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Protecting your work and exploring your opportunities can begin with disclosing your innovation to Venture Partners. Our team provides expert guidance and resources to safeguard your groundbreaking discoveries and support CU's community of innovators dedicated to advancing research and technology.

Deadline: Wednesday, Jan. 15; Showcase: March 13

Startups built on novel discoveries from top national labs and universities can pitch to investors from throughout North America for funding to transform their companies and catalyze real-world impact.

Deadline: Friday, Jan. 17; Workshops: Jan. 24-Feb. 7

Whether a researcher, entrepreneur, inventor or problem solver, the Starting Blocks Customer Discovery Workshop at Venture Partners at ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ can help you transform your concept into a successful venture.

Friday, Jan. 24, 9 a.m.-noon, Flatirons Room, C4C, Boulder Campus or Virtually

Collaborate with partners, explore synergies and build connections to advance climate innovation in Complex Earth Sensing, Wildfire Prediction, Water Quality, and Soil Health. Open to all Engine partners, including universities, startups and national labs as an interactive session to refine proposals for the Engine's $2.5 million second RFP.

Feb. 2-3, Wolf Law Building

Join the Silicon Flatirons 2025 Flagship Conference, where industry leaders and innovators will gather to explore the future of technology policy and telecom platforms.

Deadline Saturday, Feb. 8

A multi-round, multi-event entrepreneurial competition and signature program of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ's Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, where teams could pitch to a live audience at the Boulder Theater and win a top award of a $144,000 SAFE investment.

Thursday, Feb. 20, Wolf Law Building, Wittemyer Courtroom

Join Silicon Flatirons as they stitch together the startup scene, ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ, innovators from the Federal Labs, as well as technologists from incumbent technology companies in a night of food, networking and entrepreneurship.

Deadline:ÌýFriday, Feb. 14, 2025, 11:59 p.m. MT

This is a new funding opportunity available to ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ therapeutics projects. This program offers up to $50,000 in rapidly accessible funding to help advance early-stage therapeutic projects with strong commercial potential.