Business Resources
Choosing Chesapeake means choosing success.
Once established, your business will have access to a host of organizations geared toward growing your company and ensuring its profitability. Through these partnerships, we offer ongoing training, education and development resources to help build and maintain your business.
Chambers of Commerce
- Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce
- Virginia Chamber of Commerce
Business Advocacy Groups
- American Small Business Coalition
- Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association of Northern Virginia
- Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council
- George Mason PTAP
- Greater Washington Board of Trade
- Hampton Roads Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
- National Veteran-Owned Business Association
- Northern Virginia Technology Council
- NSU’s Women’s Economic Development Center
- ODU Business Gateway and Research Foundation – Technology Application Center, Launch Hampton Roads, Veteran’s Business Outreach Center, Women’s Business Center, Hampton Roads Procurement Assistance Center
- SECAF
- Small Business and Supplier Diversity (SBSD)
- Success in the City
- The HUB
- TiE DC
- Tysons Partnership
- Tysons Transportation Association (TYTRAN)
- Women in Technology
- Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)
Entrepreneurial Assistance
- Business Alliance for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Business Development Assistance Group
- Community Business Partnership
- INC.spire (incubation program of the Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce)
- Mason Enterprise Center (George Mason University)
- Mid-Atlantic Venture Association (MAVA)
- Northern Virginia Community College
- Northern Virginia Small Business Development Center
- SCORE Hampton Roads
- Virginia Business Information Center (VBIC)
- Women’s Business Center of Northern Virginia
Financing Assistance
- Virginia Small Business Financing Authority (VSBFA)
- Tidewater Small Business Financing Center (TSBFC)
- Virginia Housing and Community Development Corporation (VHCDC)
- Hampton Roads SBDC
- SBA Preferred Lenders
Research and Technology Transfer
- Center for Innovative Technology
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Defense Technical Information Center
- National Technical Information Service
- NASA
- National Science Foundation
Government Agencies
- U.S. Small Business Administration
- Virginia Department of Business Assistance
- Virginia Department of Minority Business Enterprise
- Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP)
- Virginia Employment Commission (VEC)
- Virginia Procurement System (eVA)
International Business Groups
- American Turkish Friendship Association
- British-American Business Association
- Inter-American Development Bank
- Korean Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA)
- Pakistan American Business Association (PABA)