Success Stories
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?
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.
BioSensics, LLC
InDevR
Vaccines go a long way toward improving human health by immunizing us against common and not so c...
2023
Colorado
23andME
Development of an ancestry product and a genetic health assessment that provides customers with o...
2023
California
PACSCI EMC
SQUID-Technology™ arresting system, developed through contracts from the Department of Homeland...
2023
Arizona
Teachley, LLC
The women behind Teachley admit they’re not typical entrepreneurs. That’s what makes them suc...
2023
New York
Blue Canyon Technologies
Developed pointing and attitude architecture for miniaturized spacecrafts, including NASA’s Ins...
2022
Made in Space, Inc.
Red Balloon Security
Developed the first universal embedded defense, Symbiote, designed to protect any and all embedde...
2022
Pathfinder Systems
Developed Aircrew Trainers, including External Load and Gunnery Trainers, Simulated Weapon System...
2023
Colorado
Pathfinder Systems, Inc.
Developed Aircrew Trainers, including External Load and Gunnery Trainers, Simulated Weapon System...
2023
Colorado
2B Technologies
Developed air pollution monitoring instruments that are much smaller, lighter, use less power, an...
2022
BlueWillow Biologics
NIH-funded company BlueWillow Biologics is working to develop vaccines that have traditionally be...
2022