innovation

Azalea Capital

Greenville

Azalea Capital is a Greenville, SC-based private equity fund that invests in companies with $10 million or more in revenue, focusing on aerospace, consumer products and other industries.

Benedict College Statewide Investment Accelerator (BCSIA)

Statewide

The Benedict College Statewide Investment Incubator (BCSIA) offers a 12-week program for early-stage founders looking to connect with mentorship, capital funding and more.

The Platform at Greer

Spartanburg

The Platform at Greer offers training bootcamps, networking events and other opportunities for entrepreneurs to optimize their startups.

Bank of America's Institute for Woman's Entrepreneurship at Cornell

The new Bank of America Institute for Women's Entrepreneurship at Cornell offers an unparalleled opportunity for women to earn a certificate in business from this Ivy League university. Through a free online program made possible by Bank of America, students will gain the skills, knowledge and resources necessary to build, manage and scale a successful business.

The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Furman University)

The Hill Institute helps aspiring entrepreneurs and founders launch social and entrepreneurial ventures. Ideal for students, supporters or the greater-Greenville business community, the Hill Institute provides a supportive entrepreneurial community.

Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Funding Opportunity Exchange

The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Funding Opportunity Exchange is a directory of all available energy-related funding opportunities nationwide.

Circular Food Solutions Funding Platform

The purpose of this first-of-its-kind, blended finance investment and innovation platform is to raise $100M to scale food waste reduction solutions by mobilizing critical capital into the sector. With an emphasis on catalytic funding, the platform is designed to provide private and philanthropic financing and other support for organizations, municipalities, and innovators that are developing solutions to help reduce the 35% of food that goes unsold or uneaten annually.

 

Grow with Google

Statewide
Grow with Google

Grow with Google helps ensure that the opportunities created by technology are available to everyone. Through free tools and training, Google helps people get the right skills to grow their businesses. 

Grow with Google

SCRA MUSC Innovation Center

Charleston

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

Innovation

Statewide
SC Commerce Office of Innovation

Supports the launching and sustaining of technology commercialization as a vital part of South Carolina's economy through funding programs that concentrate on research and development, high impact entrepreneurship, startup support, talent development and increasing accessibility to risk capital and other resources that enable innovation.