Grants and Non-Dilutive Funding

This panel will focus on getting initial money from non-traditional sources when VCs and angels will not help, and friends and family are tapped out. A key advantage of this funding for the founder is that unlike VC or angel funding, you don’t give away any of your stock – there is no dilution of your founder’s stock position. The panelists will speak from experience to show you non-dilutive sources of finding including SBIRs and governmental grants, strategic partnering and customer-funded development, and venture debt.