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Important Announcement about EcoMap Baltimore

As of March 2021, EcoMap Baltimore is in hibernation
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EcoMap Baltimore was created in early 2020 by EcoMap Technologies, a Baltimore-based company that provides custom technology solutions for entrepreneurial communities across the US & abroad. EcoMap Baltimore was our pilot site, meaning it's the first version of our platform, and its launch was funded by the EcoMap Team. As our company has grown, we've made tremendous improvements to the core EcoMap platform. However, our team has not been able to implement these features on EcoMap Baltimore, given its early version and the lack of a partner organization.

We are excited to announce that there's a new partnership backing the revitalization of EcoMap Baltimore, launching in late summer 2021. The platform will be packed full of features and data to help Baltimore's entrepreneurial ecosystem thrive. Until that point, the data on this platform is no longer being updated by the EcoMap team, as we work with our partners to build a next-generation EcoMap. In the meantime, you can find updated information on resources and deadlines on the Maryland Entrepreneur Hub.

Thank you for your support of EcoMap Baltimore - this site is what allowed our company to take off 🚀. We'll be back in a few months with the platform that Baltimore deserves: driven by the community, with best features we offer, built by a startup that calls Baltimore home.

-Pava LaPere, CEO, EcoMap Technologies

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10,000 Small Businesses

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses is a program for small businesses that links learning to action.

Small Businesses

1501 Health, a year-long incubation and investment program, provides early-stage companies with investment, expertise and support from the region’s leading payer and community health system.

Accelerate Baltimore

AccelerateBaltimore is an initiative of the ETC (Emerging Technology Centers), Baltimore’s award winning incubator, and The Abell Foundation. ETC stands with the activists, change-makers, and problem-solvers - we want to work with you to create impactful solutions and improve the lives of Baltimore citizens.

Social Entrepreneurs

Accelerate Your Dent

ACCELERATE YOUR DENT is our business incubator for advanced students with existing businesses or business ideas looking to grow their startup to the next level. Teams focus on strengthening their business by increasing sales and improving their product line.

Small Businesses

Student Founders

Underserved Founders

Social Entrepreneurs

AddVenture Pre-Accelerator

The AddVenture Program is a free, 6-week pre-accelerator program meant to guide students through the earliest stages of venture-building, preparing them to be competitive applicants for accelerators, incubators, and pitch/business plan competitions during the school year.

Small Businesses

Student Founders

Arts Business Institute Workshops

Many artists struggle with the day-to-day tasks involved in running a business. Unless you have a business background, you may not know how to be profitable, or even how to get started. Founded by Wendy Rosen in 1994, The Arts Business Institute is a non-profit organization created to serve a crucial need in the handmade, fine art maker communities – practical business education for creative entrepreneurs.

Small Businesses

BCAN Pilot/Scale Your Passion

Scale Your Passion (SYP) is a pre-accelerator, imagined and inspired by the Baltimore Creative Community. SYP provides access to content and resources to help guide emerging creative entrepreneurs.

Small Businesses

BCAN The Founder Fellowship

The BCAN Founder Fellowship is a 12-week business accelerator designed for creative entrepreneurs with bold visions who are ready to go all in to grow their business.

Small Businesses

Artists or Creatives

BUGSS Workshops

BUGSS is a non-profit public laboratory offering classes, seminars, and lab access so that anyone can safely and affordably investigate the living world.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Corps Fellowship Program

FELLOWS COME TOGETHER AND ENGAGE AS A COHORT FOR PROGRAMMING THAT INCLUDES RACE & EQUITY WORKSHOPS, PROFESSIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS, NETWORKING EVENTS, COMMUNITY SERVICE, WORKING GROUPS, AND MORE. FELLOWS’ SUPERVISORS PARTICIPATE IN SELECT WORKSHOPS AS WELL. OUR PROGRAMMING IS DESIGNED TO HELP FELLOWS BUILD CAPACITY AND WORK TOWARDS EQUITABLE SOLUTIONS WITHIN THEIR ORGANIZATIONS, AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITIES THEY ARE IMPACTING.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Main Streets

The Baltimore Main Streets program is an approach to neighborhood revitalization by providing customized support and public resources to each district in order to attract new businesses and new jobs to the neighborhood. Baltimore has the third largest urban Main Streets program in the U.S., with nine fully designated communities.

Small Businesses

Ecosystem Builders

Baltipreneurs Accelerator

.The Baltipreneurs Accelerator is helping build a more prosperous and equitable Baltimore. We work with ecosystem partners to provide funding, training, and mentorship for Baltimore’s innovators, including Loyola students, faculty, and staff, with a preference for women entrepreneurs and founders of color. Teams are required to attend 10 virtual sessions from November through February, ending with a Demo Day pitch in early spring.

Small Businesses

Female Founders

Founders of Color

Founders with Disabilities

Bet on Baltimore

BET ON BALTIMORE is our flagship program. It is an intensive, paid, 5-week summer internship that teaches design thinking, making, and entrepreneurship to support students in launching a business or social venture. At the end, teams present learnings and pitch their venture for further seed funding.

