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NS/ Sulakvelidze

Competitive funding

Public money, named programme by programme, kept separate from private capital.

1,175,000 GEL

Total across every funder, counting only disclosed amounts

7 awards · 2019–2024

625,000 GEL

Of that, from competitive GITA programmes

6 · 2020–2024

  • 2020Smart AeroponicsGeorgian Technology & Innovation Agency (GITA)100,000 GEL
  • 2021VISION (Vide)Georgian Technology & Innovation Agency (GITA)100,000 GEL
  • 2021Portal AGRoGEORGIAGeorgian Technology & Innovation Agency (GITA)100,000 GEL
  • 2022G3DGeorgian Technology & Innovation Agency (GITA)150,000 GEL
  • 2023CardiostimGeorgian Technology & Innovation Agency (GITA)25,000 GEL
  • 2024CardiostimGeorgian Technology & Innovation Agency (GITA)150,000 GEL
  • 2019New Type of Conical Wind TurbineShota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia550,000 GEL

Private capital

A grant is public money won on a proposal. Private capital is the other kind — the money that has been going into the work since 2019.

650,000 USD

Closed rounds, in dollars

3 rounds

710,000 GEL

At least, in lari

17 projects · no project under 30,000 GEL

2019–2026

Period

First money in, 2019

17

Projects that took private money

By the owner’s account, names withheld

The investors, the rounds and which venture took the money are not on this page. The total and the period are, because those two numbers are mine to state and the rest is not.

What the money bought

The teams at the moment the awards were handed over, and the objects the money went into: an aeroponics prototype and filament spun from recycled PET.

Photograph of the VISION project team at the presentation of the GITA 100,000 GEL co-financing grant.

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VISION team at the GITA 100,000 GEL award presentation.

Photograph of the Cardiostim team receiving the GITA 150,000 GEL co-financing grant.

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The Cardiostim team receiving the 150,000 GEL GITA grant.

Photograph of the Smart Aeroponics prototype under grow-light testing.

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Aeroponics prototype under grow-light testing.

Photograph documenting the pathway from post-consumer PET bottles to 3D-printing filament.

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Bottle to filament.