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Undiluted
Welcome to Undiluted, the show about amazing founders and companies who’ve used government R&D grants, contracts and sales to build their products, grow their companies and keep their equity.
We’re Katy Person and Gene Keselman from MIT and Geoff Orazem from FedScout, we’ve been helping companies understand, evaluate and access federal funding for decades and we want to bring this extraordinary funding source out of the shadows and into your business model.
In each episode we talk to a founder about their company and how different government programs helped them grow.
Undiluted comes out weekly on Thursdays so if you want to build a product, start a company, or grow your business while keeping more of your equity subscribe now
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
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
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
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
CEO Christopher Molaro connects with FedScout CEO Geoff Orazem on the latest Undiluted podcast episode to share the unconventional story of how NeuroFlow secured funding early on through prize money won from business competitions and by taking advantage of government R&D grants.
Jake Bullock with RAVN technologies discovered the challenges of battlefield communications as a SEAL in Iraq. Then as a student at Columbia he figure out a solution that came to life thanks to lots of hard work and funding from the SBIR program
This is Undiluted, the show about the amazing founders and companies who've used government R&D grants, contracts, and sales to build their products, grow their companies, and keep their equity.
We are Katy Person and Gene Keselman from MIT and Geoff Orazem from FedScout, and on today’s show how GetChkd is using the blockchain to create magical experiences while protecting private information
This is Undiluted, the show about the amazing founders and companies who've used government R&D grants, contracts, and sales to build their products, grow their companies, and keep their equity.
We are Katy Person and Gene Keselman from MIT and Geoff Orazem from FedScout, and on today’s show how CacheDNA is using DNA to encode data so that it can be safely stored almost forever
This is Undiluted, the show about the amazing founders and companies who've used government R&D grants, contracts and sales to build their products, grow their companies and keep their equity.
We are Katy Person and Gene Keselman from MIT and Geoff Orazem from FedScout, and on today’s show how PyrraTech is tackling online disinformation, how to combat it, and how federal programs funded their growth
This is Undiluted, the show about the amazing founders and companies who've used government R&D grants, contracts and sales to build their products, grow their companies and keep their equity.
We are Katy Person and Gene Keselman from MIT and Geoff Orazem from FedScout, and on today’s show how one person's passion for space became a reality thanks to an excellent board of advisors and funding and support from the Air Force.
This is Undiluted, the show about the amazing founders and companies who've used government R&D grants, contracts and sales to build their products, grow their companies and keep their equity.
We are Katy Person and Gene Keselman from MIT and Geoff Orazem from FedScout, and on today’s show how a team of engineers are turning mining waste into rare earth metals with the help of TechStars, VCs, the National Science Foundation, the Departments of Energy and the DOD
This is Undiluted the show about the amazing founders and companies who have used government R&D grants, contracts, and sales to build their products, grow their companies, and keep their equity.
We're Katy person, Gene Keselman from MIT, and Geoff Orazem from FedScout. And on today's show how a Navy nuclear engineer's frustration with mega infrastructure projects led to a whole new way to manage commercial and DOD construction.