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

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Eventually, the company managed to land additional financing in the form of a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. million has come from the government in the form of two National Science Foundation cooperative agreements through the Small Business Innovation Research financing mechanisms. million in financing.

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Hatch, a neobank for SMBs, launches with $20M in funding from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Foundation and Plaid’s founders

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Nguyen’s new startup Hatch recently launched its first two products and announced today it has secured a total of $20 million in funding from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital, SVB and Plaid’s founders. The return of neighborhood retail and other surprising real estate trends.

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

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Respira Labs , a medical technology company specializing in respiratory care, which first unveiled its product to the world last year , successfully raised $1 million in funding and an additional $1.8 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

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At Startup Battlefield, Minerva will seek funding of $1 million that will help the startup move toward its pilot demonstration so it can achieve third-party validation. By 2021, Minerva had received pre-seed funding from NSF. Dawood says Minerva has already acquired plenty of potential partners to come on board.

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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

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I was co-author of a recently completed research study [ PDF ] funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), which strove to better understand bilingual labels from the visitor perspective.

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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. In places that succeeded, at that point, a local coalition was in place to fund the Workshop. We''re really different from traditional science centers in our funding model.

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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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