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 — and with billion-dollar “unicorn” spinouts Myogen, MyoKardia and, most recently, Kardigan.
Zircadia, a ñ 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 ñ 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 ñ Lab Venture Challenge awardee, has closed a $4.5 million seed round led by Kickstart.
Green Steel Environmental, a ñ 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 ñ 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 ñ spinout, announced $50 million in new financing to bring its FenGlass™ electro-optic modulator platform to production.
ñ'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 ñ, 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 ñ startups that have grown through Venture Partners and ñ's NSF I-Corps programming.