BUILD TO SCALE

Department Of Commerce, Economic Development Administration

Entrepreneurs, especially technology entrepreneurs, flourish in healthy ecosystems. Technology-based economic development (TBED) grows ecosystems in which entrepreneurs can build and scale technology-driven businesses, which in turn create high-skill and high-wage jobs, economic opportunity, and the industries of the future. EDA’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE) awards grants through the Build to Scale (B2S) Program to foster technology-based ecosystems, to advance the growth of

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Helps organizations support technology-based companies and startups in creating and marketing new products. Provides funding to boost regional economies and access to capital for entrepreneurs.

Quick Facts

Funding
$400,000 - $400,000
Deadline
Rolling
Status
Rolling Intake
Category
Regional & Community Development
Organization
Department Of Commerce, Economic Development Administration

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What Is This Program?

EDA invites organizations that are aiding technology-based companies with high growth potential (including but not limited to startups) in developing the next generation of technologies to apply for Build to Scale Program funding. The Build to Scale program aims to: • build public and private capacity for entrepreneurs and innovators to invent, improve, and bring to market new products and services in critical, emerging, and transformative sectors and industries; • expand regional knowledge ecosystems to realize economic and job growth; • accelerate the growth of regional economies that are focused on industries of the future; • catalyze regional leadership through TBED strategies; • empower communities to provide proof-of-concept and commercialization assistance to technology innovators and entrepreneurs; and • increase access to capital for technology-enabled entrepreneurs. Under the Build to Scale Program, EDA is soliciting applications for two separate competitions: (1) the Venture Challenge and (2) the Capital Challenge

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This program offers funding up to $400,000 (minimum $400,000).

This program accepts applications on a rolling basis.

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