STTR/SBIR Application Support 

KickStart Venture Services (KVS), a department within the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Technology Commercialization, supports faculty startup formation, business development, and growth by providing coaching and mentoring, early-stage funding, connection with key service providers, management, investors, and space.

This call is for UNC startups interested in grant application support for NIH SBIR/STTR applications, as well as rolling NSF applications. KVS intends to support either coaching or full proposal development fees with several experienced grant consultant firms. 

Interested companies should complete this short application.

If you have any questions, please email us at kickstart@unc.edu.



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If selected,
1.) KVS will pay an upfront fee for review, coaching, and/or full proposal development and
2.) your company will enter into an agreement with the grant consultant which will outline a success fee for which your company will be responsible, upon receipt of the grant award (1.5 to 4% depending on the level of support).

If you need more information about the success fee, please contact Mireya McKee (mireya.mckee@unc.edu) before submitting application.