BOULDER — Twenty-one finalists have been named for the 2021 IQ Awards, honoring the “Innovation Quotient” amongst Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado corporations.
Launched in 2000, the IQ Awards acknowledge modern corporations and organizations based mostly in Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties and the U.S. Freeway 36 hall, in addition to native divisions of nationwide and worldwide corporations which were instrumental in creating probably the most modern services and products.
Finalists in seven classes will probably be featured on the IQ Awards ceremony, to be held on the Boulder JCC, 6007 Oleg Ave., from 4:30 to six p.m., Dec. 9.
Finalists within the varied classes embrace:
Aerospace, Manufacturing & Robotics
Opterus R&D Inc., Loveland — Opterus’ Trussed Collapsible Tubular Masts allow giant, high-volume area photo voltaic arrays and buildings.
PickNik Inc., Boulder — MoveIt Studio is a robotic manipulator interface software program that allows human operators to do extra advanced duties. The corporate’s strategy helps a broad vary of unstructured and high-latency environments comparable to city areas, inside buildings, microgravity, and subsea.
Vita Inclinata Applied sciences Inc., Broomfield — Stability methods to assist helicopter operators extra safely carry cargo hundreds in opposed circumstances.
Enterprise Merchandise & Providers
Airius LLC, Longmont — The PureAir Sequence of followers makes use of Want Level Bipolar Ionization expertise from World Plasma Options to repeatedly ship ionized air circulating in a room.
Clear Consolation Water Inc., Louisville — Clear Consolation’s patented Superior Oxidation remedy methods reduce publicity to poisonous pool and spa chemical compounds and dangerous disinfection byproducts.
Lariat Advertising Hub, Loveland — Software program-as-a-Service platform geared for entrepreneurs trying to save time and improve productiveness, that includes Mission Monitoring, Time Monitoring, Digital Asset Administration and Lead Administration.
Hashish & Agriculture
Lifetonic, Boulder — LifeTonic turns extracted plant compounds into salts, which dissolve instantly. LifeTonic’s ionized hashish merchandise enter the bloodstream instantly upon consumption and skip the stomach-and-liver journey.
City-gro Inc., Lafayette — urban-gro has expanded into the vertical farming Managed Setting Agriculture sub-segment, which is finally and predominantly used for the cultivation of quite a lot of crops together with leafy greens, herbs, cucumbers, peppers and strawberries.
Wana Manufacturers, Boulder — Wana Fast Quick-Appearing Gummies present Delta-9 THC results much like inhaled hashish with an onset time of simply 5 to fifteen minutes and a median offset time of solely three hours.
Vitality & Utilities
Gridmetrics Inc., Louisville — Gridmetrics’ Energy Occasion Notification System (PENS) makes use of a singular dataset to supply close to real-time, hyperlocal insights into the provision and high quality of energy from {the electrical} grid by scanning its community of roughly 300,000 energy sensors each 5 minutes.
Maplewell Inc., Boulder — Maplewell focuses on decentralized power, reworking navy, authorities, and industrial infrastructure with AI and Digital Twins to maximise operational resiliency, reliability, and effectivity in a decarbonized power future.
YES Vitality LLC, Boulder — Sure Vitality has launched Place Administration, a turnkey, consolidated resolution empowering the Center Workplace to supervise buying and selling efficiency and handle danger for all Nodal energy market buying and selling actions.
Well being Care
Origin Healthcare Inc., Fort Collins — Origin Healthcare is a brand new mannequin of hospital stage care. Relatively than going to the hospital for an acute sickness, sufferers can now be cared for at residence.
Quorum Prosthetics Inc., Windsor — Quorum Prosthetics has developed the Quatro, a prosthetic socket design that permits simpler utility and launch of the prosthetic, whereas growing consolation and efficiency for the person. The socket is the system that connects one’s limb to the rest of the prosthetic.
ROLL Restoration LLC, Boulder — Created by athletes, for athletes, the brand new R8 Plus is a deep-tissue therapeutic massage instrument.
Life Sciences
Aspero Medical Inc., Boulder — Aspero Medical’s first product, the Ancora balloon overtube, consists of lately patented Pillar balloon texturing expertise. The Ancora silicone balloons cut back slippage and improve buy throughout gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures.
Laporte Immunotherapeutics Inc., Broomfield — Laporte Immunotherapeutics is creating a brand new immunotherapeutic eye drop (Ocummune) expertise to deal with persistent ocular herpesvirus infections (herpes simplex and zoster) in addition to ocular floor neoplasia (OSSN) involving the cornea.
Lightdeck Diagnostics, Boulder — Leveraging a exact however little-known laser expertise referred to as planar waveguide, LightDeck’s platform provides on-the-spot, lab-quality diagnostics for COVID-19 antigens and antibodies, which will be deployed virtually wherever, from emergency departments, to nursing properties, colleges and airports.
Pure & Natural
Frescos Naturales, Boulder — Frescos Naturales are flavorful, low sugar, actual fruit refreshments impressed by vibrant Latin American cultures, trendy style and conventional aguas frescas.
Future Match Meals LLC, Longmont — Suppas are a line of immediately contemporary plant-based soups designed in mini-meals for on a regular basis comfort.
Terraseed Inc., Boulder — Terraseed is constructing sustainably sourced, vegan dietary supplements packaged within the first-ever, totally biodegradable tablet bottle aimed to assist the well being of individuals and the well being of the planet.
A number of corporations additionally will compete in a pitch slam occasion, presenting to a panel of judges, with the viewers voting on the general “Innovation of the Yr.”
Tickets for the occasion value $29.49 for BizWest subscribers and $39.49 for non-subscribers by means of Dec. 2. After that date, general-admission pricing will probably be in impact, $39.49 for subscribers and $49.49 for non-subscribers. Tickets may be purchased here.
