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Sally Hatcher

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Buff Gold Ventures

Boulder, Colorado

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner and Co-Founder

    2022

    Early-stage investor in companies in the University of Colorado ecosytem (faculty, student, and alumni founders)

  • 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.

  • Board Advisor

    2022

    Empowering integrated photonics for communications and computation.

2024

  • 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 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

2021 - 2024

  • Board Member

    2021 - 2024

    Caliber MRI uses NIST-enabled technology to bring quantitative MRIs to medicine.

  • 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.