This grant helps Colorado-based advanced industries technology businesses who want to export or are currently exporting.
This tax credit encourages investments in advanced industries businesses by giving tax credits to investors.
This program commissions artwork for people to enjoy in publicly accessible areas inside and outside of state buildings.
This do-it-yourself program helps communities prepare to become Colorado Creative Districts.
This credit enhancement helps small and medium-sized businesses in Colorado access loans that they would otherwise not get because they do not have enough collateral.
These loans provide up to $250 million in working capital loans to Colorado small businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This grant finances various projects across the state that create or revitalize mixed-use commercial centers.
This program certifies communities that contribute to our state’s economy through creativity, culture, and the arts.
This credit enhancement is for businesses that typically struggle to get access to a bank loan.
Participants in the Colorado Dark Sky Certification Mentor program will receive 70 hours of free consulting support from DarkSky Colorado to implement activities that reduce light pollution and protect access to Colorado’s incredible night skies.
This federal program encourages long-term investments in designated low-income communities by giving investors tax incentives for investing in real estate projects.
This fund provides helps small to medium-sized businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic get loans.
The Colorado Startup Loan Fund provides loan capital to mission-based lenders to provide loans to Colorado entrepreneurs and small business owners needing capital to start, restart, or restructure a business, and those who are not able to obtain a loan from traditional lenders.
As a part of the federal American Rescue Plan Act, the federal government passed the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) bill to fund small business credit support and investment programs.
This tax credit helps rehabilitate historic, owner-occupied commercial properties.
This loan helps businesses in rural areas by giving loans and loan guarantees.
This grant helps Colorado communities plan economic development projects that create or retain permanent jobs.
This program encourages development in economically distressed areas of the state through tax incentives.
This program is eight sessions, each lasting 2.5-3 hours, where a professional filmmaker works with high school teachers to cover scriptwriting, production, filming, and editing.
This grant provides financial support to help communities start and host successful film festivals in Colorado.
This program supports HUBZone-certified small businesses in designated areas of the State by providing them with preferential treatment in awarding federal contracts.
This program supports outdoor recreation business development through research, partnerships, trade shows, and trade and investment missions.
This grant and tax credit helps new businesses start in or move into rural, economically distressed areas and hire new employees.
This program provides free technical assistance, consulting, and funding to help rural communities create economic development strategies.
Free one-on-one consulting services to help you build a successful business at 15 community-based full-time centers and more than 70 part-time centers across Colorado.
The following lenders are possible sources of funding for small businesses in Colorado.
Free and low-cost training workshops to help existing and new businesses grow and prosper in Colorado.
This grant helps small businesses expand internationally by funding international business development activities.