Arizona Advanced Manufacturing Facilities Grant资格 & 的指导方针

The Arizona Advanced Manufacturing Facilities (AMF) Grant is a highly competitive program aiming to bridge the facility, 专业知识, and capabilities gap typically found among startups in the semiconductor and hard materials space. The relevant capabilities (such as clean rooms, 高纯度气体和液体, 危险物质管理, and equipment and process capabilities) are traditionally unavailable to lease and require tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars of capital to build.

The Arizona Commerce Authority and Arizona State University have partnered to provide access to discounted shared semiconductor fabrication and characterization equipment with pilot-scale capabilities for those companies that are not presently users or are small users of the facilities. With a 1:1 funding match for ASU’s Core Facility usage (up to $75,(每间公司), participants in the program are provided with a 1:1 funding match, 将进入的金融壁垒降低一半.

Applicants should be aligned with the semiconductor and hard materials space to participate. The program is designed to help companies with innovations with an MRL (Manufacturing Readiness Level) of 3-8 progress to the next level. Applicants will be reviewed by a panel of non-partisan judges and awarded based on the AMF标题.

行业集中

Companies may come from a broad range of industries; however, applicants must be able to articulate how their activities in the Core Facilities will fit within the semiconductor and hard materials space.

创新理念和解决方案

All applicants must be moving towards the commercialization of unique, innovative technology or a scientific solution to a marketplace issue(s) in an industry. Companies may not simply be involved in re-selling or expanding an existing technology. The standard typically used to help make this determination is if the company could or should pursue or have a patent on the technology and whether or not it chose to do so (for eligibility purposes, 不需要追求或拥有专利).

设备校准和预算

All companies must reach out to Katie Smith at (电子邮件保护), Technical Sales Engineer from ASU’s Core Research Facilities, to determine the facilities and toolsets that align with your company's needs and develop a budget that will be submitted with the company’s AMF application.

提交截止日期

Applications will be accepted ongoing through the ACA website and reviewed quarterly. Submission deadlines for the quarterly reviews are the last day of the month before the review date.

提交截止日期:

• Round 1 Application Deadline: February 28, 2023
• 第二轮申请截止日期:2023年5月31日
• 第三轮申请截止日期:2023年8月31日
• Round 4 Application Deadline: November 30, 2023

Applicants will be notified of their status within 60 days.

公司地位/结构

所有公司都必须存在, for-profit corporate entities such as corporations, 有限责任公司, 或合作伙伴. 个人独资企业不符合资格. Companies selected to participate in the Arizona Advanced Manufacturing Facilities Grant must be in good standing with the Arizona Corporation Commission and other regulatory bodies.

员工人数

Applicants must have at least two but no more than 29 full-time employees. The points below further refine the definition of an “employee” for the AMF Grant in that the minimum equivalent of two full-time employees must meet the following criteria:

• Must be non-administrative (person’s sole responsibility is not administrative in nature);
• A full-time employee would be considered an individual working at least 35 hours/week for this company, 有偿的或无偿的;
• The two-employee minimum may include founders or active investors who otherwise meet these criteria;
• Having more than one part-time employee adds up to one or more full-time equivalent employee(s) to meet the minimum two-employee rule.
• 在一般情况下, members of a board of directors or advisory boards, who are otherwise full-time employees of another company, may not be included as part of the two-employee minimum requirement;
• It is up to ACA discretion to determine the final qualifications of any applicant company.

资产

公司的资金可能不会超过10美元,000,净资产为1000万美元, 其中不包括来自投资者的资金.

位置

It is possible for an applying company to be located outside of Arizona, but that company must plan to relocate or create a portion of its operations to Arizona as well as commercialize its products/services in Arizona. 另外, 适用于所有公司, the awarded funds must be spent and approved by the Arizona State University Core Facilities.

ACA自由裁量权

It is up to ACA discretion to determine the final qualifications of any applicant company relative to its eligibility to compete for the AZ Advanced Manufacturing Facilities Grant. It is also up to ACA discretion to maintain an applicant company within a given funding year, 包括, 但不限于, the discovery of new information during any time of the grant period, which might be deemed to affect its eligibility to continue the grant program.