First Flight Venture Center

Professional engineering services providing one-off or small-batch prototyping projects leveraging Hangar6 equipment and engineers.

Prototyping and design assistance space enabling fast, economical designing, modeling, and building of product prototypes using advanced tools and equipment.

Access to all equipment and software during business hours with staff consultation and coworking access, designed for startups wanting hands-on access to professional prototyping tools.

An acclaimed Deep Tech Workshop Series and early stage accelerator program utilizing the Propellor program and framework to equip founders with tools to evaluate ideas, identify markets, and develop investor-ready pitches.

A membership program providing founders with direct, affordable access to professional-grade digital fabrication equipment, software, and training.

First Flight's WheelsUp Accelerator is a 12-week program that includes technical and business facilitation for science and technology startups.

A comprehensive 12-week, cohort-based, sector-focused accelerator for science startups working in collaboration with BARDA.

Health security innovation funding and support program.

Advisors and business mentoring program for startups.

Quality, reliable wet lab facilities designed to meet the research and development needs of science startups and companies.

A strategic non-dilutive funding and grant-writing assistance program developed by First Flight Venture Center and Eva Garland Consulting to help science-focused startups secure federal and private grants.

Provides access to grants that focus on transforming health security by accelerating the research, development, and availability of transformative countermeasures to protect Americans from natural and intentional health security threats.

A series designed for entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors to connect, learn, and grow together featuring science-driven startups.

Brings together small groups of non-competing entrepreneurs for monthly private discussions with peers led by a professional facilitator.

Connects Navigators with entrepreneurs in the First Flight community to share expertise and strategy.

Funding program to assist startups with securing SBIR grants.

Monthly pitch practice program for entrepreneurs.

A comprehensive, cohort-based, and sector-focused program designed to help international companies transition into the U.S. market.

Designed to stimulate economic development by providing training, financial support, and business expertise to science and technology-focused, women-owned, rural-based, or socially/economically disadvantaged firms.

Seeks to improve competitive grants and wins for non-dilutive funding through SBIR and STTR programs for underserved communities.

Advanced Additive Manufacturing, delivering small metal components with unprecedented precision, quality, and surface finish, from prototype to volume production.

Pitch practice session hosted at First Flight.

Delivering small metal components with unprecedented precision, quality, and surface finish from prototype to volume production.

Developing 2D TMDC materials to revolutionize the current semiconductor industry and support next-generation electronics.

Small electrochemical engineering company manufacturing benchtop electroplating machines for micro and nano structures for MEMS applications.

Services and solutions company focused on the transformative power of technology to solve life and business challenges through data insights.

Dedicated to bringing new reverse osmosis membranes to market to challenge the performance, efficiency, and durability of current commercial products.

Developing next generation infrared optoelectronic materials and devices.

Workplace technology company building and integrating software and hardware for enterprises, including AI, IoT sensors, digital packaging, and 3D printing.

Specializing in virology reagents and services to acquire, authenticate, preserve, develop, and distribute innovative virological materials and technology.