Education  January 29, 2015

CU, CSU, 4 local startups receive advanced industry grants from state

The University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado State University and four companies from the region were among the entities receiving nearly $1.8 million from the latest round of Colorado’s Advanced Industry Accelerator Grant Program on Wednesday.

There are two categories of the grants. The Proof of Concept grants are open to the state’s research universities, federal labs and other labs with technology transfer offices, and are intended to fuel pre-commercialization research and commercialization preparation.

CU and CSU projects receiving Proof of Concept grants included:

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A CU project got $90,000 for direct ink writing using particle ALD core/shell precursors for net-shape fabrication of 3D advanced ceramic structures.

Another CU project received $135,000 for switchable plasmonic nano particles codispersion for smart window application.

A CSU project received $55,000 to develop durable de-icing coatings.

Another CSU project also received $55,000 for demonstration of a prototype leache-bed reactor for anaerobic digestion of dry waste.

A third CSU project received $55,000 for development of low-cost, low-altitude, vertical pointing dual-polarization radar.

And a fourth CSU project got $52,232 for development of a low-cost wearable air sampler.

Early Stage Capital and Retention grants, meanwhile, help fund companies commercializing products that meet a market need and can be manufactured in Colorado and exported globally.

Boulder-based KMLabs received $200,000 for a project based on fiber laser technology for use in the bioscience and electronic industries.

Fort Collins-based OptiEnz Sensors LLC was awarded $150,000 for biosensors that provide in-place, quantitative, continuous real-time measurements without sample pretreatment.

Boulder-based Siva Therapeutics Inc. received $100,000 to develop a therapy that delivers heat to solid tumors.

Lafayette-based Tusaar received $150,000 for a proprietary chemical process that it has developed to extract metals from various sources.

The full list of winners of the grants can be viewed on the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade website. The OEDIT said the 70 applicants for the recent round of grants was the second most it has ever received for the program.

The application period for the next round of grants opened Monday and runs through March 2.

The University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado State University and four companies from the region were among the entities receiving nearly $1.8 million from the latest round of Colorado’s Advanced Industry Accelerator Grant Program on Wednesday.

There are two categories of the grants. The Proof of Concept grants are open to the state’s research universities, federal labs and other labs with technology transfer offices, and are intended to fuel pre-commercialization research and commercialization preparation.

CU and CSU projects receiving Proof of Concept grants included:

A CU project got $90,000 for direct ink writing using particle ALD core/shell precursors for net-shape fabrication of 3D advanced ceramic…

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