Company Profile

Access Sensor Technologies LLC
Profile last edited on: 4/13/2022      CAGE: 6XXM3      UEI: GJNAJMVMXZ13

Business Identifier: Evaluation for chemical pollutants in air, water, food and soil
Year Founded
2013
First Award
2014
Latest Award
2022
Program Status
Active
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Location Information

320 East Vine Drive Suite 221
Fort Collins, CO 80524
   (970) 818-7520
   contact@accsensors.com
   www.accsensors.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 02
County: Larimer

Public Profile

Access Sensor Technologies LLC is focused on development of simple, fast and low-cost products for sampling and evaluation for chemical pollutants in air, water, food and soil - including read-by-eye and electrochemical paper-based analytical device (PAD) assays, portable electrochemical sample analyzers and wearable personal aerosol samplers. With much of Access Sensor Technologies LLC efforts anchored in licensed patents from Colorado State University, areas of primary interest and focus include Water Testing, Environmental Diagnostics, Air Testing, Water Quality, Air Quality, Environmental Diagnostics, Product Development, Research, Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Health, Epidemiological Studies, Food Safety, and Pathogen Detection. AST’s environmental sampling products shed light on pollutant exposure in air and water in a format that simplifies the work flow of our customers. The Ultrasonic Personal Air Sample (UPAS) has been used in a CSU research study analyzing the air pollution and resultant health outcomes of cookstove use in rural Honduras. Additionally, the On-Target Water Testing Kits have been used extensively in Colorado to measure particulate content in stream and tap water, as well as in Peru to analyze cooking, drinking, and cleaning water for villages. How an Idea Became a Company Founder John Volckens shares his memories on the origin of AST: “[Chuck and I] quickly discovered that our research collaborations were leading to ideas and inventions that could probably find a home on the commercial marketplace. Chuck, having done this before, convinced me (over a period of more than a year) that it would be a good idea for us to start a company together. I was hesitant at first, because I didn’t want a second job, but I did have a very talented Masters student, Dan Miller-Lionberg, who was finishing up. I knew that if we could get him involved, he would be the brawn of the company at the early stage while Chuck and I wrote grants to fund the company. Our first sales were through academic contacts. I would present my research at academic conferences and people would come up afterwards and say ‘How do I get this technology? I want to use it.’ I would let them borrow some of the prototypes we had, but quickly it became clear that we needed a way to get more product made. That’s also why I agreed to start the company with Chuck. Eventually, we had a couple people come to us and say ‘we’ve got a big project, we need 200 of these’ and so I sent them to buy 200 from the company. The company probably wasn’t ready to sell 200 at that time, but they couldn’t refuse that kind of offer. So, I made some introductions between the company and colleagues who wanted the technology – then I got out of the way.”

Extent of SBIR involvement

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
5-9
Revenue Range
.5M-1M
VC funded?
No
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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IP Holdings
N/A

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects

Year Phase Agency Total Amount
2023 2 NIH $3,951,163
Project Title: Electrochemical Paper-Based Analytical Devices for Metal Determination
2022 2 NIH $1,107,648
Project Title: Citizen-Science Technology for Healthyliving At Home
2020 1 NIH $172,279
Project Title: AST: on Target Cards for Monitoring Superfund Sites
2020 1 NSF $256,000
Project Title: Advanced Microfluidic Devices for Point-of-Care COVID-19 Serological Testing
2019 2 NIH $1,670,319
Project Title: Low Cost Personal Sampling Pump

Key People / Management

  Daniel D Miller-Lionberg -- Co-Founder Director of Engineering

  Charles Henry -- Founder and Board Chair

  Josephine Hofstetter

  Thomas Reilly -- CEO formerly CSO

  John Volckens -- Founder