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Scaling high growth minority businesses.
BECOME A PORTFOLIO
COMPANY
Scale your business through our corporate partnerships, customized business solutions, and capital funding.
PARTNER
WITH THE ACCELERATOR
Gain support for your supplier diversity initiatives and provide opportunities for large-scale minority business enterprises.
SUPPORT
THE ACCELERATOR
Fund our mission supporting minority business growth and economic advancement.
CAPITAL
FROM THE ACCELERATOR
Addressing the gaps in access to growth capital for entrepreneurs with scalable business ventures.
$
Million
2
Portfolio
Companies
Supported to date
$
Average Company size
Portfolio Companies
are Minority-Owned
Of portfolio firms are
minority-owned businesses
UNLOCK YOUR BUSINESS POTENTIAL
The Nevada Capital Readiness Program is an initiative created to support socially and economically disadvantaged entrepreneurs with capacity building technical support, along with critical access to networks and capital.
Early-stage Incubator to help entrepreneurs launch their businesses, products, or services.
Emerging-business Accelerator to provide guidance on growth and expansion.
READY TO TAKE YOUR BUSINESS TO THE NEXT LEVEL?
The Nevada Capital Readiness Program is designed to guide growth-driven companies to market success. A leading model for supporting and growing larger-scale minority and underserved business enterprises, we provide
(1) Capacity Building: Services and curricula to assist with launching and developing scalable and investable businesses;
(2) Access to Capital: Assistance to apply for state SSBCI programs and/or other government programs to promote American entrepreneurship, including the facilitation of investor meetings, pitch preparation, and other capital introduction services;
(3) Access to Networks/Opportunities: Resources and programs that help connect minority and other underserved entrepreneurs to a larger community of business mentors, coaches, service providers, subject matter experts, and peers who understand and address specific challenges.
A STRONG
BUSINESS
STRATEGY
ACCESS
TO
CAPITAL
CONNECTIONS
WITHIN CORPORATE
ORGANIZATIONS
OBJECTIVES
To unleash a new era of business growth for entrepreneurs in Nevada. Through funding from the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), the Nevada Capital Readiness Program focuses on providing technical assistance to launch and scale investable businesses that may successfully access capital through the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI), other government programs, or other sources of capital.
FUNDING PARTNERS
NATIONALLY LESS THAN 1% OF EQUITY CAPITAL IS INVESTED IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND HISPANIC-OWNED BUSINESSES.
“The Nevada Capital Readiness Program has played a vital role in my company’s success—from providing joint venture opportunities, solicitation opportunities, training and development programs, and marketing assistance to helping us secure federal contracts. We are proud to be a member of this program and we look forward to the continued growth of our business.”
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The Nevada Capital Readiness Program is an economic development initiative borne from the joint efforts of the member organizations of the Silver State Nevada Capital Readiness Consortium. Our mission is to increase economic inclusion and empowerment in the Nevada region by providing customized analysis, resources, and funding to accelerate the growth of scalable socially and economically disadvantaged (SEDI)-owned businesses. Our focus is on serving scalable, underserved SEDI-owned businesses in partnership with targeted regional and national stakeholders aligned around the shared mission of accelerating business development.
Silver State Consortium
Capacity Building
Access to Capital
Access to Networks
