Startup Funding Sources

The team at Fledge, the “conscious company” accelerator, has published a list of incubators, accelerators, competitions, funds, and crowdfunding sites.

Impact Funds

You have an impactful startup. You are looking for help, and looking for investors. Where do you find the people, programs, and funds to help?

The team at Fledge, the “conscious company” accelerator, has published (and updates) a list of incubators, accelerators, competitions, funds, and crowdfunding sites.

• List of Funding Sources

This Google Doc is viewable by anyone, and is periodically updated. If you have a impact funding source missing from this list, or if the information on your organization is incorrect, please Luni Libes (contact me)and I’ll see to those changes.

Related Best Practices

• Startup and Entrepreneur Resources - annotated list of resources for a startup business
• Startup CEO Best Practices - best practices for the founder and leader of a startup.
• Startup Nation
• Small Business Resources - annotated list of resources for small businesses.

Other Resources

• Luni Libes Blog with postings on advice for startups
• US Small Business Administration Loan Programs - small business loans, micro loans, equipment and real estate loans and disaster loans
• Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) finance community businesses, including small businesses, microenterprises, nonprofit organizations, commercial real estate, and affordable housing. A locator for the 200+ CDFIs is online here.
• Access Finance Wizard a finance search tool of the US Government for small businesses.
• Canada -The Business Development Bank of Canada is a governments sponsored bank that provides a broad array of lending and other services to small and mediums size businesses through its 100 offices across Canada since its founding in 1944. Startups is a special focus of BDC including equity capital.

Author

The author of this article is Luni Libes.