Innovation Funding Advisors was born out of a need to simplify and streamline the SBIR and STTR proposal process for businesses small and large. But as a result of many long and animated conversations, we came to the conclusion that many business people were incredibly smart in their particular areas, but securing money was not amongst most folk’s ability.
We are set up to assist folks like you who need some assistance in putting together the paperwork and walking proposals through the process – whatever the process is. Additionally, the IFA Team has the experience to provide a suite of other services including development of business plans, startup strategies and assistance and funding strategies and presentations.
Over the next few weeks we will be adding a community forum section to this web site so that you can come here on a regular basis and ask questions and share information with your colleagues. We want this site to be your resource for both startup “conversation” and “consulting.”
William F. Wiles
Managing Director
Bill, Innovation Funding Advisor’s co-founder, has over 30 years of business experience in small businesses ranging from startups to M&A and turnarounds in the US and Internationally. As an executive he has co-founded and raised funding for a number of high-tech and non-tech ventures. Bill’s specialties include; Business plan development, Strategic planning, Business/Corporate Development, Strategic relationships, International expansion, Venture & private funding, and Mergers and Acquisitions.
He received his BS in Business Administration from West Virginia University and his Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law. Bill is a member of; District of Columbia Bar Association, Hawaii Bar Association, Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), and VISTAGE (world-wide CEO organization).
Peter F. Young
Managing Director &
Sr. Grant Development Advisor 
Peter, Innovation Funding Advisor’s co-founder, has over 30 years as a grant writer and administrator, and he brings to the table a wealth of tips and tricks relating to the SBIR ~ STTR ~ RFP funding arena. Has written and successfully administered to date $39 million worth of grant proposals ranging from NASA Dual-Use program funds to US Department of Education funding for Migrant Worker Education here in Northern California.
He serves on the advisory boards of Infura Web Hosting and Silicon Segway as well as the advisory boards for UC Berkeley’s Extension Program, Foothill College’s Division of Computer Science and Information Technology, and NDNU’s School of Business and Management. He has received a US Congressional Research Fellowship to the East-West Center, US Nuclear Regulatory Agency Faculty Research Fellowship, Rotary International Research Fellowship and most recently was selected and appointed as a United States Fulbright Scholar and assigned to the US Embassy in Minsk, Republic of Belarus. He received his BA from UCLA, MA from University of Hawaii-Manoa, Certificate in Distant Education Administration and Curriculum Development from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his PhD in Decision Sciences~Information Systems Management [ABD] from Walden University.
Rock Clapper
Venture Director
He left his professorship at Brown Univ. and came to Silicon Valley in 1994. Basically, this coincided with his first look at an Internet application called a browser. He knew that his doctorate in applied social psychology was a perfect background for creating web-based consumer and business environments. At the time, Rock had done years of research and published many papers on persuasive communication, and was a sought after speaker in the U.S. and internationally.
Rock holds a BS in Psychology from Arizona State Univ., a Masters and Doctorate in Applied Social Psychology from the Univ. of Houston, as well as an alumnus of the Graduate School of Business Executive Education Program at Stanford University. Rock has been the CEO of several successful Internet and software companies in Silicon Valley. He is a veteran of company acquisitions, having negotiated such for each company he led, as well as having led a company to the position of a public offering.