New Mexico Connecting Startups with Investors

The state’s Economic Development Department aims to foster startups that generate jobs

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By Dave Nyczepir

Route Fifty

New Mexico is continuing to push for startup-led job creation, this time with the state Economic Development Department’s title sponsorship of a new innovation showcase, DisrupTech.

The department wants to see investment in cutting-edge technology being developed by “carefully selected” Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, chosen for their work’s entrepreneurial appeal to policymakers and industrial partners.

A networking event at heart, the eight technology transfer opportunities represent advances in sustainable fracking, solar cells, water treatment, biotechnology, biofuels, tamper forensics, toxic chemical neutralization and industrial process improvement.

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