business-development

IDA Program

Statewide

CommunityWorks offers a 4:1 matched savings program that can go toward costs associated with your small business, among other expenses.

Gravity Center

York

The Gravity Center offers programs and resources for entrepreneurs, including a co-working space.

SC ACRE Agribusiness Center for Research & Entrepreneurship

Statewide
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Supports SC agribusiness entrepreneurs who are ready to launch their product or process into the marketplace but need investors and/or mentors.

USC/Columbia Technology Incubator

Richland

The USC/Columbia Technology Incubator offers technology startups and entrepreneurs mentoring, office space, education and training opportunities and more.

Midlands Technical College Center for Entrepreneurial Success

RichlandLexington

Through the Center for Entrepreneurial Success (CES), Midlands Tech will help entrepreneurs navigate the difficult, and often complex, path of taking your idea and turning it into a sustainable and profitable venture.

The CES is open to current and future MTC students, faculty, staff, and the MTC community. 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.

SCRA Columbia Innovation Center

Richland

Fostering collaboration through state-of-the-art facilities for startups and academic researchers to provide collaboration spaces essential to advance technology

Clemson University Research Foundation (CURF)

Pickens
Serves as the translator between the research enterprise and the external stakeholder (e.g. company, entrepreneur, investor, community, etc.) and is the pathway through which they can engage.

Arthur M. Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Pickens

Provides outreach assistance to pre-ventures, early ventures and established firms through service-learning projects that match Clemson students with entrepreneurs and inventors through volunteer mentors.

Tri-County Entrepreneurial Development Corporation (TCEDC)

Oconee
Provide low rent office space for start-ups as well as one-on-one counseling and mentoring services to both new and existing small businesses.

NextGEN

Greenville

NextGEN is an entrepreneurial support organization (ESO) that provides connections, resources, education and more to high-potential startups in the Greenville area.