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

TechCrunch

Eventually, the company managed to land additional financing in the form of a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Some money came from a grant from BadVR, while at least $1.25 Our grant] was a testament to us planning for that about a year ago.” That’s how BadVR got most of its $3.5

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High-speed internet could be coming to Antarctica

The Verge

But despite its central role in Antarctic research, McMurdo is lacking something most scientists working at 21st-century laboratories take for granted: high-speed internet. Compared with a typical rural household, the amount of bandwidth available per person at McMurdo is limited, says Patrick Smith, technology development manager at the NSF.

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

TechCrunch

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

TechCrunch

Through its many past and present programs, solicitations, grant programs, budgets, and of course engineering projects, it generates a huge amount of documents — being, after all, very much a part of the federal bureaucracy. “Oh, we’re not running on grants! But NASA isn’t looking for new insights into Apollo 11.

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

TechCrunch

To date, the company has raised $500,000 through a series of government grants and competitions. . Before Minerva was officially founded, Dawood and Rathnayake took part in a National Science Foundation (NSF) program designed to help universities with entrepreneurship programs. By 2021, Minerva had received pre-seed funding from NSF.

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Quickie Links: Surveys, Transcripts, and a Strange Bedfellow

Museum 2.0

Ideum, the company that brought you ExhibitFiles (with ASTC), is conducting a survey on museums' needs in support of an NSF grant proposal (Open Exhibits) to build open source templates for simple interactive exhibits (timelines, digital collections, news kiosks). What does that mean in simple terms?

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

Museum 2.0

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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