Through Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), Venture Partners at CU Boulder and the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) fund the university's top innovations with grants up to $125,000 that address a commercial need, have a clear path to a compelling market and have strong scientific support. 

This opportunity is available for CU Boulder or eligible CU Denver or UCCS professors with a lab with innovations in advanced manufacturing, aerospace, bioscience, electronics, energy and natural resources, infrastructure engineering, or technology and information.

Application deadlines

Aug. 18, 5 p.m.—Deadline to disclose inventions 
Sept. 1, 5 p.m.—Deadline to submit draft budgets 
Sept. 15, 11:59 p.m.—Deadline to apply to LVC