Your one-stop shopping for all your SBIR/STTR grant consultation needs
AwardIT’s consultants have assisted clients in winning over $40M in non-dilutive funding. We look forward to learning how we can help you craft a winning SBIR/STTR strategy for your company.
Services Designed To Suit Your Company’s Needs
Full Service Consultation
Everything you need to plan, prepare, and write your SBIR/STTR proposal. Service includes ensuring your company is properly registered for Federal grant applications, crafting your grant strategy to maximize impact of your application, assistance with preparation of all grant documents, and finally help with the application process itself.
Recommended for companies new to the world of SBIR grants, or those looking to fully outsource the grant preparation while they focus on other activities.
Edit/Review
For companies that are already familiar with the grant process, we offer a second level of engagement. You create the grant content, our experts will shape it to make it the best it can be and ensure it conforms to agency specific guidelines. A final walkthrough of all documents provides the finishing touches.
We have decades of experience writing SBIR grants and can show you how it’s done.
The AwardIT "Review Preview"
Sophisticated grant writers know that even the best grants benefit from a thorough and objective 3rd party review. The “Review Preview” provides a fast turnaround, agency simulated review of your grant that can be used to avoid red flags and course correct your documents prior to application.
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AwardIT: Crafting Solutions, One Grant at a Time
Who We Are:
Like you, we are entrepreneurs and scientists. We have a proven track record of success with the SBIR/STTR process, both in our own ventures and for our clients. We look forward to sharing the benefit of our hard-won experience with you to help your idea on its journey from lightbulb to product.
Our Mission:
You already know that SBIR/STTR grants are an excellent source of non-dilutive seed funding for small businesses with big ideas. But knowing how to gain access to those funds can be bewildering. You are the expert in your tech, we are experts in crafting winning grant proposals. The AwardIT mission is to help you shape your concept into a grant proposal that will maximize your chances for a successful award.
Our clients are small businesses and academic spin-outs trying to commercialize new ideas in medical imaging/devices, organ/tissue engineering, drug development, artificial intelligence, control of infectious diseases/allergies, robotics, and many other fields. It’s a world of smart ideas – we look forward to learning more about yours!
Meet (Some of) The Team...
Dr. Neal Kalechofsky
AwardIT Founder, neal@awardit.net
Neal received his Ph.D. in Physics from Umass Amherst in 1995. Since that time, he has participated in/directed numerous projects ranging in size from small academic research programs up through larger corporate product development efforts. He was a co-founder of a start up in the MR imaging space Millikelvin Technologies (MKT). As CTO of MKT he wrote and received numerous SBIR grants/patents as well as participated in raising money from private equity sources. As a consultant, he has helped clients win over $15M in SBIR/STTR funding.
Patty Pederson
AwardIT C-Founder
Patty graduated from Boston College with a BA in Economics. She is AwardIT co-Founder/CFO, a successful small business owner and investor. In addition to AwardIT, she currently is serving as Board President of the Marblehead Museum.
Dr. Gregory Martin
Gregory is an executive, entrepreneur, engineer, and scientist with over 25 years of experience taking medical technologies from concept to bedside to commercialization in academic, start-up, and corporate environments. He received his BS, MS, and PhD all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in mechanical engineering where he also did post-doctoral research and was a Staff Scientist in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He has worked with numerous startup companies including being the co-founder of Hemedex, the founding VP of R&D at Opsonix, and working as a consultant to many early-stage medical device companies.
Dr. Friedel Von Goeler
Friedel is an expert in system development, system modeling, analysis, and testing, to help clients achieve their product development goals. He has over 20 years of systems development experience with The Raytheon Company advancing new technologies and executing programs from proposal through deployment in roles of increasing responsibility including as Senior Principal Engineer, Team Lead, and Product Owner. Friedel is an expert in signal processing, target detection, tracking and classification, and system and environmental modeling. He holds a B.S. in Engineering from Northeastern University and a Ph.D. in Physics from The University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Dr. Xavier Scott
Xavier received his BS in Microbiology and Immunology and Psychology, his MS in Public Health, and his PhD in Cellular Physiology and Molecular Biophysics from the University of Miami. He attended Baylor College of Medicine as a Post doctoral trainee prior to opening his company, PulseLink Communications and Analytics, a freelance medical writing company. Xavier has certifications in medical writing, medical editing, and regulatory writing from the American Medical Writing Association and the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society and is a board member for the Texas chapter for both organizations. Xavier has expertise in mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, cerebrovascular stroke, and cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Michael Harman
Michael received his BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering from UCONN and a PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Arizona. His postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University provided exceptional technical value to the clinicians in the Department of Surgery at Rhode Island Hospital where he helped decipher the mechanical regulatory cues involved with immune dysregulation in diseases like Sepsis. Michael is actively connected with a broad network of global medical and life sciences professionals. He specializes in the front-end innovation aspects of product development, such as Technology Scouting, Requirements Development, and Concept Generation, demonstrating significant successes specifically within the diagnostics and life sciences sector.
Dr. Pamela Barraza-Flores
Pamela received her BS in Biochemistry from the University of New Mexico and a PhD in Cellular Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology from the University of Nevada Reno, School of Medicine. Her doctoral dissertation focused on therapeutic avenues for multiple muscular dystrophies. She provided evidence that treatment with the biological laminin-111 increases muscle regeneration in several animal models of disease. She is now a postdoc at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School where she is developing assays for the discovery of treatments for other muscle diseases. She is also working on describing mechanisms of disease using molecular biology and bioinformatics.
Anna Welland, MBA
Since 2005, Anna has helped academic medical centers, biotech startups, and climate tech organizations secure and manage grant funding to advance research, accelerate innovation, and drive meaningful impact for patients and the planet. She has led the development of grants and compliance programs, built cross-functional strategies, and managed complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives, delivering results on time and on budget. To date, she has submitted nearly one thousand grants, has secured hundreds of millions in funding, and has overseen post-award projects totaling more than $200M.
Boris Gladstein
Boris is an electrical engineer with over 25 years of experience in robotics systems and founder of B2 Robotics. His background includes taking military, industrial, and consumer robots from initial concept to mass production. He holds a BS from Tel-Aviv university and MS in control systems from Northeastern University. At B2 Robotics, Boris works with start up as well as Fortune 100 companies designing ground robots, underwater robots, and drones. Previously, he worked at Shield AI where he designed fully autonomous drones and prior to that, he worked at iRobot for 14 years on military and consumer products. Boris’ areas of expertise include system level architecture, FPGA design, high-speed digital design, navigation hardware and motor control.
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