BizTech's mission is to increase the number of successful technology-based companies originating in, developing in, and relocating to Huntsville-Madison County. We help technology-based companies gain access to mentors, group experiences, training, shared space, professional assistance, and capital that will move them onto the fast track to success. We sponsor and administer programs to nurture new entrepreneurs in operating their companies.

We provide mentoring, access to investors, training, a ready-made network of contacts, and an array of business support services designed to improve their likelihood of success and to help them as they wind along the very difficult start-up path.

Blue Hill Partners is a private equity firm focused exclusively in the Green Technology sector. Our goal is to attract capital and management to the sector and to facilitate the growth of promising companies and technologies.

Our approach is a return to the traditional form of private equity investing, when funds were small and the fund managers were well versed in their industries, intimately involved with their portfolio companies and personally invested in their funds.

The Mobile Business Innovation Center has been an integral part of the Mobile community since 1986. A community partnership of the County of Mobile, the City of Mobile and the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, our primary mission is to assist in launching small businesses. We do this by operating a fully functional Small Business Incubator and by our outreach programs.

CEI supports promising high growth companies in a variety of technology-based industries, through a targeted services package which includes strategic advice, access to financing, marketing & PR support, benefits program, mentoring, and turn-key infrastructure.

CEI is supported by the University of Texas, the City of Austin, and the Austin community, and works with a variety of investors, a "know-how network" of professional service providers, outside industry experts, and others, for the benefit of its member companies.

CEI's mission is to provide business resources and professional services that assist its technology startups to compete in the global marketplace. The incubator has hosted technology ventures with interests and business connections in Canada, Brazil, Japan, Australia, England, Germany, China, and Israel. CEI's achievements have prompted several mayors' councils nationwide to send representatives to its facilities to learn more about how to generate business development and revitalize ailing municipal economies.

CleanStart is an initiative of McClellan Technology Incubator (MTI) and Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance (SARTA) designed to accelerate the development of clean energy technology ventures within the Greater Sacramento Region. CleanStart was born out of an innovative needs assessment study that was jointly funded and managed by the California Energy Commission, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, and the McClellan Technology Incubator.

It is CleanStart’s mission to stimulate the development and success of early-stage companies who will provide the next generation of clean, renewable, and efficient energy technology. CleanStart will help companies assemble solid management teams, secure adequate funding, and accelerate the commercialization of sound product ideas into the market. Through this mission, CleanStart will create jobs and wealth for the greater Capitol Corridor region and new products to help society be more sustainable.

Albany NanoTech is a fully-integrated research, development, prototyping, pilot manufacturing and education resource managing a strategic portfolio of state-of-the-art laboratories, supercomputer and shared-user facilities and an array of research centers located at the University at Albany - SUNY. Its first research center, the NYS Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology was established by New York State in 1993 to provide its company partners with a unique environment to pioneer, develop, and test new ideas within a technically aggressive yet economically competitive research environment.

Albany NanoTech serves the needs of its partners through its participation in long-range visionary technology development programs (e.g. Interconnect Focus Research Center), in medium-range technology development programs (e.g. Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology) and short-range programs (SEMATECH, NIST-ATP, etc.). Albany NanoTech is able to accelerate the commercialization of technologies by providing a one-stop-shop for technology deployment, market development, and economic outreach business assistance.

The Enterprise Center of Johnson County is a business incubator that provides high-growth potential companies and entrepreneurs with the resources they need to build successful businesses in Johnson County, Kansas.

Located at 8527 Bluejacket Street, Lenexa, Kansas, the Enterprise Center is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation funded by the government of Johnson County, Kansas, the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC) and the Kauffman Foundation, as well as several corporate and foundation sponsors.

The Enterprise Center is also home to the Kansas Women's Business Center, a public/private partnership with the US Small Business Administration.

The Enterprise Center provides cost-effective office space, shared resources, an entrepreneurial environment and a full range of business consulting services. Since 2000, Enterprise Center affiliate and client companies have included technology, biotechnology and business services companies that have raised in excess of $16 million in funding.

The Environmental Business Cluster (EBC) is a clean energy technology commercialization center assisting clean tech start-ups on the West Coast. The EBC assists both resident and non-resident start-ups overcome the barriers to commercialization and become successful. It was the first Environmental Incubator in the United States and has been operating for 13 years. Over 120 businesses have been assisted by the EBC.

Since 2003, the EBC has also been working with the California Energy Commission and the National Renewable Energy Lab to provide commercialization services to selected applied research grant recipients, with the goal of helping them enter and penetrate the marketplace.

