This is strictly available only to non profits, universities (esp HBCUs) and local governments. Partnerships with private industry to receive any grant money is essentially a local politicking game, there’s no direct channel to actually receive a grant as a tech business in one of these tech hubs. Kinda broken.

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

That’s only mostly true. These are always related to pet projects, politicking for sure but can be super low key also, if you know who they were written for and then you speak to that purpose, the capital can be very accessible.

Overall, it’s a strategy and founders don’t have time for more than one type of $