Market discovery and validation
Turn technical assets into sharper customer problems, market maps, and validation priorities.
About Vulcan
Expanding the real-world impact of publicly funded R&D.
Vulcan helps make taxpayer-funded scientific and engineering research easier to find, understand, and commercialize. We focus on technologies emerging from universities, public institutions, laboratories, and hospitals.
Why it matters
Public R&D creates major technical value, but discoverability and commercialization are still fragmented.
What Vulcan supports
Licensing, market discovery, grant readiness, and commercialization support.
How Vulcan Labs helps move technology from lab to market
Vulcan Labs combines discovery with practical commercialization support.
Licensing strategy
Navigate licensing paths, diligence questions, and commercialization structure.
Grant applications
Support SBIR and related applications tied to commercialization milestones.
Fundraising readiness
Connect IP access, technical differentiation, and market evidence for financing.
For existing businesses
Find licensable technologies from universities, federal labs, hospitals, and other public institutions.
- Exclusive or non-exclusive licensing aligned to strategic priorities
- Faster diligence on market-relevant public-sector inventions
- A shorter path from discovery to partnership conversations
For founders and startup teams
Identify venture-ready technologies and connect them to early commercialization paths.
- Non-exclusive licensing programs suited to early validation
- SBIR and related grants for feasibility, prototyping, and commercialization
- A clearer route from lab-originated IP to a startup thesis
Related resources for technology transfer and commercialization
Good starting points for licensing, federal lab discovery, Bayh-Dole context, and non-dilutive funding.
Federal Laboratory Consortium
Federal lab technology transfer network and licensing discovery point.
NIH Office of Technology Transfer
Licensing and collaboration opportunities for NIH biomedical inventions.
DOE Lab Partnering Service
Search DOE lab expertise, facilities, and partnership opportunities.
America’s Seed Fund
NSF commercialization funding for research-driven startups.
SBIR.gov
Cross-agency guide to SBIR/STTR programs and solicitations.
iEdison
Federal system for inventions arising from federally funded research.