Investors, Military and Subject Matter Experts Gather to View Leading-Edge Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Technologies By Lora Premo Colorado Springs, Colo. – December 20, 2018 – The Air Force Research Lab Space Vehicle Directorate’s Catalyst Space Accelerator held their big Demo Day on December 13, 2018 at the Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation, […]
Category: Catalyst Accelerator
The Catalyst Accelerator is a defense and national security industry accelerator, headquartered on the Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Catalyst Accelerator offers a semi-residential 12-week program for second stage businesses. We provide office space, investment, mentors, subject matter experts, a collaborative ecosystem and resources necessary to nurture the next level of innovation.
Catalyst Space Accelerator Wins Colorado Business Roundtable Award
Champions in Industry Aerospace Award Presented to Accelerator Team By Lora Premo December 3, 2018 – Colorado Springs, Colo. – The Catalyst Space Accelerator Team – consisting of Air Force Research Lab Space (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate, Catalyst Campus LLC, Center for Technology, Research and Commercialization (C-TRAC), the Boulder Small Business Development Center (SBDC), and […]
Air Force Research Laboratory and Catalyst Accelerator Announce Applications Are Open for Space Communications Cohort
Catalyst Accelerator seeks commercially viable startups and small businesses with dual-use space communication technology solutions for third accelerator cohort. By Lora Premo COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — December 4, 2018 — The Catalyst Accelerator announced it will launch the third space technology cohort focused on innovative space communications in April 2019. The semi-residential, 12-week, cohort-based Catalyst […]
Catalyst Accelerator PNT Company Highlights Part 3: ColdQuanta and PreTalen
By Victoria Mann Have you ever dreamed about being present when electricity was invented? When the first telegraph message came through? Or how about when the first plane flew? I’m sure many people have had similar dreams – and then gone back to doing what they know how to do. Some people, though, have dreamed […]
Catalyst Accelerator PNT Company Highlights Part 2: NOVAA, esc Aerospace and Braxton
By Victoria Mann Innovation can be hard to pin down. By nature, disruptive innovation isn’t exactly predictable. It often pops up in places we aren’t looking for it. Thankfully, we’ve found ways to drastically increase our odds of innovation by putting people with different backgrounds in the same room for three months, for instance (hint: […]
AFRL/RV Catalyst Accelerator Welcomes New Program Manager to Oversee PNT-Focused Accelerator Cohort
By Lora Premo Introduction The Air Force Research Lab Space Vehicles Directorate (AFRL/RV) Catalyst Accelerator just launched its second cohort under the oversight of Air Force Lt Zoe Casteel. The cohort companies will be focused on Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) challenges, a hot topic right now because the United States is heavily dependent upon […]
Alumni companies from Colorado Springs accelerator win research grants
By Wayne Heilman of the Colorado Springs Gazette Four of six companies that spent four months this year in the Catalyst Accelerator at Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation have won Small Business Innovation Research Grants. The four companies — Adaptive Systems, Advanced Radar Co., Guidestar Optical Systems and SarniaSat — all were part of […]
Catalyst Accelerator PNT Cohort Highlights, Part 1: Third Insight, Nokomis Inc, and Echo Ridge
By Victoria Mann Tapping into small commercial industry to meet big needs of the U.S. military The U.S. government needs new technologies. Other countries are coming out with them, it seems, every day (see here or here or here). But the process for getting those technologies is so complicated that it often turns away the […]
Seven SBIRs Awarded to Recent Catalyst Accelerator Alumni
Written by Lora Premo Seven SBIRs Awarded to Recent Catalyst Accelerator Alumni Multiple Small Business Innovation Research Awards Go to Four Companies from Inaugural Cohort COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., October 2, 2018 – Air Force Research Lab Space Vehicles Directorate (AFRL/RV) Catalyst Accelerator, at the Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation in downtown Colorado Springs, […]
Air Force Special Topics SBIRs Used as New Mechanism to Select PNT-Focused Cohort
Written by Lora Premo Catalyst Accelerator will welcome the program’s second cohort with a public Kick-Off to be held Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at the Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation in downtown Colorado Springs. A defense and national security industry accelerator headquartered at the Catalyst Campus, the AFRL/RV Catalyst Accelerator is the first accelerator […]