Helping founders find community and connections
The APEX Accelerator is co-located with the SBDC at seven centers, and is the only government procurement program available to small businesses statewide; it is part of a national APEX program with over 300 local offices nationwide.
Accelerator
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Huntsville
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Boost is for startups working on or with a minimum viable product (MVP) who are ready to scale and grow. This program provides customized growth plans, dedicated workspace, and comprehensive support to help you advance your business. With access to expert mentorship, valuable resources, and a collaborative community, Boost equips you with the tools and guidance needed to accelerate your startup’s success.
Accelerator
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Birmingham
Innovation Depot
Every Tuesday for ten weeks, we walk you through a course that includes real world expertise from renowned small business owners. You get the chance to ask all of your burning questions to those who have been in your exact shoes. Learn more about marketing, legality, accounting, and everything in between.
Coaching/Consulting
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Decatur
The E-Center
Learn to think, work, and build like a entrepreneur in just 54 hours at the Business Builder's Bash. This immersive event connects you with coaches, experts, and potential co-founders to help you achieve more in less time and maybe even launch your business.
Accelerator
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Auburn
Auburn University
The SBi provides shared and unique services that individuals need to start, expand, and create quality businesses. Startups save time and money spent on day-to-day back-office activities (e.g. IT providers, maintenance issues, shipping logistics, etc.) as we cover some or all of these services. At the same time, the mentorship offered by the SBi provides an avenue for the startup’s management team to reduce the gap in their knowledge and/or experience so that they can make better business decisions. Personal contact with like-minded business professionals enhances the entrepreneur’s ability to grow their network with the potential to generate new ventures
Incubator
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Florence
Schoals Business Incubator
Accelerating and investing in education and workforce tech startups. This in person 12-week program invests $100K in five startups per cohort, twice a year, working at the forefront of transforming learning in the 21st century.
Accelerator
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Butler
gener8tor
The Huntsville/Madison County Chamber CRP DefenseTech Accelerator is a partnership between Cummings Research Park and Treble One. The CRP DefenseTech Accelerator is a 12-week accelerator program for technology companies with innovative products that can be grown and scaled in the commercial and defense markets.
Accelerator
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Huntsville
Cummings Research Park
The Alabama SBDC Network has determined that the best strategy to help minimize the impact of disasters on Alabama’s small business community involves A) getting the word out, and B) providing basic education and guidance on the simple steps that businesses can take to protect themselves.
Service
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Alabama ASBDC Network
Emerging Innovation Scholars (BIG Ideas), launched by The University of Alabama Honors College in collaboration with Innovate Alabama, is, by design, an entry-level program that encourages students who have limited or no competition experience to develop their ideas, transform their thinking and address societal problems through creativity and ingenuity. Advising, mentoring, workshops, and assistance are integral parts of the program, along with funding and recognition.
Accelerator
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Birmingham
Innovate Alabama
The FastTrac Bootcamp offered through EnergizeAL is designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs in Alabama learn how to develop and grow sustainable businesses. Hosted by the Lowder Center for Family Business and Entrepreneurship at Auburn University, EnergizeAL provides workshops and bootcamps that support individuals throughout their entrepreneurial journey. It covers key business development topics and helps participants work through the critical steps of launching a business.
Accelerator
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Statewide
energizeAL
Rocket City Innovator's Business Accelerator Program - The Frank J Williams Dream Tank, is where innovation takes flight and startups soar to new heights. This program is designed to empower emerging business owners with the tools, support, and resources they need to turn their entrepreneurial visions into thriving ventures.
Accelerator
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Huntsville
Rocket City
The Growth Alliance Task Force promotes the growth of minority-owned businesses through increased awareness of Chamber programs and provides entrepreneurial training and diversity business forums. Task force members serve on active sub-committees including Business Development, Outreach, Finance, and Sponsorships. The group meets on the first Tuesday of each month.
Coaching/Consulting
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Mobile
Mobile Chamber
Hatch Powered by Bessel is a transformative accelerator program designed for startups aiming to scale breakthrough innovations. This 10-week hybrid cohort-based program, held in Fairhope, Alabama, offers startups a unique blend of in-person events, expert mentorship by industry veterans, and the comprehensive Powered by Bessel curriculum that includes specialized workshops and consulting.
