The good, the bad, and the ugly about non-dilutive funding

The most important job of a founder is getting your startup funded. Lots of the focus nowadays is on figuring out how to get money from private investors, typically venture capitalists. This talk, presented by Jared Silvia, focuses on another critical source of funds for many first-time founders — non-dilutive funding. We do a quick survey of the sources of non-dilutive funding, discuss how it fits into a resilient capital strategy, and then a deep dive on one of the biggest sources of non-dilutive funding in the US, the SBIR/STTR grant program, and how you can get started on your first grant.