BOULDER — Registration is open for the IQ Awards, honoring the “Innovation Quotient” amongst Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado firms.
Launched in 2000, the IQ Awards acknowledge modern firms and organizations primarily based in Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties and the U.S. Freeway 36 hall, in addition to native divisions of nationwide and worldwide firms which have been instrumental in growing essentially the most modern services.
Finalists in seven classes shall 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 embody:
Aerospace, Manufacturing & Robotics
Opterus R&D Inc., Loveland — Opterus’ Trussed Collapsible Tubular Masts allow giant, high-volume house photo voltaic arrays and constructions.
PickNik Inc., Boulder — MoveIt Studio is a robotic manipulator interface software program that permits human operators to do extra advanced duties. The corporate’s strategy helps a broad vary of unstructured and high-latency environments equivalent to city areas, inside buildings, microgravity, and subsea.
Vita Inclinata Applied sciences Inc., Broomfield — Stability methods to assist helicopter operators extra safely carry cargo masses in hostile circumstances.
Enterprise Merchandise & Companies
Airius LLC, Longmont — The PureAir Collection of followers makes use of Want Level Bipolar Ionization know-how from World Plasma Options to constantly 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 and marketing Hub, Loveland — Software program-as-a-Service platform geared for entrepreneurs seeking to save time and enhance productiveness, that includes Venture 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 Atmosphere 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 mean offset time of solely three hours.
Power & 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, remodeling army, authorities, and industrial infrastructure with AI and Digital Twins to maximise operational resiliency, reliability, and effectivity in a decarbonized power future.
YES Power LLC, Boulder — Sure Power has launched Place Administration, a turnkey, consolidated resolution empowering the Center Workplace to supervise buying and selling efficiency and handle threat 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 degree care. Somewhat than going to the hospital for an acute sickness, sufferers can now be cared for at house.
Quorum Prosthetics Inc., Windsor — Quorum Prosthetics has developed the Quatro, a prosthetic socket design that enables simpler utility and launch of the prosthetic, whereas rising consolation and efficiency for the consumer. 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 device.
Life Sciences
Aspero Medical Inc., Boulder — Aspero Medical’s first product, the Ancora balloon overtube, contains not too long ago patented Pillar balloon texturing know-how. The Ancora silicone balloons scale back slippage and enhance buy throughout gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures.
Laporte Immunotherapeutics Inc., Broomfield — Laporte Immunotherapeutics is growing a brand new immunotherapeutic eye drop (Ocummune) know-how to deal with power 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 know-how referred to as planar waveguide, LightDeck’s platform provides on-the-spot, lab-quality diagnostics for COVID-19 antigens and antibodies, which may be deployed virtually anyplace, from emergency departments, to nursing properties, faculties and airports.
Pure & Natural
Frescos Naturales, Boulder — Frescos Naturales are flavorful, low sugar, actual fruit refreshments impressed by vibrant Latin American cultures, fashionable 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 help the well being of individuals and the well being of the planet.
A number of firms additionally will compete in a pitch slam occasion, presenting to a panel of judges, with the viewers voting on the general “Innovation of the 12 months.”
Tickets for the occasion value $29.49 for BizWest subscribers and $39.49 for non-subscribers via Dec. 2. After that date, general-admission pricing shall be in impact, $39.49 for subscribers and $49.49 for non-subscribers. Tickets may be purchased here.
