Resources by Venture Type: The vast majority of ventures are small and medium businesses - think everything from a lawn care company to a software development firm. "Small Businesses" aren't always small - the designation typically means that they plan to only expand locally, not nationally or globally - at least at first. | Resources for Entrepreneurs in Baltimore

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Important Announcement about EcoMap Baltimore

As of March 2021, EcoMap Baltimore is in hibernation
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EcoMap Baltimore was created in early 2020 by EcoMap Technologies, a Baltimore-based company that provides custom technology solutions for entrepreneurial communities across the US & abroad. EcoMap Baltimore was our pilot site, meaning it's the first version of our platform, and its launch was funded by the EcoMap Team. As our company has grown, we've made tremendous improvements to the core EcoMap platform. However, our team has not been able to implement these features on EcoMap Baltimore, given its early version and the lack of a partner organization.

We are excited to announce that there's a new partnership backing the revitalization of EcoMap Baltimore, launching in late summer 2021. The platform will be packed full of features and data to help Baltimore's entrepreneurial ecosystem thrive. Until that point, the data on this platform is no longer being updated by the EcoMap team, as we work with our partners to build a next-generation EcoMap. In the meantime, you can find updated information on resources and deadlines on the Maryland Entrepreneur Hub.

Thank you for your support of EcoMap Baltimore - this site is what allowed our company to take off 🚀. We'll be back in a few months with the platform that Baltimore deserves: driven by the community, with best features we offer, built by a startup that calls Baltimore home.

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Resources by Venture Type

Small and Medium Businesses

The vast majority of ventures are small and medium businesses - think everything from a lawn care company to a software development firm. "Small Businesses" aren't always small - the designation typically means that they plan to only expand locally, not nationally or globally - at least at first.

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10,000 Small Businesses

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses is a program for small businesses that links learning to action.

Small Businesses

ANG Pottery Studios

For experienced ceramic artists, we offer studio space for rent.

Small Businesses

Accelerate Your Dent

ACCELERATE YOUR DENT is our business incubator for advanced students with existing businesses or business ideas looking to grow their startup to the next level. Teams focus on strengthening their business by increasing sales and improving their product line.

Small Businesses

Student Founders

Underserved Founders

Social Entrepreneurs

AddVenture Pre-Accelerator

The AddVenture Program is a free, 6-week pre-accelerator program meant to guide students through the earliest stages of venture-building, preparing them to be competitive applicants for accelerators, incubators, and pitch/business plan competitions during the school year.

Small Businesses

Student Founders

American Advertising Federation Baltimore Jobs Board

Hire top talent when you list your job positions here.

Small Businesses

Artist/Maker Studios at the Fox Building

The Artist/Maker Studios at the Fox Building are the newest spaces where Artists can produce their work in a setting that surrounds you with other Artists.

Small Businesses

Arts Business Institute Workshops

Many artists struggle with the day-to-day tasks involved in running a business. Unless you have a business background, you may not know how to be profitable, or even how to get started. Founded by Wendy Rosen in 1994, The Arts Business Institute is a non-profit organization created to serve a crucial need in the handmade, fine art maker communities – practical business education for creative entrepreneurs.

Small Businesses

B'More Made with Pride Commercial Kitchen

Whether its daily production runs or one time catering events, we have the space.

Small Businesses

BALTIMORE'S CO-WORKING KITCHEN SPACE

Small Businesses

BCAN Connect Events

Throughout the year BCAN hosts events designed to help local creatives and build community and learn about all off the exciting resources BCAN has to offer.

Small Businesses

Artists or Creatives

BCAN Help Desk offers business, financial, marketing and legal planning assistance designed with creatives in mind.

Small Businesses

Artists or Creatives

BCAN Pilot/Scale Your Passion

Scale Your Passion (SYP) is a pre-accelerator, imagined and inspired by the Baltimore Creative Community. SYP provides access to content and resources to help guide emerging creative entrepreneurs.

