Instrumentl (YC S16) Is Building a Database of All the Grants in the World
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Re: Instrumentl (YC S16) Is Building a Database of All the Grants in the World
#2Angela here, one of the cofounders of Instrumentl. We'd love to hear your feedback about what we're building to bring efficiency & transparency to research funding. Have a grant horror story? Let's hear it!
Re: Instrumentl (YC S16) Is Building a Database of All the Grants in the World
#3Angela here, one of the cofounders of Instrumentl. We'd love to hear your feedback about what we're building to bring efficiency & transparency to research funding. Have a grant horror story? Let's hear it!
How will Instrumentl generate revenue? Taking the person from Italy that found a grant through you, what did that mean for Instrumentl in terms of income and how?
How will those looking for grants find you?
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#4At a glance it looks like you might also do some management of grant proposals. Do/will you help proposers publish those proposals? See eg http://riojournal.com and http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jour...
Re: Instrumentl (YC S16) Is Building a Database of All the Grants in the World
#5might be of interest: https://www.usaspending.gov/Pages/Default.aspx
Re: Instrumentl (YC S16) Is Building a Database of All the Grants in the World
#6Angela here, one of the cofounders of Instrumentl. We'd love to hear your feedback about what we're building to bring efficiency & transparency to research funding. Have a grant horror story? Let's hear it!
How will Instrumentl generate revenue? Taking the person from Italy that found a grant through you, what did that mean for Instrumentl in terms of income and how? How will those looking for grants find you?
Our customers pay us ~$30 per seat per month just like other saas models. Customers range from individual researchers to entire research organizations. Couple strategies for user acquisition: SEO, direct sales to universities, content marketing. Thanks for the Qs!
Re: Instrumentl (YC S16) Is Building a Database of All the Grants in the World
#7Angela here, one of the cofounders of Instrumentl. We'd love to hear your feedback about what we're building to bring efficiency & transparency to research funding. Have a grant horror story? Let's hear it!
How will Instrumentl generate revenue? Taking the person from Italy that found a grant through you, what did that mean for Instrumentl in terms of income and how? How will those looking for grants find you?
Down the road, we're looking into charging based on the dollar amount that we help researchers win, but for now we’re charging a monthly subscription.
Re: Instrumentl (YC S16) Is Building a Database of All the Grants in the World
#8might be of interest: https://www.usaspending.gov/Pages/Default.aspx
Thanks - that is a lot of $$$
Re: Instrumentl (YC S16) Is Building a Database of All the Grants in the World
#9At a glance it looks like you might also do some management of grant proposals. Do/will you help proposers publish those proposals? See eg http://riojournal.com and http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jour...
Yes, we plan on encouraging researchers to share their proposals and help one another. Great article - thanks for sharing!
Re: Instrumentl (YC S16) Is Building a Database of All the Grants in the World
#10Very cool!
A killer feature, if you don't already have it, is to have researchers answer a set of questions then leverage their answers to apply for many grants at once or pre-populate 70% of an application.
We've been working on the other side of this problem, improving how research labs track and spend their funding effectively.
Feel free to reach out as we're both trying to reach a similar set of people.