Resources
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Funding Support
- Vertuelab Federal Funding Navigation
- Vertuelab SBIR/STTR Assistance
- Business Oregon SBIR & STTR application support & matching grants
Angel and Venture Funding
- Vertuelab Climate Impact Fund
- TiE Angels
- Portland Seed Fund
- Oregon Venture Fund
- Rogue Venture Partners
- Cascade Seed Fund
Loans
- Craft3
- Enduring Planet
- Prosper Portland Loans
- Contact your Business Oregon Regional Development Officer to learn about Business Oregon Loans
- Climate careers community networking: Climate Curious
- Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy (WRISE) Oregon Chapter
- Oregon Solar + Storage Industry Association (OSSIA)
- Wave Energy and Off-Shore Wind Energy: Pacific Ocean Energy Trust (POET)
- Grid Innovation: Grid Forward
- Renewable Hydrogen Alliance (RHA)
- Renewable Energy Sector: Renewable NW
- Oregon Mass Timber Coalition
- Electric Mobility: Forth
- Lean Manufacturing Matching Grants with Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership (OMEP)
- Matching tenant improvement grants for eligible projects: Prosperity Investment Program
- Metro Investment and Innovation Grants
- See also Vertuelab SBIR/STTR Support under FUNDING & FINANCING SUPPORT
Technology & Product Startups
- Portland Business Development Group (PBDG)
- Latinobuilt
- Livelihood NW
- National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC) Oregon
- Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs (OAME)
- Microenterprise Services of Oregon (MESO)
- Oregon Native American Chamber (ONAC)
- Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber (HMC)
- Certification for Business Inclusion and Diversity (COBID)
- Government Contracting Assistance Partnership (GCAP)
- Green Cities Liaison & Prosper Portland Programs
- Portland Enterprise Zone
- Greater Portland Inc
- Contact the Business Oregon Regional Development Officer to learn about state incentive and loan programs.
- Opportunity Zones