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
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.
IFEL: Free Grow Your Business Workshop
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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.
Startups on the Blocks Community
Startups on the Blocks was created to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem for historically marginalized black and brown communities so that they may recognize, utilize, and benefit from the resources that surround them in creating and building their businesses.
National Grassroots Organizing Program
Rolling applications for grants from the Ben & Jerry's Foundation for National Grassroots Organizing. Applicants must be based in the U.S. and must have non-profit status.
Vermont Community Action Teams (CATs)
Rolling applications for grants from the Ben & Jerry's Foundation for National Grassroots Organizing. Applicants must be based in the U.S. and must have non-profit status.
Vermont Equity & Justice Grants
Rolling applications for grants from the Ben & Jerry's Foundation for National Grassroots Organizing. Applicants must be based in the U.S. and must have non-profit status.
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
Boettcher Foundation: Leadership Practitioner Catalyst Grants
The Leadership Practitioner Catalyst Grant Program strengthens the capacity of leadership organizations that are working to create a more inclusive and accessible leadership ecosystem in Colorado.
gener8tor Great Lakes Innovation Accelerator Summer 2025
gener8tor invests $100k into your high-growth startup. Gain specific business knowledge via a nationally ranked system and a 12-week investment for-equity program.
StartOut Growth Lab
StartOut Growth Lab is a startup accelerator that offers top quality mentoring, education, and networking opportunities for companies that happen to be founded or co-founded by LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs.
Free Virtual Incubator for Nonprofits (August/September)
The Greater Sum is a private operating foundation that awards grants via a pitch competition and a matching gifts campaign. Both grant award programs are open to graduates of our free Virtual Incubator Program. VIPs also receive access to our network of subject matter experts.
The Environmental Sustainability Entrepreneurship Program from The Watson Institute
Fully-funded program for underserved and impact-driven entrepreneurs and community leaders who are solving environmental sustainability challenges across the Denver Metro Area. Fellows will gain expert-led training, mentorship, pitch coaching, and funding to host a community-driven Basecamp workshop.
2025 Rising Leaders of Mexico Fellowship
The Rising Leaders of Mexico Fellowship powered by Watson Institute, is now accepting applications! This is a virtual program for impact-driven entrepreneurs in Mexico.
Google Data Center Community AI Fellowship
Fellowship for impact-driven leaders leveraging AI and technology to help solve their communities' biggest challenges. Open to applicants in select Google Data Center regions in Austell GA, Council Bluffs IA, Omaha NE, Berkeley County SC, Loudoun County VA, Hamina (Finland), or Waltham Cross/London (UK).
Watson Institute Flagship Fellowship
The Watson Institute Flagship Fellowship is a fully funded Fellowship that equips impact- and growth-driven entrepreneurs with the tools to achieve product-market fit and scale their ventures.
CZI: Accelerating and Scaling Biological Sciences With AI
An up to two-year international postdoctoral fellowship program between the U.S. and Japan designed to advance excellence in bioengineering and biomedical research.
gener8tor NMotion Accelerator Fall 2025
gener8tor invests $100k into your high-growth startup. Gain specific business knowledge via a nationally ranked system and a 12-week investment for-equity program.
Techstars Tech Central Sydney
We back early stage founders building in Australia. We invest across all industries - from consumer to deep tech, AI to software, fintech to healthtech, and industries that haven't been invented yet.
Techstars Space Accelerator
The accelerator, which runs in partnership with the United States Space Force and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is focused on the next generation of space technology companies from adjacent industries.
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