Summit Partners was founded in 1984 with a commitment to find and partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to help them accelerate their growth and achieve dramatic results. Since then, Summit has become the investment partner of choice for many of the best growth companies in the world. Summit Partners has grown to a team of more…
Socius Capital, LLC is an independent private equity sponsor that works with experienced middle market management teams to provide capital and lead transactions that ultimately result in those teams realizing their goals of owning a material equity position in their enterprise. Socius Capital also provides growth capital to ownership groups, including acquisition financing.
Pacific Northwest Capital Group is a venture capital firm and a registered SBIC. It invests in early to expansion-stage companies in the software, electronics, specialty retailing and healthcare sectors. The firm invests in about three companies a year, providing from $2 million to $8 million per transaction. It also prefers to be the lead investor, but…
Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in software and marketplace businesses in the Digital Native economy. Although the HQ is located in Chicago, IL, this firm has successfully invested in Idaho companies.
The Veteran Entrepreneur Portal (VEP) is designed to provide direct access to the resources necessary to guide every step of entrepreneurship.
The US Small Business Administration (SBA) was created to aid, counsel, and assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation.
The Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) is a research and education consortium between Boise State University, Idaho State University, the University of Idaho, the University of Wyoming, and the Idaho National Lab. Research at CAES is focused on nuclear science and engineering, materials science and engineering, energy systems design, analysis and testing, carbon engineering,…
The Idaho National Lab (INL) is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) complex of national laboratories. The lab performs work in each of the strategic goal areas of the DOE: energy, national security, science and environment. The INL is the nation’s leading center for nuclear energy research and development.
The Small Business Voucher program coordinated through the Idaho National Laboratory on behalf of the US Dept. of Energy, provides funding to enable small businesses to tap into the intellectual and technical assistance from national laboratories to help bring the next generation of clean technologies to market.
The National Institutes of Health offer funding for many types of grants, contracts, and even programs that help to repay loans for researchers.
