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Entrepreneurs

Find the Support you
need to get Your Idea
off the ground.

Whether you’re still in R&D or well into your growth stage, Alabama is an ideal home to turn your idea into a game-changing business. Putting down roots here, you’ll find a wealth of resources and a collaborative community focused on one thing: success.

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Find Investors

If you’re looking for partners to help bring your idea to life or to take it to new heights, Innovate Alabama can help.

Secure Funding

Innovate Alabama has several programs that can help you with the capital you need to build, grow and succeed.

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Resources

Connect with the organizations and entrepreneurs that make Alabama such a rich and thriving innovation ecosystem.

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Whether you’re building your initial team or scaling to keep up with growth, Alabama has the talent you need.

Resources for Entrepreneurs

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Innovate Alabama Network

The Innovate Alabama Network serves as a comprehensive resource that connects communities, nonprofits and higher education institutions across the state who are fostering innovation in their own backyard. Through this designation program, Innovate Alabama provides resources and funding to those who are shaping the state’s ecosystem.

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State Small Business Credit Initiative

Alabama’s State Small Business Credit Initiative is a program designed to support small businesses and entrepreneurs. LendAL aims to stimulate private sector lending by partnering with private lenders to extend credit to small businesses, fostering growth, innovation and job creation across the state. InvestAL offers high-match investments, connecting investors with early-stage startups and venture capital organizations.

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Supplemental Grant Program

The Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program provides additional funding for small businesses whose proven business models and technologies are helping accelerate innovation in the state.

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Tax Credit Program

To create a flourishing ecosystem in Alabama where tech accelerators and businesses thrive, Innovate Alabama offers tax incentives to help entrepreneurial support organizations do what they do best: provide the tools, resources and opportunities that help founders level up their companies.

Explore the Innovate Alabama Network

With the Innovate Alabama Network Map, you can see our state’s diverse, connected network of resources, organizations and partners at a bird’s eye view or zoom in to learn more about your community of choice.

  • Locate valuable resources, organizations and partners across the state.
  • Toggle map layers detailing various resources categorized by Innovation Sector.
  • Draw your own boundaries and calculate population and resource densities within them.
  • Generate visually detailed demographics and socio-economic profiles of your selected community.

The Innovate Alabama Network Map will be released in the coming weeks.

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