Win research funding
in your sleep.
AI-native infrastructure for government-funded research. It surfaces the grants your faculty can win, shapes the proposals that win them, and opens the doors to the program managers who fund them.
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The hardest part of defense innovation isn't the breakthrough. It's the transition. Brilliant research loses funding for reasons that have nothing to do with the science: the wrong program, the wrong moment, the wrong room. Kernel closes that gap: matching research to the funding it can win, and shaping the case that wins it.
The infrastructure between your faculty and the funding they can win.
A proprietary engine sits across the entire defense funding landscape — every agency, solicitation, and program manager. It continuously scores your faculty against thousands of live opportunities, surfaces the grant each is most likely to win, and drafts the case that wins it.
We handle every step, not just the search.
Most tools hand a researcher a list of grants and hope they apply. We take it from their work all the way to a submitted proposal, handling everything in between for them.
Researchers
Faculty opt in; we learn their work.
AI matching
Surface the grants each can win.
Proposal
We write the white paper & proposal.
PM intros
Warm intros from our network.
Submission
We file it, complete and on time.
Awarded
Funding in hand.
Frontier science, fielded.
Real university research Kernel has helped move from the lab toward the field.
Undersea Awareness
3D point-cloud relocalization for the undersea fight (Guibas).
Autonomous Naval Systems
AI accelerators for spatial autonomy (Mitra).
IR Sensor Domes
Nano-ceramic additive manufacturing (Gu).
Naval Energy
Sodium-metal batteries and resilient microgrids (Chueh, Onori).
Composite UAVs
Multi-functional airframes for urban operations (Chang).
Human-Agent Teaming
Adaptive human-robot teaming for contested operations (ARL STRONG; Sala, Wisconsin).
The team behind it.
A frontier-AI founder, a former Army Ranger, and the insiders who've moved millions into university labs. Together they cover every side of how research gets funded, under one roof.
The track record.
At Stanford, where it began, Kernel became one of the university's largest channels for Navy and Army research funding. We're now opening that same engine to R1 institutions across America.
Nominate your university.
We're onboarding a limited founding cohort of American R1s this cycle. Tell us about your research office, and we'll take it from there.