Small Businesses

Student Founders

Social Entrepreneurs

Underserved Founders

Boost Baltimore Program

The Boost program is a joint entrepreneurial development workshop between Innovation Works and Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship.

Small Businesses

Social Entrepreneurs

Building Better Business Behavior

The B4 Program was founded with a single mission: to give all businesses access to simple, profound behaviors that instill consumer confidence and increase trust in the marketplace.

Small Businesses

Business Volunteers MD Board Matching Services

For individuals seeking to become involved in community leadership, our Board Leadership Program prepares and recommends candidates for board positions, according to the needs expressed by nonprofit organizations, and the interests and skills of individual candidates.

Social Entrepreneurs

Business Volunteers MD Give Fellowship

GIVE is a nine month fellowship offered through Business Volunteers Maryland that prepares rising leaders in Baltimore for civic engagement and community leadership. Join over 320 civic-minded professionals who are making a positive impact on the community.

Social Entrepreneurs

Scouting technologies of interest for Northrop Grumman | Enabling companies to effectively navigate the DoD/IC Community | Preparing Companies to raise their next round of financing and expand their customer base

Conscious Venture Lab

The CVLab Accelerator program is an intensive 4-month study in Consciousness, Customers and Capital. That is, building a foundation of purpose for your business, and helping you to develop no-nonsense customer acquisition capabilities. We will then align you with like-minded sources of capital.

Social Entrepreneurs

Corporate Training

Explore customizable professional development opportunities. We’ve brought in industry experts to create skills-based content suited for your team!

Small Businesses

CreateU Business Ownership Academy

We support a wide array of unconventional entrepreneurs, from solopreneurs, creatives, 9-5 employees, and techies. Tuition for our Business Ownership Academy powered by CO.STARTERS is valued at $2,000 per student. Thanks to our generous supporters and donors, tuition is waived for every student accepted into the program. All participants, however, must pay a small material and registration fee of $200 towards the course. Payment plans are available.

Small Businesses

DPW Small Business Development Program

Serving one of the most diverse regions in the country, DPW invites small, local minority, women, and/or disadvantaged businesses to learn more about the Small Business Development (SBD) Growth by Design Training Program. DPW’s SBD Growth by Design Program offers a series of training modules to help companies learn more about construction and construction-related work.

Small Businesses

Female Founders

Underserved Founders

Founders of Color

Economic Outlook Conference

Join us as we hear from top fiscal experts who will discuss the current economic status and trends of the state and national economy, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy, and how the pandemic has affected the 2020 Presidential Election.

Small Businesses

Future Baltimore Incubator Without Walls

Future Baltimore is a flagship partnership for West Baltimore and the result of the innovative and equity-focused collaboration between Bon Secours Community Works, Kaiser Permanente and the Latino Economic Development Center (LEDC). We have joined forces to help improve the socio-economic conditions in the area by launching a business incubator. Named Incubator Without Walls, the program includes an intensive and accelerating series of coursework, one-on-one coaching and financing options to help local entrepreneurs achieve greater financial potential and business growth.

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

Underserved Founders

HEXCITE Medical Accelerator

Hexcite (Excited for Healthcare) is an early-stage medical software accelerator program for entrepreneurs hosted by the Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures.

Small Businesses

Harbor Launch at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) is a startup incubator and community for science and science support companies.

Haysbert Center for Entrepreneurship

The Greater Baltimore Urban League Raymond V. Haysbert Entrepreneurship Center provides technical assistance, strategic planning and links to resources to help small businesses grow their financial and human capital.

Small Businesses

Impact Hub Baltimore Grow Program

The Grow Program is designed for individuals who are dedicated to making a difference, and a big one. Based in a grassroots approach, Grow aims to advance progress and innovation for entrepreneurs in Baltimore city and beyond.

Small Businesses

IncubateBaltimore

The mission of IncubateBaltimore is to provide member companies with the resources they need — access to seed capital, mentors, potential partners, a collaborative community, etcetera — to transform their big idea into a big deal, as quickly as possible. Our team of C-Level Advisors provides customized expert advice, guidance, and assistance in everything from management and marketing to legal and financial issues, and more. We also offer networking opportunities and connections to provide access to the widest community of entrepreneurs, investors and potential customers as possible.

Invisible Majority

Invisible Majority is a Baltimore-based creative community incubator providing space, services and support to Baltimore's independent creative business community.

Small Businesses

Johns Hopkins I-Corps

The I-Corps program is an immersive learning experience developed by the National Science Foundation for researchers, faculty, students, and others to determine if the problem they are working to solve exists on a larger scale in the market.

Mastermind Academy

There is no required cost associated with participating in MASTERMND Academy bootcamps.

Moms Makers Academy

Funded by the Kauffman Foundation & Etsy and in partnership with Open Works Baltimore & Baltimore Etsy Sellers, The Moms Makers Academy provides moms who are "makers" an opportunity to receive entrepreneurship training, Etsy education and training & certifications on equipment they utilize to make their product or to offer their services.

