crowdfunding DIYBio? Experiment.com

[incisive systematics]

Hello all,
I know some on this forum have used Kickstarter to fund hardware projects, but maybe the DIYBio / biohacker community could try using Experiment.com which is a crowdfunding donation website that helps raise funds for research reagents, tools etc. Experiment.com used to be known as Microrhyza, but went through Y Combinator and really have their act together. https://experiment.com/
My wife (University Professor) has a project to cure cancer currently active there. https://experiment.com/projects/can-we-stop-the-spread-of-breast-cancer

I would appreciate some help getting that viral, so visit and share with your network if you can! Donations always welcome but not expected, your network is however priceless!
Cheers >matt

[Jeswin]

Just curious but is this kind of funding in response to declining
availability to get grant money? I know getting grants is so tough now
and many folks don't want to get tied down with angel investors and
such.

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[Matt Lawes]

Great question Jeswin.

Yes Experiment was founded to try close the gap between grant writing hell and doing innovative science. Also to help non traditional fundees (think students, postdocs, DIYers) who would not normally get to submit their own grant ideas. As grant funding has gotten tighter, so it is becoming useful to mainstream researchers (PIs etc) for addressing fundamental questions or proof of concept that will help future grant submissions.

As an entrepreneur of my own bio businesses, I can tell you getting tied down with angel investors would be great. These days angels are very scarce. The money still sits on the sidelines for the most part in biotech. Angel investors also rarely find pure academic research ...

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[Mega [Andreas Stuermer]]

I tried to do a project there like 3 years ago, but was not allowed because I had no scientific degree... 

[Matt Lawes]

Hi Andreas,

I'm on quite good terms with them. They have really evolved in the last year or so... let me ask them about DIYBio .....>matt

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I tried to do a project there like 3 years ago, but was not allowed because I had no scientific degree... 

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[Cathal (Phone)]

I think, like many crowdfunders, their policy is to curate projects so that only those with odds of succeeding (if funded) are allowed. In the past their metric may have been "are you academically trained" but more recently I get the vibe that if you have a "portfolio" of successful work in the past, then that might equally suffice. I'd ask again, and detail your own and your team's proficiencies and past work.

On 14 November 2014 18:55:11 GMT+00:00, Matt Lawes <ma...@insysx.com> wrote:

Hi Andreas,

I'm on quite good terms with them. They have really evolved in the last year or so... let me ask them about DIYBio .....>matt

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I tried to do a project there like 3 years ago, but was not allowed because I had no scientific degree... 

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[Mega [Andreas Stuermer]]

For that specific project, the train has already departed long ago. 

But, there are many new projects already on the horizon.