| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.09.2026 | NSF Ignites Deep Tech Commercialization with $20M Pilot | The National Science Foundation launched a $20 million pilot. It boosts deep technology commercialization from small businesses. This two-year program tackles the critical 'valley of death,' bridging federally funded research with market su... |
| 16.09.2026 | NSF launches $20M pilot to accelerate commercialization of promising deep technologies from small businesses | The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a $20 million investment to launch a two-year pilot supporting small businesses in commercializing their deep-technology ventures. The pilot aims to address a persistent gap separating fe... |
| 14.09.2026 | NSF launches $20M pilot to accelerate commercialization of promising deep technologies from small businesses | The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a $20 million investment to launch a two-year pilot supporting small businesses in commercializing their deep-technology ventures. The pilot aims to address a persistent gap separating fe... |
| 02.07.2026 | Registration Now Open for America’s Seed Fund Summit | WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Small Business Administration announced that registration is now open for America’s Seed Fund Summit, which will take place from July 1 to July 31. The month-long summit will feature a national series of virtual... |
| 08.05.2026 | MICC highlights renewed small business innovation authority | JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — The reauthorization of two federal small business innovation programs is expected to strengthen how the Mission and Installation Contracting Command delivers emerging technology, shortens pro... |
| 06.05.2026 | AFWERX, SpaceWERX open new SBIR/STTR solicitations following reauthorization | WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — AFWERX and SpaceWERX have opened new Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer solicitations following passage of the Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Ac... |
| 17.04.2025 | NASA-Backed 3D Printed Nozzle Powers Venus Aerospace Hypersonic Engine | Venus Aerospace, a Texas-based hypersonic propulsion company, will incorporate a nozzle developed under a NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award into its next ground-based engine demonstration. The component, produced using la... |
| 08.03.2025 | Business | Best startup and small business grants for women | The downside is that it can be harder to qualify for a business grant than for a small business loan. You have to be prepared to put some work into the grant application.
However, if you’re a woman starting a new business, it can be much ea... |
| 07.03.2025 | Qylur Intelligent Systems MAD.AI solution now available through the Department of Defense CDAO's Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace - SBIR Aisle | MAD.AI, Qylur's platform for operationalizing AI in large fleets of autonomous systems, is now available for DoD teams working to build the AI-driven future via the DoD CADO Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace. The solution enables the DoD to ... |
| 13.12.2024 | Navigating the Future: Career Strategies and Innovations in Aerospace Technology | In a world where change is the only constant, the landscape of careers and technology is evolving at breakneck speed. The digital age has ushered in an era of unprecedented opportunities and challenges. Dr. Madeleine F. Wallace, a beacon in... |
| 12.12.2024 | 3D Printing for Aerospace, Space and Defense with Raven Space Systems’ MAD Technology | Kansas City-based startup Raven Space Systems addresses demanding aerospace, space and defense applications with its proprietary Microwave Assisted Deposition (MAD) 3D Printing technology. The company states that its patented process enable... |
| 15.10.2024 | CTC introduces SBIR Labs | A unique new program, SBIR Labs, focused on streamlining Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programming in Wisconsin has received a competitive federal grant.
CTC has developed the SBIR L... |
| 02.10.2024 | Houston's Energy Transition: A New Dawn for Decarbonization and Innovation | Houston is known as the energy capital of the world. Yet, the winds of change are blowing through its oil-stained streets. The city is embracing a new era—one that prioritizes decarbonization and sustainable innovation. The recent launch of... |
| 01.10.2024 | Expert advice: Should your Houston startup apply for this lesser known SBIR grant? | Inside the Department of Commerce is a relatively small federal agency, compared to the others, call the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They too have a small business innovation research (or SBIR) program in which technolo... |
| 27.07.2024 | The Future of Energy: Innovations in Biofuels and AI | The landscape of energy is shifting. Two recent developments illustrate this transformation: Atlantic Biomass's groundbreaking biofuel project and the upcoming AI + Energy Summit. Both initiatives aim to reshape how we produce and consume e... |
| 23.07.2024 | Atlantic Biomass Receives US Department of Energy Funding for Biofuel Development | Atlantic Biomass, LLC
Grant to be Utilized For Low-Cost Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) from Perennial Feedstocks using Simultaneous Ball Milling and Enzyme Hydrolysis
FREDERICK, Md., July 23, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The U... |
| 10.06.2024 | Skylark Labs Announces Entrance into Monkton's $500M MATTER SBIR Phase III IDIQ | NEW YORK, June 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Skylark Labs is proud to announce its entrance into the Monkton MATTER SBIR Phase III IDIQ, a $500M contract vehicle issued by the U.S. Space Force. This contract provides a unique opportunity for Sky... |
| 31.05.2024 | From ASU to Artemis: Engineering student helps astronauts suit up for moon mission | When Abril Ramos first set foot on campus at Arizona State University as a first-year student, she had no idea she might be helping NASA astronauts accomplish the first moon mission in the 21st century.
