CleanTech Funding Foundations Series (Grants Part 2)

We are excited to launch a CleanTech Funding Foundations series in partnership with CleanStart through the Sacramento Entrepreneurial Growth Alliance – Accelerate CA Hub designation by the California Office of the Small Business Advocate.

This series aims to support early stage innovators and entrepreneurs in understanding the foundations of how to raise capital especially as a cleantech startup. This series is open to founders and startups in various industries but will leverage examples from the cleantech industry.

Wednesday, May 22: Writing Successful Grant Applications

Discussion topics:

· What are the best ways to increase your success rate?

· Guest Speaker: Kula Addy, Momentum.io

· The process for getting SBIRs and STTRs from the federal government

· CalSEED grants as a high-leverage source of funding for very early stage ventures

· Beneficial uses of contests as training for pitching—CleanTech Open and others