Grants & Non-dilutive Funding 2023 | ENET | 18 April 2023 | CIC Cambridge, 1 Broadway Terr, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

Are you trying to launch or grow a startup business?

Do you need money but just can’t find it?

Not ready for angels or VC investors? Or already turned down?

Need to build your company and need money to do it – but how to do that?

This panel will address these questions and help you understand:
• How to build your company from nothing to something.
• How to do it without VC or angel money.
• How to get non-investor first funding and further cash equivalents
• What are SBIR grants? How they can help? how to get them?
• Other sources of 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.

Another key advantage of this non-dilutive funding is that it may make it easier to later get a seed or A-round of VC or angel funding. Investors want to see something before they invest. Validation that comes from an SBIR grant or money already invested from non-dilutive sources is a pleasing thing for investors to see.

Yet it takes money to make your company into something to interest investors. It is a catch-22. This panel offers techniques to show you how to break out of that conundrum – to take your company from nothing to something, and to do so without VC or angel funding, using grants and non-dilutive funding.

2023 Speakers

Raj Aggarwal
GM Sales Enablement Platform, AWS

Laura M. Hales, Ph.D.
Cofounder and Chief Business Officer, Extend Biosciences, Inc.

John Toomey
Business Advisor/Coach/Fractional Management, JEToomey.com

Robert A. Adelson
Principal, Business and Tax attorney, Adelson & Associates, LLC

2023 Sponsors

• Burns Levinson
• CIC Inno Horizontal Orange
• Boston Consultants' Network
• davismalm
• First Republic Bank
• Fish & Richardson
• Gesmer UpdeGrove, LLP
• Lasell University
• McCarter & English
• Microsoft Technology Centers
• Morrison & Foerster