Loyola University Maryland’s Simon Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship requests applications for the center’s sixth Baltipreneurs Accelerator, a four-month part-time program supporting startup businesses and social ventures with training, technical assistance, mentorship, networking, and access to capital. Applications are available online and due Oct. 31.
Loyola will hold a Q&A session about the program and application process via Zoom on Monday, Oct. 14, at noon. Interested entrepreneurs can sign up for the session online.
The Baltipreneurs Accelerator will provide over $40,000 in total funding to approximately 10 teams — including Loyola students, faculty, and staff alongside entrepreneurs from Baltimore — and open doors to additional funding. The teams will attend 10 sessions from December 2024 through March 2025, culminating in a Demo Day showcase March 18. Throughout the program, mentors, instructors, coaches, and consultants will provide guidance customized for each team, and founders will collaborate with each other.
The program welcomes entrepreneurs in all industries and market sizes and gives preference to underserved entrepreneurs including women entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs of color, LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs with disabilities, and veterans who served in the military. To date, 94% of Baltipreneurs identify as underserved.
Loyola will hold a women founders pre-application bootcamp on Thursday, Oct. 17, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Loyola Notre Dame Library. The bootcamp will give women entrepreneurs a chance to network in person, learn about the Baltipreneurs Accelerator, and win a $500 pitch prize. Interested entrepreneurs can sign up for the bootcamp online.
Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business and Management in Baltimore delivers an internationally recognized Jesuit business education. Recognized for its scholarship, ethical leadership, and tradition of excellence, the Sellinger School delivers a wide range of sought-after fields of study including eight undergraduate majors and 11 undergraduate minors as well as full-time, part-time, and fully online MBA and Master of Accounting programs. (www.loyola.edu/sellinger)