Small Businesses

BCAN The Founder Fellowship

The BCAN Founder Fellowship is a 12-week business accelerator designed for creative entrepreneurs with bold visions who are ready to go all in to grow their business.

Small Businesses

Artists or Creatives

BCI Management, LLC

BCI Capital is a private real estate investment company specializing in opportunistic real estate investments. The firm’s primary focuses include the acquisition of performing and sub-performing loans. In addition BCI considers investments including the origination of bridge loans, preferred equity, financing for restructured or acquired loans and the acquisition of real estate assets. BCIs financial strength, experience, and investing acumen enable the firm to diligently evaluate and close promptly on investment opportunities.

Small Businesses

BCL Commercial Property Loan Program

BCL supports the rehabilitation of property in residential and commercial districts in underserved Baltimore neighborhoods with its financial products.

Small Businesses

BCL Guidance Line of Credit (GLOC)

The BCL Guidance Line of Credit is focused on experienced small to mid-size developer and/or contractor who has a need for a committed source of funding.

Small Businesses

Ecosystem Builders

BCL Predevelopment Loan Program

The Predevelopment Loan Program is an exceptional financing opportunity for community developers working on early stage development project focused on re-stabilizing existing Baltimore City neighborhoods.

Small Businesses

BCL Small Business Loan

We provide capital to entrepreneurs who may or may not have sufficient collateral or equity to qualify for traditional loan resources.

Small Businesses

Female Founders

BCL Subordinate Financing Loan Program

The BCL Subordinate Financing Loan Program is for experienced developers (including non-profits) and individual investors with plans to rehabilitate properties in a single project in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods of Baltimore City and where a financing gap exists.

Small Businesses

Ecosystem Builders

BDC Real Estate Services

Do you need assistance with a real estate development project or help identifying the best site for your business? The Baltimore Development Corporation provides a wide range of services, including: Technical assistance Permit expedition Site selection Loans Façade improvement grants Identifying available tax credits & incentives

Small Businesses

BDC Revolving Loan Funds

BDC’s Revolving Loan Funds may be used for acquisition and improvement of land, facilities and equipment, including demolition, site preparation, renovation and new construction.

Small Businesses

BHCC Jobs Board

If you have a job that might require someone with a Hispanic background, this is the place to post it!

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

BRAND U: Business Marketing Development Series

The mission of this SERIES is to give the attendees the tools that Businesses need in order to effectively start, establish and Brand their organizations.

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

BUGSS Workshops

BUGSS is a non-profit public laboratory offering classes, seminars, and lab access so that anyone can safely and affordably investigate the living world.

Small Businesses

Baker Artist Portfolios & Awards

The Baker Artist Portfolios were created to support artists and promote Greater Baltimore as a strong creative community.

Small Businesses

Ballard Spahr BASE CAMP

Through the Ballard Academy for Student Entrepreneurs (BASE), Ballard Spahr seeks to lessen these burdens for student entrepreneurs by offering pro bono legal assistance on discrete issues facing their potential ventures.

Small Businesses

Student Founders

Baltimore Artist Retreat

The 2018 Baltimore Artist Retreat is an intentional space for 40 Baltimore based artists to connect with one another, and a dozen national and regional arts consultants including critics, curators, gallerists, and collectors, for two days of intensive professional development--all in an effort to expand and deepen networks, opportunities, and practices.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Black Entrepreneurs & Startup Founders Meetup

Baltimore Black Entrepreneurs & Startup Founders was created for Black business owners, entrepreneurs & startup founders to be able to come together, connect and network locally in Baltimore, MD.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Business Directory

Find local businesses relative to a specific geography, sector, or founder cohort.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Business Energy Challenge

The Baltimore Energy Challenge (BEC) teaches low to no cost ways to save energy to Baltimore City residents, businesses, and nonprofits through a grassroots effort in neighborhoods and schools. We ask everyone to sign a pledge committing to reduce their energy use through behavior change and for that, we thank them with a kit of energy saving products.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Business Events Calendar

