New Partnership Aims to Help Faculty Research
The 快活app signs agreement with FVC Americas
The 快活app is partnering with Japanese venture capital firm FVC Americas. The partnership is an opportunity for the University and its researchers who are eager to identify new ways to bring products to market.
FVC Americas (FVCA) will work with researchers and entrepreneurs from various areas including the听听补苍诲听Project X-ITE. Details surrounding FVCA鈥檚 investment will be determined at a later date and will be project specific.
The 快活app is thrilled for the opportunity to work with FVCA on upcoming projects. 鈥淔VCA鈥檚 interest in developing a partnership with 快活app to accelerate and advance the commercial viability of our faculty innovations is transformational in how the University thinks about marketing and promoting intellectual property,鈥 said Corinne Lengsfeld, associate provost for research. 鈥淩egardless of the final outcomes, we have made an important change in the culture at 快活app.鈥
Denichiro 鈥淒enny鈥 Otsuga, president and CEO of FVCA and other executives from his team, will be on campus Friday, March 3, 2017 for a showcase featuring a variety of 快活app faculty members and their research. There will be presentations from startups at the University 鈥 Dream Face Technologies and Elephant Learning, as well as from researchers looking at analytical and atmospheric chemistry, unmanned systems and orthopedic biomechanics.
鈥淭he partnership with the 快活app is the first official relationship FVCA is entering with a U.S. university,鈥 said Otsuga. 鈥淲e are eager to pursue the opportunities that are ahead of us and look forward to collaborating on various upcoming projects.鈥
Erik Mitisek, executive director for Project X-ITE, will also be joining Otsuga in Fort Collins earlier in the week for Fort Collins Startup Week. Mitisek, who is also the cofounder of Denver Startup week, has played a key role in the partnership with FVCA. His expertise and relationships with the business and entrepreneurial world have been vital in helping to connect innovation, technology and entrepreneurship 鈥 ultimately, bridging the academy to the public sector.