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
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Episodes
Jun 15, 2022
Jun 15, 2022
47 min
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
Jun 15, 2022
Jun 15, 2022
22 min
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
May 31, 2022
May 31, 2022
33 min
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
May 16, 2022
May 16, 2022
35 min
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
May 2, 2022
May 2, 2022
56 min
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.
Mar 21, 2022
Mar 21, 2022
46 min
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
Mar 14, 2022
Mar 14, 2022
34 min
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
Mar 6, 2022
Mar 6, 2022
28 min
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
Feb 21, 2022
Feb 21, 2022
37 min
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
Jan 18, 2022
Jan 18, 2022
40 min
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.
