The Georgia Micro Enterprise Network (GMEN) serves as a resource to support and fund viable micro-businesses in an effort to create new jobs and business opportunities at the local level.

Emerging firms partner with a corporate mentor to hone best practices and develop skills that foster small business success.

Operated by Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute, the Georgia MBDA Business Center wants to facilitate your company’s growth by connecting you with resources to help your business succeed. Strategically positioned within the Enterprise Innovation Institute, we are surrounded by a wealth of entrepreneurial services and resources your company can access. Through our outreach, resources, and efforts, we have assisted thousands of entrepreneurs.

Progress through Service by helping entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life, and collaborating with communities, enterprises, and organizations to increase their market competitiveness, strategic visions, and opportunities in Georgia and beyond through the application of science, technology, research, and innovation. Our mandate is rooted in inclusion, and we are committed to serving a diversity of clients, customers, and communities.

The Edward Lowe Foundation was established by Ed and Darlene Lowe in 1985. The foundation’s entrepreneurship initiatives are focused on second-stage companies — growth-oriented firms that have moved beyond startup but haven’t yet reached maturity. Our peer learning, leadership education and strategic information programs are geared to help these companies continue growing. We also educate communities about the challenges second-stagers face and how to work with them. Visit edwardlowe.org

Small businesses are essential to the economic success of the city and to the equitable growth of our neighborhoods. Small businesses create jobs, provide necessary goods and services, and characterize the unique places that make Atlanta thrive.

Black Women have been leading the numbers when it comes to starting a business... but annual sales for Black Women Business Owners are five times smaller than all Women-owned businesses due to lack of support and awareness. That’s where Buy from a Black Woman comes in. ​ Since 2016, Buy From A Black Woman has empowered, educated, and inspired Black Women business owners and the people who support them. A registered tax-exempt nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, Buy from a Black Woman ensures that Black Women have the tools and resources that will allow them to be successful.

The Atlanta Business League fosters the growth, creation and development of successful business enterprises owned, operated and managed by African-Americans in metropolitan Atlanta.

As Georgia’s technology business incubator, ATDC assists entrepreneurs across the state from IDEA to commercial SUCCESS.

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