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From advanced manufacturing to artificial intelligence to biological technologies to environmental technologies, we fund nearly all areas of technology.</p> <p><a href="/awardees/history/" class="usa-button usa-button-secondary">Search awards we've made over the last 10 years </a></p> <p>We also encourage you to browse a list of our active <a href="/awardees/phase-1">Phase 1 awardees</a> or active <a href="/awardees/phase-2">Phase II awardees</a>.</p> <div style="border: 1px solid #046B99; border-radius: 0; padding: 1.5rem; width: 320px;"> <h2>Startup Profiles</h2> <p>See videos about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGhBP1C7iCOmT7uCJfCDt9yVqnkITvH3n">our program and the startups we fund</a>.</p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="usa-section full-bleed-bg--lightblue"> <h2>Eligibility</h2> <ul> <li>Your company must be a small business (fewer than 500 employees) located in the United States.</li> <li>At least 50% of your company’s equity must be owned by U.S. citizens or permanent residents. NSF does not fund companies that are majority-owned by multiple venture capital firms, private equity firms, or hedge funds, to participate in SBIR and STTR.</li> <li>All funded work, including work done by consultants and contractors, needs to take place in the United States.</li> <li>The project’s principal investigator (tech lead) must be legally employed at least 20 hours a week by the company seeking funding. The PI doesn’t need any advanced degrees.</li> <li>The principal investigator needs to commit to at least one month (173 hours) of work on a funded project per six months of project duration.</li> </ul> <p>For more detailed information, check out the <a href="https://www.sbir.gov/sites/default/files/elig_size_compliance_guide_0.pdf">Eligibility Guide</a>.</p> </section> <section class="usa-section full-bleed-bg"> <h2>Technology topic areas</h2> <p>We fund startups doing work across nearly all technology and market sectors (with the exception of clinical trials and schedule I controlled substances). Review this nonexhaustive list of technology topic areas. We do not require your project to fit perfectly into a topic area. If your company is doing research and development of deep technology with potential commercial and societal impact, chances are we want to fund it.</p> <div class="topic-grid"> <a href="/topics/advanced-manufacturing/"> <div class="topic-grid__name">Advanced Manufacturing (M)</div> <div class="topic-grid__abbr">m</div> </a> <a href="/topics/advanced-materials/"> <div class="topic-grid__name">Advanced Materials (AM)</div> <div class="topic-grid__abbr">am</div> </a> <a href="/topics/advanced-analytics/"> <div class="topic-grid__name">Advanced Systems for Scalable Analytics (AA)</div> <div class="topic-grid__abbr">aa</div> </a> <a href="/topics/agricultural-technologies/"> <div class="topic-grid__name">Agricultural Technologies (AG)</div> <div class="topic-grid__abbr">ag</div> </a> <a href="/topics/artificial-intelligence/"> <div class="topic-grid__name">Artificial Intelligence (AI)</div> <div class="topic-grid__abbr">ai</div> </a> <a href="/topics/augmented-virtual-reality/"> <div 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(DH)</div> <div class="topic-grid__abbr">dh</div> </a> <a href="/topics/distributed-ledger/"> <div class="topic-grid__name">Distributed Ledger (DL)</div> <div class="topic-grid__abbr">dl</div> </a> <a href="/topics/emerging-technologies/"> <div class="topic-grid__name">Emerging Technologies (EM)</div> <div class="topic-grid__abbr">em</div> </a> <a href="/topics/energy-technologies/"> <div class="topic-grid__name">Energy Technologies (EN)</div> <div class="topic-grid__abbr">en</div> </a> <a href="/topics/environmental-technologies/"> <div class="topic-grid__name">Environmental Technologies (ET)</div> <div class="topic-grid__abbr">et</div> </a> <a href="/topics/human-computer-interaction/"> <div class="topic-grid__name">Human-Computer Interaction (HC)</div> <div class="topic-grid__abbr">hc</div> </a> <a href="/topics/instrumentation-and-hardware-systems/"> <div class="topic-grid__name">Instrumentation and Hardware Systems (IH)</div> <div class="topic-grid__abbr">ih</div> </a> <a 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