Get the word out and target thousands of influential leaders in the local business community.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Business Journal

We're pleased you're visiting the digital edition of the Baltimore Business Journal. Here you'll find breaking business news, photos and videos, updated throughout the day, as well as stories and features from the print edition, our exclusive Lists and Leads, and information on BBJ events and awards.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Business Journal Job Board

Get your listing in front of Baltimore's largest collection of professional level candidates.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Business Lending

Our innovative loan program is designed around the primary barriers to credit for small businesses in Baltimore City, especially those that are minority and women-owned.

Small Businesses

Female Founders

Founders of Color

Baltimore City Comprehensive Bag Reduction Act

On January 13, 2020 Baltimore City passed the Comprehensive Bag Reduction Act to reduce the use of single-use plastic bags and encourage the use of reusable bags.

Small Businesses

Baltimore City Dept. of Finance Applications, Permits and Registration

The Bureau of Revenue Collections has the responsibility to collect all revenue owed to the City of Baltimore through various taxes, fines, fees and penalties.

Small Businesses

Baltimore City Dept. of Transportation Quick Forms

These are the most frequently requested Baltimore City Department of Transportation forms.

Small Businesses

Baltimore City Foam Ban Information

The Baltimore City Foam Ban went into effect 10/19/19 and applies to all food service businesses. The Baltimore City Council passed an ordinance in April 2018 banning expanded polystyrene foam food containers in Baltimore City.

Small Businesses

Baltimore City Food License Permit Renewals

Services are provided to regulate facilities and to enforce the Baltimore City Health Code and applicable state and federal rules and regulations as they relate to environmental health.

Small Businesses

Baltimore City MBE/WBE Directory

The MBE/WBE Directory lists certified businesses in alphabetical order and by services. The MWBOO expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this directory.

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

Female Founders

Baltimore Clayworks Studios

Baltimore Clayworks offers multiple ways to rent studio space, including: Open Studio, Springboard (currently at capacity), and Mezzanine Rental (currently at capacity).

Small Businesses

Baltimore Collegetown Internship Listings

The Collegetown Internship website is your one-stop shop to recruit local interns and enhance your internship program.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Corps Fellowship Program

FELLOWS COME TOGETHER AND ENGAGE AS A COHORT FOR PROGRAMMING THAT INCLUDES RACE & EQUITY WORKSHOPS, PROFESSIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS, NETWORKING EVENTS, COMMUNITY SERVICE, WORKING GROUPS, AND MORE. FELLOWS’ SUPERVISORS PARTICIPATE IN SELECT WORKSHOPS AS WELL. OUR PROGRAMMING IS DESIGNED TO HELP FELLOWS BUILD CAPACITY AND WORK TOWARDS EQUITABLE SOLUTIONS WITHIN THEIR ORGANIZATIONS, AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITIES THEY ARE IMPACTING.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Data Day

Baltimore Data Day is an annual workshop to help communities expand their capacity to use technology and data to advance their goals.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Energy Initiative Loan Program

The City Energy Office is partnering with two local non-profit organizations - Reinvestment Fund and Healthy Neighborhoods - to provide low-interest loans to non-profit and for-profit small businesses that support a strong, stable and growing future for Baltimore. Healthy Neighborhoods will be providing loans for energy projects costing less than $150,000 and Reinvestment Fund will be financing energy project costs costing $150,000 and above.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Entrepreneurs and Changemakers Meetup

Join this group if you're an entrepreneur, an aspiring entrepreneur, or business professional looking to establish new relationships and business opportunities. Our friendly atmosphere makes networking fun and easy — even for the introvert. Iron sharpens iron, and every month we invite the best and brightest to share their expertise on our stage in our signature live talkshow and networking event, Mavericks On The Move.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Ex-Offender Reentry Program

