Built Oregon works to support, amplify, and accelerate Oregon’s consumer product entrepreneurs, companies, and ecosystem.

Business Impact NW provides entrepreneurs with access to coaching, classes, and capital to launch or grow their small businesses.

Business Oregon is the state’s economic development agency. The Business Oregon Commission oversees the agency’s activities to ensure a coherent, integrated approach to economic development and a continuous policy direction that can transcend changes in executive and legislative leadership.

Central Oregon Innovation Hub acts as a regional coordinator connecting founders in tech, life sciences, outdoor products, and clean climate innovation to local programs, mentors, and capital.

Central Oregon Community College Small Business Development Center (SBDC) offers no-cost, confidential business advising, financial planning, and workshops for entrepreneurs in Madras, Prineville, Redmond, and surrounding areas.

Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council (COIC) acts as Central Oregon’s official Economic Development District, managing the regional Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS), grant funding, and regional resilience programs. [1]

Central Oregon Innovation Network helps entrepreneurs turn vision to reality – one spectacular startup at a time.

Cultivate Bend creates anecosystem of collaboration and growth for the natural products Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) sector throughout Central Oregon.

Economic Development for Central Oregon (EDCO) is a private non-profit organization dedicated to diversifying the regional economy by recruiting new companies and helping traded-sector firms already in Central Oregon expand.

Latino Founders empower Latino founders to grow and succeed with the resources, mentorship, and networks they need to turn vision into venture.

LivelihoodNW provides free and low cost professional business support to underserved entrepreneurs and small business owners in Portland and throughout the Pacific Northwest. They provide access to free business advising and low cost classes.

MESO improves the economic opportunities of underserved individuals through empowerment, education, and entrepreneurship.

Northwest Native Chamber provides  resources that help you connect with specialists and professionals in all areas of business development. 

Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs (OAME) is an all-inclusive non-profit organization with over 800 members.

Oregon Economic Development Association (OEDA) is a statewide non-profit supporting regional economic development advocacy, enterprise zones, and business retention programs across communities like Prineville and Redmond.

OHSU Innovates is a collaborative network that supports the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems at OHSU and beyond.  

Oregon Life Sciences is the state’s trade association and champion for the life sciences industry. With members across biotech, medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, biomanufacturing, and supporting services

OMIC R&D is a collaborative innovation center with a mission: Advancing industry by providing manufacturing solutions while empowering and educating the workforce.

Oregon Pride in Business (ORPIB) seeks to serve communities of LGBTQIA2S+ business owners, non-profit leaders, and individual professionals and students throughout Oregon and SW Washington through Education, Advocacy, and Connection.

Oregon State University Food Innovation Center encourages Food Entrepreneurism while promoting Northwest Agriculture

SBDC provides guidance on Oregon’s capital landscape, finance strategies, and lender relations

SBLC provides transactional legal services to small and emerging businesses in Oregon.

SCORE is dedicated to the formation, growth and success of small business.

Technology Association of Oregon unites the region’s technology industry, shaping and growing technology and business communities.

The Commons Law Center provides affordable legal services for income-qualified people.

TiE Oregon believes growing business through their five pillars; mentoring, networking, education, incubating, and funding.

USDA provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on public policy, the best available science, and effective management.

VertueLab funds and supports Pacific Northwest entrepreneurs building climate technologies that keep people safe—backing innovations that protect communities and ensure an equitable climate transition.

Xcelerate Women is a transformative community that supports Oregon’s women and gender expansive business owners on their journeys to success through business advising, peer mentorship, and growth education.

1859 Ventures is dedicated to building better founders by providing resources, mentorship, and funding to enable high growth.

The Alley Group is looking for the next generation of entrepreneurs to lead this revolution in transportation and management of transportation infrastructure and systems.

Bend Venture Conference is an Angel Conference in Central Oregon that takes applications from investor-ready companies across the state.

Color Capital invests in early stage companies—typically Seed to Series A—and specializes in the consumer product industry, retail and ecommerce, brand positioning, and M&A. Color prioritizes investments in companies founded by women & people of color.

Elevate Capital supports passionate founders who are focused on solving real world problems, and persevere through challenges.

FoundersPad is a seed-stage venture capital firm and startup mentorship program.

Intel Capital has invested US$12.9 billion in 1,582 companies worldwide since 1991, and 692 portfolio companies have gone public or participated in a merger.

Keiretsu Forum has collectively funded over 300 companies and has invested a total amount of over $192 million.

Long Way Ventures invests in founders tackling complex business problems in ways once considered too hard to scale.

Oregon Community Foundation is proud to support funds that are building an equitable economy by investing in businesses founded by women, people of color, veterans, and members of rural communities.

ONAMI’s Commercialization Funding Program provides critical support to early-stage technologies and companies connected to Oregon university researchers or facilities.

