Title: Some people know about SBIRs (small business innovative research grants), through which federal government gives away more than $1B of R&amp;D funding to small businesses. There are many more opportunities open for small businesses. For example, AirForce recently opened a $100M solicitation looking for machine learning technologies.<p>I know government grant process can be very cumbersome but so is trying to raise VC money (especially outside of SV). And government money is non-dilutive.<p>I am noticing more startups (e.g. Palantir, Anduril) starting off of government opportunities, but they seem very rare.<p>Why isn&#x27;t gov funding a more common way of starting a startup? Is it mostly because people don&#x27;t know about these and&#x2F;or don&#x27;t know how to navigate the process?
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