Funding & Support for Your Tech Startup
May 29 @ 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Funding & Support for Your Tech Startup
May 29 (11:30AM-1:30PM)
Blacksburg, VA
Join us for an overview of funding sources and support resources available to help fund and develop your early stage tech startup.
- 11:00-11:15AM: Check-in
- 11:15-11:45: Intro to SBIR/STTR Grants and How to Start the Process — Robert Brooke, Director, SBIR/STTR Support Program, VIPC
- 11:45-Noon: Support Programs from VIPC — Robert Brooke, Director, SBIR/STTR Support Program, VIPC
- Noon-12:15PM: SBIR/STTR Reauthorization: Proposed updates and What You Can Do — Randy Simpson, TechOpp
- 12:15-12:30PM: Lunch (provided)
- 12:30-12:1:00PM: Investing in Early Stage Startups — What investors look for while considering investment in early-stage technologies such as AI and Cyber — TBD
- 1:00-1:15PM: RAMP — Supporting Regional Tech Startups: How RAMP (Regional Accelerator and Mentoring Program) is working with local tech startups to successfully develop and support commercialization of their technologies — John Hagy, Director, RAMP
- 1:15-1:30PM: SBDC & ICAP — Business Development Support, Customer Discovery and mentoring program for Virginia based pre-startups and startups. Learn how the ICAP program’s cohort based model helps pre-startups and startups to more effectively build a customer-based technology to solve real problems — Amanda Forrester, Director, Greater Roanoke & NRC Small Business Development Center
- 1:30-1:45PM: Questions/Adjourn
Location: 1880 Pratt Drive, Suite 2018, Blacksburg, VA
Cost: FREE! Lunch provided.
REGISTER: www.virginiaipc.org/events