Oregon Sport Angels targets companies who have achieved an early level of market success and consumer adoption that are Pre or Early Revenue, seeking Seed Series Funding, from $100K – $1M.

Oregon Venture Fund is a different kind of venture capital fund, empowering local entrepreneurs to grow their business, their way.

Roadster Capital is a seed fund investing in deep tech companies solving automation, security and sustainability challenges across the American industrial base.

Rogue Venture Partners are committed to increasing undercapitalized regions entrepreneurial footprint through committed, sustainable investment in new businesses and growing enterprises.

Seven Peaks Ventures’ mission is to give entrepreneurs throughout the Pacific Northwest an “unfair advantage” in building and scaling their businesses by not only providing them with capital but access to experience, expertise and networks that can help them execute on their vision.

Voyager Capital has a focus on investing in the modern economy through AI-driven business solutions, software-driven hardware, sustainable agriculture, and supply chain in the Pacific Northwest.

Visit Central Oregon Future Fund is a regional community/tourism-focused grant and reinvestment fund supporting local projects, non-profits, and businesses.

VertueLab funds and supports Pacific Northwest entrepreneurs building climate technologies that keep people safe—backing innovations that protect communities and ensure an equitable climate transition.

Willamette Valley Capital invests in startups with visionary teams developing breakthrough science and technology that can improve human lives and deliver outstanding financial returns.

Womens VC Fund makes investments in early stage (A/B), revenue-generating, high-growth companies led by management teams inclusive of women.

Business Impact NW provides entrepreneurs with access to coaching, classes, and capital to launch or grow their small businesses.

Business Oregon invests in Oregon businesses, communities, and people to promote a globally competitive, diverse, and inclusive economy.

Central Oregon Community College Small Business Development Center (SBDC) offers no-cost, confidential business advising, financial planning, and workshops for entrepreneurs in Madras, Prineville, Redmond, and surrounding areas.

Craft3 is a nonprofit CDFI lender with a mission to strengthen economic, ecological, and family resilience in Pacific Northwest communities.

Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, with a mission to connect people through lending.

NAYA provides Native American business owners with one-to-one business coaching, a ten-week Basics of Business training course, a native business accelerator, and help finding funding.

SBA delivers loans, loan guarantees, contracts, counseling sessions, and other forms of assistance to small businesses.

XCELERATE WOMEN supports high-performing women entrepreneurs leading growth companies by providing access to the debt financing.

Bend Entrepreneur Lab (BEL) acts as a “co-founder” to help tech startups move at speed from inception through the close of a successful seed funding round.

Bend Outdoor Worx is an outdoor startup accelerator and vibrant community of entrepreneurs that helps businesses achieve their wildest dreams.

BEST HQ provides the support and resources for entrepreneurs to establish and grow their companies.

COCC Early Child Care Business Accelerator is a hyper-localized, specialized program run by Central Oregon Community College’s SBDC. It provides a free 3-month course, business advising, and a $5,000 start-up grant for establishing home-based or commercial childcare providers in the region.

E::SPACE Labs is a hardware prototyping facility located in Bend that provides affordable local engineering resources, helping hardware and electronics entrepreneurs move out of the garage and create enterprise-ready devices.

Oregon AI Accelerator is collaborative initiative uniting Oregon’s top tech organizations, investors, and universities to launch AI startups

Oregon APEX Accelerator (GCAP) helps businesses secure government and defense contracts through counseling and compliance training

Oregon State University Food Innovation Center encourages Food Entrepreneurism while promoting Northwest Agriculture

OTRADI Bioscience Incubator (OBI) is Oregon’s first and only bioscience-specific accelerator, helping scientists take their research from the lab to the market.

Oregon UAS Accelerator helps UAS, robotics, and autonomy startups with mentorship, testing access, and Oregon-based commercialization support.

StarveUps is a virtual incubator and accelerator with peer mentoring as its cornerstone, and an end-to-end educational approach.

Bend Central Coworking has private offices and dedicated desk spaces are available for lease in a state-of-the-art eco-building powered by a Tesla Solar Roof. 

BendTECH Coworking caters to freelancers, remote workers, companies, and tech entrepreneurs who need a professional community and collaborative environment to work in. 

Collective Pallet provides product-based companies in Central Oregon with affordable, innovative co-working, co-storage and warehouse solutions. Offering offer both complete fulfillment and self-fulfillment options.

Embark Coworking Community offers a range of professional amenities, including various workspaces, conference rooms and event spaces. 

Kiln Bend for scaling startups, team collaboration, and networking-heavy founders.

The Haven Coworking offers a welcoming place for focused work, meaningful connection, and gatherings that bring people together.

SCP Commons at SCP Redmond is a creative coworking resource founded to align perfectly with its core holistic hospitality values. 

Sisters Makers mission to support artists, makers, growers, and innovators with facilities, education and advocacy.

Work Collective is for founders needing quiet deep-work zones and flexible office days.