NSF Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I, Phase II, Fast-Track Programs: A Pilot Emphasis on Scientific Instrumentation
Funds startups building next-generation scientific instruments — up to $2 million per company, no equity taken.
NSF's small business programmes fund deep technology from startups, and this notice is a pilot emphasis inside them aimed at one thing: the instruments science itself runs on.
The argument NSF makes is that American scientists need next-generation instrumentation, that in many fields it matters where that instrumentation is built, and that startups are a route to it. So the pilot invests in enabl…
Startups and small businesses developing enabling technologies for science — next-generation scientific instrumentation, novel experimental platforms and other scientific equipment, including the instrumentation needed for AI-driven discovery.
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