“It’s crazy, especially seeing how it... |
| 05.10.2023 | Stoke Space fuels up with $100M in funding in quest to build fully reusable rockets | Stoke Space’s Hopper2 rocket vehicle fires its engine during a test “hop.” (Stoke Space Photo)
Stoke Space announced Thursday that it raised $100 million, boosting the Kent, Wash.-based company’s quest to develop a new breed of fully reusab... |
| 31.08.2023 | How To Finance A Startup Business | Starting a successful business requires having sufficient capital.getty |
| 23.08.2023 | SBIR supports startup innovations | According to Brian Walsh, Senior Technology Commercialization Manager at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Foundation (UWMRF), startups are a key source of technological innovations in the United States.
In his role, Walsh helps c... |
| 26.07.2023 | Tips And Strategies For Winning Grant Funding | Julio Gonzalez, National Tax Reform Expert and CEO of Engineered Tax Services (ETS), The Growth Partnership and ABLE CRM. |
| 18.05.2023 | How To Raise $1 Million In SBIR Funding As A Small Business | Courtesy of Dr. Elizabeth OfiliImage created by Author |
| 01.05.2023 | To Restrict, or Not to Restrict, That Is the Quantum Question | Innovation power—the ability to invent, scale, and adapt emerging technologies—will determine which country prevails in the great power competition of the 21st century. Export controls accordingly assume a central position in the U.S. forei... |
| 27.04.2023 | Beyond The Mythos Of The 4%: Three Alternative Sources Of Funding For Companies Looking For Capital | From Facebook and Founders Found to Genentech and Kleiner Perkins to WhatsApp and Sequoia Capital - major success stories of once-startups seem almost inseparable from those of their venture capitalist investors: bold risk-takers whose intu... |
| 21.03.2023 | Billionaire Mark Cuban and SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman Speak on Entrepreneurship at SXSW Event Hosted by ZenBusiness | At South by Southwest, ZenBusiness hosted a talk on entrepreneurship with Billionaire Mark Cuban and U.S. Small Business Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, the highest-ranking Latina in a government office. |
| 27.02.2023 | AI-Powered Drones with Facial Recognition Reportedly Developed by the US Air Force | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 27 February 2023, 12:02 am
The United States Air Force reportedly developed a new facial recognition technology to apply to its AI-powered drones, one that could go on a mission to correctly determine targets from... |
| 23.02.2023 | US Air Force's Drones To Have Face Recognition! New Tech Now Raises Fears—Here's Why | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 23 February 2023, 04:02 pm
The U.S. Air Force announced that it will integrate face recognition technology into its drones.
(Photo : Photo by C.E. Lewis/U.S. Air Force via Getty Images)
In this handout photo provi... |
| 08.02.2023 | USDOT Announces $1.7 Million in Available Funding for Small Business Innovation Research Program | WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) is now accepting proposals for funding from its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The SBIR Program awards contracts to small businesses across the country to spur r... |
| 18.01.2023 | Education
Education | CU Boulder awarded $5.5 million to improve space awareness, AI research | A team of University of Colorado Boulder researchers has its hands full for the next five years — at least — as they work to advance and monitor the next generation of space vehicles, especially those that will travel to the moon as space c... |
| 17.10.2022 | Exoskeleton to enhance safety, retention for aerial porters, others | WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFNS) --
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Center for Rapid Innovation, or CRI, held an event Oct. 6 with the Air Force Reserve Command’s 445th Airlift Wing for a ROAM Robotics team to demonstrate th... |
| 11.08.2022 | Florida Atlantic University enters Teaming Agreement with self-protecting, data security solution provider, Sertainty | “We are extremely excited to partner with Sertainty to pursue Small Business Technology Transfer programs,” said Stella Batalama, Ph.D., dean, FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (PRWEB) August 11, 2022
Sertain... |
| 06.05.2022 | Asha AI app, which helps elderly manage their care, among startups pitching at life science event | Asha AI CEO Rashmi Joshi, left, and lead designer Dayton Kelly at the Life Science Innovation Northwest 2022 meeting. (GeekWire Photo / Charlotte Schubert)
A new startup that aims to ease healthcare tasks for the elderly debuted its app on ... |
| 25.04.2022 | Menhir Photonics and partner awarded $1.25M grant from US Air Force | |
| 06.03.2022 | U.S. Sanctions Curb Chinese Technology Exports to Russia | Major Chinese technology companies have quietly exited Russia in the face of U.S. sanctions threats, despite Beijing’s promise of a “no limits” relationship with Russia. Chinese drone maker DJI openly announced in late April that it was sus... |
| 03.02.2022 | Facial Recognition Firm Clearview AI Gets Military Contract for AR Glasses | Clearview AI, the highly controversial facial recognition firm that scrapes social media to maintain its bank of images, recently signed a contract with the U.S. Air Force to research “augmented reality facial recognition glasses,” accordin... |
| 26.01.2022 | Retham Technologies: Rapid results save lives | Every day, five Americans die from an adverse reaction to a drug, heparin that is commonly used to prevent and treat blood clots.