The Baltimore Ex-Offender Reentry Program, also known as BERE, is a retraining program focused on providing job placement services for justice-involved individuals in Baltimore, Maryland.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Fishbowl Shop Local

Baltimore Fishbowl reports the fun, factual and sometimes controversial scoop on local schools, real estate, money and power, culture, lifestyle, and community. Find daily posts Monday through Friday, longer original weekly stories, assorted columns and curated news from around the region, all accompanied by photos and video.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Hackerspace

Electronics, Software, Science, Robotics and Community Workspace in Baltimore, MD. Established in February 2009, Baltimore Hackerspace is a non-profit 501(C)(3) charitable organization set forth to create a place for real people to collaborate on real projects in a real place.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Jobs on Craigslist

Hire top talent when you list your job positions here.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Jobs on Reddit

Hire top talent when you list your job positions here.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Locanto

Locanto is a classifieds site where you can browse an immeasurable number of ads all over the world.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Magazine Restaurant Directory

A comprehensive resource guide including our annual Best Restaurants list as well as other great places to eat in the Baltimore area.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Main Streets

The Baltimore Main Streets program is an approach to neighborhood revitalization by providing customized support and public resources to each district in order to attract new businesses and new jobs to the neighborhood. Baltimore has the third largest urban Main Streets program in the U.S., with nine fully designated communities.

Small Businesses

Ecosystem Builders

Baltimore Maryland Manufacturing Virtual Hiring Event

Maryland Virtual Career Fair

Small Businesses

Baltimore Metro Business Development Pacesetters

Pacesetters is a Baltimore-metro area business development group that is committed to connecting local businesses and organizations to collectively grow their businesses. It’s our goal to create a collaborative networking community where members can learn and benefit from each other. We meet nine times a year in months where BMBD is not hosting an event.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Micro Loan Fund

The Baltimore Micro Loan Fund provides existing and start-up small businesses with financing for working capital, furniture, fixtures, machinery, and equipment.

Small Businesses

Baltimore Restaurant Grants

Baltimore City will award up to $6,500,000 in total grant funds to Restaurants under this program. Grant funds have been made available by the State of Maryland, and are restricted to COVID-related expenses incurred, or to be incurred, by qualifying grantees. A business is categorized as a “restaurant” if it is primarily a food establishment with food revenue in excess of 50% of total gross revenue.

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

Female Founders

Baltimore Studios

Downtown Baltimore's Largest & Most Versatile Production Studios

Small Businesses

Baltimore Sun Jobs Board

Find the Best Baltimore Area Talent Maximize your recruiting power when you advertise with us. We are your one-stop shop for top local and national online job sites.

Small Businesses

Baltimore's Premier Women's Entrepreneur Network

We are the Premier Success System for Women Entrepreneurs. If you are looking to launch, grow and scale your business you have found the ultimate resource. We are a network of over 500,000 women connected through 118 chapters across United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.

Small Businesses

Female Founders

BaltimoreJobSite.com

Nexxt is the one solution you need to plan, build and execute dynamic recruitment marketing campaigns to reach the right people, in the right places, at the right times.

Small Businesses

Baltimoreblack.com Business Directory

BaltimoreBlack.com's mission is to provide the African-American community an online resource which will help promote the growth of Black-Owned businesses and community organizations, and encourage the support for African-American events.

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

Baltipreneurs Accelerator

.The Baltipreneurs Accelerator is helping build a more prosperous and equitable Baltimore. We work with ecosystem partners to provide funding, training, and mentorship for Baltimore’s innovators, including Loyola students, faculty, and staff, with a preference for women entrepreneurs and founders of color. Teams are required to attend 10 virtual sessions from November through February, ending with a Demo Day pitch in early spring.

Small Businesses

Female Founders

Founders of Color

Founders with Disabilities

BeehiveBaltimore

The ETC’s Beehive provides a fully equipped coworking office space for companies in an open environment at reasonable rates

Small Businesses

Bet on Baltimore

BET ON BALTIMORE is our flagship program. It is an intensive, paid, 5-week summer internship that teaches design thinking, making, and entrepreneurship to support students in launching a business or social venture. At the end, teams present learnings and pitch their venture for further seed funding.

