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The Palm Beaches offer a wide range of resources for entrepreneurs, startups, and growing businesses, including coworking space, mentorship, business support and educational programs. This directory highlights local resources and programs that provide those services across Palm Beach County for small businesses and startups.

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PALM BEACH COUNTY SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS

Palm Beach County has multiple organizations, programs, incubators, and workshops supporting entrepreneurship. What are you looking for?

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Access To Capital

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Accelerator/Incubator Space

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Business, Consulting + Mentorship Services

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Education Resources

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Success Stories

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Lending & Venture Capital

EDUCATION + COLLEGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMS

Great minds need the support of greater minds. Our school district, colleges, and universities offer comprehensive resources and support for entrepreneurs.

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Florida Atlantic University Adams Center for Entrepreneurship

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FAU Tech Runway

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Junior Achievement of the Palm Beaches & Treasure Coast

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Keiser University

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Lynn University

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Palm Beach Atlantic University's Rinker School of Business

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Palm Beach State College

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School District of Palm Beach County

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Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!) / Golden Bell Foundation

CO-WORKING + SUPPORT SPACE

Palm Beach County’s multiple co-working spaces and facilities are geared to support and mentor entrepreneurship.

1909

A West Palm Beach nonprofit providing coworking space and entrepreneur support for startups and creatives across Palm Beach County.

980 Spaces

980 Spaces offers flexible, move-in-ready workspace in Boca Raton, including coworking space, private offices, virtual offices, meeting rooms, and flexible options for individuals and teams.

FAU TECH RUNWAY

Florida Atlantic University's technology business incubator and accelerator in Boca Raton, providing mentorship, workspace, and programming for early-stage ventures.

FLORIDA WOMEN’S BUSINESS CENTER

The FLWBC is a small business resource center in South Florida dedicated to the individual professional development of women.

PALM BEACH BUSINESS CENTER

Palm Beach Business Center offers professional office space in West Palm Beach, including private offices, executive suites, virtual office solutions, and meeting space.

MOSAIC GROUP

Mosaic CoWork offers flexible coworking options in West Palm Beach, including shared and private workspace, dedicated offices and desks, virtual services, meeting space, and business resources.

South Florida Tech Hub

South Florida Tech Hub is a vibrant non-profit 501(c)6 membership association continually Building South Florida’s Tech Hub.

HOLISTIC EXECUTIVE SUITES

The wellness-centric executive suites are designed for professionals such as therapists, private practitioners, nutritionists, estheticians, and medical outpatient providers. It provides dedicated private suites and work spaces in a collaborative community environment, as well as reliable fiber speed internet, a wellness bar, private restoration room, conference/meeting space and more!

RESEARCH PARK AT FAU

The Research Park at Florida Atlantic University® is a 70-acre destination for R&D companies working to support the research and development activities of FAU and to foster economic development and broaden the area’s economic base.

TROPHY SPACES

Trophy Spaces, in Lake Worth Beach, offers high visibility private offices, quiet meeting rooms, high-speed internet, and on-site support—plus Virtual Office & Virtual Mailbox, free parking, and more.

THE FLAMINGO HOUSE

The Flamingo House is a downtown Boca Raton coworking community offering flexible workspace, private offices, meeting space, and membership options for entrepreneurs, startups, remote workers, and established professionals.

THE STUDIO 1016

Located in West Palm Beach’s Warehouse District, The Studio 1016 offers coworking space, private and virtual offices, meeting space, podcasting, and creative studio resources.

THE TED CENTER

The Center for Technology, Enterprise & Development (TED Center) provides entrepreneurship and business development resources, including business counseling, training, workshops, and business incubation programs.

VENTURE X WEST PALM BEACH

Venture X West Palm Beach – CityPlace offers coworking space, private offices, dedicated desks, meeting rooms, and virtual office solutions in downtown West Palm Beach.

VENTURE X PALM BEACH GARDENS

Venture X Palm Beach Gardens City Centre offers flexible workspace, including private offices, coworking, dedicated desks, meeting rooms, and virtual office solutions.

FUNDING + CAPITAL ACCESS | BUSINESS CONSULTING | MENTORSHIP SERVICES

Palm Beach County has plentiful resources for investments, business loans, angel funds, venture capital funding, and more.

1909

1909 is a West Palm Beach nonprofit providing coworking space and entrepreneur support for startups and creatives across Palm Beach County.

Florida Business Development Corporation

The FBDC is a private, non-profit Certified Development Company administering the Small Business Association (SBA) 504 Loan Program. In addition to the 504 Loan Program, FBDC is active in the economic development of entrepreneurial ventures.

GrowFL

GrowFL was created in 2009 as an economic development program focused on assisting second-stage growth companies prosper in the state of Florida.

Prospera

Prospera is a nonprofit, economic development organization that serves entrepreneurs in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina, with support from dedicated funders, volunteers, and partners. Since 1991, our program model has helped small businesses grow and prosper. Download a presentation deck >

Adams Center for Entrepreneurship at Florida Atlantic University

The Adams Center for Entrepreneurship at Florida Atlantic University brings students, faculty, and the community together in the spirit of entrepreneurship to fuel innovation.

Institute for Commercialization of Florida Technology

The Institute provides hands-on support services for high-growth-potential companies. Through its subsidiary Florida Technology Seed Capital Fund, the Institute provides up to $500,000 in first and follow-on round funding to qualified companies.

SCORE Palm Beach

The mission is to enhance the success of small businesses through mentoring and education with the vision to provide every person with the support necessary to thrive as a small business owner.

BIOFLORIDA

BioFlorida is a membership organization representing nearly 5,500 establishments and research organizations in the biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices/diagnostics, and bioagriculture sectors in Florida.

Florida Venture Forum

The Florida Venture Forum is the preeminent statewide, member-based, private equity, venture capital and angel capital organization in Florida.

35 Mules

Florida Power & Light's in-house innovation hub in Juno Beach, backed by NextEra Energy, part of FPL's Office of Economic Development. Supports startups in energy and adjacent technologies.

Small Business Administration

It's a US government agency that provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses. The agency’s activities are summarized as the “3 Cs” of capital, contracts, and counseling.

CareerSource Palm Beach County

CareerSource Palm Beach County provides workforce development services for businesses, including recruitment support, internships and work-based learning, training and hiring assistance, and workforce information.

GBDC Entrepreneurship Institute GBDC

GBDC Entrepreneurship Institute provides experiential learning, entrepreneurship, leadership, financial literacy and STEAM programs focused primarily on preparing youth and young adults for future careers and business ownership.

Palm Beach County Office of Equal Opportunity

A resource to improve the economic landscape of local small business.

Small Business Development Center

The Florida SBDC at Florida Atlantic University serves Palm Beach and Broward counties with consulting and resources related to access to capital, market growth, international trade, government contracting and business continuity.

FAU Tech Runway

Florida Atlantic University's technology business incubator and accelerator in Boca Raton, providing mentorship, workspace, and programming for early-stage ventures.

South Florida Tech Hub

South Florida Tech Hub is a vibrant non-profit 501(c)6 membership association continually Building South Florida’s Tech Hub.

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