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In 2025, Colorado’s venture capital landscape demonstrated maturity and resilience, securing its position as the 6th largest startup ecosystem in the U.S. While deal volume stabilized, the total capital deployed increased due to significant mega-rounds in energy and infrastructure.

A few years ago, Boulder’s life sciences sector was heralded as the city’s “next big thing.” Backed by CU Boulder’s BioFrontiers Institute, a pipeline of spinouts, and major real estate investments like BioMed Realty’s acquisition of Flatiron Park, the region looked poised to rival traditional biotech hubs. In fact, Colorado’s life sciences industry raised roughly $2.15 billion in 2024, with Boulder home to more than 300 life sciences companies employing over 8,000 professionals.

Making the products that our businesses rely on, that hospitals need or that consumers buy every day is a national priority. But encouraging manufacturing in Colorado, far from ports and the country’s main population centers, isn’t always a straightforward...

LOUISVILLE — After more than a half-decade, dozens of government hearings and votes, a name change, an ownership change and a special election, the sprawling Redtail Ridge mega-development in Louisville is expected to break ground in April.

“Colorado is home to one of the best workforces in the nation, and this comprehensive quantum roadmap will guide our efforts to prepare skilled workers across the state for the opportunities to come,” OEDIT executive director Eve Lieberman said in a prepared statement. “This is a key step to connect Coloradans to good-paying jobs and ensure our state continues to lead the way developing this transformational, next generation technology.”

Colorado’s top five capital raises in July totaled $223.5 million and more than doubled last year’s July total of roughly $93 million.

Ryan Companies US Inc. and PGIM Real Estate, the real estate investment and financing arm of Prudential Financial Inc., are partnering to finance and build a two-building industrial campus near the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield.

WASHINGTON — U.S. News & World Report released its  2024 Best Medical Schools in Research and 2024 Best Medical Schools in Primary Care, reports, naming the University of Colorado among the 16 best medical research schools in the country.

A national quantum technology facility will soon be built in Colorado.
The University of Colorado Boulder, the state’s largest college, received a $20 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to open what it is calling the “quantum machine shop of the 21st century.”