A U.S. federal program gives deep tech founders up to $30 million without giving up equity or sitting through board meetings. The money funds feasibility studies, prototypes, and testing to prove commercial viability.
And the beauty of this program is that no equity is given up. Yep, that's right, that's completely non-dilutive. There's no investor calls or board meetings, and it's just non-dilutive funding given by the federal government for you to pursue R&D, like to run feasibility studies, develop prototypes, and test it against the golden standard in the space. In other words, the US federal government is giving you funding to generate the data you need to prove that there's commercial viability in your technology. And in 2026, they actually massively upgraded this program. Now there's something called the Strategic Breakthrough Award, work that can go up to even $30 million of non-dilutive funding.
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