Entrepreneurship and Small Business: Funding

• Angel Organizations
  Members of the Angel Capital Association.
  
  
• The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
  
  
• Coastal Enterprises Inc (CEI)
    "...a private, nonprofit Community Development Corporation and Community Development Financial Institution"
  
  
• The Directory of Venture Capital & Private Equity Firms, Domestic & International (REF HG4751.F58)
  Print resource.  Sample pages (pdf)
  
  
• Eastern Maine Development Corporation
  A private nonprofit development corporation located in Bangor, Maine.
  
  
• Granite State Development Corporation "...a Certified Development Company operating in New England."
  
  
• Island and Coastal Innovation Fund
  "...2 million economic-development tool to help island and coastal entrepreneurs access working capital to start or expand their businesses...".  Island Institute.
  
  
• Maine Technology Institute
  "...an industry-led, publicly-funded, nonprofit corporation that offers early-stage capital and commercialization assistance..."
  
  
• Money Tree Report
  Quarterly report on venture capital investment in the United States.
  
  
• National Association of Development Companies
  Online.  "...the trade association for the nation's Certified Development Companies."
  
  
• Small Business Administration: Loans & Grants
  
  
• Small Business in Focus: Finance
  Small business finance trends from the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy
  
  
• Small Enterprise Growth Fund
  Created by an act of the Maine State Legislature in 1995, the "SEGF is a professionally-managed venture capital fund that invests exclusively in Maine companies who demonstrate a potential for high growth and public benefit. "
  
  
• "Venture Capital Firms"  Industry report from the Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries.