Undiluted
Welcome to Undiluted, the show about amazing founders and companies who’ve used government R&D grants, contracts and sales to build their products, grow their companies and keep their equity. We’re Katy Person and Gene Keselman from MIT and Geoff Orazem from FedScout, we’ve been helping companies understand, evaluate and access federal funding for decades and we want to bring this extraordinary funding source out of the shadows and into your business model. In each episode we talk to a founder about their company and how different government programs helped them grow. Undiluted comes out weekly on Thursdays so if you want to build a product, start a company, or grow your business while keeping more of your equity subscribe now
Episodes

Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Three Harvard students took a year off from school during Covid to start a cyber security business, Distributed Spectrum. During that year they won a DOD/ NSIN hackathons which has led to defense traction, SBIRs and market validation

Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Kedar Pavgi runs Collider programs for the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) and talks about how NSIN helps startups work with DOD and shares a case study in how his team supported a startup: Distributed Spectrum

Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Melbs LeMieux, co-founder of Electroninks shares his perspectives on how to work with Prime contractors, and how the government's extreme technical requirements, and their willingness to fund R&D to reach those requirements can help startups build products that delight commercial customers

Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
Louis Rosenberg from Unanimous AI about his experiences founding SBIR backed companies in the early 90s and in the 20-teens. How he's seen the program change and how different kinds of founders can best leverage different federal program

Monday May 02, 2022
Monday May 02, 2022
CEO Christopher Molaro connects with FedScout CEO Geoff Orazem on the latest Undiluted podcast episode to share the unconventional story of how NeuroFlow secured funding early on through prize money won from business competitions and by taking advantage of government R&D grants.

Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Jake Bullock with RAVN technologies discovered the challenges of battlefield communications as a SEAL in Iraq. Then as a student at Columbia he figure out a solution that came to life thanks to lots of hard work and funding from the SBIR program

Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
This is Undiluted, the show about the amazing founders and companies who've used government R&D grants, contracts, and sales to build their products, grow their companies, and keep their equity.We are Katy Person and Gene Keselman from MIT and Geoff Orazem from FedScout, and on today’s show how GetChkd is using the blockchain to create magical experiences while protecting private information

Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
This is Undiluted, the show about the amazing founders and companies who've used government R&D grants, contracts, and sales to build their products, grow their companies, and keep their equity.We are Katy Person and Gene Keselman from MIT and Geoff Orazem from FedScout, and on today’s show how CacheDNA is using DNA to encode data so that it can be safely stored almost forever

Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
This is Undiluted, the show about the amazing founders and companies who've used government R&D grants, contracts and sales to build their products, grow their companies and keep their equity.We are Katy Person and Gene Keselman from MIT and Geoff Orazem from FedScout, and on today’s show how PyrraTech is tackling online disinformation, how to combat it, and how federal programs funded their growth

Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
This is Undiluted, the show about the amazing founders and companies who've used government R&D grants, contracts and sales to build their products, grow their companies and keep their equity.We are Katy Person and Gene Keselman from MIT and Geoff Orazem from FedScout, and on today’s show how one person's passion for space became a reality thanks to an excellent board of advisors and funding and support from the Air Force.