Startup Shenandoah Valley

Startup Shenandoah Valley is a virtual acceleration program uniquely tailored to meet the needs of entrepreneurs operating in a rural setting or one of the emerging business hubs around the region. The program will target entrepreneurs with scalable business ideas, particularly those focused on Region 8’s traded sectors of food processing, light manufacturing, information technology, cybersecurity, and biomedical and biotechnical. In addition to the customized virtual accelerator programming, the GO Virginia grant will also support dedicated workspace and entrepreneurial ecosystem infrastructure buildout throughout the region, along with the hiring of two dedicated ecosystem builders to support the network and programming.