Funding & Investment

Funding & Investment Partners

Pennsylvania Angel Network

PA Angel Network (PAN) provides resources and support to the angel community throughout Pennsylvania and surrounding areas. PAN has 18 angel group members representing over 500 individual angels all working together to foster an open eco-system for the angel community. To do this they focus on best practices, collaboration, due diligence support, networking, education, etc. which increases the ability to fund seed and early stage companies.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

The award winning Franklin Technology Partners is one of the nation's longest-running technology-based economic development programs. For more than 31 years, BFTP has provided both early-stage and established companies with funding, business and technical expertise and access to a network of innovative, expert resources.

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Keystone Innovation Zone

An incentive program that provides tax credits to for-profit companies less than eight years old operating within specific targeted industries within the boundaries of a Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ). With a total pool of up to $15 million in tax credits available to KIZ companies annually, the KIZ tax credit program significantly contributes to the ability of young KIZ companies to transition through the stages of growth. Applications must be submitted on or before September 15 of each year.

Campus Address

ESU Innovation Center
562 Independence Road
(570) 422-7956

Director Business Accelerator & Entrepreneurship

Patrice Dume
pdume@esu.edu
(570) 422-7953

Funding & Investment