See who’s won federal funding
in your technology — in 60 seconds
Type a technology area and instantly see every company that’s won federal funding in it — the top awardees, the trend, the agencies, and who’s adjacent. Built on 32,139+ companies and $134.7B in federal awards, cross-linked the way SBIR.gov and USAspending can't.
Built on public federal data — USAspending · NIH RePORTER · NSF · SEC EDGAR · USPTO
Government grant intelligence at scale
Why Innovator Lens
Comprehensive grant database
The complete record of SBIR/STTR awards with company profiles, funding history, and sector tagging.
Early-stage discovery
Surface grant-backed companies and emerging sector white-space before they reach traditional platforms.
Calibrated intelligence
A temporally-validated model scoring which companies are likely to progress, raise, or get acquired.
Powered by official government data sources
One clear profile for every federally funded company
While other platforms cover companies only after they raise venture money, Innovator Lens resolves the companies winning federal funding right now — the ones building the next generation of technology — into one profile each.
Our proprietary intelligence engine synthesizes multiple open data sources to uncover startups others miss.
We build one profile per company by triangulating high-signal public data:
SBIR/STTR Grant Data
SEC EDGAR Filings
Company-Website Signals
Patent Filings
Founder/PI Backgrounds
Pre-traction R&D Companies
What Makes Innovator Lens Different?
Deep SBIR/STTR Integration
Full scraping with PIs, topics, and awards
Pre-VC company focus
Built from grant records and SEC filings
Funding alerts
Email alerts when a watched company wins a grant or raises
R&D Commercialization Tracking
Pre-revenue commercialization signals
Early-stage discovery
Grant-backed companies before they're widely known
Cross-source profiles
Founders, patents, and publications linked to each company
Broad coverage
Federal, plus state/local and accelerator programs
Affordable Pricing
Targeted, accessible plans for all users
Who Benefits Most
Investors & VCs
Research companies validated by non-dilutive federal funding — before they raise a round.
Analysts & Researchers
Map who's funded for what across sectors, agencies, and technologies.
Grant & R&D Strategists
See who's winning what and where the Phase I → II gaps are across the program.
Corporate Strategy & Scouts
Track emerging grant-backed companies and technologies in your space.
Your window into federally-funded innovation
Research the companies and technologies winning federal awards
Explore the dataFind federally funded companies early — and track what they build next
From raw federal awards to a scored, watchable, board-ready intelligence layer.
Sector lens & deep filters
Slice 240k+ grants and 32k companies by technology sector, state, agency, phase, funding size, and year — in seconds.
Company intelligence
Full profiles: funding history, publications, competitors, and government contracts in one place.
Momentum & white-space
See which sectors are accelerating (YoY) and where new players are entering — the signals before they hit mainstream platforms.
Predictive scoring
A temporally-validated model scoring which companies are likely to progress, raise, or get acquired — with honest, forward-looking accuracy.
Watchlist & activity feed
Track a competitor set and get one unified feed of their grants, raises, and market signals as they happen.
Board-ready reports & Enterprise API
Export any sector or watchlist to a polished HTML / CSV / XLSX report, or pull company & research intelligence into your own tools and notebooks via the Enterprise API (email + token).
See it on real data
Tour live sector momentum, top players, and white-space — no signup required — or see how we compare to other platforms.
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