Kaufman, Google is taking a much bigger step in the industry. The company also announced Tuesday that it is expanding into a competing type of quantum computer development based on neutral atoms. Kaufman, known for his work in controlling neutral atoms, “is one of the key experts in this area,” said Charina Chou, chief operating officer of Google Quantum AI, which has been working for more than a decade to build a quantum computer to tackle the world’s unsolvable problems. Such computers have accelerated computing performance that could lead to improvements to cancer and health treatments, AI accuracy and better tools to address climate change. ➡️ Read the full story at https://lnkd.in/gFtQkXZu 🤝 Learn more about partnering with CU startups, innovators and their discoveries at https://lnkd.in/gmDHkNn2 💡 Explore how Venture Partners can support your research, invention or creative work at https://lnkd.in/gz5wDgbi

🎉 We are thrilled to announce that the University of Colorado Boulder and Techstars, the global startup accelerator and investor, have entered a strategic partnership to expand opportunities for founders and strengthen Colorado’s innovation economy. “This partnership reflects CU Boulder’s commitment to empowering people across our campus to turn ideas into impact,” said Massimo Ruzzene, senior vice chancellor for research and innovation and dean of the institutes. “Our students, faculty and researchers are developing technologies, launching companies and exploring solutions to real challenges. Working with Techstars connects that talent with a global community of entrepreneurs and investors who can help move those ideas from campus into the world.” 📣 Bryn Rees, David Cohen, Shay ('shy') Har-Noy ➡️ Read More at https://lnkd.in/gptYnepw

Are you a researcher, inventor or creator in the arts, humanities or social sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder? The new CU Boulder Creative Futures Fellowship is designed to help you turn new ideas, creative works and social innovations into meaningful impact beyond the university. The fellowship offers $5,000–$25,000 in grant funding, plus community and hands-on support, for projects that strengthen communities, advance positive social change or create economic opportunity. ⏰ Application Deadline: Monday, May 11 👥 Projects must be led by faculty, staff or students eligible to serve as Principal Investigators ➡️ Learn more and apply at https://lnkd.in/gKzFKV9s

Huge congratulations to Jeanne Barthold and Marwa Yacouti of University of Colorado Boulder as well as Suzhao Li of the University of Colorado Anschutz (whose team won the 2025 Lab Venture Challenge), for joining the 2026 Equalize Startups Cohort Established in 2020, Equalize Startups is a nonprofit program taking national action on the disparity in women academic inventors forming startups from nonprofit research institutions. Equalizers receive education, a field-specific mentor, and access to networks that drive new entrepreneurial connections. They can include faculty, postdocs and graduate students in STEM disciplines. ➡️ Read more at https://lnkd.in/eY5X7hGT 💡 Find opportunities like this one at https://lnkd.in/ePNx8YZe 🤝 Learn more about partnering with CU startups, innovators and their discoveries at https://lnkd.in/gmDHkNn2

🎉 Today is Buffs All In 🎉 For 150 years, generosity has shaped the University of Colorado Boulder, empowering students, advancing research and strengthening the community that makes CU bold. At Venture Partners at CU Boulder, your support fuels the next wave of entrepreneurs and discoveries that address global challenges in health, sustainability, quantum, advanced materials, aerospace and more. 💡 You empower researchers pursuing bold ideas. 🚀 You support innovators exploring what’s possible. 🌎 You equip faculty and student innovators with the guidance, training and early resources they need to move from discovery to real-world impact. What matters to you matters to CU Boulder! 💛🖤 Join Venture Partners today in driving the next generation of innovation and shaping CU’s next 150 years of impact. Give today: https://lnkd.in/g9Dix3fm

Huge congratulations to the CU Boulder startups and innovators Eva Y. (FLARI) and Liz Scott (Renovare Therapeutics, Inc.) for making it to the finals of the Women's Venture Challenge! Get your tickets to the April 9 finals at https://lnkd.in/gEPfw9p2