Startup success starts here.
Startup Virginia’s incubator provides startup founders with individualized strategic support and access to key resources to launch, fund and grow their business. Ready to get started?
How we help startups
The incubator is our core offering, supporting founders from idea to scale, through individualized guidance, meaningful connections, and access to key resources at each stage.
Founder Coaching
Individualized guidance from on-staff advisors, experienced founders, and subject matter experts.
Capital Access
Hands-on fundraising support, including pitch practice, deck feedback, and investor connections.
Fractional Services
SVA-funded services from specialized providers to help tackle key business needs and drive momentum.
High-Impact Education
Stage-specific workshops designed to address startups’ most relevant business needs.
Collaborative Connections
Founder-led roundtables and community events designed to foster mindshare and connection.
Flexible Workspace
Subsidized offices and dynamic workspace that support progress, alongside founders and innovators.
Meeting you where you are.
From ideation to growth, Startup Virginia helps founders navigate every step of the startup journey. Within each stage, we equip you with the resources – and confidence – to feel prepared and ready for what’s next.
Ideate
You’ve validated your idea and are ready to build a prototype.
Launch
You have a product and are testing for product-market fit.
Fund
Your product has demand and you’re seeking funding.
Grow
You’re generating strong revenue and ready to scale.
Startup Incubator
Startup Virginia is proud to be home to over 90 startups (and counting) advancing our economy and positively impacting our communities.
Current Startups:
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Absurd Snacks is a company that makes snack mixes that are plant-based, low in sugar, and free of the top nine allergens -
ALPS Dx automates the pre-analytical processes, enhancing reproducibility, efficiency in the drug screening laboratories. -
AminoCloud is a laboratory technology platform that provides secure, accessible, and intuitive tools to help clinical labs of all sizes streamline workflows, protect data, and operate more efficiently. -
AnswersNow is making personalized, evidence-based autism therapy accessible by connecting children to therapists through a virtual platform, removing barriers to ABA therapy. -
Ara Platforms delivers AI-powered social listening with human-level understanding, transforming online conversations into actionable insights in everyday language. -
Blueva Technologies provides automated data governance efficiency solutions to businesses in order to increase the value of their data. -
Brandefy helps shoppers find affordable alternatives to luxury beauty products through its mobile app and creates high-quality, affordable beauty solutions when those alternatives don’t exist. -
Buddy provides fast, secure, e-commerce infrastructure that enables transformation of the $35 Trillion insurance industry from paper to data. -
Maerketo is a digital marketplace platform that mails cards and gifts for you. -
Choros is the only social meetup app and member-based activity platform purpose-built for how men build friendships. -
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Civic Vanguard empowers local governments with its budget-friendly, collaborative, and workflow-centric software platform, CivQuest. -
Cookie Finance provides tax, bookkeeping, and other accounting services specifically for content creators and influencers. -
CreditGPT is an AI-powered platform that automatically analyzes complex credit and loan documents — extracting key terms, covenant details, risks, and structured insights in minutes to help credit teams work faster and more accurately. -
Derive enables CISOs, CIOs, and risk managers to optimize their cybersecurity budgets and apply their funds wisely. -
Curated Collections provides real estate investors with professionally designed and curated residential design packages via a portal where they can order a design package to be shipped directly to the jobsite. -
Dfuse-AI is an app that helps resolve interpersonal conflicts. -
EarthaPro helps small businesses in the lawn care industry grow their business with simple, easy-to-use software management solutions. -
Eaze Accounts is a comprehensive, AI-driven cloud-based accounting platform for businesses and accountants to streamline financial management, automate tasks like invoicing, and manage clients’ finances efficiently. -
EndoMD Health is a telehealth platform that combines medical, lifestyle, and emotional support to help kids with endocrine conditions thrive. -
Einra helps Medicaid health plans and care teams detect risk earlier by turning daily observations from home-care workers into real-time, predictive insights that prevent avoidable crises. -
FinHolo is a B2B financial advisory service that helps business leaders improve how they manage and finance their companies, providing insights into cash flow, bankability, and industry comparisons. -
Fitness DAWGS is committed to introducing children to a healthier lifestyle by educating them on good eating habits and physical activity. -
Founders Mark provides project-based learning programs that build essential skills through real-world experiences, supporting CTE and WBL graduation requirements with proven curriculum and expert coaching. -
