🦄 TurboSBIR: Bringing non-dilutive federal funding to startups

With our Unicorner company covers, we’ve often highlighted venture-backed companies. Traditionally, becoming venture-backed has been considered a large milestone for high-growth startup companies, and VC funding has helped accelerate the success of companies such as Airbnb, Doordash, and many more. Our name, Unicorner, even comes from the belief that we are discovering the next “unicorns,” a VC term that describes private companies with valuations of $1 billion. However, recently we’ve seen new funding methods for companies, such as crowdfunding. TurboSBIR is offering yet another alternative to founders in the form of grants. While these grants are not new, the TurboTax-like convenience of avoiding the headaches of manually dealing with government documents is. Such applications are easy to make mistakes on that can decrease the amount of the grants or even result entirely in a rejection. We’re impressed by the service, and are happy to use our platform to highlight any and all pathways early-stage founders can take to find success.