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  • June 26, 2025

    Spinoff News Roundup: June 2025

    Multiple CoMotion-supported companies have licensed UW technology and entered the marketplace in the first half of 2025.
  • June 24, 2025

    Introducing the CoMotion Labs Climate Tech Incubator inaugural cohort

    Seattle Climate Innovation Hub reception desk
  • June 20, 2025

    Spring 2025 Innovation Gap Fund winners announced

    Eleven research teams selected to receive $575K for commercialization and business development efforts as part of CoMotion's signature funding program.
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  • May 19, 2025

    Husky PitchFest: One minute, one slide, unlimited possibilities

    UW's innovation community came together to celebrate the power of ideas during UW Innovation Month.
    A student making a presentation in front of a powerpoint slide.
  • May 01, 2025

    Participants of the NW Hub I-Corps @ UW - Winter & Spring 2025

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  • April 30, 2025

    UW Innovation Month is back!

    Second-annual UW Innovation Month highlights dozens of events celebrating innovation across disciplines.
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  • April 24, 2025

    New resource: The Startup Licensing Handbook

    Fiona Wills, associate vice provost for innovation development and commercialization, introduces a new guide to the Husky FAST Start licensing process.
    Husky FAST Start (TM)
  • March 18, 2025

    Curinos and CoMotion at the University of Washington relaunch fintech incubator at Startup Hall

    Curinos brings banking industry expertise and unparalleled industry data to support fintech innovation.
    Curinos FinTech Incubator logo
  • February 24, 2025

    Changemaker: Weichao Yuwen

    Nursing professor is leveraging AI technology and healthcare knowledge to support caregivers.
    Headshot of Weichao Yuwen
  • January 15, 2025

    A collaborative home for climate tech in downtown Seattle

    Mayor Bruce Harrell launches the Seattle Climate Innovation Hub to boost the green economy and revitalize the area.
    Logo with the text "Seattle Climate Innovation Hub" and graphic of silhouette of Space Needle against water and a setting sun.
  • December 17, 2024

    NSF Innovation Corps: The class of Fall 2024

    Researchers and entrepreneurs take their first steps toward the marketplace through CoMotion’s signature innovation training program.
    Square image with the text "NSF I-Corps, powered by CoMotion" and six headshots of people quoted in the story.
  • November 19, 2024

    Plug and Play announces expansion into Seattle

    Silicon Valley innovation group launches new accelerator program at CoMotion Labs.
  • October 31, 2024

    UW NSF I-Corps Site Program Awardees & Participants - 2024

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  • October 30, 2024

    UW one of eight universities to receive an NSF I-Corps Hub grant

    New funding will establish a Northwest Region Hub for innovation training.
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  • October 16, 2024

    Tapping the hearts and minds of faculty entrepreneurs

    CoMotion’s new Entrepreneurial Faculty Forum will mentor UW faculty seeking to translate discoveries and maximize impact.
    One stick figure helps another one up a hill toward a flag.
  • October 14, 2024

    Oncologist Nora Disis honored as UW School of Medicine’s Inventor of the Year for work developing cancer vaccines

    Preeclampsia detection project headlines CoMotion Innovator Showcase.
  • October 09, 2024

    Q&A: Start Something with Oren Etzioni

    Tech journalist Katherine Long interviewed computer scientist Oren Etzioni about the nonprofit he founded to detect political deepfakes.
    Headshot of Oren Etzioni
  • August 28, 2024

    ICYMI: CoMotion Labs Summer Social

    Annual gathering brings together Labs colleagues and members from the tech, life sciences, and hardware incubators.
    CoMotion event staff Hannah Wong and Claire Inslee
  • August 21, 2024

    Spinoff News Roundup: August 2024

    CoMotion supported the launches of 12 spinoffs in FY24, all technology through UW on their path from lab to market.
  • July 16, 2024

    Q&A: Cathy Madden

    UW drama professor Cathy Madden, who led an event at Startup Hall, talks to CoMotion about how acting/improv skills can improve entrepreneurs’ pitches.
    Headshot of UW drama professor Cathy Madden