Helping founders find community and connections
Co-working space and hub for urban entrepreneurial programs at 40 Franklin Street, downtown Rochester. Supports low-to-no-tech businesses investing in community revitalization. Offers capacity-building training, ROC the Pitch competition, expert mentorship, and connections to Rochester ESO ecosystem. SBA-funded.
The Albany Center for Economic Success (ACES) Business Incubator at 255 Orange Street provides affordable furnished office suites, onsite technical training, and business development assistance to early-stage entrepreneurs and small businesses in the Capital Region.
Learn more →An advanced energy technology incubator at the AERTC — a NYS Center of Excellence at Stony Brook University's Research and Development Park — providing office, laboratory, and R&D space to clean energy and advanced materials startups alongside comprehensive access to Stony Brook faculty, research facilities, and industry partnerships.
Learn more →A year-long, equity-free incubator program at NYU's Veterans Future Lab for startups founded by military veterans and their spouses, providing workspace, mentorship, NYU faculty access, and STARTUP NY tax benefits.
Learn more →A 6-month small business incubator program by The Women's Economic Institute (WEI) in Syracuse's Near Westside neighborhood, providing BIPOC women entrepreneurs with bi-weekly cohort-based classroom training, peer-to-peer mentoring, business plan design, marketing/branding coaching, financial planning, and access to a professional women's network.
Learn more →A CUNY Lehman College tech incubator providing workspace, business support, counseling, student interns, and mentorship to entrepreneurs from underserved Bronx communities, with a unique AR/VR lab.
Learn more →A South Bronx commercial kitchen incubator operated by WHEDco (Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation) providing 25+ small food businesses with 24/7 access to affordable shared kitchen space, semi-private workstations, storage, and personalized consulting on food safety, licensing, marketing, and product development.
Learn more →Ongoing business incubation and support services for new and existing businesses in Poughkeepsie. Provides co-working space, resources, mentorship, and guidance to help entrepreneurs solve problems and expand their businesses. Serves as an umbrella connector to pre-existing community programs.
Learn more →A business incubator program by Atlas Co. (Excelsior Business Development Corporation), a nonprofit community development enterprise at 151 Hempstead Turnpike, West Hempstead, NY, providing mentorship, technical assistance, financing access, and advocacy to minority-, women-, and veteran-owned businesses and emerging entrepreneurs on Long Island.
Learn more →200,000 sq ft office and production incubator in a former industrial complex in Geneva, NY's Finger Lakes region. Owned by the Geneva Industrial Development Agency in partnership with Ontario County Economic Development. Serves manufacturing, services, nonprofits, arts, tech, and more with space from 300–20,000 sq ft, subsidized rent, high-speed fiber, and access to economic development loans and federal/state grant facilitation.
Learn more →Fordham University's Hub for Innovation and Entrepreneurship serving students, alumni, faculty, and Bronx community members. Founded 2012 in collaboration with NYC SBS. Located at 557 E. Fordham Road (Bronx) and Lincoln Center (Manhattan). Offers coaching, mentorship, entrepreneurs-in-residence, bi-annual pitch competitions (Ram's Den, Pitch Challenge, Battle of the Bronx), and the Fordham Angel Fund (up to $25K equity-free funding). Executive Director: Albert J. Bartosic.
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