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Celebrating the Next Wave of Innovation at Altitude Lab, introducing our latest cohort

As temperatures drop in Utah and Fall seems to be right around the corner, I’m reminded that we’ve been building Altitude Lab for four years.

Altitude Lab Startups Raise Over $120M in Capital

Launches Fellowship Grant Opportunity for Early Career Entrepreneurs

Altitude Lab Grows Biotech Startups

Altitude Lab is much more than a coworking space, Haque told TechBuzz in a recent interview. Although it offers offices, conference rooms and desks, it also provides the startups with...

Health Care Innovation is Utah's Next Great Economy

With more venture funding, companies, and jobs than ever, Utah's health care innovation economy is outcompeting emerging markets across the country.

First Cohort of Startups Closes Over $50M in Seed Capital

Altitude Lab's first cohort of startups raises the largest seed round in Utah's history.

Altitude Lab Launches Investor Coalition

Lux Capital, Mubadala Capital, DCVC and 10 other national healthcare investors bring access to capital and mentorship to Altitude Lab's founders.

Altitude Lab's Chandana Haque is honored as a Woman to Watch

Altitude Lab's executive director is named one of 2021's 30 Women to Watch by Utah Business Magazine

A Vital New Element in Utah's Innovation Ecosystem

University of Utah's PIVOT Center highlight's Altitude Lab as a pivotal new development in Utah's technology landscape in its 2020 Innovation Report.

Giving Utah's Early-Stage Companies a Distinct Advantage

April young Bennet from the Governor's Office of Economic Development talks to Chandana Haque, Altitude Lab, on how Utah's life science economy is changing--in all the best ways.

University, spinoff join forces to launch life science incubator

Universities launching incubators is old news. Corporations launching incubators is not uncommon. But universities teaming with corporations — with a spinoff, no less — not so much.

abc4Utah covers Altitude Lab

Sarah Martin covers the opening of Altitude Lab with Chandana Haque on Good Morning Utah.

Here are the 98 companies from Y Combinator's Summer 2020 Demo Day

Altitude resident, Known Medicine, is highlighted TechCrunch's coverage of YC's second virtual demo day this year

Y Combinator startup grows mini-tumors to take the guesswork out of personalizing cancer treatments

From targeted drugs to immunotherapies, oncologists rely on certain presumptions to select treatments for their patients. Known Medicine wants to take away that guesswork.

Altitude Lab Brings New Generation of Biotech Development to Utah

Recursion and the University of Utah launch region’s largest life science incubator

Sending the Ladder Down While Still Climbing

On January 3rd, 2014, I sat alone in a nearly empty conference room (Recursion’s first office). I had taken the leap (and a leave of absence from medical school) to start Recursion.

Recursion and Center for Technology & Venture Commercialization to Jointly Launch Incubator

Life science and technology startups led by members of underrepresented communities will be encouraged to apply

Building a Start-up Ecosystem for Utah Biotech Entrepreneurs

Building a company from the ground up is hard. Building a biotech from the ground up can be even harder.

3 BioTech Founders on What They Wish They Knew Before They Started