The Insider: Deep Tech Partners Edition—December 2025
This monthly edition of The Insider from Venture Partners at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Boulder delivers upcoming events, opportunities and top headlines for industry partners, entrepreneurs and business community members.
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Featured News
Ventures putting people first at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Boulder
The ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ actively incubates and supports nonprofit and for-profit ventures with broad societal impact, from far-reaching educational and wellness tools to vaccine accessibility and water security.
University Startup and Innovation News
Agami Zero breaks through with magnetic hydrogen advance
Renewable And Sustainable Energy Institute—A startup team led by RASEI Fellow Oana Luca, called Agami Zero, has just secured seed funding after winning the 2025 ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Lab Venture Challenge. Their winning idea? A new way to produce hydrogen fuel more efficiently, a key mechanism for decarbonizing our energy economy.
OEDIT announces grants to University of Colorado startups and researchers in the advanced industries
OEDIT—The Global Business Development division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade announced that five companies based on innovations from the University of Colorado and one ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ researcher have been awarded Proof of Concept and Early-Stage Capital and Retention grants through OEDIT’s Advanced Industries Accelerator Program.
Researchers redefine hip arthroscopy with breakthrough surgical device
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science—The technology, published in the journal Arthroscopy Techniques, completely transforms arthroscopic procedures in the hip region, making them safer and more efficient than ever before.
A window underground: New sensors measure emissions from soil in real time
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Boulder Today—A team of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ researchers is making reliable, inexpensive and easy-to-deploy sensors that monitor soil in real time and have formed a new startup, Tierra Metrics.
Arpeggio Biosciences raises $20M in latest offering
BizWest—Arpeggio Biosciences, a University of Colorado startup that works in the development of pharmaceuticals, has raised about two-thirds of what it expects to collect in its latest investment offering.
Opportunities for Partnership
Behind our innovation engine is a team worth celebrating
This Thanksgiving, we asked the Venture Partners team to celebrate each other, and invite you to explore—in their words—the extraordinary team behind an extraordinary engine for innovation and entrepreneurship.





