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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 Until that point, the data on this platform is no longer being updated by the EcoMap team, as we work with our partners to build a next-generation EcoMap.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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High-Growth Startups

What makes for a high-growth startup? Well, if you're working on something that you think can expand nationally or globally, you're a for-profit company, and you would be eligible for venture-capital funding, then you're probably building a high-growth startup.

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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

1501 Health, a year-long incubation and investment program, provides early-stage companies with investment, expertise and support from the region’s leading payer and community health system.

A-Level Capital

YOUR LOCAL STUDENT VENTURE CAPITALISTS

Abell Direct Investments

The Foundation’s portfolio includes direct investments in highly innovative companies that promote important social objectives, create jobs, and are located in, or agree to relocate to, Baltimore City.

Social Entrepreneurs

Abell Foundation Grants

The Foundation funds nonprofit organizations located and active in Maryland. Our focus is on Baltimore City, with more than 95 percent of our grants being awarded to organizations in the Baltimore metropolitan area.

Social Entrepreneurs

Accelerate Baltimore

AccelerateBaltimore is an initiative of the ETC (Emerging Technology Centers), Baltimore’s award winning incubator, and The Abell Foundation. ETC stands with the activists, change-makers, and problem-solvers - we want to work with you to create impactful solutions and improve the lives of Baltimore citizens.

Social Entrepreneurs

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

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

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

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

We are the change we seek. BLCK VC is a non profit with the goal of doubling the representation of Black investors by 2024.

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 Makerspace

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

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

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 Angels

Baltimore Angels seeks to invest profitably in the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem and advance early stage innovators to the next stage of capital formation. Our vision is to be the most trusted resource for angel capital investment and mentorship in the Mid-Atlantic.

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 Black Techies Meetup

Black + Techie = Us. We're HYPED to host Baltimore's first Black coding meet up! J

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 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 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 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 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 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 Innovation Celebration (BIW)

Baltimore Innovation Week 2020 is a one-day virtual Innovation Celebration featuring multiple sessions that are focused on showcasing local companies and good news stories that have emerged during these continuously changing and trying times.

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 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

The Baltimore Node is a member-run space where people can hack, craft, and make interesting things in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Baltimore Restaurant & Tavern

Baltimore City will award up to $3,900,000 in total grant funds to Restaurants & Taverns under this program.

Baltimore Startup Founder 101 Meetup

Startup Founder 101 brings together aspiring and experienced tech entrepreneurs to discuss, meet, and collaborate to build great new startups, and to push the local startup ecosystem forward.

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 Women in Tech Meetup

Baltimore Womxn in Tech (BWiT) is for women and female-identifying technologists in the Baltimore and the Greater Baltimore region who are working and playing with hardware and software technology.

Female Founders

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

Betamore presents Beta City Our annual fundraising event that recognizes and celebrates Baltimore's leaders, makers and innovators.

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

Bonsal Capital Investment

We are committed to supporting the growth of tech-enabled, mission-driven startups, and we take a different approach to traditional investing. We leverage our experience as educators, venture capitalists, and ecosystem leaders to empower you to find the resources you need to develop, so you can better serve your end user and customer.

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

Brownfield Tax Credit

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

Small Businesses

Ecosystem Builders

The Pre-Seed Builder Fund invests in and provides executive support to Maryland-based technology companies run by entrepreneurs who demonstrate economic disadvantage. The Builder Fund invests with the goal of helping companies reach meaningful milestones and becoming attractive investments to larger institutional investors.

Underserved Founders

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 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

Scouting technologies of interest for Northrop Grumman | Enabling companies to effectively navigate the DoD/IC Community | Preparing Companies to raise their next round of financing and expand their customer base

Camden Partners

Growth equity investments in lower middle market companies.

Capital Solutions (Harbor Bank)

Capital for Small Businesses, Startups, & Developers

Small Businesses

Underserved Founders

Catalio Capital Management

At Catalio, we invest in breakthrough biomedical technology companies. Our founders are world-renowned, serial scientists with a proven track record in spinning out and starting up category-defining businesses.

Catalyte believes that aptitude is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. We find hidden technology talent others can’t. The company provides new opportunities for sustainable and diverse tech talent that powers transformational software engineering ‒ when, where and how it’s needed – and accelerates business outcomes. Even the most forward-looking companies struggle to find and keep the exceptional technology talent needed to maintain a competitive edge. With our proprietary Odyssey workforce development platform we find, develop and support a new talent pool of great software engineers, narrowing the talent gap for Fortune 1000 companies.

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

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

This membership plan gives you access to our beautifully designed space at City Garage M-F from 9:00AM to 5:00PM. You are welcome to pick your seat in our dedicated co-working space and make yourself comfortable each day you come.

