Helping founders find community and connections
Annual global pitch competition for life sciences and health tech startups, awarding $100K+ in prizes and permanently integrating winners into the NOBIC community with commercialization and funding support. Each year focuses on a specific health theme — 2026 theme is neuroscience.
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New Orleans BioInnovation Center
Semester-based paid fellowship placing students and early-career professionals inside NOBIC's Programs and Operations team, providing hands-on exposure to nonprofit management, startup support, life sciences commercialization, and the BioChallenge pitch competition.
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New Orleans BioInnovation Center
Free, ongoing technical assistance program for Louisiana biotech, digital health, and clean tech innovators — providing direct 1:1 consulting on business planning, IP analysis, market research, and grant applications, alongside a year-round seminar and workshop series.
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New Orleans BioInnovation Center
LED’s Diversity in Entrepreneurship Initiative, delivered in partnership with the Edward Lowe Foundation, aims to accelerate business growth for minority-and woman-owned companies in Louisiana. Program participants will be able to identify what scaling means for both their companies and their communities and will be connected to the right tools and expertise to execute the strategy.
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Louisiana Economic Development
The I-20 Corridor Regional Business Accelerator at Louisiana Tech University is an intense program focused on providing services, support, and networking to facilitate rapid growth for business enterprises demonstrating strong potential for success.
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Louisiana Tech University - Technology Business Development Center
In community economic development, Propeller's Impact Accelerator supports BIPOC entrepreneurs operating brick and mortar establishments along the Broad Street corridor, in New Orleans East, and in Central City seeking to grow their revenues and staff.
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Propeller
The Louisiana Contractors Accreditation Institute’s Residential Contractors Seminar provides foundational technical knowledge that is essential to a residential contractor aiming to take advantage of business opportunities within the residential construction industry.
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Louisiana Economic Development
LSBDC provides business training to entrepreneurs and small business owners in multiple locations across Louisiana. With local and virtual workshops on a variety of business-related topics, our frequent training gives you the power to start or grow your business.
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SBDC Louisiana
The LA APEX Accelerator provides specialized and professional procurement technical assistance to Louisiana businesses who are actively seeking and/or performing on contracts and subcontracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal, state and local governments.
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University of Louisiana
Louisiana Tech’s Enterprise Center Incubator supports the creation of successful businesses by providing assistance and physical facilities to stimulate small business formation, growth and development.
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Louisiana Tech University - Technology Business Development Center
The PAVE program consists of on-demand online training, a virtual entrepreneurship boot camp and access to ongoing business programs and resources. The program consists of three modules of on-demand virtual training that can be accessed and completed at the participant’s desired pace.
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Louisiana Economic Development
LED’s Rural Entrepreneurship Initiative, delivered in partnership with the Edward Lowe Foundation, aims to accelerate the growth of second-stage businesses in rural areas of Louisiana. Program participants will be able to identify what scaling means for both their companies and their communities and will be connected to the right tools and expertise to execute the strategy.
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Louisiana Economic Development
A statewide, community-based, entrepreneurial education intensive hosted by Urban League of Louisiana’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. This program provides early stage, women- and minority-owned firms with the education and resources needed for scalability and profitability.
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Urban League of Louisiana
LED’s provides the managerial and technical assistance needed to grow and sustain a small business. This program provides for developmental assistance, including marketing, accounting, business planning, human resources and legal and industry-specific assistance. It also offers consideration for bidding on select products or services purchased by state agencies.
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Louisiana Economic Development
IDEAfuel, supported by Regions Foundation, is a venture accelerator that supports select startups founded by Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) with non-dilutive capital, 1:1 mentorship, exclusive business resources, and more to help their startups succeed and scale.
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Idea Village
(TBDC) provides assistance to entrepreneurs that are investigating or pursuing business enterprises based on useful new technologies or unique applications of technology that have high growth potential and the ability to generate high quality employment opportunities.
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Louisiana Tech University - Technology Business Development Center