Grant Program🇺🇸 USA
SBIR/STTR Program (SBA)
Washington, D.C., Nationwide
'America's Seed Fund'; $4B+ annually in non-dilutive R&D funding.
- Investment focus
- Hardware/DeeptechHealth/BiotechAI/MLCleantech/ClimateEnergyGeneralist
- Stage
- Idea/Pre-incubation · Pre-seed · Seed
- Check / terms
- Phase I up to ~$323K; Phase II up to ~$2.15M (non-dilutive)
- Program / model
- Three-phase R&D funding (feasibility, R&D, commercialization). Non-dilutive, equity-free. Across 11 federal agencies (NIH, NSF, DoD, DOE).
- Invests in
- US small businesses nationwide
- Founded
- 1982