Securing Early Non-Dilutive Funding

Summertime Lunch & Learn Series

Taking Life Science Innovation from Promising Idea to Thriving Business: Starting, growing and scaling your company 

Entrepreneurs with great ideas face immense challenges in translating their concepts into sustainable, thriving businesses. Doing so successfully requires navigating a host of issues – from planning effectively, to securing and allocating finances to managing risk and recruiting the right people. These Delaware Bio member organizations have global experience helping companies of all sizes and stages do just that. Please join us to hear from these experts on how you can make the right decisions at each step of your journey while avoiding common pitfalls so you can keep your focus on growing your business. 

Join us on Wednesday, June 9th at 12:00 pm as the Delaware Small Business Development Center discusses SBIR and STTR funding opportunities.

Event Speakers

Louis Dinetta
Technology Business Development Manager
Delaware Small Business Development Center
Louis DiNetta is presently Manager, Technology Business Development, at the Delaware Small Business Development Center at the University of Delaware. His efforts are aimed at growing technology based small businesses and startups by providing guidance for entrepreneurs to develop and commercialize their products. He is highly knowledgeable of the SBIR program, which provides non-dilutive funding for research and development, and has submitted and won a number of grants. Lou has over 40 years of experience in small business technology companies, published more than 20 technical papers, managed the P&L for research and development organizations, commercialized products and has been a researcher at the University of Delaware’s Institute of Energy Conversion and Vice President, Advanced Products, at AstroPower, Inc. as well as two other startup companies. He has been a principal investigator or a senior key person on grants and contracts with NIH, DOD, DOE, NASA, NSF, EPA, and USDA including a highly successful Phase III XLERATOR grant with DOE. In addition, Lou is well versed in various forms of government contracting and reporting requirements including DCAA compliant accounting and indirect cost negotiation.

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