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Get a Front-Row Seat to the University of Colorado's Next Big Ideas Competing for $750,000

Join us at the Boulder Dairy Arts Center for the Lab Venture Challenge (LVC) Community Showcases, where teams of top innovators from CU will pitch to a panel of judges and a live audience for grants of up to $125,000—that's $750,000 in total awards—for their early-stage projects in bio- and physical sciences with compelling market potential.

Past pitches have included everything from next-generation batteries to cancer treatments and LVC has helped launch 64 new startups that have gone on to raise more than $350 million, including Darwin Biosciences, Manifest Technologies (prev. Vitro3D) and Mesa Quantum.

At the showcase, finalists will deliver pitches to a live audience and panel of business leaders, entrepreneurs and investors. LVC is the can't-miss event of the year to see CU's next wave of breakthrough innovations!

Announcing the 2025 Finalists!

Eleven teams of CU entrepreneurs, faculty researchers and graduate student innovators will compete for a combined $750,000 in startup funding grants in this year’s LVC Showcases at the Dairy Arts Center.

Meet the Finalists

Lab Venture Challenge Showcases

Gordon Gamm Theater, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder

Physical Sciences Showcase: Wednesday, Oct. 22, 6-8 p.m.

Biosciences Showcase: Thursday, Oct. 23, 6-8 p.m.