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Black Equity Con
Since 2018 Black Equity Con brought together thousands of diverse creators & entrepreneurs to experience life changing mentorship, connections, & experiences that has birthed million dollar businesses, partnerships & joint ventures.
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Umpqua Business Online Banking Fundamentals Webinar
Our Business Online Banking Fundamentals webinar returns next week. Join for basic navigational guidance and best practices. Great for new users or anyone in need of a refresh. Wed 5/8 at 11:00am PST.
This is the largest networking mixer for Entrepreneurs , Startups and Business Professionals In Boston. Calling All: Tech Startups ! Entrepreneurs ! Business Owners ! Professionals ! Free-lancers, policy-makers, game-changers, and heroes! Starting Summer 2024 with Seattle's Best Professional Networking Affair. Please join us for an evening of creativity, inspiration and passionate conversations. Join & raise a glass - make connections with co-founders, partners, coaches or core team members for your start-up- meet fellow professionals and mingle with makers of great and big ideas - take home treats from growing community and some business cards.
Together with our partners, we are building stronger businesses with greater access to global trade. The Greater Seattle Export Accelerator (GSEA) program provides fully sponsored advanced #export training and export advising services for STEM/R&D-focused small businesses in Snohomish, King and Pierce County. Participants receive customized export assistance to reach new global markets and increase sales. To learn more and apply, visit
A comprehensive QuickBooks workshop designed to cater to minority micro enterprises ranging from introductory to intermediate levels.Each session builds on the previous one, ensuring a gradual and thorough understanding of QuickBooks functionalities. Participants will leave with the practical skills needed to confidently manage their business finances using QuickBooks.
The Seattle Office of Economic Development has invested more than $6 million in Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (CLFRF) established under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to support neighborhood economic recovery. Funding was invested through both direct grants to neighborhood business district organizations and public request for proposals (RFP) to support community driven solutions from a broader range of eligible applicants. Applicants included business organizations, community organizations, cultural districts, cultural organizations, arts organizations, small businesses such as community event producers, artists, consultants, or a collection of individuals supporting neighborhood strategies with broadly shared benefits.
This comprehensive QuickBooks workshop is designed to cater to past DSAP attendees ranging from introductory to intermediate levels. Each session builds on the previous one, ensuring a gradual and thorough understanding of QuickBooks functionalities. Participants will leave with the practical skills needed to confidently manage their business finances using QuickBooks.
Backstage Capital invests in companies led by underestimated founders, including women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ founders. We’ve invested in 150+ companies so far, and our support goes beyond investment.
This venture capital firm invests in early-stage technology companies with a focus on social and environmental impact, including those founded by underrepresented entrepreneurs.
SizeUp provides you with the data and analytics you need to see how you stack up with competitors and fine-tune your business model for success. Run various scenarios on costs, revenue, location, customers and marketing strategies. You can even see how you compare to similar businesses around the state or the U.S.
rants made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) incentivize and enable startups and small business to undertake research and development with high technical risk and high commercial reward.
Seattle Foundation runs a variety of competitive grant cycles throughout the year that are open to eligible local nonprofits. This page is updated regularly with all our open grant cycles along with currently closed, but scheduled to repeat grant cycles. Please email communitygrantmaking@seattlefoundation.org or call 206.515.2109 with any questions.
Teaching High School students no-code web development skills by creating websites for local businesses. High school students acquire all the tools needed to build an e-commerce website for Seattle businesses. Seattle businesses receive a FREE Square business website!
The United States Small Business Administration is an independent agency of the United States government that provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Leveraging experience, resources and compassion for empowering entrepreneurs to provide quality resources to small businesses located in the PNW. Every participating business owner will receive the resources and skills necessary to integrate the proposed intuitive system successfully.
Small business owners participate in 35-hours of on-site classroom training to improve financial operations, reduce operational expenses and learn how to compete more effectively in the marketplace.
A global convening of the world’s most influential and forward-thinking women in business, technology, government, media, entertainment, sports, fashion, music, and various other industries, the Future Festival serves as a platform to engage in thought provoking discussions centered on digital transformation and the Future of industries in Emerging Economies like Haiti.
building a sustainable ecosystem for wealth building in communities of color around the world by connecting and supporting emerging and established venture capitalists, increasing the number of diverse entrepreneurs who are building wealth, and creating a more sustainable impact economy for all.
Since 2018 Black Equity Con brought together thousands of diverse creators & entrepreneurs to experience life changing mentorship, connections, & experiences that has birthed million dollar businesses, partnerships & joint ventures.
The Black Enterprise Disruptor Summit, is a premier business conference that connects, uplifts, and empowers Black entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, and creatives. It was created to provide business-minded leaders with the tools, access, and expertise they need to think outside the box, build million-dollar brands, and disrupt their industry.
