Startup Challenge Monterey Bay is open to entrepreneurs and startup businesses in Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz counties. Participating in Startup Challenge makes your startup visible to the community and to potential investors in and beyond our local region.
Startup Challenge teaches, coaches, mentors, and connects entrepreneurs to people and resources needed to launch your business. Starting a business is challenging – Startup Challenge provides guidance and resources to help you be successful.
Getting funding to start your business is hard. Whether you need funding for product development, manufacturing, equipment, or your marketing campaign, Startup Challenge helps you develop your pitch and build the connections you need to get your business funded.
Open to businesses intended to scale and provide venture investor-level returns.
Open to for-profit and not-for-profit businesses with a significant social mission.
Open to for-profit and not-for-profit businesses with a significant social mission.
Open to for-profit and not-for-profit businesses with a significant social mission.
Startup Monterey Bay is a program of the Institute for Innovation and Economic Development at the CSUMB College of Business.