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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 22.
Published in final edited form as: Med Innov Bus. 2009 Apr 1;1(1):52–66. doi: 10.1097/01.MNB.0000357626.97020.e5

Table 4.

Summary of Proof-of-Concept (POC) investments and grants at the University of Colorado by POC Program. 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.

Follow-on
Program POC Award Amount Grant Funding Angel Investment Venture Investment TOTAL Leverage Multiple1
POCi $ 1,000,000.00 $ 2,656,706.00 $ 1,500,000.00 $ 73,481,057.00 $ 77,637,763.00 77.64
POCg $ 730,627.00 $ 2,574,260.00 $ 1,400,000.00 $ 8,000,000.00 $ 11,974,260.00 16.39
POCsb $ 3,546,393.00 $ 932,297.00 $ 2,093,105.00 $ 21,500,000.00 $ 24,525,402.00 6.92

$ 5,277,020.00 $ 6,163,263.00 $ 4,993,105.00 $ 102,981,057.00 $ 114,137,425.00 21.63