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Welcome to America's Seed Fund Community Resources
America’s Seed Fund awards non-dilutive funding to startups and small businesses to develop technology and chart a path toward commercialization. How do innovators and founders learn about America's Seed Fund? Most often it's through their entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) - the accelerators, incubators, investors, labs, and other programs that help them along their journey.
This site is designed to support the entire innovation ecosystem - the ESOs that support entrepreneurship and the innovators (startups and small businesses) - building technology that is critical for America's economic prosperity, global competitiveness, and national security.
Overview
Thank you for joining us during Road Tour 2024! Stay tuned for 2025 announcements.
America’s Seed Fund Road Tour is a national outreach effort to connect innovators and entrepreneurs to non-dilutive, technology funding opportunities provided through the SBIR/STTR programs.
Save the date for the SBIR/STTR Fall Innovation Conference - December 3 - 5, 2024 in Austin, TX!
America’s Seed Fund will host its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Fall Innovation Conference in Austin, Texas from December 3 - 5, 2024. The three-day event provides attendees the valuable opportunity to connect directly with federal agencies representing America's Seed Fund, the nation’s largest source of non-dilutive funding for high-growth startups and small businesses. It will also offer programming on how to compete for funding.
Here are the slides from the 2024 SBIR/STTR Spring Innovation Conference.
Stay tuned for the 2025 announcement!
America's Seed Fund Week kicked off our 2024 Road Tour with a free and virtual opportunity for startups and small businesses to learn about the $4 billion non-dilutive funding available through SBIR/STTR programs.
Check out the video recordings and resources linked here.
November 14 - 15, Virtual
The SBA Innovation Ecosystem Summit is curated to connect organizations across sectors to learn from one another as we work together to build a thriving national innovation ecosystem that promotes equitable access to capital and resources for innovators nationwide.
New for 2024: SBA received panel ideas from ecosystem builders across the country for the 2024 Innovation Ecosystem Summit. Thank you to all who submitted and voted. Your involvement is critical to the success of the Summit. Voting is now closed.
Stage One winners announced!
SBA recently announced the 2024 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition Stage One Winners. 60 Organizations were awarded $50,000 in prize awards for impactful and inclusive approaches to foster a thriving, collaborative national innovation support ecosystem to advance small business research and development (R&D).
Visit here to learn more and download the complete 2024 GAFC guidelines.
Here is the 2024 Stage One winner press release.
Monthly Community Call and Email Updates
Engage with us monthly on the SBA Innovation Ecosystem Network Call! This dynamic call brings together entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) from across the country to foster connections and build a thriving, national innovation ecosystem.
Stay in the know with all the America's Seed Fund happenings!
The SBIR and STTR programs fund a diverse portfolio of startups and small businesses across technology areas and markets to stimulate technological innovation, meet Federal research and development (R&D) needs, and increase commercialization to transition R&D into impact. Subscribe to the Newsletter today!
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