Resource Organizations
From local chambers of commerce to statewide trade groups, Connecticut is full of organizations that can assist your business. Find the professionals who can enhance your company with everything from grants to networking opportunities.
- CTNext is Connecticut’s innovation ecosystem, like an incubator helping entrepreneurs validate their ideas
- For entrepreneurs, CTNext has unique mentor programs, seminars and onsite workspaces
- CTNext is a support system that steps in with customized help right when entrepreneurs need it most
- A nonprofit collaborative supporting new and growing companies in Stamford
- Provides matching grants
- Special consideration given to projects that can highlight the city’s unique qualities or promote collaborative activities
- An “Innovation Place” offering support to entrepreneurs and small businesses in the New Haven region
- Oversees numerous programs, shared facilities, and other initiatives
- Solicits public input for economic development strategies
- A statewide nonprofit alliance of private and public sector partners
- Offers location services and economic research
- Promotes Massachusetts as a place to do business
- A nonprofit focused on industry research, innovation, policy development, and communications initiatives
- The voice of businesses building a world-class clean energy hub in the Northeast
- Convenes clean energy stakeholders dedicated to growing the state and the region’s clean energy economy
- One of the largest ALPFA chapters in the country
- Includes business professionals as well as student chapters at eight colleges and universities
- Provides guidance and support to help propel careers and livelihood
- Provides digital tools to those lacking access to them
- Aims to provide “equity through opportunity”
- Maintains several resources to assist aspiring entrepreneurs
- A state office assisting businesses looking to relocate to Massachusetts or expand their operations in the state
- Helps connect small businesses and entrepreneurs to available resources
- Maintains a regional staff for statewide service
- The official website of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- “Working” section connects to a wealth of business and employment resources
- Aims to assist businesses and make Massachusetts become a batter place to live, work, and do business
- Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation (MGCC) functions as a one-stop resource for debt financing for small businesses.
- Provides a variety of financing options, including microloans and emergency loans
- Technical assistance grant program also available
- Provides free and confidential one-to-one business advice.
- Available to Massachusetts start-ups and existing businesses
- Contributes to the entrepreneurial growth of small businesses throughout Massachusetts by providing high-quality, in-depth advising, training, and capital access.
- “The Voice of the Nonprofit Sectors”
- Helps raise the nonprofit sector’s a voice on critical issues
- Focuses on areas of public policy, public awareness, and capacity building
- A global nonprofit organization
- Empowers people who are underserved and revolutionizes financial services
- Helps people, small businesses, and communities grow and thrive
- A private 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation
- Increases employment opportunities for Boston residents
- Provide small business loans with a focus on commercial, industrial and service companies
- A non-profit corporation functioning as the City of Lynn’s development bank
- Provides financing to the businesses within the city
- Financing tools available at a very attractive rate
- A student-led venture accelerator that fosters the development of entrepreneurs
- For all Northeastern University founders including undergraduates, graduate students, alumni, faculty, and staff
- Provides a holistic experience for ventures through support, in-kind resources, and opportunities
- The planning and economic development agency for Boston
- 200 professionals who serve the city
- Seeks to enact reforms guiding Boston to a vibrant future
- A nonprofit organization for women-owned small businesses and entrepreneurs
- Offers funding and resources to help start or grow your business
- Is also the operator of the Veterans Business Outreach Center of New England
- A Boston incubator committed to small business success
- Focuses on web companies
- Combines entrepreneurial business leadership with a unique platform of proprietary technologies
- An educational accelerator to help students accelerate their growth in building viable, sustainable ventures
- Open to MIT students
- Providing a capstone educational opportunity for student entrepreneurs that prepares them to launch their business after graduation
- A nonprofit organization headquartered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with chapters worldwide
- Informs, connects, and coaches technology entrepreneurs
- Seeks to build a better world by accelerating the creation and growth of world-class technology companies
- Identifies and supports entrepreneurs creating companies around blockchain, government, and civic technologies
- For entrepreneurs with ideas and early-stage business plans
- Assists businesses with growth and scaling in Quincy and south of Boston
- A series of innovation spaces for launching and growing business
- Offers programs and connections to small business owners
- Five locations as well as a virtual option
- A worldwide network that helps early-stage entrepreneurs succeed
- Includes a location in Boston
- Cultivates startup culture at the local level, growing communities of entrepreneurs
- A free, one-year program offered twice a year in each of its communities
- Anyone looking to start or grow a business or nonprofit is encouraged to apply
- Offers a unique combination of immersive business training, mentorship and access to an extended professional network
- A Boston-based investment group that provides funding to early-stage life science and healthcare companies
- For top-tier corporate venture capital, foundations, family offices and individual angel investors who want to change the early-stage investment landscape
- Constantly looking for exceptional entrepreneurs whose disruptive technologies will build the next generation of companies that impact lives
- A non-profit technology incubator helping early-stage biotech and cleantech companies increase their probability of success
- For innovative startups
- Provides members with the time and tools to bring their ideas to market
- An initiative by the City of New Bedford.
