Project Grant U411B140013

The Economic Development Administration awarded a $2.17 million Project Grant to Vilcap, Inc. to develop lasting investment infrastructure for technology startups led by founders of color in the Southeast region of the United States. Under the Resource Invests initiative funded through the agency's BUILD TO SCALE program (CFDA #11.024), Vilcap will work with the Black Innovation Alliance from November 2022 to April 2024 to launch infrastructure and a replicable model to improve...

This $1.4 million Project Grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration's BUILD TO SCALE program funds the Southern California Venture Pipeline (SVP) Capital Fund Development Project. The Alliance for Southern California Innovation will review startup applications, vet companies, and forward qualified deals to an evaluator panel. Roughly 75% of applicants will need mentorship to prepare for future funding rounds. Startups selected by the panel will pitch to a...

This $285,504 EAGER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports a two-year research project to measure the impact of university innovation facilities on real estate markets and R&D space supply and demand across the top 100 U.S. metropolitan areas. The project aims to collect and analyze data on four key outcome variables: R&D space demand, R&D space supply, business establishment clustering, and...

The National Science Foundation awarded $304,558 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program to the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, Inc. to design and implement an eight-week entrepreneurial training program. The program will provide approximately 100 educational and learning technology research teams with resources and tools to advance their innovations from the lab to the market. Specifically, the grantee will offer curriculum based on...

The Center for Advancing Innovation, Inc. was awarded a $2.49 million project grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration under the BUILD TO SCALE federal grant program (CFDA 11.024) to launch the Global Health Innovation Challenge. Over three years, the Center will source and launch over 60 high-growth startups in the Washington D.C. metro area to address global health threats using technology. The startups will focus on preventing, diagnosing, treating and...

This $230,292 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports research to enhance understanding of how innovative research and development (R&D) effectively translate into commercial products. The study will focus on place-based innovation (PBI) ecosystems, regions where stakeholders collaborate in close geographic proximity, to uncover critical factors that facilitate or hinder successful R&D...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project will develop a novel analog hardware accelerator to dramatically improve the speed of power systems simulations. The $305,000 award to Vellex Computing Inc. will advance a prototype analog circuit board to a scalable system-on-chip design capable of solving the complex AC optimal power flow problem thousands of times faster than conventional...

The Innovation Marquette Enterprise Corporation was awarded a $611,911 Project Grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration under the BUILD TO SCALE federal grant program (CFDA 11.024). The grant will fund the creation of an innovative crowdfunding platform to connect local entrepreneurs to angel investors and broader venture capital networks. Key services include establishing a crowdfunding program, educating local angel investors about scalable tech...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,852 Project Grant through its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to The Leland Stanford Junior University. This Phase I project will scope and develop a plan to transition the INVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) suite of open-source ecosystem service models into a full open-source ecosystem. The project aims to engage a broad community of users and contributors to accelerate the use...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant through its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the University of New Haven for the "BRIDGE-TECH: Building Relationships in Innovation and Development for Growth in Emerging Technologies" project. This collaborative research effort brings together five primarily undergraduate institutions to strengthen regional innovation ecosystems by removing barriers to research, workforce...