Accelerating entrepreneurship
and job creation.
About
Innosphere’s mission: Accelerate job creation and entrepreneurship, and create long-term, regional economic impact by offering clients access to a broad network of specialized resources. This is accomplished through efficient, personalized growth strategies that streamline the entrepreneur’s path to success.
Innosphere, founded in 1999, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) startup incubator headquartered in Fort Collins with a satellite office in Denver and specialized facilities at Colorado State University. Innosphere supports highly motivated entrepreneurs working on innovations that matter in the industries of Health, Energy & Advanced Materials, and Enterprise Software & Hardware. Over the years, Innosphere has tracked a 75% success rate for client companies.
Innosphere has offices in Fort Collins, Boulder and Denver
University Partnerships
Innosphere partners with Colorado’s three major research universities to help bring university innovations to market. By working closely with university technology transfer offices, Innosphere matches the inventions to industry expertise for commercial assessment, develops commercialization strategies, facilitates licensing deals, and recruits the management teams capable of launching companies to commercialize the research.
Staff
Mike Freeman
CEO 
Scott Sampl
Director of Operations
Tom Fuhr
Program Manager-Castle Rock
Aziza Syed
Education Program Coordinator
Susan Strong
Boulder Director
Peyton Griffin
Marketing Associate
Jordyn Kopcow
Human Resource Associate
Emily Wilson
Communications Director
Ben Walker
Life Sciences Program Director
Mark Gorham
Cleantech Program Director
Bud Michael
Director, Software & Hardware Programs
Joey Davis
Innosphere Fund Principal
Jakob Porter
Research Associate
Board of Directors
DuWayne Peterson
Innosphere Board Vice Chair
Angel-in-Residence
Brian Zimbelman
Board Member
Crawley Ventures
Steve Foster
Board Member
Convercent
Josh Birks
Board Member
City of Fort Collins, Economic Health Office
Mike Scholl
Economic Development Manager
City of Loveland
Todd Headley
Innosphere Board Secretary
Colorado State University Ventures
Bob Clancy
Board Member
Guaranty Bank, Vice President
Will Vaughan
Board Member
Colorado School of Mines, TTO Director
Merc Mercure
Board Member
Entrepreneur
Doug Johnson
Innosphere Board Treasurer
TIGER 21
Frank Gray
President & CEO
Castle Rock Economic Development Corporation
John Leonard
Innosphere Board Chair
Fairfield & Woods, P.C.
Jeff Mihelich
Deputy City Manager
City of Fort Collins
Kevin Cudney
Board Member
Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber and Schreck
Dr. Alan Rudolph
Vice President for Research
Colorado State University
Todd Campbell
Board Member
First National Bank
Brent Hendricks
Board Member
Plante Moran
Chris Christopher
Board Member
Innosphere, SAGE
Terri Fiez
Vice Chancellor for Research
University of Colorado
Jane Brautigam
Board Member
City of Boulder, City Manager
Tom Brook
CFO/COO, Denver South Economic Development Partnership
Brian Robinson
Wealth Advisor
Baird
The Innosphere Building
Innosphere is lucky to have a state-of-the-art building located in north Fort Collins: 320 East Vine Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80524 (Map)
Parking: Innosphere holds many large events and parking is limited, so there is an overflow parking lot located just east of Innosphere behind the wooden fence.
Building snapshot:
- LEED Platinum, 30,000+ square feet, 3-story building
- Private laboratory space equipped with fume hoods
- Shared printer and kitchen area
- Small workout room, showers, and changing area
- A variety of large and small meeting and conference spaces
- Outside patio area with firepit
- Secure bicycle pavilion, and access to Poudre River bike trail system
For information on leasing space at our headquarters in Fort Collins, click here.