Undiluted

Distributed Spectrum: A Harvard student team growing in the DOD with help from NSIN

Three Harvard students took a year off from school during Covid to start a cyber security business, Distributed Spectrum.  During that year they won  a DOD/ NSIN hackathons which has led to defense traction, SBIRs and market validation

Interview with NSIN program manager Kedar Pavgi

Kedar Pavgi runs Collider programs for the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) and talks about how NSIN helps startups work with DOD and shares a case study in how his team supported a startup: Distributed Spectrum

Electroninks

Melbs LeMieux, co-founder of Electroninks shares his perspectives on how to work with Prime contractors, and how the government's extreme technical requirements, and their willingness to fund R&D to reach those requirements can help startups build products that delight commercial customers

Unanimous AI: Louis Rosenberg

Louis Rosenberg from Unanimous AI about his experiences founding SBIR backed companies in the early 90s and in the 20-teens.  How he's seen the program change and how different kinds of founders can best leverage different federal program

NeuroFlow

CEO Christopher Molaro [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAFi3OkBW9akDefZAj9c2XKiYGZvfV8lWxI] connects with FedScout [https://www.fedscout.com/] CEO Geoff Orazem [https://www.linkedin.com/in/geofforazem/] on the latest Undiluted [https://www.fedscout.com/undiluted] podcast episode to share the unconventional story of how NeuroFlow [https://www.linkedin.com/company/neuroflow/] secured funding early on through prize money won from business competitions and by taking advantage of government R&D grants.