Sally Hatcher
Managing Partner at Buff Gold Ventures
Boulder, Colorado
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
2022 - Current
Early-stage investor in companies in the University of Colorado ecosytem (faculty, student, and alumni founders)
Buff Gold Ventures is a venture fund.
Board Director
2022
Investor and Advisor to LongPath Technologies, a data-driven decision company (DaaS) based on Nobel Prize winning technology.
Board Observer
2022
Dynamic Windows for the Modern Home.
Tynt Technologies is a developer of a smart window to prevent glare while maintaining views and save energy.
Raised $17,067,979.00 from Starlight Ventures, Buff Gold Ventures, Prime Impact Fund, KOMPAS VC, Starlight Ventures, KOMPAS VC and Prime Impact Fund.
Board Advisor
2022
Empowering integrated photonics for communications and computation.
Polaris Electro-Optics empowers integrated photonics for communications and computation.
Raised $3,000,000.00 from M Ventures, Buff Gold Ventures and Rhapsody Venture Partners.
Board Observer
2024
Carbon Capture and Storage Fully Measured - Permanent - Immediate - Safe Vycarb combines a novel carbon neutralization process with a first of a kind carbon sensing technology to enable instant, permanent, and measurable carbon dioxide capture, removal, and storage in any water.
Board Observer
2024
SODIUM-ION ELECTROLYTES & HIGH ENERGY SODIUM BATTERY CELLS
National Instructor
2016
Teaching and mentoring at a variety of I-Corps and similar accelerators (DOE Energy I-Corps, NIH, University of Colorado, CSU, Trout tank H2O). Skill sets include entrepreneurship, commercialization, product-market fit, ecosystem analysis, public speaking, and customer discovery, and translating disruptive technical innovation into commercial products. Learn more about how the Energy I-Corps program is making an impact on our clean energy economy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP-zHqDlq7k
National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency that supports research and education in the fields of science and engineering.
National Instructor
2016
National Instructor for Energy I-Corps, focused on Customer Discovery for deep tech innovations in energy, advanced materials, compute, ML/AI from national labs including Sandia, LANL, LBNL, LLNL, PNWL, INL, Argonne, NREL, NETC, and Oak Ridge. Work with scientific and technical teams to determine the market need and product/market fit to get disruptive technologies out of the national labs and into commercial use. Learn more about how the Energy I-Corps program is making an impact on our clean energy economy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP-zHqDlq7k
US Department of Energy is a government administration that regulates energy policy, research, and development.
Board Member
2021 - 2024
Caliber MRI uses NIST-enabled technology to bring quantitative MRIs to medicine.
CaliberMRI is a development of MRI imaging phantoms, diffusion phantoms, and MRI QA/QC software.
Senior Director of Venture Development
2018 - 2022
Building deep tech accelerator, programmatic education, and broad resources for entrepreneurship, commercialization, startups and licensing for faculty and staff interested in spinning out technology or expanding their impact. More broadly, teaching and mentoring the entrepreneurial mindset and tool-kits for solving broad problems, funding big ideas, and creating social impact. With Venture Partners, built the startup pipeline for CU's scientific and technical innovations.