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Jan. 6, 13 and 20, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. MT
Virtual Events

The Starting Blocks Customer Discovery Workshop is a three-day workshop with customer interviews designed to help scientists and engineers of all types find a market for their innovations. The core concept encourages inventors to get out of the lab and talk to industry decision-makers to find out what problem the industry needs their product to solve.

Jan. 25, 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building, Room A104

When you're a graduate student, post-doc, researcher or faculty member, you know how important it is to transform your idea into real-world impact. The Lunch & Learn series offers an opportunity to gain valuable insights and learn concepts and methods from experts and practitioners who can help you navigate this stage in your career in an informal atmosphere that fosters dynamic discussions. In our next session, join us to hear from university inventors who utilized university resources to commercialize their research innovations.

Jan. 23, noon-1 p.m.
Virtually via Zoom

This lunchtime series is for researchers and academics who are interested in entrepreneurship, device and technology development and innovation. Every month, academics and innovators will engage in a lively and provocative interview with an expert, followed by a Q&A session. Join us this month with Stacyann Russell, Founder and CEO of The Daraja Collective.

Registration deadline Jan. 25, 2023

The New Venture Challenge (NVC) connects the CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ campus with the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ community to develop and fund innovative ideas. Participants attend year-round events, network and collaborate with mentors to refine their ideas and form startup teams to pitch for funding (more than $100,000!) at the NVC Finals. Participants represent majors and departments from across the university. From undergraduates to graduates, PhD candidates to postdocs, and faculty to staff, everyone is invited to pitch their idea.

Application deadline Feb. 14, 2023

West Gate provides innovators with a career-changing opportunity to de-risk their technologies and receive specialized entrepreneurial training over a two-year runway at NREL and the Colorado School of Mines. The program includes full salary support and other benefits.

Application deadline Jan. 13, 2023

The Nucleate Venture Fellows (VF) program is a 12-week fellowship for highly motivated trainees in the life sciences, culminating in the selection of the 2023 Pillar Venture Prize winners, totaling $2 million.

Registration deadline Jan. 26, 2023

This collegiate competition with $370,000 in prize funding challenges students to develop and present a business plan using National Laboratory-developed, university or other high-potential energy technologies.