Fed Tech

Fed Tech was born in 2013 as part of the National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program when we saw an opportunity to commercialize the $140B/year in federally funded R&D.

Our goal is simple: move cutting-edge technology from the bench to the marketplace as fast as possible.

We are a unique private venture program, funded by federal agencies, that connects entrepreneurs to technologies developed across DoD, NASA, DOE and other laboratories. We run multiple cohorts per year where successful applicants are paired with lab partners/inventors to serve as founders. Teams work closely with teaching and mentor teams and are taken through modules on lean startup, business models, product development, customer discovery, intellectual property and licensing, funding strategies for spinning out R&D, pitch skills, and more.

The cohort is intentionally designed to be completed part-time, requiring an average of 10 hours per week during the eight weeks. This program is at no cost to the entrepreneurs and Fed Tech does not require equity to participate.

We have worked with premier R&D labs and entrepreneurs across the nation and spun out technologies that have changed people's lives for the better.

After the cohort, many of the teams choose to start companies and Fed Tech continues to work with the best of these post-cohort. Regardless of the outcome, all the teams are given a unique experience to learn about tech commercialization, lean startup and building high tech companies.