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Altitude Lab Secures Small Business Administration Growth Fund Accelerator Grant to Launch Horizon, a Commercialization Partnering Program

Altitude Lab and the Small Business Administration (SBA) are pleased to announce Horizon, a commercialization...

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Resident Story

Building a Startup with My Dad: Lessons in Family, Boundaries, and Trust

Kevin Yang reflects on co-founding NephroNovus with his dad, sharing how their father-son relationship evolved as they built a startup together. He talks about the challenges of giving feedback, maintaining trust, and learning to separate family dynamics from business decisions. The piece offers a grounded look at the balance between personal connection and professional growth.

April 18, 2025
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Altitude Lab Launches Pre-seed Venture Fund, Anchored by Recursion CEO Chris Gibson, Enabling SBIR-awarded Biotechs Hit by Funding Gap to Build in Salt Lake City

Altitude Lab has launched the Altitude Lab Fund to support early-stage biotech startups impacted by federal funding cuts. In partnership with Recursion, the fund offers $100,000–$250,000, lab space, and accelerator access to high-potential SBIR-reviewed companies. Led by industry leaders, it aims to bridge funding gaps, support underrepresented founders, and strengthen Salt Lake City’s biotech hub.

February 19, 2025
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Blog

Creating a Beacon During a Time of Uncertainty for the Biotech Community

Altitude Lab, in collaboration with Chris Gibson and David Bearss, has launched the Altitude Lab Fund, a pre-seed fund aimed at supporting SBIR-awarded startups facing federal funding uncertainty. The fund underscores the crucial role of SBIR grants in translating academic discoveries into commercial success, as seen with companies like Fluidigm and Recursion. With recent cuts threatening U.S. leadership in biotech innovation, the fund will provide $100,000–$250,000 in pre-seed capital, lab space, and accelerator support to ensure promising health startups continue to thrive.

February 19, 2025
Altitude Lab Fund, SBIR, Recursion, Altitude Lab, Startup Funding
Blog

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...

August 26, 2024
News

Altitude Lab Relocates to Gateway’s BioHive Hub

Altitude’s new facility will be housed within Recursion’s expanded headquarters and will promote increased collaboration in Downtown Salt Lake City’s rapidly growing biotech innovation ecosystem...

May 25, 2023
Resident Story

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

It's safe to say that starting a biotech company is not for the faint of heart. I interviewed three of our resident biotech founders with vastly...

November 17, 2022
Blog

How To Build An Effective Pitch Deck Without Asking For An NDA

Reputation is at the heart of these particular professions, and good investors are careful not to...

October 17, 2022
Blog

How to Apply and Succeed at Altitude

Altitude offers two programs serving entrepreneurs at different stages of starting a company...

September 29, 2022
pitch, incubator, altitude, lab, utah, salt, lake, city
Blog

Can A Grad Student Start a Health Care Company?

According to the Wolters Kluwer CT Corporation Survey, 61% of recent graduates want to start their own business. 45% find it very probable...

September 26, 2022
graduate, fund, start, biotech, new, company, founder, how to, local, risk
Blog

Exclusive Fireside Chat: Akash Bakshi on Developing Non-Hormonal Contraceptives for Men

I'm really honored to have Akash here with us today. Akash Bakshi is CEO and founder of Your Choice Therapeutics...

August 19, 2022
News

Altitude Lab just raised the largest volume of seed capital for healthcare startups in Utah’s history

According to numerous sources over the past several years—including US News and World Report and the Wall Street...

May 13, 2022
News

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.

May 2, 2022
News

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.

March 30, 2022
News

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.

June 8, 2021
News

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

May 10, 2021
News

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.

January 29, 2021
Podcast

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.

January 20, 2021
News

abc4Utah covers Altitude Lab

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

September 3, 2020
News

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

August 24, 2020
Blog

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.

August 11, 2020
News

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.

August 11, 2020
News

Altitude Lab Brings New Generation of Biotech Development to Utah

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

August 11, 2020
News

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

March 1, 2019
Blog

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.

January 28, 2019

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