Recently, the EBC developed the Electronic Transportation Development Center, where emerging and established technology companies collaborate on the design, development, prototype fabrication, and technology licensing for clean energy hybrid commercial vehicles, such as buses and trucks, while incorporating Silicon Valley electronics to make the vehicles cleaner, safer, and more secure.

The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) is a nationally recognized technology incubator that helps Georgia entrepreneurs launch and build successful companies. ATDC provides strategic business advice and connects its member companies to the people and resources they need to succeed.

More than 100 companies have emerged from ATDC, including publicly traded firms such as MindSpring Enterprises - now part of EarthLink. Headquartered at the Georgia Institute of Technology, ATDC has been recognized by Inc Magazine as one of the nation's top non-profit incubators. ATDC was formed in 1980 to stimulate growth in Georgia's technology business base and now has locations in Atlanta, Warner Robins and Savannah.

We are seasoned, multi-skilled and technically-trained business professionals with large networks of talent, capital sources and other resources who start companies quickly, smoothly, and on a solid financial and management foundation. IGNITE is the startup executive team, handling the countless startup details. We conceptualize the business, including positioning and going-to-market strategy; we assemble all the pieces required to attract high-value funding; we identify and help secure savvy, helpful investors and negotiate the best terms possible; we build world-class teams and boards; and we tap some of the world's best strategic business partners and initial customers. Post-startup, IGNITE transitions our management responsibilities to the permanent executive team, the board and the investors we have helped recruit. As a co-founder and owner, however, we remain involved, e.g., as board member and as ongoing business and personal advisor to the technologists.

The National Environmental Technology (NET) Incubator provides an affordable head start to companies whose focus is environmental technology, and a resource for larger, established companies who seek to diversify their product lines. Environmental technology is broadly defined to include energy, material and process efficiency, as well as traditional treatment, remediation, recycling and reporting activities.

The Northwest Energy Technology Collaborative is a joint effort of business, government, non-profit and educational institutions determined to accelerate the emergence and growth of the energy technology industry in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

With world-class university and research centers and more than 300 new energy companies, our region is poised to become a global hub for emerging power technology.

The Rutgers EcoComplex, dedicated April 23, 2001, is the nation's first research, technology development, teaching and outreach center that is dedicated to enhancing the environment and agriculture through education, outreach and "green" business development.

The EcoComplex is a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary environmental center that harnesses research and education resources towards the development, and industrial application, of innovative environmental technologies.

Our mission is to promote economic development in the environmental arena, including the remediation and protection of environmental quality, and the compatible sectors of food and innovative agriculture. By targeting these areas with integrated programmatic thrusts in research, education and economic development, the EcoComplex provides a distinctive focus. By harnessing the strengths of multiple institutions, the EcoComplex presents an array of capabilities unique in the nation.

The Florida/NASA Business Incubation Center (FNBIC) accelerates the formulation, growth and success of small, technology-based companies in Brevard County. The 10,000-square-foot facility is housed on the Titusville campus of Brevard Community College. By offering affordable space and shared office equipment and services, the Incubator makes it possible to reduce many of the costs associated with establishing and operating a small business. Support facilities and programs help train and nurture the new entrepreneurs in the establishment and operation of their technology-based companies, thereby giving them the best possible chance to succeed. The FNBIC is managed through a joint partnership between the TRDA, Brevard Community College and the NASA-Kennedy Space Center.

After eight years in operation, Technology Ventures Corporation is an important contributor in the formation of new businesses built on leading-edge technologies developed at Department of Energy laboratories and in the expansion of existing businesses. It also assists client companies to position themselves to obtain investor interest and funding.

Technology Ventures Corporation advises and assists in the preparation of a business case to commercialize a technology. TVC advises client companies in all facets of business organization, start-up, and equity capital acquisition. TVC also offers a limited amount of administrative incubator space to selected clients.

The Virginia Energy Incubator uses energy instrumentation and modeling and simulation methods to provide a suite of projects that help bring new energy technologies to market, reduce energy consumption and costs, and promote our Nation's energy independence. Utilizing its multi-disciplined partnerships with leaders in the energy industries and some of this world's most advanced technology scientists and engineers, the Incubator identifies emerging energy technologies that appear to be viable commercial products and accelerates their success through state-of-the-art modeling and simulation hardware interfaces/software libraries, scientific feasibility studies, and access to support services that give researchers, in symbiosis with their industry partners, a strong competitive advantage. The Incubator offers supercomputing capabilities, secure data storage and Geographic Information System interface capabilities for pre-processing, a myriad of computational stage simulation capabilities, and 3-D post-processing visualization and animation. In addition to access to space and state-of-the-art equipment, support services include shared laboratory services, advice and collaboration from leaders in the industry, in-region consulting, strategy reviews, financing referrals, introductions to potential private and public partners, and marketing and public relations assistance.