Helping founders find community and connections
Our mission at 3PhaseSC is to assist small businesses and entrepreneurs in aquiring competitive non-dilutive funding from SBIR/STTR programs. We provide complete and free assistance through the grant application process to help bring innovative ideas to market.
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South Carolina Department of Commerce
Our advanced entrepreneurship program, held each year in the late spring, is ACRE’s flagship program that seeks to invest in agricultural entrepreneurship in South Carolina. This competitive program is suited towards agribusinesses of all types that seek funding and mentorship in order to grow or expand their market.
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Agribusiness Center for Research and Entrepreneurship (ACRE)
ACRE partnered with Matson Consulting, an agribusiness consulting firm in Aiken, in order to produce a comprehensive guide to agribusiness grants and a matching funds guide. Matson Consulting has helped ACRE entrepreneurs apply for Value-Added Producer Grants (VAPG), Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) grants, and others. When you are awarded funding or accepted into the curriculum you get access to Matson Consulting.
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Agribusiness Center for Research and Entrepreneurship (ACRE)
ACRE’s fall agribusiness planning curriculum is open to a variety of people: new farmers who are having business issues, existing farmers who need help on the business side of their operation, farmers looking to expand or grow their business, and prospective agricultural entrepreneurs who don’t know where to start. The curriculum takes place in Columbia and is taught by the Clemson Agribusiness Extension Program Team.
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Agribusiness Center for Research and Entrepreneurship (ACRE)
As a regional program based in Upstate South Carolina, ATVL complements community, academic, and corporate incubator, accelerator, and venture studio programs. We're on a mission to empower disruptive, top-tier innovation and entrepreneurship in the rapidly growing I-85 corridor from Clemson to Charlotte, the I-26 corridor from Columbia to Asheville, and even extending our reach to Atlanta, Charleston, Huntsville, Knoxville, and Raleigh.
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American Technology Venture Lab (ATVL)
The Beaufort Digital Corridor (BDC) is a community-sourced initiative to attract, nurture and promote Beaufort's technology entrepreneurs and ultimately the region's tech economy through an array of impactful programs, products and events while leveraging Beaufort's renowned livability.
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Clemson
Beaufort Digital Corridor
The Brook T. Smith Launchpad is the Entrepreneurship Hub of Clemson University. Housed in the President’s Office and located in downtown Clemson, this 9,000 sq. ft. space provides a plethora of educational, networking and support opportunities to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members.
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Abbeville
Clemson University
The EforAll Accelerator Program is a free, 12-week program offered twice a year in each of our communities. This program offers a unique combination of immersive business training, mentorship, and access to an extended professional network. Anyone with a dream to start or grow a business or nonprofit is encouraged to apply.
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Bluffton
EforAll - Lowcountry
A hands-on business development series featuring book reviews, experiences from diverse business owners, insights into successes and challenges, exploration of community resources, and perspectives from family members of entrepreneurs.
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Rock Hill
Black Economic Leadership League of Rock Hill
Engage in practical sessions dedicated to crafting your business plan. Our objective is to guide you through a process that enhances your bankability, positions you for angel investments, and equips you for successful pursuits of partnerships, collaborations, and contracts.
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Rock Hill
Black Economic Leadership League of Rock Hill
Our professionally trained business consultants provide no cost consulting to help you minimize losses and increase survivability when affected by a disaster. At no cost, our specialists can assist in helping you apply for state and federal disaster loans.
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Greenville
SBDC - South Carolina
Our CES provides an entrepreneurial toolbox to help you thrive as a business owner by leveraging people, services, and technology of both Midlands Technical College and the community of entrepreneurs in the Midlands.
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Midlands Technical College
The Community Business Academy (CBA) is a 13-week course offering hands-on training in business planning and management. The robust curriculum guides entrepreneurs through all elements of a business plan through interactive business simulation exercises and hands-on training. Classes are taught by experienced entrepreneurs who are equipped to share their real-life experiences along the way.
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Columbia
Lowcountry Local First
Have you thought of opening a business? Do you have a business and want to grow? From a budding idea to taking your business to the next level, CommunityWorks can help. With a combination of business skill-building resources, coaching, training, and equitable financing, CommunityWorks is a one-stop-shop for small business growth.
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Greenville
CommunityWorks South Carolina
Crescent will operate as an Innovation District offering the Upstate’s entrepreneur community opportunities to live, work, play, and innovate in one central space that provides access to all the resources necessary to successfully launch and grow a business venture. This includes connecting early and growth-stage companies with capital, professional services, and universities; supplying coworking, and collaborative common area spaces; and offering special programming such as pitch competitions, educational events, professional networking and mentorship, and entrepreneurship study away programs designed to stimulate ideation and structured development.
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Crescent Startup Community
The Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce offers several courses that can get you started towards financial freedom or build on your existing knowledge and skills when it comes to your finances. These courses are a free service to our community. Take your finances to a new level!
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Beaufort
Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce
The Columbia Chamber is proud to introduce Gather & Grow (formerly Small Business Breakout), a consolidated program designed to better serve and empower our region's businesses. By combining the strengths of the Small Business Council and Area Business Alliances, Gather & Grow offers a unified platform to foster connections, share resources, and promote growth for businesses of all sizes.
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Columbia
Columbia Chamber
The Growth Incubator Program objective is to provide the infrastructure needed for a business to scale up and accomplish transformative growth. It’s a cost-effective program that allows you to establish a brick-and-mortar base in our facility where you can enjoy your own private office, shared workspaces, and conference rooms; helping you to reduce operational expenses.
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Greenville
Kelley Center - Francis Marion University
Transformational 9-week experience that includes mentoring from successful local entrepreneurs and business owners, coaching from experienced design thinkers, instruction from distinguished university faculty, and an investor community that’s engaged and committed to supporting aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners.
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Furman University - The Hills Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Harbor Accelerator program engages the cohort of accepted companies in a focused Market Validation curriculum curated by the Harbor’s proven entrepreneurs. This hands-on mentoring by the founders of some of the region’s most successful companies helps young companies build a strong customer acquisition platform as a basic building block for growth.
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The Harbor Entrepreneurs Center — CharlestonThe Harbor Entrepreneurs Center — Mt Pleasant
One-week, immersive experience designed to cultivate foundational skills and mindsets in entrepreneurship and innovation for high school students. Through engaging workshops, hands-on activities, and expert mentorship, students will learn to develop and refine a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), shoot a commercial in an award-winning film studio, conduct market research, and craft a compelling business pitch. The program culminates in a final presentation to a panel of industry experts, followed by a graduation ceremony and celebratory dinner. This is an unparalleled opportunity for students to gain entrepreneurial skills, build confidence, and explore future career paths in a collaborative and inspiring environment.
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Furman University - The Hills Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This hands-on immersion program is based on the principles of the lean startup made popular by Steve Blank and Eric Ries. Participants are taught that their ideas are a set of assumptions that need to be tested. You bring the ideas - we provide the framework, ask questions, and hold you accountable.
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Columbia
USC Columbia Technology Incubator
Are you ready to expand your horizons and deepen your understanding of the forces shaping Charleston? Leadership Charleston is your gateway to immersive learning on the critical issues influencing our region and its businesses.
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Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce
The Lowcountry Minority Business Accelerator (MBA) is designed for ambitious minority business owners determined to scale their companies, drive measurable growth and position themselves as leaders in their industries. This transformativeprogram offers the tools, insights and connections needed to help your business reach peak performance.
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Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce
The initiative provides opportunities for economic growth and prosperity for high-potential minority-owned firms. MMBA is the Columbia Chamber's major economic development tool designed to make minority businesses more competitive.
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Columbia
Columbia Chamber
MEDII will provide education and training for new, aspiring, and established minority businesses, their owners, and minority consumers. MEDII will assist minority business owners and consumers in seeking, understanding, and collaborating with an increasingly diverse and changing set of potential competitors, colleagues, partners, customers, suppliers, and government leaders. MEDII will assist minority businesses and consumers in assessing and developing appropriate strategies for the economic, technological, legal and regulatory, competitive, and socio-cultural changes in their environments.
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Minority Economic Develoment Institute Inc. (MEDII)
Our small business incubator provides a nurturing environment for fledgling businesses, from guidance in business planning to resources for operational success. This fosters a culture of local entrepreneurship and economic self-sufficiency.
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Spartanburg
Success Center of Spartanburg
Unique opportunity for Greenville founders to engage with successful, experienced founders in a fun and collaborative environment – at NO COST to their business. If you’re a high-growth, post-revenue startup with a scalable model, this is your chance to propel your company forward!
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Charleston
NextGEN
The Oconee Business Center (OBC) is a small business “incubator” designed to support small businesses during start-up and early growth stages. The OBC is operated by the Tri-County Entrepreneurial Development Corporation, in partnership with the Oconee Economic Alliance and is a recognized 501 C 3 entity.
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Tri-County Entrepreneurial Development Coorporation
The Gravity Preferred Partner Program is designed to connect local specialized businesses and entrepreneurs with professional services needed to start, scale, and operate their business. Our partners represent various disciplines such as legal, accounting, insurance and technology services. We are continually expanding the offerings to support our CoWork tenants and subscribers.
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Rock Hill
My Gravity Center
NC/SC Women-Owned businesses, get a chance to go from being a small business entity to supplier ready enterprise through the launch of our NEW QCWIB CARES program, an acronym for Community, Advocacy, Role-Modeling & Education for Suppliers!
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Queen City Women in Business (QCWIB) - SC
The Minority Business Accelerator supports and scales high-potential minority-owned firms by providing targeted training, access to business coaches, and access to large corporations. Participants leave the program with a three-year Strategic Growth Action Plan to guide their development.
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Greenville
Greenville Chamber
Led by South Carolina Research Authority, this project will provide comprehensive business, technical and hands-on training, leverage and connect assets of existing entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem across the SC NEXUS hub, and deploy additional capital and incentives to support new and growing startups.
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South Carolina Department of Commerce
Entrepreneurs, inventors and companies with original ideas and innovative products can benefit from the SC SBDC’s Technology Commercialization Program (Tech Com). Technology commercialization may be defined as taking an idea, invention, or prototype from the early concept stage through design, development, production and eventually to market.
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SBDC - South Carolina
SCORE Mentors are experienced entrepreneurs & professionals who volunteer their experience & knowledge to help small business professionals start & grow businesses. We offer free, confidential business advice, low-cost or no-cost business training, and numerous business templates & tools.
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SCORE Piedmont
SCRA manages programs to support South Carolina-based early-stage startups. These programs provide coaching, support, and potential funding opportunities at the MVP, Accelerating, and Scaling stages.
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SummervilleColumbiaAndersonGreenvilleCharleston
South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA) — SummervilleSouth Carolina Research Authority (SCRA) — ColumbiaSouth Carolina Research Authority (SCRA) — AndersonSouth Carolina Research Authority (SCRA) — GreenvilleSouth Carolina Research Authority (SCRA) — Charleston
As part of the City’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) the City explored developing and operating a Small Business Incubator. In 2019, after extensive research the City decided to convert the Upstairs of the Chamber Building into a Small Business Incubator Facility.
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Abbeville
Abbeville City
Starting a business isn’t easy. Let us help you start your business on solid footing. Our Startup Incubator Program gives entrepreneurs in the startup or ideation stage the infrastructure and dedicated technical support needed to focus on the most critical parts of their businesses. Once the one-year Incubation period is complete, you will move into Post Launch outside of the facility or, if needed, extend your stay by selecting our Post Advisory option.
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Kelley Center - Francis Marion University
The Accelerator is a free, one-year program offered twice a year in EforAll communities. It provides immersive business training, mentorship and access to an extended professional network. Anyone with a dream to start or grow a business is encouraged to apply.
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Bluffton
EforAll - Lowcountry
If you are a USC inventor, our team will guide you through how to protect your invention. If you are an industry representative, we will assist you in determining the most efficient ways that your company can team up with USC researchers and use USC innovations to add value to your bottom line. If you are an entrepreneur, we provide resources on licensing USC technologies and pursuing SBIR/STTR funding. Whether you are interested in accelerating your research or transforming your industry, TCO is here to help.
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Greenville
University of South Carolina
Many business owners are in need of a jolt -- something that helps their companies advance. Our GROWTH program is a deeper dive for mature businesses that are already executing a business plan and have established revenues.
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Walterboro
Don Ryan Center for Innovation (DRCI)
Being in small business is a blessing to the community, and to the family that owns the business. Starting a business is a challenge no matter what the resources. We seek to grow small businesses, one at a time, so that they are more sustainable.
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Abbeville
Abbeville City
The mission of Arthur M. Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership is to provide educational, research, and service programs and career enhancement opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs that will foster lifelong, personal development.
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Clemson University
Headquartered at Columbia College, the Women's Business Center of South Carolina (WBC) is dedicated to opening doors for professional women and women entrepreneurs. The WBC hosts educational programs and networking events to support undergraduate students as well as women involved and interested in business.
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Columbia
Columbia College
Our goal is to create a work environment for entrepreneurs and business owners where we not only provide a work incubator space, but intentionally bring together business resources, state-of-the-art technology, field experts, business plan implementation advisors, and an innovation ecosystem built to target the areas which cause business failure.
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YMA Cares