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AgSprint

New Mexico

AgSprint ventures receive 5-months of customized support tailored to each entrepreneur’s unique path to business development and financial success. Along with the Arrowhead Innovation Fund, AgSprint has its pulse on private, state, and federal funding and will curate a list of opportunities and assist with proposal/pitch development to make time-to-market more efficient. Unifying a vast array of resources to support innovation in agricultural technologies.

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Aggie Shark Tank, Arrowhead Center (NMSU)

Las Cruces, NM

Aggie Shark Tank is an opportunity for NMSU student entrepreneurs to pitch their business idea to local Sharks. Participants have 5 minutes to present their idea, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A from the Sharks. Participants can ask for a monetary investment or any other type of assistance or connections to help their business grow. All investment deals are negotiated directly between the Sharks and participants. The audience is not being solicited for investment of any kind.

Featured Sharks: Lou Sisbarro, Sisbarro Dealerships; Royal Jones, Mesilla Valley Transportation; Dino Cervantes, Cervantes Enterprises; and Mickey Clute, Real Estate Developer.

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Aggie Startup Club

New Mexico

Aggie Startup Club is an exciting way to get interested in Entrepreneurship. We work closely with programs and resources here at NMSU to help you network, learn or grow your idea. We want to create an environment where students can grow their ideas and become successful entrepreneurs.

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Arrowhead Innovation Fund

New Mexico

Arrowhead Innovation Fund (Fund) is a venture capital fund focused on seed and early-stage investments to commercialize promising technologies developed by affiliates of New Mexico State University (NMSU). The Fund, a for-profit subsidiary of Arrowhead Center, Inc. a non-profit corporation created to support NMSU's mission is professionally managed to bring extensive investment selection as well as experience in attaining exits and deal syndication with other venture funds.

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BizSprint

New Mexico

BizSprint is an Arrowhead Accelerator program to test the feasibility of your business idea. The goal of this program is to accelerate New Mexico startups to drive economic growth. Through BizSprint you will receive mentorship, coaching and $2,000 in participant support. Summer 2017 Cohort will meet Friday mornings July 14th, 2017-August 4th, 2017.

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Cottonwood Capital Partners

El Paso, TX / Las Cruces, NM

The CTF Southwest US region stretches from Phoenix to Denver to Austin and includes the Rio Grande Technology Corridor running along the Rio Grande from Los Alamos, New Mexico to El Paso, Texas. As host to three federal labs, multiple medical centers, and more than a dozen premier engineering schools and research universities, this is an area rich in resources. Collectively, these institutions represent more than $10.0 billion in annual research across critical fields such as biosciences, new energy, nanotechnology, information technologies, cleantech and aerospace.

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Hunt Student Startup Sponsorship

New Mexico

Hunt Student Startup Sponsorship is a program designed to accelerate New Mexico State University (NMSU) student ventures. The program provides semester-long sponsorship to support 20-hours per week of a student entrepreneur's time to significantly advance their venture. Additional requirements during sponsorship include training, mentorship and weekly meetings.

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Kinetic Accelerator, Powered by Texas Tech

El Paso, TX

Launches startup companies and discovers licensing opportunities based on technologies developed at Texas Tech University, other research universities and for-profit entities seeking commercial opportunities for their intellectual property.

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Launch, Arrowhead Center (NMSU)

Las Cruces, NM

The Launch proof of concept center is focused on the commercialization of NMSU technologies. Launch is based on a simple concept that yields great results: by exploring a technology’s commercial potential very early in development and providing funding and resources for that work, we stand a much better chance of moving a viable product to market. The format of the program aims to expedite rapid growth in technology commercialization involving more intensive product development and direct mentorship. Teams of inventors and business advisors assess and validate technologies, explore customer development, and identify investment opportunities. For winners of the Launch competition at the end of the acceleration period. Launch provides investment capital for early stage companies based on NMSU innovation.

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LiftFund

El Paso, TX

Provides startup loans up to $50,000. Small business loans up to $1 million, and business and financial training.

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Mike Loya Center for Innovation & Commerce

El Paso, TX

Through funds provided by the Mike Loya Graduate Research Fellows endowment, the Mike Loya Center supports research and development projects that hold the potential for commercializing UTEP discoveries, innovations, and inventions. Applications are due twice a year. Up to one project will be funded per semester.

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NM Fast

New Mexico

NM FAST (Federal And State Technology) offers eligible small businesses assistance with funding efforts through the federal SBIR and STTR programs. Securing federal funding for your innovation is a critical step towards commercial success. SBIR and STTR programs offer more than $2.5 billion dollars annually to support the development of technology by small businesses across the nation and are an excellent source of undiluted early stage capital, but they are highly competitive. Together, we assemble a team of advocates who will help you evaluate the feasibility of your idea and apply for an SBIR or STTR.

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NMSU Aggie I-Corps

New Mexico

Aggie I-Corps is a training program sponsored by the National Science Foundation to test the feasibility of your business idea. The goals of this program are to spur translation of research, to encourage collaboration between academia and industry, and to train students to understand innovation and entrepreneurship. Through the program you will receive mentorship, coaching and $2,000 in participant support.

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New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program, Arrowhead Center (NMSU)

New Mexico

The NMSBA program assists for-profit small businesses in New Mexico to solve technical and business challenges. Arrowhead Center, as a contractor to Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), utilizes unique resources available at New Mexico State University to assist in a variety of technical and business challenges. NMSBA team members are cross-disciplinary technical entrepreneurs, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and inter-disciplinary graduate students who help small businesses.

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Paso del Norte Venture Competition + Expo

El Paso, TX

Over 3 days teams present their new ventures to judges who are successful business people and entrepreneurs.

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Saba Investments

El Paso, TX / Júarez, MEX

We believe that the Paso del Norte region needs a 21^st Century vibrant economy, one that fosters innovation, startups and venture funds.

Saba's founders want to change the narrative of the Borderplex Region, from low cost manufacturing to technology and entrepreneurship.

A regional venture fund becomes a powerful attraction mechanism for regional stakeholders.

Regional Bi-national Strength

• 6 Universities
• 3 Medical Schools
• 4 Technology Incubators
• National Research Labs
• Military Research Facilities spending more than $5 billion
• Manufacturing base, including 70 of the Fortune 500 companies

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TechSprint

New Mexico

TechSprint is an Arrowhead Accelerator program to test the feasibility of your business idea. The goal of this program is to accelerate New Mexico technology startups to drive economic growth. Through TechSprint you will receive mentorship, coaching and $2,000 in participant support.

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UT Horizon Fund

El Paso, TX

Venture capital fund that invests in companies that have UT System innovations or equity

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Verge Fund

New Mexico

Venture capital fund that invests in seed-stage, high-growth ventures in the Southwest.

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