Retham Technologies plans to significantly lower that number.
Chemist Curtis Jones has a passion for researc... |
| 03.01.2022 | Rapid Radicals: Protecting our greatest asset | If you are a Milwaukeean who associates heavy rains with basement flooding and sewage backups, you are not alone. Dr. Daniel Zitomer of Marquette University was one of the many city dwellers who found their basements flooded after a powerfu... |
| 17.12.2021 | Seattle startup Tasso lands $100M for self-administered blood collection devices | Tasso-SST device for blood self-collection. (Tasso Photo)
Seattle-based Tasso, which makes devices for the self-collection of blood samples, has landed $100 million in funding.
Tasso’s devices work on the upper arm, drawing blood from a net... |
| 06.12.2021 | With move to Baltimore, JuneBrain eyes growth from a base at University of Maryland BioPark | The expansion of teleheath over the last two years means more providers are thinking outside the clinic. A company that makes a device which fits into this shift recently moved into Baltimore City.
JuneBrain recently became a tenant of the ... |
| 14.10.2021 | UD’s Horn Entrepreneurship turns 9 as it lands another SBA grant | When Horn Entrepreneruship was founded in 2012, Barack Obama was president, Jack Markell was governor, and Wilmington’s first coworking space, CoIN Loft, was young and changing the city’s landscape. Early that year, Capital One acquired ING... |
| 11.10.2021 | Rocket Lab to launch NASA smallsat using SBIR award | WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab will launch a NASA technology demonstration satellite under an unconventional arrangement as the agency works on a more standardized approach for launching smallsats.
Rocket Lab announced Oct. 6 that NASA selected th... |
| 06.10.2021 | Starting a health technology company in Baltimore? Here are 43 resources to know | The digital health sector was growing rapidly. Then the pandemic came.
In this case, it was a story of growth.
Following distancing requirements and loosening regulations, telemedicine became the name of the game for many healthcare systems... |
| 08.09.2021 | Startup A-Alpha Bio sets out to solve a major protein problem facing big pharma | Pharmaceutical and biotech companies on the hunt for new drugs run tests along the way to see how proteins interact. Analyzing protein-protein interaction can reveal how cells communicate, the way genes are regulated, and how the immune sys... |
| 07.09.2021 | Study: Blood self-collection device from a Seattle startup accurate for COVID-19 antibody samples | Tasso-SST device for blood self-collection. (Tasso Photo)
A self-administered device to collect blood yields high-quality antibody samples and works successfully in a high proportion of users, according to a study of people with previous CO... |
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| 02.06.2021 | NSW launches Small Business Innovation Research program, offering $24 million in funding to SMEs | NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas.
The New South Wales government has launched a new program that offers small and medium-sized businesses grants to solve problems for state government agencies.
The Small Business Inno... |
| 24.03.2021 | To rebuild manufacturing, the US needs to beef up the Small Business Innovation Research program | Sean O'Sullivan Contributor
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| 10.03.2021 | Adaptability Makes It Possible For Drone Safety Startup To Prosper In The New Normal | Amber McDonald (center) and the Indemnis teamIndemnis |
| 02.03.2021 | The Pentagon Fears That Deadly Microwave Weapons Are Undetectable | LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 10: A UK Dragonfire laser directed energy weapon system is seen on day ... [+] one of the DSEI arms fair at ExCel on September 10, 2019 in London, England. The biennial Defence and Security Equipment Internationa... |
| 01.03.2021 | With new grant funding, this Plano infrared tech startup is cleaning up the wastewater treatment industry | A Plano-based infrared sensor tech startup is looking to clean up the wastewater treatment industry with fresh new funding.