Fringe is a personalized well-being marketplace where employers save money by consolidating their employee experience, benefits, and rewards & recognition programs into one platform. -
Gigabite.ai helps restaurants and broadline distributors source from global food grade factories with AI. -
Grantable is an AI-powered grant writing software that saves time by drafting answers using your previous responses or boilerplate language, so you never have to start from scratch when applying for grants. -
Greenrun is building the first all-electric, sustainable delivery network. -
Henry helps homeowners stay ahead of maintenance with expert assessments, proactive support, and hands-on help so they can spend less time worrying and more time enjoying their home. -
Hightail Hair offers the Hightail Bike Hair Protector, designed to eliminate tangled helmet hair and let riders enjoy the open road without sacrificing their hairstyle. -
HIO is a platform that leverages AI to provide 24/7 conversational access to critical internal materials, empowering multifamily housing teams to deliver personalized and efficient service while keeping humans involved. -
HopDrive provides an elegant, turnkey solution that automates the way you move cars for your customers. -
HumanFood is a kibble brand that reflects the humor, chaos, and love that dog owners share with their pets—a fresh, bold take on what a pet brand can be. -
Humanitru is a data management platform designed to help nonprofits reach their goals, eliminate frustration, and save time. -
I Kale Life shares nourishing and accessible plant-based meals to help people eat well and live well. -
Imaginationz is an app that removes friction from daily activities between parents and kids. -
ImagineMix provides DJs and music enthusiasts an interactive, customizable interface to intelligently visualize and sort their song libraries with the help of a 3D force-directed graph algorithm. -
Julie keeps women in the driver’s seat of their lives through pregnancy prevention and sexual health support. -
June Point Lending empowers brokers with fast, transparent Non-QM lending solutions backed by technology and expert support. -
Keya’s Snacks is leveraging Indian heritage on a beloved snack to mainstream America. -
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Kyndred is a caregiver-centric health management platform that unifies health information and care coordination so caregivers can confidently manage a loved one’s care and gain peace of mind. -
Legacy Link is a digital platform that improves and empowers the experience of new college alumni to engage with their alma mater. -
Light The Music provides music technology education, helping people create and share music. -
Linebird is revolutionizing electric transmission line maintenance by applying drone technology to a dangerous and labor intensive process. -
LLAMAWOOD leverages an online marketplace to deliver ready-to-burn firewood to the millions of home and business owners in search of dry firewood. -
LovEvolve wraps newborns and caregivers in love through thoughtful products and community-based support. -
Mobius Materials is a B2B marketplace for hardware manufacturers to save up to 70% on parts by matching them with sellers with excess. -
MOVA Technologies is bringing precision agriculture to indoor livestock and poultry production through advanced air filtration, sensors, and data-driven monitoring, improving farm productivity and profit -
nestease is redefining home & business services with a technology platform, operations, and trusted in-house crews. -
Nexus Impact Services helps businesses safely and effectively adopt AI by building private, customized AI assistants trained on their own data to improve communication, learning, and decision-making. -
NicheProfile helps high-skilled immigrants with streamlined process using AI. -
NIRSense builds hospital-quality patient monitors that help clinicians diagnose and treat the most challenging health conditions. -
No Limbits is an adaptive clothing brand with the goal of increasing comfort, confidence, and independence in those with disabilities. -
Noon Knows empowers renters with straightforward, practical tools, advice, and resources to confidently navigate apartment hunting, lease agreements, maintenance, and moving. -
Pangea Chat allows students to text with peers while providing them unique learning support exactly when they need it through in-app AI-powered tools. -
PARCO provides personalized FERS & CSRS retirement advice as a free resource available to all federal employees. -
Pearl is the only tutor management system (TMS) that powers evidence-based programs to streamline operations, report actionable data, and improve outcomes for our partners tutoring tomorrow’s workforce, today. -
PluralFusion creates connected health and safety solutions for individuals and enterprises. -
Pocket Properties App is a fractional real estate company focused on providing MAAS-based solutions backed by the use of smart contracts. -
PriceHive empowers retailers and manufacturers with a unified platform that simplifies, streamlines, and standardizes CPG pricing. -
Prismatic Forge helps you transform knowledge, insights, and information into decisions, adapting to how you work instead of dictating how you should. -
QSBS Rollover helps founders navigate early liquidity without losing QSBS eligibility. -
