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Archived Awards Content
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Colorado Coalition
Coalition Lead Applicant: Innosphere
Region (applicant-defined): Colorado Front Range
Cluster Sector(s): Bio-medical
Coalition Overarching Narrative (applicant submitted) (PDF)
Project Description:
The Colorado Coalition, led by Innosphere Ventures, intends to grow the Colorado Front Range region’s intensive R&D growth cluster in STEM to rapidly scale the local biosciences and cleantech industries. If provided an implementation grant, the coalition proposes to develop six construction projects; grow cluster employment, particularly focused on growing the region's Black and LatinX workforce; and incubate STEM startup ventures, especially increasing those owned by people of color.