IMPACT BY NETWORK

Massachusetts

Company Develops Robots to Automate Agriculture and Help Farms

Joshua Lessing, CEO and co-founder of Root AI, requested assistance with Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) in May 2018. The company had developed a universal harvesting robot. With the MSBDC’s help, the company won NSF (National Science Foundation) SBIR funding. The MSBDC advisor guided the company through the intricacies of setting up a government-compliant accounting system. The advisor also helped the client write the Phase II proposal and respond to questions about the proposal. The company was successful in securing Phase II funding. In 2021, the company received a very solid offer from a known competitor and accepted the acquisition offer. Josh stated that the MSBDC’s help played a vital role in the company’s success.

Company Develops Robots to Automate Agriculture and Help Farms

Joshua Lessing, CEO and co-founder of Root AI, requested assistance with Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) in May 2018. The company had developed a universal harvesting robot. With the MSBDC’s help, the company won NSF (National Science Foundation) SBIR funding. The MSBDC advisor guided the company through the intricacies of setting up a government-compliant accounting system. The advisor also helped the client write the Phase II proposal and respond to questions about the proposal. The company was successful in securing Phase II funding. In 2021, the company received a very solid offer from a known competitor and accepted the acquisition offer. Josh stated that the MSBDC’s help played a vital role in the company’s success.

Company Develops Robots to Automate Agriculture and Help Farms

Joshua Lessing, CEO and co-founder of Root AI, requested assistance with Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) in May 2018. The company had developed a universal harvesting robot. With the MSBDC’s help, the company won NSF (National Science Foundation) SBIR funding. The MSBDC advisor guided the company through the intricacies of setting up a government-compliant accounting system. The advisor also helped the client write the Phase II proposal and respond to questions about the proposal. The company was successful in securing Phase II funding. In 2021, the company received a very solid offer from a known competitor and accepted the acquisition offer. Josh stated that the MSBDC’s help played a vital role in the company’s success.

Company Develops Robots to Automate Agriculture and Help Farms

Joshua Lessing, CEO and co-founder of Root AI, requested assistance with Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) in May 2018. The company had developed a universal harvesting robot. With the MSBDC’s help, the company won NSF (National Science Foundation) SBIR funding. The MSBDC advisor guided the company through the intricacies of setting up a government-compliant accounting system. The advisor also helped the client write the Phase II proposal and respond to questions about the proposal. The company was successful in securing Phase II funding. In 2021, the company received a very solid offer from a known competitor and accepted the acquisition offer. Josh stated that the MSBDC’s help played a vital role in the company’s success.

Michigan

Without the expertise and experience of the MI-SBDC Tech Team, Thinking Habitats would not have been able to develop a successful business plan or receive federal grant funding. We have been taken care of in every step of our success story.

Founder, Thinking Habitats

Without the expertise and experience of the MI-SBDC Tech Team, Thinking Habitats would not have been able to develop a successful business plan or receive federal grant funding. We have been taken care of in every step of our success story.

Founder, Thinking Habitats

Without the expertise and experience of the MI-SBDC Tech Team, Thinking Habitats would not have been able to develop a successful business plan or receive federal grant funding. We have been taken care of in every step of our success story.

Founder, Thinking Habitats

Without the expertise and experience of the MI-SBDC Tech Team, Thinking Habitats would not have been able to develop a successful business plan or receive federal grant funding. We have been taken care of in every step of our success story.

Founder, Thinking Habitats

Minnesota

Advocate 3D — Gibbon, MN

Adam Stegeman, owner of “Advocate 3D”, located in Gibbon, Minnesota shares that he understood the technical aspects of his proposed business, but needed help working through the process of actually starting and operating the business. His SBDC consulting team helped him secure financing, structure a business plan, build an accounting system and create his idea into a 3-D reality!

Advocate 3D — Gibbon, MN

Adam Stegeman, owner of “Advocate 3D”, located in Gibbon, Minnesota shares that he understood the technical aspects of his proposed business, but needed help working through the process of actually starting and operating the business. His SBDC consulting team helped him secure financing, structure a business plan, build an accounting system and create his idea into a 3-D reality!

Advocate 3D — Gibbon, MN

Adam Stegeman, owner of “Advocate 3D”, located in Gibbon, Minnesota shares that he understood the technical aspects of his proposed business, but needed help working through the process of actually starting and operating the business. His SBDC consulting team helped him secure financing, structure a business plan, build an accounting system and create his idea into a 3-D reality!

Advocate 3D — Gibbon, MN

Adam Stegeman, owner of “Advocate 3D”, located in Gibbon, Minnesota shares that he understood the technical aspects of his proposed business, but needed help working through the process of actually starting and operating the business. His SBDC consulting team helped him secure financing, structure a business plan, build an accounting system and create his idea into a 3-D reality!

Mississippi

3D Miniz Make Life Like Replicas

Chris Jellema's 3D printing business, 3D Miniz is taking off fast! Athletic departments, greek organizations and the general public are all interested in his mini life-like replicas of people. Chris became interested in ways to memorialize people in a more dynamic way that just a flat image. He utilized the Mississippi SBDC to find resources and draw up plans to start his business. Soon he was partnered with a printing company and 3D artists that have brought his vision to reality.

3D Miniz Make Life Like Replicas

Chris Jellema's 3D printing business, 3D Miniz is taking off fast! Athletic departments, greek organizations and the general public are all interested in his mini life-like replicas of people. Chris became interested in ways to memorialize people in a more dynamic way that just a flat image. He utilized the Mississippi SBDC to find resources and draw up plans to start his business. Soon he was partnered with a printing company and 3D artists that have brought his vision to reality.

3D Miniz Make Life Like Replicas

Chris Jellema's 3D printing business, 3D Miniz is taking off fast! Athletic departments, greek organizations and the general public are all interested in his mini life-like replicas of people. Chris became interested in ways to memorialize people in a more dynamic way that just a flat image. He utilized the Mississippi SBDC to find resources and draw up plans to start his business. Soon he was partnered with a printing company and 3D artists that have brought his vision to reality.

3D Miniz Make Life Like Replicas

Chris Jellema's 3D printing business, 3D Miniz is taking off fast! Athletic departments, greek organizations and the general public are all interested in his mini life-like replicas of people. Chris became interested in ways to memorialize people in a more dynamic way that just a flat image. He utilized the Mississippi SBDC to find resources and draw up plans to start his business. Soon he was partnered with a printing company and 3D artists that have brought his vision to reality.

Missouri

If there’s something that we don’t know how to do and we don’t know where to find out how to do it, my first place to start is the [Missouri] SBDC.

Owner and President of Dynatek Labs, Galena, MO

If there’s something that we don’t know how to do and we don’t know where to find out how to do it, my first place to start is the [Missouri] SBDC.

Owner and President of Dynatek Labs, Galena, MO

If there’s something that we don’t know how to do and we don’t know where to find out how to do it, my first place to start is the [Missouri] SBDC.

Owner and President of Dynatek Labs, Galena, MO

If there’s something that we don’t know how to do and we don’t know where to find out how to do it, my first place to start is the [Missouri] SBDC.

Owner and President of Dynatek Labs, Galena, MO