August 2025 – current | Boulder, CO
Pursuing this work in the house basement, and making good progress toward determining a trace metal formulation enabling linear growth under low light using ICP-MS data (Ca, Mg, B, Fe, Mn, Zn, Ni, Co, Cu, Mo).
November 2023 – May 2025 | Boulder, CO
Rented space at the University of Colorado to operate the mini Photobioreactors, which failed to produce high biomass yields. Pivoted toward optimizing the medium formulation under low light to achieve high biomass concentration (3-5 g/L), focusing on trace metals.
October 2023 | Madison, WI
Attending the 2023 Algae Biomass Summit
October 2023 | Boulder, CO
Submitted USDA SBIR Phase I proposal (Algal bioreactor design)
September 2022 | Boulder, CO and Paris, France
Submitted NSF SBIR Phase I proposal (Algal bioreactor design)
October 2021 – 2023 | Boulder, CO and Paris, France
Building an Arduino-based mini Photobioeractor for algal strain characterization under high light and validation of chemostat parameterization (Algal Biofuel technology).
October 8th 2021 | Boulder, CO and Paris, France
Invitation to submit a full Phase I proposal to the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program (Algal Biofuel technology).
September 2020 – March 2021 | Boulder, CO and Paris, France
Novel Algal Photobioreactor design and preliminary testing (Algal Biofuel technology)
March 2015 – June 2016 | Golden, CO
Fundamental research hosted at NREL (not an endorsement) through the NCAP program (Wastewater Treatment technology). The NCAP (NREL Commercialization Assistance Program) helps emerging companies overcome technical barriers to commercializing clean energy technology.
March-November, 2015 | Boulder, CO
Participated in the 2015 Cleantech Open competition (Wastewater Treatment technology)
November 26, 2014 | Boulder, CO
Finalized PIARCS’ profile on the Gust platform
November 25, 2014 | Boulder, CO
Finalized PIARCS’ profile on the Dealflow platform
November 24, 2014 | Boulder, CO
Finalized PIARCS’ profile on the Enable Impact platform.
November 19-20, 2014 | Boulder, CO
Attended the University of Colorado, Boulder New Venture Challenge
November 13, 2014 | Fort Collins, CO
Colorado Water Innovation Cluster After Hour meeting at the Innosphere
November 6, 2014 | Denver, CO
Attended the Colorado BioScience Association annual Celebration of industry achievements
October 31, 2014 | Boulder, CO
Submitted application to the OEDIT Early-Stage Capital retention grant
October 30, 2014 | Boulder, CO
Submitted concept paper for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy “Targeted Algal Biofuels and Bioproducts”
October 29, 2014 | Boulder, CO
Pitching at the University of Colorado, Boulder New Venture ChallengeWatch video (1:21:00)
October 27-28, 2014 | Minneapolis, MN
Attending the Cleantech Open Midwest Innovation Summit
October 24, 2014 | Boulder, CO
Submission of PIARCS’ application to the ImagineH2O accelerator program
October 22, 2014 | Boulder, CO
The Dynaflow Corporation (Jessup, MD) R&D team completes PIARCS’ preliminary fluid flow modeling project for PIARCS’ algal bioreactor design.
October 20, 2014 | Boulder, CO
Attended Mergelane meeting to find out more about the accelerator program.
October 15, 2014 | Boulder, CO
Meeting with Cole Sigmon and Chris Douville at the Boulder 75th street Wastewater Treatment
facility to discuss PIARCS’ phosphorus technology.
October 14, 2014 | Boulder, CO
Submitted PCT application with Ross Breyfogle at Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP
on algal biomass production.
October 10, 2014 | Denver, CO
Rockies Venture Club Pitch Academy, take 2, hosted by Peter Adams
September 11, 2014 | Boulder, CO
Thomas Officer at Crowdcheck completes PIARCS’ third party due diligence review
September 10, 2014 | Denver, CO
Rockies Venture Club Early-Stage valuation course, hosted by Peter Adams
September 5, 2014 | Denver, CO
Rockies Venture Club Pitch Academy, take 1, hosted by Peter Adams
August 27, 2014 | Boulder, CO
PIARCS’ Crowd Equity funding campaign goes live on the Return on Change platform
August 22, 2014 | Boulder, CO
Trish Rogers, at Moye White finishes drafting and filing PIARCS’ corporate documents.
July 10, 2014 | Moussonvilliers, France
Trish Rogers, at Moye White takes on PIARCS as a client to draft a Subscription Agreement in compliance with the SEC Rule 506(c), as well as draft PIARCS’ Terms of the Offering with a built-in dividend structure.
July 7, 2014 | Moussonvilliers, France
Luke Delahanty, at Coolhand Films finishes PIARCS’ promo video.
April 8-9, 2014 | Berlin, Germany
Pitched at the April World Resource Ventures forum
April 7, 2014 | Moussonvilliers, France
Submitted provisional patent on Phosphorus sequestration with Klarquist Sparkman, LLP
March 10, 2014 | Moussonvilliers, France
PIARCS incorporated as a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation by University of Washington Entrepreneurial Law Clinic Eric Carnell and licensed intern Brandon Gratias.