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2024 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition, Stage One Portal Now Open!

Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice in President Biden’s Cabinet for America’s 33 million small businesses and startups, announced the 2024 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition (GAFC) offering a total of $50,000 to $200,000 in prize awards to organizations seeking to foster a national innovation support ecosystem to advance small business research and development (R&D) from ideas to the commercial market. The Stage One application portal opens on Monday, January 8, and closes on Friday, February 16, for a five-week window. 

Apply: https://www.americasseedfund.us/accelerators

Date Posted:

January 31, 2024

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD 20892

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