Entrepreneur Resources Arizona
WE TRANSFORM INNOVATORS TO ENTREPRENEURS
Then Connect Entrepreneurs to Resources for
• Product market fit
• Funding
• Acceleration to scale
• Workspace and Services
Strengthen Your Company’s Defensibility
License the University of Arizona’s intellectual property (IP).
Go to the referenced site to discover an extensive array of technologies listed across multiple categories that can be licensed. With a direct link to universities and institutions, this is the best place to find new technologies online.
Join a University of Arizona -Affiliated Startup
Check out the StartupHub to uncover founder-ready startup opportunities.
The Startup Zones team will support your journey.
Financial Resources
There is a time and place for everything, including funding resources. We will train you to determine the most appropriate source and timing. Remember that our reach extends outside of Arizona to Silicon Valley and beyond.
Dilutive1 Financial Resources
These resources will invest in your company for an agreed number of shares and other terms. (No sales? You’re not ready.)
- Diamond Ventures – Tucson
- BlueStone Venture Partners – Tucson
- Miramar Ventures, LLC – Tucson
- Solstice Capital – Tucson
- UA Ventures – Tucson
- ACME
- AZ-VC – Phoenix
- Banner Health
- DCA
- DWP-CAPITAL
- GRAYHAWK Capital – Phoenix
- GTMFund
- HONOR HEALTH
- MAYO CLINIC
- Pangaea Ventures LTD – Phoenix
- PHX Ventures – Phoenix
- Singularity Capital – Phoenix
- TEN FIGURES
- XCELLERANT Ventures – Phoenix
- Desert Angels
- Canyon Angels
- Golden Seed
- Seek our guidance for an alternative early pre-seed
Non-Dilutive Financial Resources
These resources may be garnered without diluting your ownership of the company.
- Community Banks (Specific Banks TBD)
- National Banks (More details TBD)
- SBA Backed Loans from Banks (More details TBD)
- Federal Grants (More details TBD)
- SBIR/STTR (More details TBD)
Recommended Advanced Acceleration Programs
When your startup has sales and has advanced enough, you’ll be ready for these advanced programs to help accelerate your growth and scale.
Advanced Acceleration Programs
These programs offer business plan competitions, funding, and programs to help you advance your startup.
Recommended Workspaces
These spaces are shared, flexible workspaces where individuals from different companies or teams can work together in an often collaborative environment. The workspaces are ideal to keep costs down and flexibility up.
Workspaces
These resources are dispersed throughout the Tucson Metro Area.
- The Post Workspaces
- The L Offices
- La Suprema
- Spoke Coworking
- University of Arizona Center for Innovation
- Pima Community College (SATEC)
Recommended for Lifestyle Entrepreneurs
Food, beverage, fashion, arts, music, and other small lifestyle business2 owners.
These businesses are not designed to be scalable and have different needs.
Training
These resources are Venture Capital Firms and Angel Investors. These resources will invest in your company for an agreed number of shares.
- Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
- Startup Tucson
- CATalyst Creative Collective
- SAACA
- Dilutive funding involves raising capital by selling ownership stakes in a company, typically through issuing new shares of stock, which dilutes (reduces) the ownership share of existing shareholders. This type of funding is commonly associated with equity financing and can include venture capital, angel investors, and initial public offerings. ↩︎
- A lifestyle business is a venture designed to allow its owner to live a desired lifestyle, rather than focusing on rapid growth or high profits. It’s a business that integrates seamlessly with the owner’s personal life, providing them with flexibility, autonomy, and the ability to work around their preferred schedule and location. ↩︎