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SBA Announces 2015 80-Member Class for Growth Accelerator Fund Competition
At a White House event, the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced approximately $4 million to prizes to 80 growth accelerators in 43 states the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico through the second round of its Growth Accelerator Fund Competition. Launched in 2014, the competition makes awards of $50,000 each to help fund operating budgets for accelerators and other entrepreneurial ecosystem models in parts of the country where there are fewer conventional sources of access to capital (e.g., venture capital and angel capital investors). The SBA Office of Native American Affairs also used the competition to award an additional $400,000 to ecosystems primarily dedicated to Native American entrepreneurs and small businesses. Read the press release…
To help entrepreneurs identify growth accelerators in their state/region, SBA published an interactive accelerator map that includes all the 2015 winners. A complete list of the 2015 prize winners is available at: https://www.sba.gov/offices/headquarters/ooi/resources/1438651.