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:

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