re the 11-27-17 NNLX update- re specifically the NSF grant program- surprisingly-and I went back over the posts for the weeks following the update -I didn't see any posts directly referencing the link in NNLX's update,so here are 1 or more- there's a lot of info re the multi-step process,with usually 250k awarded in 1st step and average ca 886k in 2nd step and x amount in 3rd step?
a large number of awards have been made over the years

https://seedfund.nsf.gov/
https://seedfund.nsf.gov/about/
https://seedfund.nsf.gov/awardees/phase-2/