CU Startup News
Internationally renowned cardiac researcher and serial entrepreneur Leslie Leinwand has revolutionized understanding of the heart on her decades-long mission to bring innovations from the lab bench to patient bedsides β and with billion-dollar βunicornβ spinouts Myogen, MyoKardia and, most recently, Kardigan.
Zircadia, a ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ startup commercializing flexible biosensor technology developed by Jianliang Xiao, has received a $314,318 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to test its in-ear sleep monitoring sensor.
Mesa Quantum, a ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ startup developing chip-scale quantum sensing technology, has raised an oversubscribed $11.8 million round led by Playground Global.
Codebreaker Labs, a Boulder genomic AI company and 2024 ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ Lab Venture Challenge awardee, has closed a $4.5 million seed round led by Kickstart.
Green Steel Environmental, a ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ startup, is one of 10 water-tech companies selected for AquaEntrepreneur Michigan, the first U.S. wave of AquaAction's commercialization program.
PAGE Technologies, a ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ spinout, is one of 21 companies selected for Breakthrough Energy Fellows' Cohort 6, the program's most globally diverse yet.
Polaris Electro-Optics Inc., a ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ spinout, announced $50 million in new financing to bring its FenGlassβ’ electro-optic modulator platform to production.
ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½'s Lab Venture Challenge has announced the 2026 finalists of bio- and physical sciences innovators to pitch their ideas to a live audience at the Dairy Arts Center for more than $1 million in awards.
Big Blue Technologies' Boris Chubukov and Orva Energy's Evan Flitz, both with roots at ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½, are among the seven founders selected for NLR's 2026 West Gate fellowship, working to bring affordable domestic magnesium and next-generation battery materials to market.
BioSensor Solutions, BioStamp and PAGE Technologies were selected for the NSF ASCEND Engine's SHIELD accelerator cohort, recognizing three ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½ startups that have grown through Venture Partners and ΒιΆΉ΄«Γ½'s NSF I-Corps programming.