CU Anschutz Innovation Forum 2026 - Fast Pitch Competition

Breakthroughs don’t come from staying in your lane. They come from expanding it. The Fast Pitch competition brought this to life with four CU faculty-led teams converging with industry and investor judges, receiving live feedback on their innovations from diverse perspectives. A final audience vote drove the outcome: a $10,000 prize. Two teams, NeuroVesica and Parley Neurotech, walked away with funding, tackling challenges from precision psychiatry to reversing hearing loss. Innovation Forum Fast Pitch | Participants Moderator: Gali Baler, PhD – CU Anschutz Innovations Judges: Jordan Masanoff – Amicus Therapeutics Praful Shah, PhD, MBA – Rockies Venture Club Rhonda Wallen, MS, MBA – ilerabio Presenters: MindLAMP Care: Allison Dempsey, PhD RetroNephrix: Heiko Yang, MD, PhD NeuroVesica: Tracy Bale, PhD; Neill Epperson, MD Parley Neurotech: Samuel Budoff, PhD; Achim Klug, PhD Timestamps 00:00:00 Introduction & Welcome 00:03:06 MindLAMP Care Pitch 00:25:30 Retronephrix 00:46:03 NeuroVesica Pitch 01:07:22 Parley 01:26:43 Winners Announced See our website for more details on the full CU Anschutz Innovation Forum 2026 event: https://www.cuanschutz.edu/innovation... Follow our channel for exciting Innovations stories:    / @cuanschutz-innovations