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FINANCING YOUR STARTUP COMPANY Financing of a startup is the life blood of the company. The following links can assist you in this daunting process. See also Links to Business sites and Financing your biotech company through the NIH Foundations Gill Gates Howard Hughes Grant Resources CRISP National Institutes of Health: NIH Weekly Funding Opportunities Small Business Administration SBA Offices SBA's small business training network (taxes, franchising, marketing, advertising, etc) Business.gov (link to US govt) SBA7(a) Program SBA 504 (fixed assets) NIH OEI (SBIR and STTR funding) SBIR Instructions Special grants for rare diseases FDA site for orphan product development RareDiseases Office Rare Diseases NIH Private Foundations Finding Funders Tool (foundation center) Medical Grant Foundations Links to Grants Research Foundations (Yahoo) foundation listing (CPMCnet) Funding Resources (McGill) Sources of Research Funding Emory (reportedly has a grant matching program for investors in new companeys). Lab Life (funding for laboratories) Venture Capital VCapital VFinance Novartis Merk Lilly Bioventures Science and Technology Indicators VCtaskforce Florida Venture Forum Ocean Tomo Capital Fund The Kauffman Fellows Program (a nice listing of VC firms which sponsor this VC educational institution) For Profit Companies in the business of Securing Financing for Your Company For Profit Companies in the business of securing financing for companies GSP Consulting Katan Associates Millenium Marketing Group Stock Exchanges American Stock Exchange Swiss Exchange Writing Successful Grants Writing Successful Grants: The following sites contain information for how to go about writing particular grants. Notes that for private grants, it is best to keep letter of inquiry 1) short and concise, 2) state that you are looking for funding, 3) briefly describe the project, 4) describe why it fits the foundation. Use minimal attachments and do not include references. Writing successful NIH Grants: U Miami NIH OER tips NNLM NIH tips NIH more tips CFDA Columbia Grant Writing Tools The Grant Institute (has courses/programs on effective grant writing). CFDA CCAT SBIR awards R&D Funding Data Next Wave (Science) Business Plan Competitions Purdue University/Roche |
