The government spent years de-risking this science. Then it cut the funding.

Spilsbury Research connects federally-funded grants to the patents they produced -- then flags the de-risked, government-validated IP whose backing just disappeared. We send venture and corporate scouts the ones worth owning, ranked against their thesis.

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One signal, end to end
Grant NIH R01 · terminated 03/2025 · $1.2M unspent
linked by gov-interest contract no.
Patent US 11,9##,### · method · issued 2024
Stranded science thesis match 0.89
Illustrative example

Why now

A one-time dislocation.

Federal grant terminations went from almost never to thousands in a single year. The patents those grants produced didn't disappear -- they came loose.

2,291
NIH grants terminated in 20251
$2.45B
federal funding withdrawn1
< 6
comparable terminations in the prior 13 years2
1,300+
NSF grants cut, ~$700M unspent3

Roughly 52% of the terminated NIH dollars had already been spent -- the work was largely done when the money stopped. That pool of de-risked, patented science is on the market with no buyer attached. The window is now.

The method

Four public datasets. One picture.

Each of these databases exists on its own. The value is in resolving them to the same people and connecting a grant to the patent it actually funded -- work nobody does at scale.

01

Ingest

NIH RePORTER, SBIR/STTR, NSF, and USPTO government-interest patents -- pulled directly from source.

02

Resolve

The same investigators and institutions across agencies, despite name variants, aliases, and messy records.

03

Join

Link each grant to the patent it produced, through government-interest contract numbers buried in patent metadata.

04

Rank

Score commercial readiness, match against your thesis, and flag the research whose funding just ended.

The moat

The join is the hard part.

Patent search and grants databases are commodities. What can't be bought is the connection between them and the entity resolution underneath -- the layer that knows two records are the same line of research.

grant ≠ patent
patent ≠ company
company ≠ founder
── until you resolve them ──
→ one investigator, three agencies
→ one grant, one patent
→ one signal you can act on

Who it's for

Sourcing edges, not search results.

Venture scouts

Deals before they surface

De-risked, IP-backed science matched to your fund's thesis -- reaching you while the founder is still deciding what to do next, not after a seed round.

Corporate development

A map of available IP

Track government-validated technology in your domain the moment its funding lapses, with the inventor and institution already resolved for outreach.

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Tell us your thesis. We'll send five stranded-science leads.

Free, and matched to what you actually invest in. If they're useful, we keep going.

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