All your business support programs—now on one platform

Meet Startup Space, the only platform where you can support your local small businesses—and track your impact at the most granular level.

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200⁺

Communities who trust Startup Space

25,000⁺

Small businesses supported

40,000⁺

Platform users

A smarter way to support small business

Startup Space is an all-in-one virtual business support platform that allows you to support, engage, and follow the journeys of business owners in your community.

Say goodbye to endless spreadsheets, countless apps, and confusion.

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We serve a variety of economic development and business support organizations

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CDFIs & Financial Institutions

Get small business owners access to both capital and technical assistance

Create intake applications for lending programs that connect to a central CRM

Manage all of your technical assistance programs and impact reporting from a single tool

Make warm referrals to your partner organizations in the community, and track the outcomes

Economic Development

Position your organization as the convener of small business support in your community.

Create pathways for small businesses to connect with each other

Map your small business resource ecosystem

Foster a network of support for your city’s workforce development programs

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Entrepreneur & Business Support

Provide a single, accessible entrypoint to your community’s support ecosystem.

Manage your mentorship, business advising, and cohort-based programs

Build an easy referral network for business owners and resource providers

Collect all the data you need to tell a compelling story to your funders  and stakeholders

One platform that does it all

Program Management

Run any program—from local accelerators to statewide technical assistance—from a single digital space.

Resource mapping

Give business owners a direct path to the resources, events, and people in your community who are there to help them succeed.

Data insights

Build custom dashboards and receive complete reports that tell you where your efforts are making the greatest impact.

Mentorship management

Connect business owners with the right advisor for them using our smart mentor recommendation algorithm.

"We are only a few weeks into our launch and the feedback from business owners, business consultants and our internal shareholders is great. We look forward to a prosperous working relationship for many years."

Jeff Morris

Invest Atlanta

I’m so glad we made the decision to move forward with Startup Space – a truly one-of-a-kind organization that has never once forgotten what customer service really is. ”

Kathy Roach

Erie Technology Incubator

Because we provide different services to many entrepreneurs, we needed a system that would allow us to both engage the entrepreneurs we work with and track business data and information. EIC gave us that system."

Stacey Fowler

St. Louis Development Corporation

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