Small Businesses

Student Founders

Social Entrepreneurs

Underserved Founders

Black Futures Micro-Grant

The BLACK FUTURES MICRO-GRANT is a no-strings-attached micro-grant for changemakers serving Greater Baltimore.

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

Social Entrepreneurs

BmoreArt is an independent, Baltimore-based magazine that reflects the art and culture of our city and the surrounding region, including Maryland, Washington, DC, and Northern Virginia.

Small Businesses

Boost Baltimore Program

The Boost program is a joint entrepreneurial development workshop between Innovation Works and Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship.

Small Businesses

Social Entrepreneurs

Brewers Hill Hub

From the same team that created the Brewers Hill live/work/play community, Brewers Hill Hub is the newest co-working space in Baltimore, and at the Hub we’re all about flexibility. The Hub features individual desks, cubicles, private offices and suites all available from a month to a year. This is your chance to join the vibrant Brewers Hill Community!

Small Businesses

Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower Spaces

Thirty studios in a variety of sizes for a variety of creative souls including artists, photographers, writers, jewelers, architects sculptors and digital artists.

Small Businesses

Brownfield Tax Credit

The Baltimore Development Corporation assists businesses considering brownfield sites to overcome impediments to redevelopment.

Small Businesses

Ecosystem Builders

Building Better Business Behavior

The B4 Program was founded with a single mission: to give all businesses access to simple, profound behaviors that instill consumer confidence and increase trust in the marketplace.

Small Businesses

Business Survival During a Pandemic

Check out our new COVID forum where you can post questions that your small business peers can answer.

Small Businesses

Business to Business Connection

Welcome to the Business to Business Connection page hosted by the Baltimore City Chamber of Commerce and the Baltimore Development Corporation.The following businesses have added their information to the Business to Business Connection registry. Please contact them to discuss how their services can meet your current business needs.

Small Businesses

COVID-19 Job Board

Here is a list of open jobs. There is a link so you can apply on your own. Next to each job is the name of a MOED staff person who can help you apply. We will update this list often.

Small Businesses

COVID-19 Layoff Aversion Fund

Governor Larry Hogan and the Maryland Department of Labor have announced additional funding is available beginning Wednesday, October 28th through the successful COVID-19 Layoff Aversion Fund, which is designed to support small businesses undergoing economic stresses due to the pandemic by preventing or minimizing the duration of unemployment resulting from layoffs. The award (up to $50,000 per applicant), will be a quick deployable benefit and customizable to the specific needs of your business to minimize the need for layoffs.

Small Businesses

Capital Solutions (Harbor Bank)

Capital for Small Businesses, Startups, & Developers

Small Businesses

Underserved Founders

Central Baltimore Future Fund

The Central Baltimore Future Fund (CBFF) is a $10 million loan pool designed to work in concert with a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization strategy to eliminate blight and stimulate economic growth. CBFF provides loans to developers and building owners who are creating high-impact real estate projects.

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

Ecosystem Builders

Chamber of Commerce Crisis Response Page

As we adjust to the changes of the COVID-19 crisis, the Baltimore City Chamber of Commerce has created this page. Here we will share information that we believe can help our members, not just survive times like these, but hopefully, continue to keep as many people employed as possible.

Small Businesses

Chamber of Commerce Member Directory

Find local businesses relative to a specific geography, sector, or founder cohort.

Small Businesses

Charles Village Exchange

From consultants to writers to high-tech adventurers, The Charles Village Exchange is offering local entrepreneurs an opportunity to launch or expand their business in a stylish – and surprisingly affordable – shared office space, in the heart of the bustling Johns Hopkins community.

