Helping founders find community and connections
A virtual regional incubator for companies owned by minorities and women in underserved counties of North Carolina.
A curated program designed to move companies with a high-growth, scalable model from initial product to successfully raising seed capital with their business. Established in 2016, Black Founders Exchange — hosted by American Underground — provides rich hands-on training, meaningful connections, and supportive community to help Black-led startups grow.
Learn more →This program offers personalized consulting for established minority entrepreneurs, including an initial business assessment. It also features a variety of workshops tailored for small businesses and includes outreach activities.
Learn more →Mountain BizWorks has launched a new inclusive entrepreneurship program to provide ongoing business and leadership skills-development for diverse entrepreneurs. Over the course of 12 months, you will meet regularly for two hours with a peer group of fellow business owners, all led by a facilitator. During this time, you will navigate through business challenges using the collective intelligence of others by contributing wisdom, encouragement and accountability towards your goals for the purpose of achieving better results in your business.
Learn more →A Nine-Week Small Business Educational Program. Hub for Inclusivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (HIIVE) program is a small business resource hub focused on providing educational curriculum and operating space opportunities to food and retail businesses. HIIVE intends to bolster small business skills as well as provide practical insights, networking opportunities, and real-world experiences. The resource hub will prioritize supporting small businesses owned by people of color, women, and/or veterans with the aspiration of successfully operating in Center City’s unique business environment.
Learn more →We support and develop entrepreneurs and small businesses in under-resourced communities in Wendell and surrounding areas, by providing access to business development services, mentoring, and networking opportunities.
Learn more →Aims to support and develop entrepreneurs and small businesses in under-resourced communities in the county. Towns across Wake County collaborate with Wake Tech to offer a LaunchWakeCounty program for established or aspiring entrepreneurs in their communities. By nurturing homegrown, Main Street businesses, we hope to strengthen the small-business ecosystem across the region.
Learn more →4-month small-group cohort program designed specifically for busy entrepreneurs who want to adopt technology, improve efficiency, and expand their market reach. This hybrid experience blends in-person, virtual, and asynchronous learning to provide maximum flexibility while delivering hands-on support. Through expert coaching, real-world business experimentation, and structured guidance, you’ll walk away with actionable strategies, a $3,000 award towards the implementation of a technology solution for your business, and 20 E3 Durham Learn-to-Earn credits!
Learn more →Nationally Proven curriculum and Cohort-based executive education for growth-oriented minority business owners. Participants will join a cohort of up to 20 peer business owners for seven months of focused business instruction, networking, subject matter expert engagement, and peer to peer learning.
Learn more →Our team searches for groundbreaking healthcare firsts by or for women. When we find them we put our money and muscle to work to get them to outcomes like our own.
Learn more →Realize your business potential. ScaleUp provides intensive growth strategy development and implementation assistance to cohorts of Western North Carolina small businesses with strong potential for growth.
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