From co-working spaces to networking opportunities and angel investors, learn about resources in your area that make up Missouri’s supportive startup ecosystem. Be sure to check out all of our programs and resources for entrepreneurs/startups. From bioscience to tech, Missouri works to ensure that the next big idea is discovered right here in the Show-Me State. Print handout: Missouri's Entrepreneurial-Based Resources.
Missouri Innovation Centers
Located throughout the state, the centers work closely with their associated universities to develop high-growth advanced technology companies and commercialize innovations. The centers provide specialized facilities, access to capital, technical and business experts, resourcs and specialized service providers.
Missouri Technology Corporation (MTC)
MTC is the state’s public-private organization that invests directly in tech and bioscience focused startups with the goal of accelerating private capital to fuel their growth. MTC's early stage capital co-investments help startups finance important activities to commercialize their technologies, such as hiring key personnel, protecting intellectual property, prototyping and proof of concept work, and purchasing equipment. The organization also provides grants to incubators, accelerators, and research centers throughout the state to further strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Small Business Incubator Network
View a map of the organizations throughout Missouri that participate in the state's small business incubator program. These entities receive financing that allows them to support local entrepreneurs through a variety of services, such as access to capital and work space.
Missouri Source Link
MOSourceLink connects small business owners with a network of nonprofit resource organizations that provide business-building services. Created by a Missouri entrepreneur, this platform facilitates the linking of these resource organizations to one another and to established, emerging and start-up small businesses throughout the region.
Technology Accelerators:
- Capital Innovators
- SixThirty
- Yield Lab
- Prosper Capital
- ThinkBig Partners
- Sprint Accelerator
- Spark Lab KC
- Bio Research & Development Growth (BRDG) Park
Technology Incubators:
- Innovation Stockyard
- T-REX
- Newman Innovation Center
- Jordan Valley Innovation Center
- Life Science Business Incubator at Monsanto Place
- Center for Emerging Technologies
- Nidus Partners
- BioGenerator
- Southeast Missouri Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- ITE: Innovative Technology Enterprises at UMSL
- Codefi
- Helix Center Biotech Incubator
East Missouri:
- STL Enterprise Centers- Midtown
- STLVentureWorks at South County
- STLVentureWorks at Grand Center
- STLVentureWorks at Wellston
- STLVentureWorks ar West County
- FinServe Tech Angels
- Cultivation Capital
- IT Entrepreneur Network
- Missouri Small Business & Technology Development Centers (Mo SBTDC)
- Small Business Incubator Tax Credit
- Capital Innovators
- SixThirty
- Helix Fund
- Arch Angels
- Regional Growth Capital
- iSelect Fund
- FTL Capital, LLC
- ThinkBig
- Billiken Angels
- Lindbergh Technology Fund
- Spark!
- BioGenerator
- Arch Grants
- The Yield Lab
Northwest Missouri:
- MWSU Applied Learning Franchise Program
- MWSU Center for Entrepreneurship
- Cup of Joe
- Digital Sandbox St. Joseph
- Northwest Missouri Enterprise Facilitation
- North Central Business Facilitation
Kansas City:
- SparkLabKC
- Sprint Accelerator
- Kansas City Startup Village
- LaunchKC
- ThinkBig KC
- Beta Blox
- Kauffman Labs
- Digital Sandbox
- KC Next
- Startup Weekend
- 1 Million Cups Kansas City
- KC Source Link
- Cowork Waldo
- OfficeWORX KC
- ShowMe Angels
- Kansas City Animal Health Corridor
Columbia:
Springfield:
Entrepreneurship Programs:
- Washington University - St. Louis
- University of Missouri - Columbia
- Southeast Missouri State University
- University of Missouri - Kansas City
- Saint Louis University
- Missouri State University
- Northwest Missouri State University
- Missouri Western State University
- Prosper Women Entrepreneurs
- Pipeline
- Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute