Discover Opportunities
The Entrepreneurial Support Hub has diverse opportunities for taking a leap into entrepreneurship. Filter below by the categories that apply to you and your ideas.
Opportunities that accept applications on a rolling basis are listed as an "all-year" deadline.
Current Opportunities
REI: Path Ahead Ventures: Pitch
A free 3-month program for US. based companies that inspire and equip people in their outdoor lives through products, services, and experiences. We focus on supporting founders of color across Black, Indigenous, Latina/o/x, and AAPI communities.
Rodenberry: Catalyst Fund
The Catalyst Fund makes grants between $2,500–$15,000 to anyone, anywhere in the world who has an early-stage idea or project that addresses pressing global challenges.
Vets in Tech: Startup Network
A collaborative environment where veterans and military spouses can get access to capital, support resources and talent in order to launch, grow, and scale their startups.
Zane Venture Fund: Pitch
Our fund specifically targets bold founders in the (American) Southeast who are creating tech-enabled solutions with innovative business models and early signs of traction. Accepting pitches on a rolling basis.
Genius Guild: Pitch
Genius Guild invests in innovations that improve the health and wellbeing of diverse communities. We look for high growth companies with scalable business models, and exceptional founders.
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IFEL: Free Grow Your Business Workshop
We specialize in pairing business owners with the expertise needed to strengthen their business core, connecting entrepreneurs to networks of influence, and breaking down barriers that limit access to capital. Best of all, many services are FREE of charge due to grant support.
#LatinaGeeks Membership
Membership is free. You will join a vibrant community of builders, dreamers, and doers who support each other’s professional growth.
Lightship Capital: Pitch
Lightship Capital invests in remarkable businesses led by FOC (Founders of Color), LBGTQ+, Women & Innovators with Disabilities. We're interested in Consumer Packaged Goods, E-Commerce, Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence, and Health Tech.
Plain Sight Capital: Pitch
Pitch Plain Sight on a rolling basis. We invest in pre-seed and seed product-led B2B SaaS companies that can scale horizontally.
Plug In Ventures: Pre-Accelerator
Designed for Black and LatinX founders in Southern California, our Pre-Accelerator Program equips you with the essential tools to validate your business ideas and prepare for growth.
Plug In Ventures: Accelerator
Designed for Black and LatinX founders in Southern California, our Accelerator Program is for founders ready to take their startups to the next level. Hybrid participation options and up to $100K in equity investment are available.
New Profit: Discovery Grantee Interest
We provide funding to nonprofit organizations led by high-impact social entrepreneurs who are expanding access and opportunity in America by leveraging their proximity to the genius, talent, and vision of the communities they serve. Discovery forms are accepted on a rolling basis.
Stay Tuned. New Opportunities coming your way soon! In the meantime, please check out our Past Opportunities for an idea of what’s to come.
Past Opportunities
Obama Foundation Scholars: Columbia University
The Obama Foundation offers a robust curriculum of leadership development, training, networking activities, and customized support throughout the academic year to help the Obama Scholars gain the real-world skills, tools, and experiences they need to expand the impact of their work.
Community Health Matching Grant Program (Michigan)
We offer up to $25,000 for two years to Michigan-based nonprofits. We want to develop population-led, community-inspired programs or implement evidence-based programs to address community-identified needs, and evaluate measurable programmatic and health outcomes.
NDN Community Action Fund
This grant supports Indigenous frontline, grassroots, community-based groups and organizations, Tribes, communities and villages, and individuals leading direct action or movement-building work in their effort to DEFEND Indigenous People’s rights, and protect their land, air, water, and natural resources.
Mountaintop Business Executive Fellowship
The Mountaintop Business Executive Fellowship is a 12-week program for business leaders seeking to scale their companies and build flourishing teams in low-income communities worldwide. Offered in partnership with the NYU Stern Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing. Includes one-week intensive at NYU Stern.
Tulane Changemaker Institute
The Changemaker Institute (CI) supports budding social entrepreneurs who are graduate students or undergrads at Tulane university who are interested in building a business or program with social or environmental impact.
Echoing Green Fellowship 2026
Invest in you. Invest in your community. Apply to Echoing Green’s Fellowship to join a global community of nearly 1,000 Fellows working in health, education, business, human rights, and more to improve their communities and create a better future for all. Interested in learning more about the application process?
JHTV: I-Corps - Fall
A free, 4-week program developed by the National Science Foundation for researchers, faculty, students, and community entrepreneurs. Participants will engage in customer discover research to inform how to take their innovation from idea to market.
JHTV: Social Innovation Lab
A 6-month program open to any applicant from the greater Baltimore area.
Chinook Fund: Grant
Grants range from $4,000 to $10,000 and are selected from community members in The Giving Project.
Boettcher Foundation: Doers & Difference Makers Fellowship
The fellowship is a nine-month program designed with the belief that leadership is an activity, not a position or title, and everyone can lead.
Boettcher Foundation: Rural Catalyst Grants (Fall)
The Rural Catalyst Grant Program strengthens the internal capacity of organizations as they work to achieve goals.
digitalundivided: BIG Pre-Accelerator
A fast-paced pre-accelerator program for high-potential, women-led startups.
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