Table 3.
Summary of Proof-of-Concept (POC) investments and grants at the University of Colorado by technology type. Columns represent various sources of primary funding (POC Award Amount) and follow-on funding by source and in TOTAL. Leverage represents POC Award Amount divided by TOTAL follow-on funding for that category and is a primary measure of POC program efficacy.
| Number of | POC Award Additional | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Projects | Technology Type | Amount Grant Funding | Angel Investment | Venture Investment | TOTAL | Leverage Multiple1 | ||||||
| 2 | Materials and Tools | $ | 75,000.00 | $ | - | $ | - | $ | - | $ | - | 0.00 |
| 20 | Device | $ | 1,087,402.00 | $ | 1,550,000.00 | $ | 1,300,000.00 | $ | 3,081,057.00 | $ | 5,931,057.00 | 5.45 |
| 10 | Diagnostic | $ | 756,169.00 | $ | 2,106,557.00 | $ | - | $ | 750,000.00 | $ | 2,856,557.00 | 3.78 |
| 37 | Therapeutic | $ | 3,358,449.00 | $ | 2,506,706.00 | $ | 3,693,105.00 | $ | 99,150,000.00 | $ | 105,349,811.00 | 31.37 |
| 69 | $ | 5,277,020.00 | $ | 6,163,263.00 | $ | 4,993,105.00 | $ | 102,981,057.00 | $ | 114,137,425.00 | 21.63 | |