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The SBIR and STTR programs provide critically important early-stage funding for technology-focused small businesses. Learn how these programs have helped entrepreneurs advance R&D and strengthen the nation's innovation economy

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Innovative Science

Phoenix Integration

Since you can’t design a space vehicle by looking at one engineering discipline alone, multiple components need to be considered simultaneously in order to select the best choice. What would be the most fuel-efficient option? Are there lighter materials that could be used? Which design would be ready to launch the soonest?

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Commercial Success

23 and Me

When genotyping solutions first came on the market, customers were thrilled they could pinpoint their ancestry and learn more about who they are and where they came from. 23andMe took this one step further, and became the only company to offer both an ancestry product and a genetic health assessment that provides customers with over 75 online reports related to genetic health risks, carrier status, wellness and more.

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XploSafe

Seal of the Agency: DOC

XploSafe is a technology-driven company specializing in advanced chemical detection, safety solut...

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2025

Oklahoma

BIOSENSICS LLC

Seal of the Agency: HHS

Developed wearable sensors for automatic medical alerts.

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2021

Massachusetts

Pinnacle Technology, Inc.

Seal of the Agency: HHS

Whether it is Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, seizures or sleep disorders, studying the bra...

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2021

Kansas

InDevR

Seal of the Agency: HHS

Vaccines go a long way toward improving human health by immunizing us against common and not so c...

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2021

Colorado

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  • SBIR SUCCESS STORY Pathfinder Systems

    Pathfinder Systems is a veteran-owned small business with proven performance at the leading edge of software and systems engineering, technology, research and development.

  • SBIR SUCCESS STORY Molecular Rebar Design

    Molecular Rebar Design, LLC (MRD) converts as made bundles of carbon nanotubes into discrete carbon nanotubes called MOLECULAR REBAR that dramatically change physical properties at low concentrations.

  • SBIR SUCCESS STORY Enduralock

    Enduralock is a company of 11 people focused on development of fastener technologies to provide for robotic In Space Assembly, Assembly, and Manufacturing (ISAM) and to improve aircraft assembly and maintenance times.

  • SBIR SUCCESS STORY Blue Ocean Gear

    Blue Ocean Gear provides Smart Buoy technology for marine industries to track offshore equipment while collecting low-cost ocean data using an onboard sensor suite.

  • SBIR SUCCESS STORY Quantifind

    Superior, automated risk intelligence for every customer, at every touchpoint, with all the data, anytime.

  • SBIR SUCCESS STORY XploSafe

    XploSafe is a technology-driven company specializing in advanced chemical detection, safety solutions

  • SBIR Success Story – Genesis Systems

    Genesis Systems is a technology company focused on solving the water-food-energy nexus and the creator of

  • SBIR Success Story – Telescent Inc.

    Telescent's large-scale, low-loss robotic patch-panel system brings automation to the fiber layer of data center and optical networks

  • SBIR-STTR-Tibbetts Award Winner - Vita Inclinata Technologies

    2020 Tibbetts Award Winner Colorado-based Vita Inclinata was born of a tragic and unnecessary loss o

  • SBIR-STTR-Tibbetts Award Winner - Zeteo Tech, Inc.

    2020 Tibbetts Award Winner Zeteo Tech’s mass spectrometry technology identifies airborne microbes,