Explore Partnerships

From governmental agencies to non-profit organizations, a number of entities throughout the state stand ready to assist entrepreneurs in launching start-up firms. Services include: business coaching, business plan development, market analysis, prototype development, computer-aided design, scale-up manufacturing, seed and early-stage capital, and more.
  • Getting Funded
  • Growing/Expanding
  • Research & Development
  • Starting Your Business
  • Technical & Operational Assitance
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Advantage Valley

Getting FundedGrowing/ExpandingStarting Your BusinessTechnical & Operational Assitance
High Growth

BioSciences Association of West Virginia (BioWV)

Growing/ExpandingStarting Your Business
Early Idea Start Up High Growth

Bluefield Commercialization Station

Growing/ExpandingStarting Your BusinessTechnical & Operational Assitance
Early Idea Start Up

Bluefield State College Research & Development Incubator

Starting Your Business
Early Idea Start Up

Brickstreet Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Starting Your Business
Start Up

Business Ask Me Line

Starting Your Business
Early Idea Start Up

Business Training Education Center For Women

Research & DevelopmentStarting Your BusinessTechnical & Operational Assitance
Start Up High Growth

Business4 West Virginia

Starting Your Business
Early Idea Start Up High Growth

CAM Commercialization Fund of The Chemical Alliance Zone

Getting Funded

Census Business Builder

Research & DevelopmentStarting Your Business
Early Idea

Center for Applied Research & Technology

Growing/ExpandingResearch & DevelopmentStarting Your BusinessTechnical & Operational Assitance
Start Up

Charleston Area Alliance

Starting Your Business
Early Idea

ChemCeption Business Incubator

Getting FundedGrowing/ExpandingResearch & DevelopmentStarting Your BusinessTechnical & Operational Assitance
Start Up

Chemical Alliance Zone

Growing/ExpandingStarting Your Business
Early Idea Start Up High Growth

Create West Virginia

Starting Your Business
Early Idea Start Up

Dubvee.com

Getting Funded
Start Up

EPSCoR

Research & Development
Early Idea Start Up

ESRI

Technical & Operational Assitance

Food Business Funding

Getting Funded

Health Sciences Innovation Center

Research & DevelopmentStarting Your BusinessTechnical & Operational Assitance
Early Idea Start Up High Growth

Hive Network

Starting Your Business
Early Idea Start Up

Huntington Area Development Corporation

Growing/Expanding
Early Idea Start Up High Growth

Huntington Industrial Corporation (HIC) Incubator, LLC

Growing/ExpandingResearch & DevelopmentStarting Your BusinessTechnical & Operational Assitance
Early Idea Start Up High Growth

Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce

Starting Your Business
Early Idea

Idea Hub

Starting Your Business
Start Up

Indiegogo

Getting Funded
Start Up

Industries of the Future-WV

Research & Development
Early Idea Start Up

INNOVA Commercialization Group

Getting FundedStarting Your BusinessTechnical & Operational Assitance
Early Idea Start Up High Growth

IRS Business Structures

Research & DevelopmentStarting Your Business
Early Idea Start Up

K.I.S.R.A.

Getting Funded
Early Idea Start Up

Kauffman Foundation

Starting Your Business
Start Up

Kickstarter

Getting Funded

Live Plan

Starting Your Business
Start Up

Marshall University Center for Business and Economic Research

Technical & Operational Assitance

Marshall University Environmental Management Incubator

Growing/ExpandingTechnical & Operational Assitance

Marshall University Institute for Interdisciplinary Research

Getting FundedGrowing/ExpandingResearch & DevelopmentStarting Your BusinessTechnical & Operational Assitance
Start Up

Marshall University Research Corporation

Research & Development

Mid-Atlantic Research Technology and Innovation Center (MATRIC)

Growing/ExpandingResearch & Development

Morgantown Area Chamber of Commerce

Starting Your Business
Start Up

Mountain State Capital

Getting Funded

NAICS Identification Tools

Technical & Operational Assitance

NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium

Research & Development

National Center for Employee Ownership

Technical & Operational Assitance

National Energy Technology Laboratory

Research & Development

Natural Capital Investment Fund

Getting Funded

Polymer Alliance Zone

Growing/Expanding

Regional Contracting Assistance Center

Growing/ExpandingTechnical & Operational Assitance

Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing

Technical & Operational Assitance

SCORE

Research & DevelopmentStarting Your BusinessTechnical & Operational Assitance
Start Up

Shepherd University Center for Regional Innovation (CRI)

Research & DevelopmentStarting Your Business
Start Up

Small Biz Lending

Getting Funded

Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Tech Transfer (SBIR/STTR)

Research & Development

StartUp America Partnership

Growing/ExpandingStarting Your Business
Start Up High Growth

Ten50 Business Accelerator

Getting FundedGrowing/ExpandingResearch & DevelopmentStarting Your BusinessTechnical & Operational Assitance
Start Up High Growth

The ESOP Association

Technical & Operational Assitance

The LaunchLab

Starting Your Business
Start Up

Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd.

Research & Development

TransTech Energy Business Development Conference

Research & Development

U.S. Commercial Service, International Trade Administration

Growing/Expanding
High Growth

U.S. Small Business Administration

Starting Your Business
Start Up

Unlimited Future

Starting Your Business
Start Up

Upshur County Business Development Center

Growing/ExpandingStarting Your Business
Start Up High Growth

USDA

Getting Funded

West Virginia Growth Investment LLC

Getting FundedGrowing/Expanding
High Growth

West Virginia Jobs Investment Trust

Getting Funded

West Virginia Wood Technology Center

Growing/ExpandingStarting Your Business
Start Up High Growth

Wheeling Area Chamber of Commerce

Starting Your Business
Start Up

Womanable

Growing/ExpandingStarting Your Business
Start Up High Growth

Women’s Business Enterprise National Council

Growing/ExpandingResearch & DevelopmentStarting Your BusinessTechnical & Operational Assitance
Start Up High Growth

WORKFORCE West Virginia

Technical & Operational Assitance

WV Business One Stop Portal

Starting Your Business
Start Up

WV Community and Technical College System

Technical & Operational Assitance

WV Department of Commerce

Starting Your Business
Start Up

WV Economic Development Authority

Getting Funded

WV Economic Development Council

Growing/Expanding
High Growth

WV Export Council

Growing/Expanding
High Growth

WV Guide to Business Start-Up

Starting Your Business
Start Up

WV Higher Education Policy Commission

Technical & Operational Assitance

WV Higher Education Policy Commission, Division of Science & Research

Research & Development

WV MEP

Technical & Operational Assitance

WV Office of Business Registration

Starting Your Business
Start Up

WV Regional Technology Park

Research & Development

WV Research Trust Fund/Research Challenge Fund

Research & Development

WV S.C.O.R.E

Starting Your Business
Start Up

WV Secretary of State

Starting Your Business
Start Up

WV Small Business Development Center

Starting Your Business
Start Up

WV State University Economic Development Center

Growing/ExpandingResearch & DevelopmentStarting Your Business
Start Up High Growth

WV Women’s Business Center

Starting Your BusinessTechnical & Operational Assitance
Start Up

WVU College of Law

Starting Your Business
Start Up

WVU Industrial Extension – Manufacturing Extension Partnership

Technical & Operational Assitance

WVU Innovation Corporation

Research & DevelopmentStarting Your BusinessTechnical & Operational Assitance
Start Up

WVU LaunchLab

Starting Your Business
Start Up

WVU Research Corporation

Research & Development

WVU Shared Research Facilities

Research & Development

WVU Statler College

Technical & Operational Assitance