Max-IR Labs, which has developed an infrared sensor system that analyzes liquids for their compound makeup, landed a... |
| 25.02.2021 | Stoke raises seed round to work on fully reusable rockets | WASHINGTON — A startup founded by a group of former Blue Origin and SpaceX employees has raised a seed round of funding to support their effort to make a fully reusable launch vehicle.
Stoke Space Technologies announced Feb. 25 it raised $9... |
| 09.02.2021 | DARPA Starts Work On LongShot Air-To-Air Combat Drone | DARPA yesterday announced contracts to General Atomics, Lockheed Martin LMT LMT , and Northrop Grumman NOC NOC for design work on its LongShot program, a radical new air-launched drone designed to take out enemy aircraft at extreme ranges. |
| 03.02.2021 | Delaware Small Biz Development Center awarded for connecting entrepreneurs with SBA funding | U.S. Small Business Association’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has been funding startups and small businesses since 1982, with a goal of stimulating tech innovation and meeting federal research and development needs.
Te... |
| 26.01.2021 | MVP Accelerator Announces Program To Launch 100 Black-Owned Ventures Online | MVP Accelerator Inc. will launch its 2021 Equity Online Initiative this February The MVP Accelerator has put forth a model that will foster innovation in the Black community. We at the Harlem Business Alliance highly support this initiative... |
| 04.01.2021 | How Policies Aimed At Female Founders And Investors Can Reignite The Economy And Close The Gap In Opportunity | Anne Wojcicki, CEO & Co-Founder of 23andMe during The 2020 MAKERS Conference on February 11, 2020 ... [+] in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images for MAKERS |
| 14.12.2020 | Why It’s So Hard To Fund A Manufacturing Startup | There’s a saying in the software world, Andrew Lonsberry, CEO of Path Robotics, told me recently. “If you’re not embarrassed by your first launch, then you’re too late.” |
| 07.12.2020 | Blockchain-Based Immunity Passports Don't Resolve Core Privacy Issues: Report | Existing decentralized digital identity standards are vulnerable to compromise and do not have privacy at their core: This is the central argument posed by a new paper presented by Harry Halpin, a visiting professor at research university K... |
| 19.11.2020 | Historic storm highlights resilience of Iowa ag infrastructure through difficulties of 2020 | A number of new terms have been added to the global lexicon in 2020. Coronavirus, social distancing, and hybrid learning have become part of our common language in a way that no one could have expected 12 months ago. In early August, Iowans... |
| 16.11.2020 | Submarines May Have Nowhere To Hide With U.S. Navy Set To Field Radical New Radar | The U.S. Navy may gain the ability to locate submarines from the air as a radical new radar finally moves into the deployment phase. |
| 14.10.2020 | STEM Female Founders Can Get Funding Without Giving Up Equity In Their Companies Or Need To Pay The Money Back | Female founder of a STEM startupgetty |
| 06.10.2020 | The Pentagon Wants Stealth Rocket Fuel. Could It Trigger A Nuclear War? | This photo provided by the Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency, taken Jan. 28, 2016, shows a ... [+] long-range ground-based interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. As North Korea rattles its nuclear saber and... |
| 07.08.2020 | How to access ‘America’s Seed Fund,’ the $3 billion SBIR program | One of the best-kept secrets in the world of capital is that the federal government has billions of dollars it’s dying to give away to early-stage founders and inventors — and all you have to do is ask. Well, there’s a bit more to it than t... |
| 22.07.2020 | Tasso raises $17M for self-sample blood test; CEO says pandemic increases demand for at-home tests | (Tasso Photo)
Seattle startup Tasso closed a $17 million investment round to help grow its at-home blood collection platform.
The company’s blood sample device, called Tasso OnDemand, lets people take their own blood at home and mail it to ... |
| 03.07.2020 | Pentagon Developing Electric Stun Grenade To Safely Zap Everyone In A Room | Pentagon researchers are working on a weapon to temporarily disable everyone in a room with a TASER-like electric stun effect, making it safer for troops to clear buildings and reducing civilian casualties. |
| 30.06.2020 | NASA pays out $51 million to small businesses with big ideas | NASA has announced its latest batch of small business grants, providing more than 300 businesses a total of $51 million in crucial early-stage funding. These “phase I” projects receive up to $125,000 to help bring new technologies to market... |
| 20.06.2020 | Government-funded R&D is too important to squander on unworthy startups | The U.S. remains at the forefront of technology innovation due to entrepreneurs that take risks. When combined with access to capital, these risks enable an entrepreneurial ecosystem that gives the U.S. a competitive edge. But where does an... |
| 20.06.2020 | Government-funded R&D is too important to squander on unworthy startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The U.S. remains at the forefront of technology i... |
| 21.04.2020 | With initial PPP funding depleted, we checked in with DC-area companies to see if they got approved | Nearly two weeks after the federal government began accepting applications for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the U.S. Small Business Administration announced that the program has reached its $350 billion cap.