- For startup business owners
- Provides a focus for entrepreneurial training and a supportive environment
- An accelerator merging seed capital, hands-on assistance, and co-working space
- Helps early-stage companies
- Combines available resources in the Pioneer Valley with those available in Boston and New York City
- A business incubator that launches new enterprises
- For startup business owners
- Assists with the growth and development of innovation-driven enterprises
- Supports initiatives in entrepreneurship resources, artisanship and community
- For businesses in Massachusetts
- Strives to cultivate each business’ success by developing a great environment
- A nonprofit dedicated to achieving transformational growth for the business
- For startups and changing the face of the economy in Western Massachusetts
- Provides expertise and funding through mentorship and accelerator programs
- Provides access to research, partnerships, and other support from Massachusetts’ flagship public research university
- Increases opportunities for research support and to efficiently move research outcomes from campus labs into society
- Ensures that UMass Amherst discoveries and technologies move forward into society
- A national nonprofit based in Hadley
- Supports early-stage STEM entrepreneurs
- Provides unique opportunities for STEM students and researchers to fully realize their potential to improve the world
- A collaborative network of technology business incubators and other entrepreneur support organizations
- For startups, engineers, designers, and manufactures.
- Promotes the growth and success of the entrepreneurial ecosystem
- A life science incubator and accelerator located in Woburn
- For startup business owners
- Offers a newly renovated 20,000-square-foot facility, fully equipped with chemistry, biology, and tissue culture labs with high-end instrumentation
- Cummings Executive Suites is an all-in-one service provider for startups
- Flexible leasing options, prime locations, business support services, and accommodations to grow and expand the business quickly and easily
- Offices for rent in Beverly and Woburn
- A thriving ecosystem of entrepreneurs, financiers, corporate leaders and innovators, working together to help bring the new and great ideas to the market
- Offers an ecosystem approach designed to put large enterprises and early-stage companies together to share information
- Helps companies achieve breakthrough growth in a dynamic economy
- A biotech incubator that can hold up to 12 startups
- Helps companies operating in biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device, and life science industries
- Fosters creative exchange and active collaboration
- A private, independent economic development organization that serves as a catalyst for life science and healthcare innovation
- Promotes the growth of startup biomedical companies
- Fosters collaboration between the academic, business and government communities to promote Massachusetts as the world leader in the life and health sciences industry
- A privately held collaborative workspace
- For startup business owners
- A wide variety of consultants and mentors are available to support tenants’ teams
- A federal agency supporting the growth and competitiveness of minority business enterprises
- Maintains business centers across the United States, along with specialty centers focused on advanced manufacturing, exports, and federal procurement
- Oversees an initiative to support minority women entrepreneurs
- An organization set up to improve the buying power and influence of small businesses
- Business resources and access to experts on operations, taxes, finance, and retirement
- Discounts on a variety of products and services
- A prominent pro-business lobbying organization, with advocacy covering a wide range of topics
- Represents businesses of all sizes
- Conducts research and programs
- Primarily focuses on advocacy efforts on issues affecting small businesses
- Members hold a Small Business Congress every two years to set an agenda of priority issues
- Conducts research and connects members to professionals who can assist in a variety of areas
- A shared work environment for small businesses and entrepreneurs
- Allows businesses to share resources
- Entrepreneurs from different businesses can interact socially
- A business incubator for insurance technology entrepreneurs
- Fee-free resources such as office space and marketing support
- Networking connections to a variety of professionals
- A support service for Hartford’s innovators, entrepreneurs, and startups
- A goal of attracting and sustaining businesses to Connecticut’s capital city
- Focus on insurance, advanced manufacturing, and digital medicine
- A Yale University innovation center supporting students in entrepreneurial or creative ventures
- Aims to address real-world problems and support ventures
- Programs, funding, and mentors available
