Micro-grant Providers

Ravi Gupta

Tambourine Innovation Ventures (TIV) is an economic development advisory and venture acceleration firm specializing in high-impact solutions and strategic growth initiatives. Our firm operates through two main practice areas: providing expert advisory services on cutting-edge topics; and fostering the creation and scaling of technology-driven ventures.

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Alyssa Belleville

Foresight Science & Technology is a full-service technology transfer consultancy, Guiding Innovations to Market since 1980. Our staff of over 60 Consultants with expertise across all industries, provides unique capabilities to look across many sectors and business models to evaluate commercial potential and formulate strategies for market success.

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Phone: 401-273-4844

Jerry Hollister & Amy Davis

BBCetc has been helping small businesses for the past 30+ years with high-value information, expert training (including well-regarded virtual training), and experienced guidance to successfully navigate the federal R&D funding programs.  Our deepest expertise is in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.

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Phone: 734.930.9741

Other Specialization(s): BBC also works with adjacent federal R&D funding programs like CDMRP, ARPA-E, ARPA-H, Long Range BAAs, RISE, and more!

Del Mackey

Peak Innovations Group was founded on one principal, help businesses move one step further in their commercialization efforts. Peak offers support to the innovation ecosystem through proposal development and review services, discussing market and customer potentials, and even event and workshop hosting.

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Phone: (206) 801-0485

Stacy Chin

At Scout, we are developing an AI platform that significantly expedites the SBIR grant writing process. Our AI platform, combined with our team of experts who have secured over $500M in federal grants and contracts, saves our writers and project managers over 50% of their time. Our team has extensive experience across a wide range of agencies, including NSF, DOD, NIH, DOE, USDA, and others, as well as with major federal FOAs like ARPA-H, ARPA-E, DOE BIL/Infrastructure grants, and more.

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Phone: 973-618-6702

Christine E.B. Howard

E.B. Howard empowers their clients by helping them locate, apply for, and evaluate the outcomes of non-dilutive grant funding. They provide comprehensive support to high-growth startups, small businesses, and organizations within the innovation ecosystem, ensuring they maximize their potential for success.

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Phone: (801) 829-7166

Lenka Fedorkava, Ph.D.

bioPrime, LLC is a professional advisory services firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, and start-ups with innovative life sciences and healthcare technologies accelerate their solutions to the marketplace. bioPrime specializes in helping founders secure non-dilutive SBIR/STTR and dilutive funding as they move along the commercialization path. bioPrime curates innovative startups to effectively engage with NIH, NSF, DoD and FDA experts, facilitates introductions to development partners as well as conducts deep pre-investment due diligence for investment funds and private firms.

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Phone: 703-340-5731

Cheryl Vickroy

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Phone: 608 575-2378

Lauren Ryals

Eva Garland Consulting (EGC) is an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing consulting firm with over 70 professionals. We specialize in helping innovators access billions of dollars in government grants and contracts, with a particular expertise in securing and managing non-dilutive funding.

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Pete Marsnik

Musky Tank works with startup and small to medium growth companies.  The process encourages decision making based on data, whether it is customer feedback, operational issues, and financial metrics.

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Ana Ortiz

Led by Ana Ortiz, PhD, ARCOGrants services combines six years of grant consultancy experience, specialized in non-dilutive funding for startups across biomedical, biological, and life sciences fields. With over $7.15M in non-dilutive funds secured for clients, ARCOGrants is committed to deliver successful outcomes. Our strategy increase funding chances, drawing from experience with agencies like NSF, NIH, and the Department of Defense.

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Phone: (460) 311-6273

Peter Whitham

ITP is an education consulting, research, and technology company that supports organizations across the phases of design, implementation, research, and continuous improvement of programming and technology products.

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Phone: 608-516-2078

Kafyrn Lieder, PhD

Kafryn has extensive experience with all aspects of the Federal grant (SBIR/STTR) application and review processes, including registrations, electronic submission requirements, and agency-specific systems [e.g., Grants.gov workspaces, eRA Commons (ASSIST), Research.gov, and PAMS]. My company’s services include project management, drafting and editing assistance, and helping with various details of preparing, submitting, and managing proposals and grants/contracts.

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Phone: 608-513-6907

Ashley Mooneyham

Superior Medical Experts offers full service grant consultation, preparation, and submission services and post-submission support for SBIR/STTR submissions to the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. Our department leadership blends advanced scientific knowledge and first-hand experience as an SBIR-funded entrepreneur to help clients navigate the SBIR/STTR program successfully, securing over $36M in awards for our clients since 2019.

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Phone: (763) 213-4417

Kris Parmelee

Parmelee Consulting Group offers >22 years’ experience in SBIR/STTR, with a deep knowledge of NIH and NSF. Working on 25+ NIH applications per year, Kris Parmelee offers extensive insights into trends and expectations of NIH reviewers.

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Phone: (317) 491-5051

Kellen Schneidewend

Finergy Consulting was created to help small businesses with limited resources develop sophisticated tools and strategies for finance and business development. This includes interactive financial models and competitive business presentations/pitches.

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Phone: (262) 844-3997