Beck Venture Center

Backed by the State of Colorado, Mines Venture Fund II will invest $10 million in tech startups founded by Mines alumni, faculty and students with a focus on deep tech.

The Mines Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem is supporting Mines-grown research that is ready to launch from the lab through the new Faculty Startup Fellowship, which give Mines professors course relief and support from Beck Venture Center to commercialize their technologies.

Despite being just one year old, the 31,000-square-foot facility on the Mines campus is incubating 57 startups and counts more than 250 business members and more than 30 investor members.