Funded SBIR-STTR projects to Agency firms: some examples Firm/Yr/Agency/$$$ Project Title Edify Technologies Inc Music Education Platform for Elementary Schools Without Music Programs 2022 DoEd $1,000,000 Future Engineers LLC Challenge Feedback Tool 2022 DoEd $1,000,000 Xsel Labs Inc SEL Quest Digital Platform to Modernize and Advance Assessment of Student Social and Emotional Competencies 2022 DoEd $1,000,000 Program Manager: Edward Metz Extent of this State's SBIR-STTR participation over life of program Award-related data Awards Phase I Phase II 1038 373 Total Award Dollars 1983-current 268144467 Number Awardees 658 Current SBIR-STTR Activity Level Awards (last 5yr) Phase I Phase II 85 42 Award Dollars 42118602 Current Awardees 76 External business factors by State Awardees Publicly Traded 0 M&A Deals 47 VC Funded Firms 41 Total US issued patents 2719 In DOD and NIH particularly, Phase II may be on Phase I awards made three-four years earlier. The comprehensive SBIR tracking system developed and rigorously maintained by the Innovation Development Institute is project-grounded. All related Phase IIs are tracked by relevance to original Phase I i.e. in a single record. As applicable - for example in NIH and some DOD - Phase II awards dollars are recorded incrementally in our offline systems but posted online by total to date. Source: Innovation Development Institute, Swampscott, MA. ©Copyright 1995-2024. All rights reserved. Featured SBIR Firm Soar Technology Inc Spun out of University of Michigan and now having facilities and personnel in Ann Arbor, MI, Orlando FL, Dayton, OH and and Saline MI, SoarTech is an artificial intelligence compan... see more www.soartech.com | (734) 627-8072 Agency Footprint Note: Phase II awards may be incrementally funded. Hence, downturn indicated by this graph is not an error nor a major drop-off of SBIR funding availability. As Phase II awards are made - almost 3/4 of all dollars - steepness of this curve will increase substantially.