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Venture Attractor
Venture Attractor is a community-focused initiative based in Colorado Springs, CO, aimed at strengthening the startup ecosystem by supporting early-stage ventures in health, sports, and human performance sectors.
Overview
What Venture Attractor does
What Venture Attractor is
Venture Attractor is a community-focused initiative based in Colorado Springs, CO, aimed at strengthening the startup ecosystem by supporting early-stage ventures in health, sports, and human performance sectors.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports community capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- March 5, 2026
Official channels
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Capability profile
Venture Attractor as a community
Community overview
Venture Attractor is a university-based research initiative of the El Pomar Institute of Innovation & Commercialization (EPIIC) at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). It was founded to drive economic development in Colorado Springs by strengthening the startup ecosystem. The organization focuses on cultivating early-stage startups and connecting them with resources, mentorship, and networks to prepare them for future investors.
Community focus
Venture Attractor invests in early-stage startups primarily in the sectors of Sports and Outdoors, Health Innovation, and Human Performance. The organization aims to develop a dynamic regional cluster in these complementary sectors, believing that a focus on specific industries can lead to a more vibrant startup ecosystem and drive regional economic growth.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders
- Benefits
- mentorship and network-access
- Program types
- community
- Selection criteria
- open
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed
- Sectors
- Healthcare
- Regions
- United States
Community activity
Notable members
Notable portfolio companies include Altitude Movement, SendMyGear.com, Salt Athletic, LeadFoot Racing, and Defender Imports.
Common questions
What to know about Venture Attractor
Upseed classifies Venture Attractor under the Community organization type. Its current public profile includes community capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
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Source basis
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Last reviewed
March 5, 2026
Known limits
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