Webinar Series: Capitalizing on Non-Dilutive Funding (GE Extend North Carolina)

About this event

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Where the SBIR/STTR money is right now, what the reauthorization changed, and where AI helps or hurts your application. In person and online.

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Date Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Time 11 AM, ET

Location UNCW CIE, Event Space, 803 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403, and online via Zoom

Register https://info.grantengine.com/ge-extend-wilmington-2026

Duration 90 minutes (45 min Session, 15 min Q&A, 30 min optional Meet The Team)

Speakers Sam Tetlow, CEO; Joseph Ruiz, PhD, Lead Writer

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What To Expect

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• 45 minutes: The session Funding update and outlook, what it takes to write a winning application, where AI fits, and long-term funding strategies.

• 15 minutes: Live Q&A Bring your questions for the Grant Engine team.

• 30 minutes: Meet the team Optional one-on-one in-person consultation after the session.

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The SBIR/STTR landscape has changed. Reauthorization brought new rules, proposal caps, and foreign risk requirements, and AI tools are now part of how many teams write their applications. Knowing which agencies have funds right now, and how to compete for them, matters more than ever.

Join Grant Engine and the UNCW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for a practical session on where the non-dilutive funding is, what it takes to write a winning application, where AI helps and where it quietly costs the award, and how to build a funding strategy that compounds over time. Attend in person at the CIE Event Space or join online via Zoom.

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What you’ll leave with

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• Where the money is right now: status, budgets, deadlines, and best fit for NIH SBIR/STTR, ARPA-H, BARDA, DoD SBIR/STTR, DARPA, and DIU

• What just changed: reauthorization provisions, annual proposal caps, Strategic Breakthrough Awards, and foreign risk requirements, and what each means for your filing strategy

• Why applications win or lose, and why the hardest sections to write well are the ones that decide the outcome

• How to win more often: a self-evident story, logical flow, clarity, shoring up the weakest criteria, and independent external review

• The AI boundary: where AI accelerates the work, and where the grant thesis, differentiation, and Specific Aims stay human

• How to protect your IP, since consumer AI terms may permit reuse of your content

• A long-term strategy that compounds each win into the next

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Stay for a one-on-one

After the Q&A, the Grant Engine team stays on site for 30-minute in-person consultations

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Meet the team sessions are optional and confidential.

• Discuss your specific company and project in confidence

• Ask the questions that came up during the session

• Get direct input from our program managers

• Leave with a clear sense of your next funding step

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Your Speakers

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• Sam Tetlow, MBA Founder & CEO, Grant Engine ( bio here )

• Joseph Ruiz, PhD , Lead Writer, Grant Engine – Local Host, Q&A and Meet The Team

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