Accelerator
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Fairhope
Hatch Fairhope
The HBCU Innovation Experience, a collaboration between The Alabama Collective and Innovate Alabama, offers a multi-phased approach to Expose, Educate, Engage and Empower HBCU students and faculty. Through cutting-edge educational skill development training, on coding, app development, entrepreneurship, business management and innovation essentials the program ensures HBCU students possess the critical skills necessary for success. In addition, this program fosters community building through virtual workshops, networking engagement activities, internships and campus events; creating spaces for collaboration and idea exchange with hackathons, pitch competitions and roundtables which serve as catalysts for talent to showcase their prowess and address real-world problems.
Accelerator
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Birmingham
Innovate Alabama
The Innovate Alabama Network seeks to create a broad network of innovation-related programming, provide seed funding for innovative projects and encourage partnerships within the innovation ecosystem. The program is geared toward entities and initiatives that promote Innovate Alabama’s mission and three pillars.
Accelerator
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Birmingham
Innovate Alabama
This is a small business education program focused on people… their dreams, ideas, and business interests. The program includes a six-session educational series held in the evenings after work. These sessions introduce basic tools, concepts, and principles relevant to launching and growing a successful business when one has little to no resources or background. Although the program is targeted towards disadvantaged entrepreneurs or those who have faced one or more difficult circumstances, it is broadly open to anyone trying to start or grow a business. Participants completing the entire program will be given priority consideration for future initiatives such as mentorship, student consulting, and other entrepreneurial programs.
Accelerator
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Statewide
energizeAL
This course is essential for learning the intangibles to equip business owners with the tools necessary to start, run, and sustain a business. Projected to serve 25 participants per course in four sessions over a 24-month projected period, this course provides participants with materials, books, training exercises, and case studies to test and hone leadership skills.
Training/Course
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Decatur
The E-Center
Magic City Match is an initiative led by REV Birmingham and powered by Prosper to match Black-owned businesses with Birmingham brick-and-mortar spaces where they can thrive. After a successful pilot program in 2022, Magic City Match has been refined for a new season to meet business owners where they are, with custom program offerings for three different stages of business growth. Stages include Ready, Open and Grow.
Accelerator
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Birmingham
Prosper
9-week curriculum designed for entrepreneurs in the ideation phase and companies under a year old where founders have little to no business experience. Participants learn from subject matter experts on topics such as customer discovery, market research, legal, financial and business planning.
Accelerator
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Mobile
Mobile Chamber
The New Venture Accelerator, which is jointly managed by the Harbert College of Business and the Auburn Research and Technology Foundation, is one element of an overarching strategy to foster entrepreneurship here at Auburn University. Our goals are to create a space for students, faculty, and recent graduates to cultivate and develop their entrepreneurial research, skills, and techniques. Here, new ideas can be tested, evaluated, and potentially turned into successful business ideas.
Accelerator
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Auburn
Auburn University
A Minority-owned and/or Women-owned Business Enterprise Certification Program to identify small minority-owned and/or women-owned businesses capable of providing goods and/or services to both government and private sectors.
Coaching/Consulting
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Statewide
Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs
Environment conducive to the success and growth of new and expanding businesses, to create regional employment opportunities, and to diversify the regional economy. Affordable office spaces, manufacturing bays, and docking area are available. The goal is to grow your company in a low-risk atmosphere toward “graduation” into a traditional business location.
Incubator
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Ozark
Ozark-Dale County Economic Development Corporation
In order to invest in the growth of underrepresented founders in our community, the Portal Fund: RISE program will work to assist early-to-mid stage founders with access to programming, mentorship, and resources to allow them to grow their business to the next level.
Coaching/Consulting
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Mobile
Innovation Portal
The Prosper HealthTech Accelerator (powered by gener8tor) connects cutting-edge, health technology startups to the coaching, capital, and connections they need to build and grow their businesses. This in-person program aims to make Birmingham the center of health technology solutions through investments in entrepreneurship, talent, and community engagements. What makes this accelerator unique is its devotion to building a diverse community of support around each company.
Accelerator
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Birmingham
Prosper
The paid summer internship program places Alabama high school juniors and seniors into 8-week paid learning experiences at Alabama-based employers that creatively use data. The summer program offers interns hands-on experience with AI and data science as well as critical professional development. Participating interns and businesses get the chance to shape the future of Alabama’s tech scene in this pilot program.