PPP loans are a part o... |
| 13.02.2020 | Software can drastically improve the economics of commercial solar | Commercial solar has always been the weak sister in the U.S. solar market — but Extensible Energy, a Berkeley startup, believes its software can drastically improve the economics of commercial installations.
Residential solar had a record 7... |
| 01.10.2019 | Talos Tech scores $100K in SBIR funding | The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, a highly competitive federal program supporting small businesses that engage in federal research or research and development (R/R&D) with commercial potential, has awarded the New C... |
| 17.09.2019 | Insight Partners’ Pitch Days: Showcasing ScaleUp Companies to Innovative Feds | Federal officials and software executives chat during an Insight Pitch Day in Washington DC
Insight Partners recently hosted two rapid pitch sessions to bring together fast-growing software companies with technology leaders and innovators ... |
| 24.07.2019 | This educational technology startup combines artificial intelligence and voice with real books to advance children’s literacy | Even though decades of robust research demonstrates both intrinsic motivation to read and print book ownership strongly shape kids’ reading achievement than using any instructional technique, however, few existing educational software produ... |
| 05.03.2019 | Seattle startup Tasso raises $6M for at-home blood draw technology | (Tasso Photo)
Tasso, the maker of a product that lets patients collect their own blood at home, raised $6.1 million in a round led by Vertical Ventures Partners. Startup accelerator Techstars and Los Angeles-based hospital Cedars-Sinai also... |
| 08.12.2018 | The military wants ideas from startups. Here’s how to make a pitch | As an Army colonel in the mid-2000s, I got an insider’s view on how the U.S. military ties itself up in red tape. The Army was facing a crisis — our warfighters were being killed and maimed at an unacceptably high rate by roadside bombs. Am... |
| 08.12.2018 | The military wants ideas from startups. Here’s how to make a pitch | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As an Army colonel in the mid-2000s, I got an ins... |
| 03.09.2018 | Applying Artificial Intelligence to the Search for EdTech: An SRI-EdSurge Collaboration | Searching for educational technology (edtech) can be overwhelming. The number of products available is daunting: for example, Apple’s App Store contains more than 80,000 educational apps. And for educators, the decision has high-stakes impl... |
| 10.04.2018 | InsightFinder Completes US$2M Pre-series A Financing | InsightFinder Inc., an intelligent analytical engine provider for cloud computing, has successfully raised US$2M pre-series A funding led by Eight Roads Ventures. The Propel(x) Network also participated in the funding. Proceeds will be used... |
| 27.07.2017 | How Nebraska went from last to 25th state in VC deals | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In a 2011 state-by-state ranking, Nebraska came i... |
| 27.07.2017 | How Nebraska went from last to 25th state in VC deals | In a 2011 state-by-state ranking, Nebraska came in dead last in venture capital deals with exactly zero. By 2015, Nebraska had jumped to 25th nationally, with 13 deals totaling nearly $120 million, according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ annua... |
| 18.07.2017 | Corelight closes $9.2M Series A to help enterprises battle ransomware | It’s already been a year of multiple high profile ransomware attacks and now cybersecurity startup Corelight has bagged a $9.2 million Series A round, led by Accel Partners. Osage University Partners and Riverbed Technology Co-founder Dr St... |
| 17.07.2017 | Cool talk alert: Learn how to score SBIR grant money | For companies in the tech space like SmartyPal or Baltimore’s SilcsBio, getting a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant can give product development and research a significant jolt.
On July 27, some reps from federal agencies are ... |
| 04.05.2017 | Health informatics company Impathiq raises $350K to improve EMR, app interoperability | Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based Impathiq, which makes a data informatics platform that allows hospitals and health systems to integrate new apps and programs into their electronic medical records in accordance with interoperability stan... |
| 21.11.2016 | Blockchain technologies could transform government services | RJ Krawiec Contributor
RJ Krawiec is a Principal at Deloitte & lead of Monitor Deloitte’s Federal Innovation Unit.
