Resources Make the Difference
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Resources at The Tech Garden include an array of mentors, advisors, investors and fee-based service providers. These resources make up your support system for growth and are your guides through the entrepreneurial ecosystems - both in Central New York and in other innovation hubs.
When you need a mentor in your specialized niche - The Tech Garden can help you find the right person. When you need that critical advice right now - The Tech Garden can connect you. Looking for investors - we can introduce you. |
If you are looking for services to help your startup grow, there is no need to search the web and then try to match and qualify multiple professionals. The Tech Garden has done all of the hard work for you in our Resource Pool. We have identified startup friendly companies in Central New York, qualified them, and negotiated rates - so you do not have to. Also, we are there to advise you with scopes of work, contracts, and deliverables.
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Meet Some of our Ecosystem Partners
The Tech Garden has an extensive and evolving network of partnerships with many State and Federal agencies, Universities, and other incubators.
WISE, a women’s center for new and existing businesses, helps entrepreneurs get started and supports them throughout their journeys of making their dream businesses a success. WISE is located at The Tech Garden and provides one-on-one business counseling, training, workshops, and mentorship for women looking to start and grow a business. |
Launch NY is a nonprofit venture development organization with a mission to identify, support and invest in high-growth, high-impact companies and catalyze the entrepreneurial culture of Upstate New York through regional collaboration with ecosystem partners.
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SBA—Syracuse District Office: The Syracuse District office of the U.S. Small Business Administration is located across the street from The Tech Garden campus. The office is responsible for the delivery of SBA’s many programs and services to 34 counties in Central New York.
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Upstate Venture Connect is an entrepreneur-led nonprofit focused on building a region wide startup community. We connect high growth company founders with the people and resources needed for success. We also partner with ecosystem leaders to create angel capital funds and build programs that assist entrepreneurial college students, researchers and technologists.
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The CNY Biotech Accelerator (CNYBAC) is a 45,000+ square foot LEED Silver-certified facility that accommodates companies involved in the commercialization of biomedical technologies.
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SyracuseCoE is New York State’s Center of Excellence for Environmental and Energy Systems. Led by Syracuse University, SyracuseCoE engages faculty, students and collaborators at 200+ firms and institutions to catalyze innovations that improve energy efficiency, environmental quality and resilience in healthy buildings and cleaner, greener communities.
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The Central New York Technology Development Organization (TDO) is a not-for-profit consulting and training organization helping manufacturing and technology companies. TDO is the New York State designated Regional Technology Development Center and the federal NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) center for Central New York.
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New York Business Development Corporation (NYBDC) is a complement to conventional banking, working in partnership with banks to provide term loans, many of which do not meet the requirements for traditional financing. Our goal is to be more creative in our underwriting. In many cases, we include multiple participations, SBA guarantees, flexible amortization and long-term payouts.
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Whether you are a recent start-up, an established regional company, or part a multi-national corporation, CASE puts the resources of Syracuse University to work to grow your business. CASE can help you set up university-industry research and development collaborations; engage talented students; deliver customized technology workshops and short-courses; host networking events; pursue funding opportunities; commercialize technology; facilitate access to University resources.
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Onondaga Small Business Development Center (SBDC) offers free business consulting to start-ups in the central New York region. They assist companies from the first days of starting up all the way through being an established business. They have helped over 1,100 companies in the region create over 300 jobs.
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Investor Connections
One of the most important resources we have at The Tech Garden is our investor connections. Once our members have advanced through their Tech Garden Road Map taking advantage of our Programs, Resources, and Events, the next step is to connect with investors. The Tech Garden has many relationships built with individual, angel, venture, family office, and institutional investors. Use The Tech Garden to make your next investor connection.
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