Offers local economic development through training and support for local business owners

The Benedict College Business Development Center was created with a mission to expand the college’s role in addressing the economic and business development needs of small and minority businesses.

A low interest loan program available to businesses and industries within the three-county area of the Waccamaw Region.

VentureSouth provides angel investments to early-stage companies with high-growth potential in the Southeastern U.S.

A cabinet-level federal agency fully dedicated to small business which provides counseling, capital, and contracting expertise as the nation’s only go-to resource and voice for small businesses.

The Business and Industry (B&I) Guaranteed Loan Program is a loan guarantee program designed to assist credit-worthy rural businesses obtain needed credit for most any legal business purpose. The intent is to save and create jobs in rural America.

Provides loans up to $1,000,000 to finance acquisition, predevelopment, infrastructure, construction, renovation, leasehold improvements, machinery and equipment, working capital, and permanent financing business costs.

SC Launch Inc. invests seed funds into early-stage, high-tech startups in South Carolina, with the potential for subsequent follow-on investments.

Provides financial institutions operating in South Carolina a flexible and non-bureaucratic tool to make business loans that are considered more risky than conventional loans.

Provides business capital in the form of direct loans to new and expanding businesses.