Our team (1885) applied to Lockheed Martin (who we are officially sponsered by), Micron, and TKCC among others.
Our team manager, Gail Drake, is an amazing woman and spent 20 hr days for weeks upon weeks working with corporations, advising them in exchange for funding.
We were able to pull off a 100k+$ in funds for our robotics team after we won the WC Rookie team of the Year award.
The best I can tell you is that to get any kind of major funding for a rookie team, you have to show your enthusiasm and bust your butt to get out there and work for those funds.
