Resource Roundup: 5 accelerators and incubators to scale your startup idea

SCALEUP Maryland by bwtech@UMBC

bwtech@UMBC is hosting a four-month program to help executives at 12 companies create an executable strategic growth plan. Companies with revenues up to $10 million are eligible toThroughoutourse of 12 sessions, executives will learn five key aspects of growth: sales, marketing, finance, operations and leadership.

2Gether-International BIPOC Cohort

This opportunity, which we learned about from Hamilton-Lauraville-based coworking space The Cube, comes from the DC-based organization 2Gether-International. The accelerator and $10,000 pitch competition are focused on BIPOC founders with disabilities.

Techstars Equitech Accelerator

This national accelerator brings together Techstars’ national network of investors and UpSurge Baltimore’s local ecosystem-building work to boost mission-driven companies. The program is centered around building an inclusive innovation economy.

While founders need not be local to apply, three graduates from the program moved to Baltimore because the founders found its tech ecosystem so promising.

Hutch

Applications are still open for the fifth cohort of the Baltimore incubator, which downtown software company Fearless founded. The two-year incubator is looking to support minority-owned civic tech startups working on digital services and solutions for the federal government.

Hexcite accelerator

Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures, is running a 16-week program to help create more software solution-based medtech startups in Baltimore. The application for non-clinical applications opens on Sept. 16.