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Engage your team, share your expertise, and help entrepreneurs build stronger businesses.

Partner with us
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Your team brings expertise. We put it where it can make a difference.

Small businesses face many of the same legal and financial decisions as larger companies, but often without access to the professional expertise they need.

Start Small connects that expertise to entrepreneurs who need it. We identify business needs, prepare entrepreneurs, make thoughtful matches, and support each engagement — so your team can focus on sharing what they know.

Because the right support at the right moment changes what a small business owner believes is possible. And when small businesses thrive, the communities built around them do too.

Ways to partner

  • Share your expertise

    Engage your legal and financial professionals through consultations, projects, and workshops that put their expertise directly to work for entrepreneurs.

  • Invest in our work

    Provide financial support that helps us bring high-quality legal and financial services to more entrepreneurs and communities.

  • Build something together

    Work with us to design an engagement around your team's strengths, your company's priorities, and the needs of small businesses.

  • Create opportunities for entrepreneurs

    Bring small businesses into your purchasing and sourcing through corporate gifting, pop-up markets, and other opportunities.

Transformative for entrepreneurs. Valuable for your team.

Put your team's expertise to work on real business challenges while creating meaningful opportunities for engagement, development, and impact.

  • Engage your employees

    Give your team opportunities to use their professional skills to make a tangible difference for small business owners.

  • Develop your people

    Working directly with entrepreneurs builds communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills through real-world experience.

  • See your impact

    Understand what your partnership makes possible through impact data, entrepreneur outcomes, and stories from the businesses your team supports.

  • Tell your story

    A partnership with Start Small gives you a specific story, a named small business, a concrete outcome, and something real to point to when people ask what the company stands for.

What partnership makes possible.

Together, our corporate partners make it possible to bring millions of dollars in high-quality legal and financial services to entrepreneurs at no cost.

1,500+
Pro bono experts
$23.8M
Value of services
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Thank you to our funders and corporate partners

Let's build the right partnership.

Every organization brings something different. We'll work with you to understand your team's expertise, priorities, and goals and find the right way to put them to work for small businesses.

Partner with us