Tim Raines
Tim Raines is an experienced commercialization executive with a primary focus on early-stage technology marketing, sales, business development, and fundraising of both non-diluted grant capital and private investment venture capital.
Tim has served as a DOE SBIR Principal Investigator and on DOD, DOE, and NSF peer review panels. He has also worked with SBIR applicants and awardees for DOE, NASA, NIH, Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, DARPA, USSOCOM, DHS, NOAA, and USDA. Tim is also a DOE Voucher Provider for commercialization and a DOE American Made Network “Connector.”
Tim has worked in technology transfer and commercialization with universities internationally, including Ukraine, Mexico, India, Hungary, Columbia, and Korea. His company, Rare Innovation, serves private innovators and R&D labs in the US, securing SBIR/STTR grants and moving the technologies through the commercialization process. Technical focus areas include climate tech, space, quantum, electro-optics, directed energy, plasma materials, neuroscience devices, medical radiation, medical optics, smart and connected health, and many more.
Tim is a fellow with the Tando Institute and a mentor for Techstars_ Space, the Larta Venture Fellows program, a consultant with the Colorado SBDC TechSource, and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Central Florida. He has served four years as an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Ringling College of Art + Design.
Tim received his Masters of Science in Science and Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business and his Bachelors of Science from Texas A&M University’s College of Engineering.
Among his entrepreneurial endeavors, Tim’s art hobby became a successful venture. As an abstract artist, he tells innovation and brand stories for clients such as IndyCar, Major League Baseball, Budweiser, Tod’s of Italy, American Express Centurion Events, and Aston Martin.
Tim’s Erdos-Bacon number is 10: Erdos of 7 for being Principal Investigator on “Laser Cladding Modeling and Operation Applied to Plasma-Facing Materials” and Bacon of 3 for his role in “Cuckold Picasso,” an award-winning short film.
Tim has worked in technology transfer and commercialization with universities internationally, including Ukraine, Mexico, India, Hungary, Columbia, and Korea. His company, Rare Innovation, serves private innovators and R&D labs in the US, securing SBIR/STTR grants and moving the technologies through the commercialization process. Technical focus areas include climate tech, space, quantum, electro-optics, directed energy, plasma materials, neuroscience devices, medical radiation, medical optics, smart and connected health, and many more.
Tim is a fellow with the Tando Institute and a mentor for Techstars_ Space, the Larta Venture Fellows program, a consultant with the Colorado SBDC TechSource, and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Central Florida. He has served four years as an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Ringling College of Art + Design.
Tim received his Masters of Science in Science and Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business and his Bachelors of Science from Texas A&M University’s College of Engineering.
Among his entrepreneurial endeavors, Tim’s art hobby became a successful venture. As an abstract artist, he tells innovation and brand stories for clients such as IndyCar, Major League Baseball, Budweiser, Tod’s of Italy, American Express Centurion Events, and Aston Martin.
Tim’s Erdos-Bacon number is 10: Erdos of 7 for being Principal Investigator on “Laser Cladding Modeling and Operation Applied to Plasma-Facing Materials” and Bacon of 3 for his role in “Cuckold Picasso,” an award-winning short film.