What am I expected to do:
    Before the event
    During the event
Interest indicator
Nutshell Submissions:
If advanced payment was made of the $150 non-refundable application fee - to upload Nushell, please CLICK HERE
Nutshell Submissions can be accepted ONLY from those SBIR Awardees who have requested a slot. If you have been assigned such a slot, please enter the unique code that was at the top of the email you received. Note that a one-time non-refundable $150.00 application fee is required at the time Nutshell submission is made.
Edited Nushells:
If you have been awarded a Presentation Slot and have opted to rework your original Nutshell, that updated version can be submitted here. No additional fee is required.

Nutshell Submission
A Nutshell Submission is a one-two page overview of firm, synopsizing the Business Opportunity - who you are, where you're going, how you plan to get there, what sort of monies are needed, for what - and, critically, how the investors will achieve their return.
Download Nutshell template.
Interest Indicator:
From a rigorous review process of the received 70+ applications, about 40 Presentation Slots have been allocated, with 4-5 still in the system. While we can accommodate perhaps 20-25 firms as Observers - itself a very useful learning experience -
we are almost at the full capacity vis-a-vis presenters.
At this point, if you would still like to be considered for a Presentation Slot, you will be expected to present compelling evidence that your company would be a valuable addition for this event.

Click on the button below to send an email to event organizers for consideration of your company. This email MUST include a prepared Nutshell. If you a selected for a Slot, full payment of both

  • the $150 application fee AND
  • $400 Event fee will be expected at that time and BEFORE your data is posted or distributed.
  • Firms selected for presentation will be expected to pay the Presenter Event Fee of $400. TWO additional persons representing the firm may attend for 50% of the Event Fee each.
    • The extent of VC interest in SBIR-involved firms is quite broad in scope and scale. To date - February 2005 - over 1677 investment firms of various types have some level of equity participation in well over 1200 SBIR-involved firms. Note carefully that the common practice of syndication means that indication here of the total number of Invested SBIR Firms by range of those VCs exceeds substantially the total of actual VC-funded firms.
    Range Number
    VC    		 Number
    SBIR
    Single 1060 1060
    2-4 415 846
    5-9 117 744
    10-14 21 241
    15-19 14 197
    20+ 9 208

         All of those VC entities which have made investment in one or more of the     over 700 firms which are VC-funded and currently SBIR-involved are on the invitation list to be involved in this event.
         We are committed to having at least TWO qualified investors in the primary presentation sessions in which 4-5 firms will be allocated 25 minutes each for presentation and Q/A. We expect to have several more VCs participant in the role of attendees only.
    Benefits of Event Presentation
  • Presentation before investors with demonstrated experience of, and interest in, SBIR-involved firms
  • Potential post-event distribution of prepared materials
  • Learning what others are doing. Learning from that along with setting what you're doing in that context
  • Becoming substantially more aware of the overall VC process - terms, valuations
  • Understanding far better what different types of investor look for.
  • Pre-Event and participation review, with useful feedback, of our options and presentation materials
    • Securing a Presentation Slot:
    A total of 25-28 Presentation Slots are available at the SBIR Venture Capital Fair to be held in Boston March 16-17, 2005.
        Application for one of these slots requires the submission of a one-two page     Company Nutshell.   Applications will be evaluated as they are received. Therefore, Awardees are encouraged to apply early. No Nutshell Submissions can be accepted after January 31, 2006
      A panel of Preliminary Submission Evaluators will select the firms to make Event Presentation based on the information provided in the Nutshell document.
        The primary criterion for selection will be the extent to which the firm appears to present a profile likely to be of interest to one or more investment sources. In other words, firms that likely to be successful in raising equity capital if not at this event, then from some other source.
        Once submitting firms have been notified of the Panel's decisions, the names of all presenters will be listed in the Participant Awardees
        Applications will be accepted from firms:
    in any state.
          Geographic location is not a selection criterion.
    seeking whatever round is relevant for them.
          We expect presentations at every stage from the pre-investment of seed and early-stage capital through follow-on rounds required by firms with some level of investment already in place. Investors focused to these various stages will be present.
    in any industry segment or technology arena.
          Firms in certain industries have more substantial capital needs than those in others. However, the evidence is clear that SBIR Awardees across the full range of business opportunity have successfully raised equity capital.