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BadVR is using government grants to build a business that’s independent of venture capital

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Despite the very public ties that BadVR had to Magic Leap, as one of the enterprise applications on the platform, the startup was more insulated than other businesses from the pivot away from consumer-focused apps. Some money came from a grant from BadVR, while at least $1.25 That’s how BadVR got most of its $3.5 ”

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Docugami’s new model for understanding documents cuts its teeth on NASA archives

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Because it turns out that running just about any business ends up producing a ton of documents. ” (“I was busy doing something else,” he added, to excuse himself.). I love NLP people, half my team is NLP people — but NLP people don’t think about business processes. That’s just a fact.

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Lung-health startup Respira Labs inhales $2.8M to help respiration patients breathe easier

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million in grants to continue building its acoustic resonance technology to assess lung function and changes therein. million in grants from Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes for Health (NIH).

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Minerva Lithium uses absorbent material to change the way we extract lithium

TechCrunch

While Nano Mosaic, or “magic material” as Dawood affectionately calls it, is Minerva’s actual product offering; the company’s business model will rely on the sale of lithium to battery manufacturers, lithium manufacturers and chemical companies. . “We By 2021, Minerva had received pre-seed funding from NSF.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. So we tend to have three legs of support: municipal, grants/donations, and fee for service (usually with the school district). How are Workshop locations selected? The first one was in the Mission.

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Navigating the Shifting Political Landscape as a Federal Grant Recipient

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Federal grant recipients, subrecipients, and contractors face shifting priorities, new executive orders, and evolving funding practices. As the current administration rolls out new policies and executive orders, nonprofit organizations, social enterprises, and other grant recipients must adapt or risk losing essential funding opportunities.

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Cruz Foam’s shell-based Styrofoam alternative brings in $3.4M seed with DiCaprio and Kutcher

TechCrunch

” The company kept the lights on for the period after I met them with an SBIR award from the NSF, with the Phase I and II awards yielding more than $2 million in non-dilutive money to work with. I’m not the only one to think so, as Cruz Foam has already received about $5M in capital on top of the $2M in SBIR grants.