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

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

Code for Baltimore Meetup

We are a community of volunteers who develop open-source projects as a Code for America Brigade (https://www.codeforamerica.org/) by focusing on open government, open data, great design, and social good in Baltimore.

Social Entrepreneurs

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

Conscious Venture Lab

The CVLab Accelerator program is an intensive 4-month study in Consciousness, Customers and Capital. That is, building a foundation of purpose for your business, and helping you to develop no-nonsense customer acquisition capabilities. We will then align you with like-minded sources of capital.

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

The Corprenect Program connects innovators and entrepreneurs with corporations in Maryland for technology development projects that drive innovation.

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

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

We will spend 5 days enhancing our leadership skills, our technical skills as well as ways we can do better as global citizens.

Founders of Color

Female Founders

Dingman Center Angels

Dingman Center Angels (DCA) is a Maryland based angel investment group that provides funding to early-stage companies primarily located in the mid-Atlantic region. Our members are entrepreneurs, CXO's, venture capitalists and business leaders who have founded, funded and built world-class companies. Our investors come from a variety of industries, have diverse investment experience and expertise; and, in association with the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, help foster a vibrant local early-stage venture investment community.

Downtown BOOST Program: Funding & Space

Downtown BOOST Program: Presented by Fearless will support the long-term success of five creative, Black-owned Baltimore businesses in Downtown Baltimore storefronts

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

Downtown Baltimore Annual Meeting

Join us for a Baltimore 4 o'clock meeting (cocktails are encouraged) to learn about everything we’ve been up to over the past year and hear our new President’s vision for the future of Downtown Baltimore

Small Businesses

EYECON: Premier Youth Entrepreneurship Conference

EYE for Change hosts an annual one day youth entrepreneurship conference aimed at exposing youth to a career in entrepreneurship and employing an entrepreneurial attitude to excel and remain competitive in the workforce.

Small Businesses

Student Founders

Early Light Ventures

We invest in B2B Software startups.

Economic Outlook Conference

Join us as we hear from top fiscal experts who will discuss the current economic status and trends of the state and national economy, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy, and how the pandemic has affected the 2020 Presidential Election.

Small Businesses

EdTech Innovation Showcase

The EdTech Innovation Showcase features networking, product demonstrations and lightning presentations from entrepreneurs who are leading the regional EdTech space.

Elevation Awards

The Elevation Awards provide planning grants of $10,000 and personalized support to people of color who are Baltimore City residents piloting novel approaches to strengthen Baltimore communities.

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

Social Entrepreneurs

Enterprise Zone Tax Credit (EZ)

The BDC manages the State of Maryland Enterprise Zone program in Baltimore City. Enterprise Zones (EZ) are intended to encourage investment in distressed areas by offering incentives to existing businesses to expand and helping to attract new companies, to invest and create jobs.

Small Businesses

Ecosystem Builders

Entrepreneur Academy

Do you have a great idea for a small business but don’t know how to launch it? Have you already started a business but are unsure how to take it to the next level? Are you interested in being your own boss? The Entrepreneur Academy teaches you everything you need to know about starting and running your small business but didn’t know who to ask.

Small Businesses

Entrepreneur Program

We seek to facilitate the growth of life sciences companies by providing a Power Membership. This provides access for early-stage entrepreneurs to low-cost laboratory facilities.

Small Businesses

Fab Lab Baltimore

Fab Lab Baltimore is a non-profit digital fabrication lab, community workspace, and educational center, that serves as a resource for students, designers, artists, inventors, entrepreneurs, and other professionals, as well as businesses and institutions in the Mid-Atlantic region. Fab Labs began as an outreach project through MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. There is now an International Fab Lab Network spanning the globe.

Small Businesses

Facade Improvement Grants

Downtown Partnership of Baltimore administers a Facade Improvement Program encouraging and assisting property and business owners in Downtown restore existing storefronts.

Small Businesses

Frequently Asked COVID-19 Questions for Employers

COVID-19 can be a confusing, stressful, and overwhelming situation for employers. The Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD) is a resource for you to help make the right decisions for your staff, patrons, and business.

Small Businesses

Function Coworking Community

Function Coworking Community combines the comforts of a home office with the benefits of a modern, high-tech office environment.

Small Businesses

Future Baltimore Incubator Without Walls

Future Baltimore is a flagship partnership for West Baltimore and the result of the innovative and equity-focused collaboration between Bon Secours Community Works, Kaiser Permanente and the Latino Economic Development Center (LEDC). We have joined forces to help improve the socio-economic conditions in the area by launching a business incubator. Named Incubator Without Walls, the program includes an intensive and accelerating series of coursework, one-on-one coaching and financing options to help local entrepreneurs achieve greater financial potential and business growth.

Small Businesses

Founders of Color

Underserved Founders

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