As a small business owner in Mississippi, accessing capital to start or grow your company can be challenging. That’s why we have created this funding resource webpage specifically for Mississippi-based entrepreneurs and small business owners. Navigating the wide variety of funding programs available from governmental, nonprofit, and private sources is difficult and time-consuming when you’d rather focus your efforts on building your company. Our goal with this webpage is to simplify the process by curating loans, grants, incentives and other funding opportunities into one easy-to-use reference guide.

Within this guide, you will find information on funding options targeted to Mississippi businesses from federal, state and local government agencies. Additionally, we have researched national programs open to Mississippi companies, as well as private funding sources such as bank loans, angel investment groups and more. Each program listed includes direct website links so you can easily get started on applications.

Funding programs are organized into categories such as technology, rural business, women/minority-owned business, manufacturing, export assistance and others so you can quickly zero in on the options most relevant to your Mississippi business. Equipped with this guide as a starting point, our goal is to save you significant time in identifying resources so you can focus on access to capital to start, sustain or grow your small business in Mississippi. 

Please browse the various sections to learn more about finding funding for your endeavor.