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Jason Killmeyer is a senior consultant for Federal Strategy and Operations.
With the current ... |
| 07.11.2016 | Camden Partners has a new venture fund for Maryland startups ? | When Sisu Global Health announced its most recent investment, it came from a new fund from Camden Partners. The downtown investment firm founded by David Warnock has a new fund focused on early-stage startups.
Warnock, George Petrocheilos, ... |
| 03.10.2016 | 5 reasons to stop sleeping on the SBIR grant program | G. Nagesh Rao — chief technologist at the U.S. Small Business Administration, where he advises on the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant and contract program — is energetic, enthusiastic and opinionated. All of which is complem... |
| 17.08.2016 | UW spinout wins $225,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop tests for chlamydia, other diseases | Vie Diagnostics, led by co-founders Mark D. Borysaik, left, and Charlie Corredor, right, after winning the UW’s business plan competition last year.
Vie Diagnostics, a University of Washington spin out that won last year’s UW business plan ... |
| 10.07.2016 | US Department of Homeland Security Talks Blockchain R&D | The science and technology division of the US government department created in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is increasingly taking an interest in blockchain technology.
First revealed in a December call for research, the US Depart... |
| 27.06.2016 | 5 Entrepreneurs Weigh In on Federal Startup Funding | Tech.Co has partnered with Arlington Economic Development to bring you this story.
Every startup is looking for funding at one point or another. Whether you're a bootstrapping company that's in need of some capital or a unicorn that's looki... |
| 12.05.2016 | Sen. Coons’ startup-supporting bill heads to full Senate for vote | We’ve got an update on the Support Startup Businesses Act that was first proposed, in part, by U.S. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) in April: The U.S. Senate Small Business Committee passed the bill Wednesday, so it’s now headed to the full Senat... |
| 11.05.2016 | SBIR Awards 14 Grants to Edtech Developers--including EdSurge | Oh, the sound of a "kaching," the jingle of funding moving into a startup.
Entrepreneurs love winning investment dollars--and with reason. Funding lets entrepreneurs build the business, invest in a product and nurture a stronger t... |
| 29.04.2016 | Sen. Coons introduces yet another bill for startups | Good tidings for ex-DuPonters contemplating startups: U.S. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) has co-authored a bill called the American Innovators and Entrepreneurs Act, which would help scientists and researchers start their own businesses.
“The U... |
| 06.04.2016 | Sen. Coons introduces Support Startup Businesses Act | The time is ripe, it seems, for legislation aimed at helping startups: Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) announced Wednesday morning that he, along with Senators Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), have introduced a bill called ... |
| 05.02.2016 | 11 Grants for Women-Owned Businesses You Need to Know About | This piece was originally published on Entrepreneur.
In 2014, there were close to 9.1 million women-owned businesses in the United States, a 68 percent increase since 1997, according to The 2014 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from A... |
| 14.12.2015 | Why the Government Is All About Fun, Games and Funding Games | They’re from the government, and they’re here to play.
Last Tuesday, buttoned-down government officials, including the outgoing Director of the Office of Educational Technology, joined a potpourri of parents, kids, developers and gaming ent... |
| 23.11.2015 | Amid international growth, emocha gets grant to look at Maryland TB treatment | emocha Mobile Health received a Small Business Innovation Research grant to further development of its mobile app that provides video-based healthcare observations in some cases where visits were previously required.
The NIH grant, which is... |
| 21.10.2015 | Michigan Budget Battle Pits Startups Against Road Infrastructure | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
On Oct. 7, the entire staff of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), the state office in charge of tourism and economic development, gathered for the first tim... |
| 27.08.2015 | Johns Hopkins startup making in-body ultrasound closes $500K seed round | A Johns Hopkins spinout created to develop an ultrasound that works from inside the body closed a $500,000 seed round.
Perceptive Navigation, which is based at Johns Hopkins’ FastForward East incubator, received investment from the state-ba... |
| 14.07.2015 | Four cool and unique breathalyzer applications | 1. Sniffing out sneaky weight gain
Wisconsin startup Isomark has developed a breath-based test that can detect infection within two hours of its onset. The patented concept has wide-reaching applications – for instance, it’s proposed develo... |
| 03.07.2015 | One bright idea that could transform innovation in Australia | When it comes to fostering innovation and the commercialisation of world class research, there is something the United States has that we lack. We ought to learn from the successes of the US in this area, and emulate one program they have p... |