Small Businesses

Child Care COVID-19 Stability Fund

Recognizing the pivotal role child care centers play in the re-opening of Baltimore City’s economy, Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young has announced the Child Care COVID-19 Stability Fund. The program was established to supplement child care centers that, in many instances, already operate on thin profit margins and struggle to provide quality services given the requirement to maintain a safe environment and appropriately sized workforce for the safety of the children in their care during this global pandemic.

Small Businesses

The City promotes equal business opportunity by encouraging full and equitable participation by Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises in City contracting.

Small Businesses

Female Founders

Founders of Color

City House Coworking

If you are seeking an inspiring office or meeting environment with the latest modern office convenience and unbeatable location, City House may be for you.

Small Businesses

Civic Works Center for Sustainable Careers

The Center for Sustainable Careers provides companies in the Maryland region with highly trained, highly skilled environmental remediation workers.

Small Businesses

Client Customized Support Services

EDG offers various seasonal trainings, which include topics like technical assistance, credit improvement, savings, “10 Steps to Starting Your Business”, as well as many other financial literacy issues.

Small Businesses

Underserved Founders

Co-Balt Workspace

Co-Balt is Hampden’s first and only coworking community offering private offices, dedicated desks, & flexible memberships for Baltimore’s start-ups, small teams, non-profits, remote workers, & entrepreneurs.

Small Businesses

Surrounded by biotech, industrial design and academic institutions, 1100 Wicomico champions innovation and collaboration. We give entrepreneurs the space and support they need to scale their businesses.

Small Businesses

Co_Lab Baltimore

Our floor plans and pricing are designed with the modern creative, nonprofit and small business person in mind. Pick the plan and the price point that works for you.

Small Businesses

Commercial Construction and Rehab Loans

Building a new shopping center or condo complex can be a complicated and costly undertaking. The same goes for renovating older properties. MECU offers developer-friendly Commercial Construction and Rehab loans that trim your expenses, simplify your financing and offer easier repayment terms.

Small Businesses

Commercial Real Estate Loans

Purchase the property you need for your next business venture.

Small Businesses

Community Consulting Lab

The Community Consulting Lab provides a unique opportunity for students to put their business toolkit to work, while developing key consulting skills such as business communication, effective teaming, and strategic problem solving with empathy. Diverse teams collaborate with community partners to deliver solutions with impact and grow local economies. Joining a powerful network of innovative people with ideas on how to take on society’s most challenging needs, students will gain a valuable consulting experience.

Small Businesses

Social Entrepreneurs

Corporate Training

Explore customizable professional development opportunities. We’ve brought in industry experts to create skills-based content suited for your team!

Small Businesses

CreateU Business Ownership Academy

We support a wide array of unconventional entrepreneurs, from solopreneurs, creatives, 9-5 employees, and techies. Tuition for our Business Ownership Academy powered by CO.STARTERS is valued at $2,000 per student. Thanks to our generous supporters and donors, tuition is waived for every student accepted into the program. All participants, however, must pay a small material and registration fee of $200 towards the course. Payment plans are available.

Small Businesses

Creative Baltimore Fund

The Creative Baltimore Fund is a grant made annually by the City of Baltimore.

Small Businesses

An artist-run gallery, studio, and headquarters for cultural production in Baltimore, Maryland.

Small Businesses

Cyber SWAT Team

CAMI has a membership of 500+ cyber security professionals and businesses that are available to support your business. To leverage this resource, CAMI has established a cybersecurity breach incident hotline for businesses.

Small Businesses

Cybersecurity Associate Company Directory

Here you will find cybersecurity product and service companies located in Maryland.

Small Businesses

DPW Small Business Development Program

Serving one of the most diverse regions in the country, DPW invites small, local minority, women, and/or disadvantaged businesses to learn more about the Small Business Development (SBD) Growth by Design Training Program. DPW’s SBD Growth by Design Program offers a series of training modules to help companies learn more about construction and construction-related work.

Small Businesses

Female Founders

Underserved Founders

Founders of Color

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