ReadWrite Digital provides a hosted platform for K-12 schools to automate data integration and realtime analytics to improve student success. -
REI Hub provides dedicated rental property accounting software for investment property owners and real estate investors. -
Research Anywhere is a qualitative research agency specializing in financial services that has developed a premier livestream viewing experience and delivers video-focused, action-oriented research reports. -
Richbrau brews fine craft beer and beverages in Richmond, VA for the local RVA community and to distribute across the Commonwealth. -
Rising Tide develops business productivity software that automates operations utilizing blockchain and generative AI. -
Roundtrip is an easy-to-use ride booking platform for transportation requesters in the healthcare setting. -
RVA Gift Finder helps struggling gifters become more thoughtful without the stress by providing curated gift ideas tailored to their knowledge of the recipient. -
Salsas Don Sebastian is on a mission to create experiences that have an emotional connection to authentic Mexican foods by providing the freshest salsas, dips and other products. -
Seasonal Roots makes healthy eating easy through an online farmers market and convenient home delivery. -
SeedMetrics is an analytics platform that automatically tracks, analyzes, and reports on your company’s most impactful business metrics in real-time. -
Segtax automates cost segregation, streamlining data capture, asset classification, and IRS-compliant reporting. -
Send-to: is a platform that helps celebrate life’s many milestones with personalized e-card messages complete with digital gifts. -
Sherah is a family assistant service empowering moms and revolutionizing modern family management. -
Shoe Crazy Wine is a soft-palate wine and spirits distribution company. -
Solcoro is improving the systems of work ecosystem for customers and the partners that serve them. -
StyreIQ provides strategic social media governance, compliance, and risk management solutions, helping organizations strengthen compliance, safeguard reputation, and respond effectively to digital challenges. -
Taste Supply is an online marketplace for small and medium size Specialty Food Makers to independently sell their products. -
Team Excel is a digital platform that gamifies custom success metrics to turn learning and personal development into a healthy team-based competition. -
TERN Mentoring provides a mentoring-focused digital solution for universities, students, alumni, and corporate employee engagement. -
Terravive provides consumer and industrial products that look and perform like plastic but break down like plants. -
The Endowment Project is a technology- and human resource-enabled platform designed to help public high schools build communities from which capital is raised, managed, and deployed to enhance the educational experience for students, faculty, and staff. -
Thrive Financial is a lending platform built to revolutionize the point-of-sale space, delivering a seamless, full-spectrum approval strategy. -
Tigeraire develops smart athletic, industrial, and military equipment technology that improves performance and safety. -
Trash Fairies provides bagged household trash disposal and recycling services for multi-family housing units. -
Travel Trade Group redefines the travel package by pairing handpicked hotels and attractions with the right partners to create unique, competitive offerings that drive new demand. -
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Two Robots offers a unique, online, multiplayer, blockchain-powered, immersive gaming experience. -
Vint is an investment platform where investors can buy shares of investable wines and spirit collections. -
Visual Workforce is a skills management and workforce visualization platform that changes the way organizations make decisions about their people. -
WineView is a modern wine club and memberships platform for restaurants, wine bars, vineyards, retail shops, and wineries that streamlines fulfillment and prioritizes the member experience while integrating with POS systems like Toast, Clover, and Square. -
WriteHuman specializes in transforming AI-generated content into undetectable AI text, expertly humanizing AI text for authenticity.
Featured Incubator Startups – click for their stories
“I was really unaware of the startup ecosystem – I think Startup Virginia has done a great job in elevating the awareness and Richmond is very fortunate to have it. It’s an atmosphere of support, education, collaboration and as a founder, the networking I get with other founders is the most valuable aspect.“
Paige Wilson
Naborforce
“Startup Virginia has helped me connect with the right resources at the right time — a service that is invaluable when an early-stage startup. From finding the right insurance, to working on leadership skills, to helping us get funded — I can always ask the Startup Virginia team for help and get results.”
Meg Pryde
Brandefy
“Startup Virginia continuously provides there resources and programming necessary to succeed. Whether it’s making meaningful introductions to partners and advisors or providing detailed guidance about grant applications, Startup Virginia has provided tremendous value to my startup.”
DJ Lee
SeedMetrics
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