The way we've been funded is.... I was a student at Western, so I got a little funding from Western. I've also done a lot of funding for myself, so I was able to self-finance.
Ideally, the model I would like, in terms of being able to fund this and recruit a lot of engineers to work on the solution, would be to see if a school would be willing to purchase it on behalf of its students, and from there make it accessible to the entire student body.