Event: ESPRIT Tech Alliance Breakfast

On Tuesday, November 1, TTO will host the ESPRIT Tech Alliance Breakfast (part of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce ESPRIT Entrepreneur celebration), which highlights CU-Boulder innovations at all points along the innovation spectrum: from lab to startup to successful company. Short presentations from five researchers and entrepreneurs will be followed by time to mingle with the presenters, as well as with other members of the CU-Boulder innovation community. Presenters:

• SuviCa, Inc. is using its proprietary screening technology to discover and develop novel drugs utilized either as stand-alone therapies or to prevent tumor recurrence following treatment with a variety of approved anti-cancer therapies. 

• Mobile Assay Inc.’s patent-pending smartphone technology and applications provide an integrated system that can be used to detect and quantify dangerous pathogens found in produce, infectious agents in biological fluids, pollutants in aquifers, and drug-related metabolites in saliva. Its system has the capacity to securely transmit and store geo-tagged data for real-time analysis and tracking of more than 1000 potential targets. 

• Solid Power LLC is funded by a DARPA Phase 1 and 2 program to create rechargeable batteries with ultra-high energy density or power using nanostructured materials. The CU team behind Solid Power is developing solid-state batteries with new electrode nanocomposites that yield a step-function increase in battery capacity over state-of-the-art lithium ion technologies. 

• Double Helix is commercializing a three-dimensional super-resolution optical imaging technology developed at CU. The patent pending imaging technology has increased accuracy, with resolution in the nanometer regime, at a cost that is comparable to much lower resolution imaging technologies available on the market today.

• Phobos Energy is changing the landscape of solar energy with the next generation of distributed power electronics. Phobos is developing parallel DC optimizers to provide the lowest system cost and the highest system power output.

Details, agenda and registration are available online; for more information contact Lindsay Lennox (303-735-5518).