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Looking for your next place to invest? Look no further than Alabama where our business incentives and programs designed for growth make it an ideal place for investors to find their next opportunity.

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Startups

There are innovators throughout the state looking for investors to help them take their ideas to the next level.

Discover Alabama’s Innovation Sectors

From tech and bioscience to aerospace and energy, whatever industry you want to shake up, you can do it in Alabama.

Secure Funding

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

Find Tax Credits

Alabama has a long history of creating a business friendly environment with tax credits and other business incentives.

Resources for Investors

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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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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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