Santa Cruz Works has experienced grant and fund raising resources. To learn about social crowdfunding, watch our recent webinar: Startup Equity Crowdfunding. Also see a recording of our first Community Speed Funding event. Looking to raise capital via Crowdfunding with StartEngine? Learn more here.
Funding Resources
Arora Project: the leading crowdfunding launchpad agency with over $75M raised for high growth start-ups via crowdfunding.
Buoyant Ventures: investing in entrepreneurs who use digital technology to help mitigate against, and adapt to, climate change. See One Woman’s Journey to Climate Investor
Crosslink Capital: a global fund with partners who live and surf in Santa Cruz.
étre Venture Capital: a women-led venture capital firm investing in underserved entrepreneurs or those with limited geographical access to capital sources.
Hawktower: an agtech venture fund for the counties of Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito, and the Central Valley.
Sail Community Capital: Sail is a crowdfunding agency that works at the grassroots level, connecting startups and small businesses with their communities to raise up to $1,070,000 through Regulation Crowdfunding.
Santa Cruz County Bank: providing funding for startups who don’t want to give up a portion of their company.
Santa Cruz Ventures: the largest venture fund in Santa Cruz County.
Grant Spotlight
New grants will be listed here. If you think it is a good fit for your company or organization, use the form link below to contact us.
NSF Future Manufacturing Grants
Is your business developing the next manufacturing innovation in the fields of Cyber Manufacturing, Eco Manufacturing, or Biomanufacturing? If the answer is "yes" then you may want to take a look at NSF's Future Manufacturing funding opportunity that offers up to $3 Million to fund research in one of these areas.
Grant Support
Larta Institute: Larta Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization accelerating innovation and entrepreneurship. Our mission is to foster science and technology innovation for a sustainable planet. LARTA was founded in 1993 and funded by the State of California as a Los Angeles Regional Technology Alliance to stimulate the economic development of technology-based enterprises. Now known as Larta Institute, the organization has become a national partner for numerous federal government agencies — including DARPA, NIH, DOE, NSF, NIST, NOAA and USDA — to commercialize novel research and innovation. Today, Larta Institute’s innovation platform and ecosystem accelerate new science and technology from idea to sustainable enterprise by providing a unique combination of programs, our ecosystem and funding. We have helped over 4,500 startups, and our alumni have raised more than $7 billion in external funding.