Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Matching Grant provides recipients additional resources to commercialize the technology developed with federal funding. This program leverages the Federal funding for SBIR/STTR recipients, whose technologies have been vetted by national experts and have been awarded for proof-of-concept and R&D activities. State-level matching programs nationwide are found to lead to follow-on funding, stimulate business growth and expansion, generate wealth, and increase tax revenue and commercial viability of the receiving firms.
The funding provided through the NM SBIR/STTR Matching Grant is intended to accelerate the commercialization of technologies developed with federal SBIR/STTR grant awards. These awards will fund New Mexico headquartered technology companies with the goal of market entry, customer acquisition, business expansion, and job creation. Every eligible NM SBIR/STTR Matching Grant application will be evaluated based on these objectives.
Eligible companies must be developing a technology or product with applications in one of the following Technology and Innovation Office (TIO) priority sectors:
- Advanced Energy
- Advanced Computing & Quantum
- Biosciences
- Aerospace & Defense
Applications are now open, the deadline to apply is November 17, 2026 at 5pm Mountain Time.
An informational webinar will be held on October 27, 2026, at 2pm Mountain Time.
Past Awardees
2025
Phase II Award Match:
Solstar Space Co. (Santa Fe) is pioneering the use of Space Wi-Fi for all types of on-orbit assets. Solstar Space provides a secure internet connection between spacecraft and Earth-based payload managers and satellite operators, and enables communications for crewed missions in sub-orbit, LEO, cis-lunar, and lunar surface operations.
EnviTrace LLC (Santa Fe) is developing cutting-edge Software as a Service tools for artificial intelligence analyses, characterization, and prediction of geologic reservoir processes. EnviTrace focuses on consulting and research related to renewable energy and climate mitigation problems such as energy production and storage, geothermal extraction and utilization, carbon sequestration, and waste management.
Sentiré Medical Systems Inc. (Santa Fe) is developing an intraoperative monitoring device to make the 15 million laparoscopic and robotic-assisted surgical procedures performed annually safer, more efficient, and more cost-effective. Sentiré Medical is using cutting-edge gas sensing and detection technology to address the most devastating and costly complications associated with laparoscopic surgery. Sentiré Medical is also a New Mexico Lab-Embedded Entrepreneur Program fellow company.
Phase I Award Match:
Aperi Computational Mechanics Consulting LLC (Peralta) is developing an engineering analysis software that will transform the simulation of extreme events such as explosions, landslides, avalanches, car crashes, and the deformation of earthen structures.
Shearit LLC (Albuquerque) is developing Lamiflo™, a first-in-class, non-drug therapy that physically increases blood flow to the brain during stroke by enhancing red blood cell movement and improving circulation without altering body chemistry. Lamiflo™ preserves brain tissue, extends treatment windows, and improves both patient and hospital outcomes.
2024
8D Photonics LLC (Rio Rancho) delivers advanced solutions for the infrared (IR) and semiconductor industries with its 8D IR Pioneer art tool for cryogenic semiconductor wafer mapping. This technology enables precise measurement for pre-screening wafers prior to fabrication.
OAM Photonics LLC (Albuquerque) develops, makes, markets, and sells cost-effective, superior performance, compact, and lightweight LiDAR sensors for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to serve civilian and defense markets.
Osazda Energy LLC (Albuquerque) has developed a product to provide solar-cell-crack-tolerant metallization, fortifying solar panels against extreme weather events. Osazda is also developing a software design engineering platform to optimize the performance of solar panels.
Palladias LLC (Los Alamos) is developing resins to extract critical minerals crucial to national defense and energy independence. These resins provide efficiency and environmental sustainability for the mining industry, including resins for nuclear processes and direct lithium extraction (DLE) brines.
Solstar Space Co. (Santa Fe) is pioneering the use of Space Wi-Fi for all types of on-orbit assets. Solstar provides a secure internet connection between spacecraft and Earth-based payload managers and satellite operators, and enables communications for crewed missions in sub-orbit, LEO, cis-lunar, and lunar surface operations.
Aperi Computational Mechanics Consulting LLC (Peralta) is developing an engineering analysis software that will transform the simulation of extreme events such as explosions, landslides, avalanches, car crashes, and other structural failures.
Weka Biosciences LLC (Santa Fe) is developing an innovative natural polymer-based separation system to enhance the safety and efficiency of chemical and pharmaceutical production processes.
Space Kinetic Corp. (Albuquerque) is building an electromechanical system that integrates onto a host spacecraft and deploys smaller assets without directly using consumable propellant, providing lower-cost and operationally flexible maneuvers through space. Space Kinetic is a New Mexico LabEmbedded Entrepreneur Program Fellow.