Service
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Birmingham
Innovate Alabama
Open to the entire UA community, including students, faculty, and staff, as well as area residents, River Pitch helps innovators and entrepreneurs with new ideas and early-stage businesses obtain feedback on their work and potentially win one of 10 different $1,000 prizes.
Community/Networking
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Tuscaloosa
University of Alabama
Entrepreneurs and business owners, are you challenged to keep up with the daily routines in your business, knowing you need to do more to focus on growth, but uncertain what to do? The SBi business coaching is a hands-on, action-oriented program designed to help entrepreneurs at all stages overcome their barriers to growth.
AcceleratorIncubator
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Florence
Schoals Business Incubator
Seeking licensing and commercialization partners to advance biotech products through non-dilutive and equity funding (Modalities:** **Small molecules and Peptides; Therapeutic Areas:** **Oncology, Infectious Disease, CNS, Chronic Disease and Heart & Respiratory).
Service
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Birmingham
Station 41
The TeamUP program consists of six months of hands-on workshops, as well as several one-on-one coaching sessions led by industry expert service providers. These experts have decades of experience helping organizations create positive work environments, retain top employees, implement more effective hiring practices and promote better management strategies.
Coaching/Consulting
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Birmingham
Prosper
We recognize that running a business sometimes means it’s hard to take time to build the business. So we created TechAcademy to help. TechAcademy is an 8-week program that helps entrepreneurs without the technical background to find or build the solutions they need to help them run their business.
Accelerator
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Mobile
Innovation Portal
As a project of The Catalyst, the mission of TechRich is to find, filter, and facilitate business opportunities by fueling collaboration, innovation, technology transfer, commercialization, and GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING. Our 7(j) program provides specialized, high-quality assistance to Small businesses that are 8(a) certified, economically disadvantaged, located in areas of high unemployment/low income or HUBZONE, or owned by low- income individuals.
Coaching/Consulting
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Huntsville
The Catalyst - Center for Business & Entrepreneurship
We are focused on supporting startups working within Climate Tech, Clean Tech, and Energy Efficiency, such as; energy distribution, smart grids, and wind energy. While we hold an EnergyTech scope if you have a startup in similar areas or with a connection to customer experience, we're the accelerator for you.
Accelerator
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Birmingham
Techstars
Our session entitled “Business Coaching: Why and Why Not” helps entrepreneurs determine why and whether to pursue business coaching. We also spell out what you should expect from a business coach and the results you should experience.
Coaching/Consulting
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Decatur
The E-Center
The EDGE is a partnership with The University of Alabama, the West Alabama Chamber of Commerce and the City of Tuscaloosa. Resources from all three groups come together to help grow a vibrant ecosystem that supports entrepreneurship, business growth, and personal enterprise. The Alabama Entrepreneurship Institute is a campus-wide initiative powering the programs that are offered at The EDGE.
Accelerator
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Tuscaloosa
University of Alabama
The Joel R. Anderson Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Studies is home to our 6,000 square foot student incubator and maker space called The Generator. The goal of The Generator is to assist students who desire to start a business or commercialize their innovations with resources and expertise.
Incubator
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Birmingham
University of North Alabama
The Business Matchmaker is a great opportunity for small businesses to connect with government agencies and prime contractors one-on-one. The 15-minute sessions will provide small businesses the chance to discuss how they can meet the needs of agencies and prime contractors by providing detailed information concerning their capabilities during this important networking event!
Community/Networking
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Huntsville
University of Alabama in Huntsville
The Chamber’s Women in Business program is a series of events throughout the year created for women, by women: to promote confidence, strength, ingenuity and learning; to meet fellow female business owners, community leaders, and other professionals; to dive into fun, hands-on activities with businesses in the community
Community/Networking
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Athens
Athens-Limestone Chamber of Commerce
As a project of The Catalyst, the mission of the Women’s Business Center is to serve entrepreneurs and small business owners in every stage of business. Through quality programming, personalized one-on-one coaching, and networking opportunities that build valuable business relationships, we provide the tools needed for start-ups and established businesses to successful.
Coaching/Consulting
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Huntsville
The Catalyst - Center for Business & Entrepreneurship