Small Businesses

Female Founders

OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows Program

The OSI-Baltimore’s Community Fellowships Program was established in 1998 to assist individuals wishing to apply their education, life experiences, and professional experiences to serve marginalized communities.

Small Businesses

Underserved Founders

Founders of Color

OSI-Baltimore Grants

The program staff of the Open Society Institute-Baltimore (OSI) work closely with a broad range of actors at the city and state level—community and civic leaders, policymakers, advocates, academicians and practitioners, among others—and monitor shifting landscapes to develop strategies to achieve lasting change.

Open Works Online Hybrid Classes

During this time, we must cap our shop capacity at 50% to maintain social distancing. These restrictions have made it difficult to offer in-person classes. As an alternative, we are excited to now offer an online hybrid class system so you can earn your safety certifications and get in the shop!

Small Businesses

Artists or Creatives

Operation HOPE Entrepreneurship Training Program

Small business development is a core focus of HOPE’s Adult Empowerment Program. Offering small-business workshops and a more intensive entrepreneurial training program, HOPE helps participants master business basics, create and maintain a strong small business plan, as well as gain access to funding and resources to grow their business.

Small Businesses

Underserved Founders

PioneerBaltimore

The PioneerBaltimore program is an initiative of the ETC (Emerging Technology Centers), Baltimore’s award-winning incubator. This program is designed to take your early-stage business idea to the next step. Whether that is developing a business plan or working on a prototype, the ETC wants to help future entrepreneurs find the time to put these thoughts into action. The program is developed with the working professional in mind. The cohort will meet once a week after work hours. Focus on your idea for the next 10 weeks, and you could be ready to apply to the ETC's Incubate Baltimore program for guided mentorship to take your business to the next step.

Small Businesses

Pitch Creator’s mission is to help create jobs in geographic areas that need them the most by teaching entrepreneurs how to communicate with investors and raise growth capital for their businesses.

Small Businesses

Underserved Founders

Planning Academy

Baltimore's Planning Academy is a project of Baltimore's Department of Planning. It is a free six-week course focusing on the planning and development process in Baltimore.

Small Businesses

Ecosystem Builders

Founders of Color

Female Founders

Small Business Resource Center (SBRC)

The Small Business Resource Center (SBRC), an initiative of the BDC, cultivates and supports the growth and development of small businesses and entrepreneurs in Baltimore City through technical assistance, training, counseling, workshops and a vast resource library. SBRC is now housed at the Mayor’s Office of Minority and Women-Owned Business Development.

Small Businesses

Social Entrepreneur Development by IW

Innovation Works supports neighborhood economic development through the heroic efforts of social entrepreneurs leading impact driven enterprises throughout the city. Innovation Works’ five-step social enterprise development process is designed to support each social entrepreneur through the full lifecycle of the entrepreneurship journey, allowing leaders to come into the development cycle at any stage.

Small Businesses

Social Entrepreneurs

Social Innovation Lab

The Social Innovation Lab (SIL) at the Johns Hopkins University supports innovative nonprofits, mission-driven companies and disruptive technologies to create change and opportunity in Baltimore and beyond.

Social Entrepreneurs

Student Founders

StarTUp Accelerator

The Towson University StarTUp Accelerator is an intensive eight-week, cohort-based fellowship where ventures take residency and work in a collaborative space accelerating their ventures.

As a university-integrated business incubator, TU Incubator uniquely supports startups as well as TU students, faculty, and staff. We promote venture creation and small business growth to stimulate economic development and to further the respective missions of Towson University and Baltimore County.

The Cyber Incubator

Beginning in 2010, the Cyber Incubator has been assisting entrepreneurs as they turn ideas into scalable products with expanding revenue. Members of the Cyber Incubator benefit from UMBC’s longstanding educational and research support of the DoD and IC. In turn, the founders at the Cyber Incubator are a diverse group whose backgrounds span academia, government, and industry. The result is an incubator rich with experience where bwtech staff guide startups to impactful resources, and founders support their peer companies.

Hutch is an intensive 24-month program that gives entrepreneurs a blueprint for building successful digital service firms, by empowering them with the tools, mentorship, and peer support they need to have a lasting impact.

Female Founders

Founders of Color

The LaunchPort Residency

The LaunchPort™ is a manufacturing accelerator located in Baltimore’s Port Covington. The combined manufacturing and Medtech acceleration center allows medical device start-ups and emerging technology developers the ability to co-locate at an experienced, regulated medical device manufacturing center.

Venture for America Fellowship

Venture For America is a two-year Fellowship for recent college grads who want to build companies and become entrepreneurs.

Student Founders

Wearable Tech Ventures

We develop and promote wearables. Our goal is to assist 100 wearable startups by 2030 led by traditionally under resourced and underrepresented founders.

Small Businesses

Underserved Founders

Founders of Color

Female Founders

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