We Find Research Funding For You

Astound is your personal funding scout for all sources of non-federal research funding.

Finding research funding is painful.

If you’ve ever had to fund your research, you know how challenging it can be.

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How do you assess a good fit?

You don’t know what funding is relevant to you.

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Overwhelmed by the options?

Funding opportunities are scattered in so many different websites and databases.

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Hard to keep updated?

You don’t know where or how to apply for this funding.

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Lack support in your journey?

Nobody is there to assist me in this process or coach me on how to find funding.

The solution?

Astound fixes this

Astound’s AI-powered scout finds you relevant opportunities, so you can stay focused on your research.

  • Upload your CV and published works so AI scout can learn how to find relevant funding opportunities.

  • Modify your background and extracted keywords so that AI scout finds exactly what you’re looking for.

  • Once AI scout learns about you, it goes to work finding you relevant opportunities, from foundations, non-profits, and corporations.

  • Funding Scout will notify you of any new funding opps that match your skills and expertise.


HOT OFF THE PRESS

Astound raises $1M seed round to make it easier for scientists to fund their labs.


“We're always on the lookout for the most cutting-edge modeling techniques. With the help of Astound’s platform, we identified and connected with a researcher specializing in a unique type of weather modeling whom we would not have known otherwise.”

Sherman Wilcox
Chief Development Officer, Baron Weather Corporate Funder of University Research

Let us help you fund your research.