January 15, 2025
The Small Business Administration has released its 2025 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition (GAFC). This core program at SBA supports efforts from Entrepreneur Support Organizations to strengthen innovation ecosystems and entrepreneur growth partnerships in critical industries. The competition will comprise of two stages, and proposals must meet one of the two identified theme areas: Lab-to-Market or Capital Formation for Stage One. SBA will award additional funds to Stage One recipients to scale their proposed solution. Stage One submissions are due on January 31, 2025. Please see this report from Lewis-Burke Associates for more information.