2023
EnviTrace LLC (Santa Fe) $25,000
EnviTrace LLC develops cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning methods and tools to analyze various types of environmental data. Their cloud-based software, GeoTGo, is designed to assist communities in developing and utilizing their geothermal energy resources.
ErgoTech (Los Alamos) $25,000
ErgoTech develops and sells software for manufacturing and factory automation with a focus on data collection, unified data access/data lakes for machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML/AI) applications.
MNT Smart Solutions (Albuquerque) $25,000
MNT Smart Solutions has created a remotely controlled, active particle toothpaste and magnetic toothbrush combination product to revolutionize oral care by targeting plaque in hard-to-reach places while giving users a beautiful, stain-free smile.
Integrated Deposit Solutions (Albuquerque) $100,000
Integrated Deposit Solutions (IDS) is a high-technology small business focused on developing unique aerosol printing technology for the printed electronics industry. The very high transmission efficiency of IDS’ core aerosol technology makes it ideally suited for continuous, long-term atmospheric sampling on Venus and other planets as well enhancing the performance of commercial instruments here on Earth.
NeuroGeneces (Santa Fe) $100,000
NeuroGeneces applies cutting-edge neuroscience, sleep expertise and AI to provide brain health assessments and insights to enhance cognitive health span.
2022
Actoprobe, LLC (Albuquerque) $100,000
Actoprobe designs, manufactures, and sells custom optical Spectroscopy/Microscopy Instruments and AFM Probes for conventional AFM to do single molecular spectroscopy of biomedical specimens and compound semiconductor material & devices. Actoprobe is currently developing a needle laser for nano-spectroscopy for fast and accurate virus and DNA identification. With their patented needle laser, customers can do chemical analysis with atomic precision and manipulate live viruses in air or liquid at normal conditions.
Backyard Farms LLC (Las Cruces) $25,000
Backyard Farms seeks to improve the food system in the Borderland Region, empowering small fruit and vegetable farmers by using lyophilization (freeze drying) to create a nutritious and delicious healthy food product that can reach vulnerable food insecure populations without the need for refrigeration.
Emerging Technology Ventures, Inc. (Alamogordo) $25,000
Emerging Technology Ventures (ETV) develops autonomous air and ground systems with integrated sensing/inspection and artificial intelligence driven predictive analytics for complex environments, such as agriculture, aerospace, renewable energy, critical infrastructure, defense, and public safety. The technology is delivered through KeenAI, ETV’s core technology, which provides end-to-end autonomous workflow services to autonomously sense, understand, decide, and act to provide critical, near real-time intelligence to respond quickly to issues affecting operations.
Just Health Care LLC (Albuquerque) $25,000
Just Health Care has created PainScan, a program aimed at making pain visible in order to provide clarity and actionable steps for patients and doctors. It modernizes pain assessment by replacing the 1-10 scale with a personalized 3D image of the patient’s pain. PainScan is an augmented physical exam blending computer vision, a pressure sensitive physician glove, and technology for patients to share their information about their pain. PainScan lets doctors “see” how their patients “feel.”
NeuroGeneces, Inc. (Santa Fe) $25,000
NeuroGeneces is a woman-led startup developing a wearable device that is an audio “pacemaker” for the brain. It uses sounds to stimulate memory and other restorative functions while you sleep. The device is the first fitness tracker for the brain, measuring overall brain health and enhancing memory.”
2021
UbiQD
UbiQD is an advanced materials company powering product innovations in agriculture, clean energy, and security. Their novel quantum dots enable industry leaders to harness the power of light. Developed during phase I of the grant, their first product, UbiGro®, is a layer of light that uses fluorescence to create a more optimal greenhouse spectrum for crops. In other words, it’s a glowing film that sits above plants and enables them to get more out of the sun. NASA is interested in using this technology to enhance crop production on long-duration space missions or on a mars or lunar base.
Mesa Photonics
Mesa Photonics has created a ground-based remote sensor for measuring variations in humidity from the ground up to altitudes as high as 50,000 feet, used to improve weather forecasting and for better understanding climate. Mesa Photonics sensors can be set up anywhere. Humidity is measured using laser technology to observe extremely small changes in sunlight intensity. The laser light is fully contained within the sensor and, therefore, is completely safe.
BennuBio
BennuBio has created their first product, Velocyt, a flow cytometer that can analyze particles the size of a small BB, which is a near perfect starting point to create a High-Throughput Screening (HTS) platform that uses multicellular models (balls of many cells called ‘spheroids’ that can be 1 mm in diameter) for drug discovery. This enables the drug researchers to look at far more complex issues such as how drugs transport in tissues, how they affect cell to cell interactions, and many more complex interactions that only occur in tissues.