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

Invested in 53 Portfolio Companies

2

  

Portfolio 

Companies

Supported to date

53

$

Thousand

Average Company size

750

Portfolio Companies 

are Minority-Owned

32

  

75%

Of portfolio firms are

minority-owned businesses

200
Jobs
Created or Retained
Nevada Business Accelerator Statistics
Nevada Business Accelerator Statistics

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

CAPACITY BUILDING

ACCESS TO CAPITAL

ACCESS TO NETWORKS AND OPPORTUNITIES

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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