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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 to continue building its acoustic resonance technology to assess lung function and changes therein.

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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. To date, the company has raised $500,000 through a series of government grants and competitions. . By 2021, Minerva had received pre-seed funding from NSF.

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

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“We did core science, self-funded, in stealth mode, and we sent a bunch of patents to the patent office,” he said. How to access ‘America’s Seed Fund,’ the $3 billion SBIR program. One of the best applications may be to the SBIR and other small business funding programs themselves.).

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

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” 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.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

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Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? And with NSF's support, some of the very first things we did were around people developing traveling exhibits. NSF seems to be perfectly happy with that.

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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. Whether youre dealing with executive orders that redefine priorities or grappling with changing funding mechanisms, navigating these changes effectively is crucial for sustainability.

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