Introducing the 2025 Growth Accelerator Fund Stage One Awardees
The 2025 competition offers $75,000 to $150,000 in prize awards during two stages to organizations to accelerate the growth and maturity of innovation ecosystems. The submission period for entries opened at 12:01 PM ET on January 8, 2025, and ended on February 7, 2025, at 11:59 PM PT, with prize awards announced on April 5, 2025.
Stage One offers $75,000 in cash prizes to organizations that identify challenges within their innovation ecosystems and propose unique solutions. The SBA encourages submissions from a broad range of organizations with a collaborative vision to nurture a national ecosystem for access to entrepreneurship.
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Lab-to-Market
Bridging the gap between research and commercialization, in areas including but not limited to:
- National and Economic Security
- Domestic Manufacturing and Production
- Biotechnology
- Other critical and emerging technologies
Capital Formation
Expanding investment access for entrepreneurs and small businesses during the stages of business formation and business growth, through activities including but not limited to:
- Creating new funding mechanisms
- Developing more financial stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem
- Improving investment literacy among entrepreneurs
- Other mechanisms focused on addressing challenges to investment access for entrepreneurs and small businesses
