The Colorado Institute for Drug, Device and Diagnostic Development will join the Rockies Venture Club in a partnership to enhance financing of early-stage Colorado life-science companies and technologies.

The collaboration will benefit the state's life-science companies through shared resources and fundraising, the Aurora-based nonprofit CID4 said Tuesday. The combination of Rockies Venture Club angel investment platform and CID4's technology-vetting processes will generate opportunities for early-stage life-science investors.

Denver's Rockies Venture Club "has an impressive membership with the ability to provide foundational funding to early-stage companies," CID4 President Kevin Smith said in a statement. "We look forward to expanding their investment universe to include the life-science sector."

CID4 was founded in 2009 to advance Colorado's life-science industry.

Established in 1985, the Rockies Venture Club seeks early-stage funding in life sciences.