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Engaging with CSU
- CSU Startups rely on bringing in executives and external talent to drive the company forward
- CSU Startups rely on outside investor funding (typically leveraged by grant, institutional, and CSU Fund 1 Angel funding)
- CSU performs over $312 Million per year of contract research with government and private industry.
- Leveraging CSU as an outsourced R&D team to help your company with research in Clean Energy is cost effective, efficient, and can provide added credibility.
Prieto Battery
Launched July 2009 from the CSU Chemistry Department.
Developing transformational lithium ion nanowire batteries. Projecting 10,000 times more energy density, 3 times longer life, and 1/3 the cost of current technologies.
Cenergy – Fostering Commercialization and Industry Partnerships
The mission of Cenergy, CSU’s Clean Energy Supercluster Commercialization arm, is to deliver solutions in clean energy through more effective partnering with the clean energy industry, governments, investors, and the public to rapidly develop product opportunities emerging from Colorado State University's world-class clean energy research.
Cenergy provides organizations efficient opportunities to engage with CSU on clean energy inventions and innovations
- Single Point of contact
- Yearly CSU Clean Energy Symposium/Expo
- Quarterly CSU Clean Energy Technology Briefings
- Support from CSU Seed Fund and network of Angel and Venture capitalists
Engagement Opportunities
- CSU faculty, staff, and students are engaged with companies large and small around the globe developing, testing, and perfecting clean energy solutions
Technology Transfer
CSU has over 20 clean energy inventions and innovations ready to transfer to industry
- Business Planning and strategic mentorship
- Investor ecosystem building
- Incubation facilities provide subsidized space with furnishings, lab equipment, shares office resources, full Library and research subscriptions, and subsidized instrumentation services
- Executive Support and Matchmaking of executives to startups.
Cenergy Successes
- 150% increase in new inventions since inception of Superclusters (2006)
- 2 new startups in the last 18 months, 4 additional new startups in pipeline
- Over $2 million in new funding for startups
- All 8 colleges have received portions of $600,000 in new seed grants
- Worked with 14 external ventures to connect them with CSU resources and accelerate them to market.
Click here for Cenergy's Technology Disclosures as of September 2009.
