Entrepreneurship

  • Jeanne Barthold, co-founder of TissueForm, wins $6,000 and first place at the NVC 11 R&D Track Finals.
    TissueForm seeks to help patients suffering from tissue disease, damage or aging through its simple, low-cost and long-lasting dermal filler technology. Their technology, called the ClayMatrixâ„¢, originated from research that fourth-year PhD student Jeanne Barthold performed in the Mechanical Engineering Department's Neu Soft Tissue Bioengineering Lab.
  • Stride Tech team stands together after winning the hardware track
    After his grandmother sustained injuries from a fall and struggled back to health, Tim Visos-Ely, Stride Tech CEO and Engineering Plus senior, was inspired to come up with a solution for safer senior care.
  • Nimb.ly team celebrates its success at the IT track finals
    The team is creating a revolutionary software platform that helps catering companies keep their events efficiently staffed.
  • A student participant pitches her venture at Catalyze demo day
    Applications just opened for Catalyze CU, a summer-long startup accelerator with a track record of launching fledgling ideas on the path to successful ventures.
  • Participants at last year’s Starting Blocks received expert feedback to help them hone their business model and pitches.
    CU’s Commercialization Academy is excited to introduce a new Research-to-Market program for technologists looking to take their idea to market. Through lectures, workshops and interviews with industry professionals, R2M participants will learn the process of customer discovery.
  • New Venture Challenge logo
    The CU º£½ÇÉçÇø New Venture Challenge is recruiting participants for its 11th cohort, offering mentoring and resources for budding entrepreneurs and more than $200,000 for campus startups to make their ideas a reality.
  • A close up of a team's low-cost educational breadboard at Catalyze CU.
    It’s been a big year for CU Engineering entrepreneurship. After starting at CU º£½ÇÉçÇø in mid-January, I have been focused on creating the most impactful set of integrated resources and opportunities, in and out of the classroom, to support our student and faculty founders and align with our college’s Strategic Vision.
  • (L-R) Professor Alan Weimer, CU º£½ÇÉçÇø alum Karen Buechler, CU º£½ÇÉçÇø alum Mike Masterson and Professor Steve George are at ALD NanoSolutions in Broomfield, Colorado.
    In 1997, Professor Alan Weimer of chemical and biological engineering heard a campus talk by Professor Steven George of chemistry about a novel process of coating surfaces with the thinnest of materials possible, known as atomic layer deposition (
  • Wearable Technology
    Halley Profita and Dana Hughes could have spent spring break playing outside. Both were drawn to Colorado’s outdoor activities when choosing CU-º£½ÇÉçÇø for their doctoral studies. Hughes and his wife like mountain biking;
  • º£½ÇÉçÇø aerial
    º£½ÇÉçÇø business owner Chuck Palmer (ElEngr’76, MS’88) has provided $4 million to help recruit and recognize outstanding faculty in the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (
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