A COMMUNITY WHERE ENTREPRENEURS CAN LEARN AND GROW
Collaborate with successful mentors. Create and grow an innovative and disruptive startup.
PROGRAMS
Veterans Business Incubator
Providing veterans with the tools, mentors and connections necessary to start or scale their business. Open to all veterans, transitioning service members and their spouses.
Business Growth Lab
Coming Soon!
Get key insights for your specific business needs. Pair with advisors from your industry.
Director
Matthew Harper
Matt spearheads the Incubator/Accelerator’s day-to-day operations. He has spent the last six years advising and mentoring entrepreneurs. Matt was the founding director of a veteran business incubator in San Diego. He has worked with a range of businesses, including turnarounds, venture startups, small and medium-sized businesses and nonprofits. Companies he has worked with have raised over $3.5 million in debt and equity.
Harper is a retired U.S. Navy surface warfare officer and a native of San Francisco, California. He sits on the board of advisors for the Veteran Business Project.
Email: HarperM@SCF.edu
Facilities
Located at the beautiful SCF Bradenton Campus, our spaces are ideal for your start-up. We will be housed at the SCF Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation, opening soon!
Plus there will be plenty of coffee and free parking.
Sponsors
The Incubator/Accelerator will be located at SCF’s Center for Advanced Technology & Innovation.
The center and our programs are sponsored by the State of Florida Department of Economic Opportunity through the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund.
SCF Bradenton
5840 26th St. W.
Bradenton, FL 34207
