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 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. 

FedScout Founder Stories: RAVN, a SEALs journey to improve battlefield communications

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

FedScout Founder Stories: GetChkd and Web3

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

CacheDNA: NSF icore and funding from the Office of Naval Research

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

PyrraTech: Meeting and pitching federal customers

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

Nebula Compute (CRADAs and SBIRs)

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.