Located in the home metropolitan area of two of the largest technology companies in the world and a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem, this program continues to thrive in its second decade.
The startup process is messy and unpredictable—licensing intellectual property, producing a manufacture-ready prototype, lining up customers, raising money—all are critical and daunting. The Jones + Foster Accelerator program helps early-stage, student-led companies through those decisive first six months.
Opportunities include up to a year of strategic advising, $10,000 in grant funding connections to help grow your business, and access to Amazon’s marketing and imaging tools.
Seattle Made is a collaboration of over 700 urban producers and manufacturers working together to find and share the resources they need to 'make it' in Seattle!
How to set up your company settings in QuickBooks Online
Company settings is where you enter basic info about your business, like your contact and tax information. This info is used when you communicate with customers and vendors from QuickBooks.
Seattle Angel Conference is an investment program formed to invite new investors to dip their toes in the investing world, help startups seek funding, and grow the Seattle startup community
Women of color entrepreneurs are the fastest growing segment of entrepreneurs in the United States but they don’t enjoy the same access to capital and other resources as their male and female counterparts. In fact, businesses owned by African-American and Latina women receive less than one percent of all venture capital funding every year.
Ventures provides access to business training, capital, coaching, and hands-on learning opportunities for entrepreneurs with limited resources and unlimited potential.
eMerge Americas is the premier technology conference transforming Miami into a global tech hub. Attracting venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and technology innovators from across the world to our vibrant shores, eMerge offers a unique tech event in one of the world’s most diverse locales.
We invest in people and partnerships to move ideas forward by supporting scientists and researchers who advance life-changing innovations, and we work closely with the institutions that underpin this work.
The Center for Black Innovation is a think tank and black innovation ecosystem building organization with the understanding that smart cities and communities are formed by cultivating great leaders, entrepreneurs, and real capital pathways that values black culture and communities as our greatest asset.
Upstart Co-Lab connects impact investing to fashion, food, film & TV, video games and other creative industries to drive deep social and environmental impact, commercial viability and an innovative edge.
The Coalition to Back Black Businesses is a multi-year initiative to support Black small business owners and the communities they serve as they recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and chart a path forward. Small businesses are critical parts of communities – the strength of these businesses is essential to the vibrancy of their communities.
The W Fund makes earliest-stage investments to accelerate the success of promising technology-based start-up companies originating from research institutions and students across the state of Washington.
SoGal Foundation has teamed up with Winky Lux, bluemercury, twelveNYC, Twilio, Walmart.org’s Center for Racial Equity and other sponsors to make a small step towards progress by providing several $10K and $5K cash grants to Black women or nonbinary entrepreneurs.
The TxO University is a 16-week online training and mentorship program that is hand-tailored for culture driven startups. The goal of the accelerator is to select a small cohort of cultural geniuses who lack the necessary networks to scale their idea into a global business and to equip them with the networks and knowledge needed.
The TxO Fund is a Donor Advised Fund managed by Tides Foundation. The TxO Fund’s standard investment terms provide that in exchange for $100,000, an entrepreneur agrees to give Tides Foundation (as sponsor of the TxO Fund) a SAFE note that converts into a 7% ownership stake in the company.
The Small Business Flex Fund was created to provide access to low-interest loans to those that need it most – smaller, local business and nonprofits who are an essential part of Washington’s goal of an equitable, widespread economic recovery.
Lets entrepreneurs profile their companies to investors globally and streamlines the fundraising process. Portfolia welcomes innovative companies in the conceptual through growth stages, especially those where a national base of sophisticated and connected investors can impact success and build markets. We help older women entrepreneurs, with an Active Aging Fund aimed at backing companies with founders over the age of 50, and the Rising Tide Fund, which makes early-stage investments in businesses run by underrepresented groups, especially women.
At the seed and early stage, it’s way too early to tell for certain whether a business idea will be a home run. We look for founders with advantages in technology and data, a clear understanding of their customer, and the ability to balance a big vision with close attention to detail.
In partnership with the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) and with funding from Etsy and Progressive, the Small Business Growth Fund provides small business owners the capital they need to make their next move. Recipients will receive $5,000-$25,000 grants to accelerate their growth and achieve their goals in 2023.
are 50+ individual investors in Seattle that fund and mentor startups in the Pacific Northwest. Our mission is to foster an engaged, collaborative, and smart angel investor community
Intentionally Good is a relationship and growth program from Goodie Nation that increases the competitiveness of tech-focused social entrepreneurs and diverse founders (Black, Latinx, and Women) for endorsements, pilots and strategic partnerships, and funding through professional development, warm introductions, and mental health sessions.
