Great question Jeswin.
Yes Experiment was founded to try close the gap between grant writing hell and doing innovative science. Also to help non traditional fundees (think students, postdocs, DIYers) who would not normally get to submit their own grant ideas. As grant funding has gotten tighter, so it is becoming useful to mainstream researchers (PIs etc) for addressing fundamental questions or proof of concept that will help future grant submissions.
As an entrepreneur of my own bio businesses, I can tell you getting tied down with angel investors would be great. These days angels are very scarce. The money still sits on the sidelines for the most part in biotech. Angel investors also rarely find pure academic research ...
>matt
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Jeswin <phillyj101@gmail.com> wrote:
Just curious but is this kind of funding in response to declining
availability to get grant money? I know getting grants is so tough now
and many folks don't want to get tied down with angel investors and
such.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:15 AM, incisive systematics <matt@insysx.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I know some on this forum have used Kickstarter to fund hardware projects, but maybe the DIYBio / biohacker community could try using Experiment.com which is a crowdfunding donation website that helps raise funds for research reagents, tools etc. Experiment.com used to be known as Microrhyza, but went through Y Combinator and really have their act together. https://experiment.com/
> My wife (University Professor) has a project to cure cancer currently active there. https://experiment.com/projects/can-we-stop-the-spread-of-breast-cancer
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> I would appreciate some help getting that viral, so visit and share with your network if you can! Donations always welcome but not expected, your network is however priceless!
> Cheers >matt
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availability to get grant money? I know getting grants is so tough now
and many folks don't want to get tied down with angel investors and
such.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:15 AM, incisive systematics <matt@insysx.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I know some on this forum have used Kickstarter to fund hardware projects, but maybe the DIYBio / biohacker community could try using Experiment.com which is a crowdfunding donation website that helps raise funds for research reagents, tools etc. Experiment.com used to be known as Microrhyza, but went through Y Combinator and really have their act together. https://experiment.com/
> My wife (University Professor) has a project to cure cancer currently active there. https://experiment.com/projects/can-we-stop-the-spread-of-breast-cancer
>
> I would appreciate some help getting that viral, so visit and share with your network if you can! Donations always welcome but not expected, your network is however priceless!
> Cheers >matt
>
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