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Sally Hatcher

Managing Partner at Buff Gold Ventures

Boulder, Colorado

Overview

Work Experience

BG

Buff Gold Ventures

  • Managing Partner

    2022 - Current

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

C

CaliberMRI

  • Board Member

    2021

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

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National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • 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.

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University of Colorado Boulder

  • 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.

LD

LightDeck Diagnostics, Inc.

  • Co-Founder and President of MBio Diagnostics; and Board Advisor of LightDeck Diagnostics

    2009 - 2021

    Advise and work with Board of Directors and CEO on all aspects of the business including growth/revenue and exit strategy, funding, finance and legal/intellectual property.

Growth Strategy Advisors

  • Principal Consultant

    2016 - 2020

    Consulting on startup funding, team-building, FDA and CE regulatory compliance, diversity, and growth.

CA

CDR Associates (Collaborative Decision Resources)

  • Member Board Of Directors, including Chair

    2014 - 2020

    Collaboration Decision Making, Public Engagement, and Facilitation. Team works internationally to build consensus among many groups on environmental, land use, and resource challenges.

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Kindara

  • President/COO

    2015 - 2016

    Kindara is a mobile health company focused on improving women's health outcomes. First app and products focus on reproductive health, providing data and expertise to women seeking reproductive information to manage fertility and have better conversations with their physicians.

Precision Photonics, Inc.

  • CoFounder and President

    2000 - 2012

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State of Colorado

  • Assistant Attorney General- Office of the Atty General

    1998 - 2000

  • Clerk, Div 1 Water Court

    1997 - 1998

Education

Investments

Polaris Electro-Optics

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

LongPath Technologies

Series A

Total Funding: $22M

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