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Stories in the news media about CoMotion and the UW spinoffs and innovations we’ve supported.

  • Ag tech startup wins top prize as UW’s Dempsey competition awards $92,500 across finalists

    Lisa Stiffler
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    BioBead team holding winning check for the top prize at the Demsey Startup Competition

  • Lab of UW Nobel winner cracks challenge of creating roomier protein cages to deliver genetic medicines

    Lisa Stiffler
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    A computer-designed protein that forms a cage-like structure of pentagons and hexagons

  • How to Build a Better Kind of Nuclear Power? This Side Hustle Might Help.

    Raymond Zhong
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    Benj Conway, Zap’s president and co-founder.Credit...

  • Zap Energy’s nuclear double play: Fusion startup adds traditional fission to its lineup, in industry first

    Lisa Stiffler
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    Zap Energy’s fusion device creates a purplish glow from its hydrogen plasma

  • From kelp pots to kilns: UW’s CoMotion Labs reveals 8 startups joining its newest climate cohort

    Lisa Stiffler
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    Emily Power, CEO of Ocean Made, shows the difference in the root structure of tomato plants grown in the startup’s kelp-based pots, on the left, versus plastic pots.

  • 10 startups chosen for Plug and Play’s third Seattle-area accelerator cohort

    Kurt Schlosser
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    Plug and Play cohort

  • From computer to lab to market: Nobel winner David Baker lands $7M for new protein program

    Lisa Stiffler
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    scientists in lab

  • Overland AI raises $100M to meet military demand for autonomous ground vehicles

    Kurt Schlosser
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    Overland AI vehicle

  • Washington’s Climate Innovation Hub Proves The Green Economy Is Here To Stay

    Aparna Rae
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    Members of the CoMotion Labs Climate Tech Incubator 2025 Cohort

  • Breast Cancer Research Foundation to Fund Seven Cancer Consortium Researchers

    Diane Mapes
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    three researchers headshots