Arkansas is leading the way in providing new and existing businesses with the room to grow and develop. In every corner of the state, there are incubators and accelerators for several different industries including tech, healthcare, and finance.
Visit our entrepreneurial resources page here for more information on how Arkansas supports companies looking to startup, grow or expand.
University of Arkansas Research & Technology Park
The mission of the University of Arkansas Research & Technology Park is to stimulate a knowledge-based economy in the state of Arkansas through partnerships that lead to new opportunities for learning and discovery, that build and retain a knowledge-based workforce and that spawn the development of new technologies that enrich the economic base of Arkansas.
Arkansas Small Business & Technology Development Center
The Arkansas Small Business & Technology Development Center is a university-based economic development program that assists entrepreneurs, both new and seasoned. We help with every aspect of business creation, management, and operation.
The Little Rock Technology Park’s charge is to create an innovation center enabling new forms of enterprise, collaboration, knowledge-sharing and commercialization of ideas within and between Arkansas’ entrepreneur, private, government and academic sectors.
Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit
The Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit was founded by technologists for technologists to build a community around people building innovative solutions to challenges on a local and global scale.
Catalyst Innovation Center
The Catalyst Innovation Center is a business incubator for bioscience, engineering and technology startups.
GENESIS is a technology-oriented business incubator located at the Arkansas Research and Technology Park in Fayetteville, Arkansas. GENESIS offers a variety of services to qualifying technology-intensive entrepreneurs who desire to base their operations here during the critical early stages of company development.
Plug and Play is the ultimate innovation platform, bringing together the best startups and the world’s largest corporations through accelerator programs, corporate innovation, and investment.
Fuel is a 12-week enterprise-ready accelerator that matches growth-stage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) startups with key enterprise partners in order to accelerate the development of tangible technology solutions.
The Venture Center is a globally recognized Arkansas-based Entrepreneurial Support Organization (ESO) that helps entrepreneurs turn their startups into viable, high-growth businesses.
FIS is the world's largest global provider dedicated to banking and payments technologies. FIS empowers the financial world with payment processing and banking solutions, including software, services, and technology outsourcing. If you want to partner with or sell to financial institutions, the FIS Fintech Accelerator can get you there faster than you ever thought possible.
HealthTech Arkansas is a healthcare accelerator and investment fund that connects early-stage healthcare companies with disruptive technologies to Arkansas healthcare providers. We target the intersection of technology and healthcare in three categories: digital health (software), connected medical devices, and diagnostic platforms.
The Catalyst Innovation Center is a business incubator for bioscience, engineering and technology startups.
