Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center (ESEC) manages a portfolio of revolving loan funds available to entrepreneurs and small businesses throughout the Eastern Shore. A non-traditional funding source that is more accessible than traditional bank financing, startups and existing businesses are invited to apply for loans up to $200,000. Applications are accepted every six weeks.  [Read more…]

The Shore Hatchery will fund up to $200,000 a year to be available to those applying for grants through the Shore Hatchery program. Shore Hatchery board of directors members select recipients based on multi-round presentations. The goal of the Shore Hatchery is to reward individuals for their entrepreneurial efforts in the creation and growth of businesses with the potential of positively impacting regional employment within three years.   [Read more…]

PinOak Capital, and it’s private investment fund PinOak Partners LLC, have been established to invest in entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial enterprise across Maryland’s Eastern Shore and throughout the mid-Atlantic. PinOak is looking for investment opportunities that meaningfully unique, innovative, potentially disruptive, scalable and sustainable, from a business perspective. [Read more…]

For more than 25 years, MAVA has served the full community of innovators, companies, private capital, suppliers, and key advisors needed to build successful businesses from start-up to exit. From venture to private equity, angel to growth equity and family office to corporate strategic, MAVA brings together the full spectrum of capital and key resources necessary to accelerate the growth of companies across industry sectors and stages of development.  [Read more…]