State funding hub
New York founders get statewide competitions and a dense university layer on top of national equity-free programs. Bootstrap Directory currently lists 11 New York-specific competition and accelerator listings—including Grow-NY, GENIUS NY, FuzeHub, the New York Business Plan Competition, Columbia, NYU, Cornell, and Baruch—plus national listings that also cover New York.
Hub content and matching listings are refreshed from the live Bootstrap Directory database.
Sources include Grants.gov, SAM.gov, SBIR.gov, CareerOneStop, state agencies, universities, and verified organizations.
Listings are checked weekly where source data allows, with stale or closed programs removed from public results.
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GENIUS NY
Verified Oct 15, 2026
Grow-NY
Verified Oct 15, 2026
Columbia Entrepreneurship
Verified Oct 15, 2026
Cornell eLab
Verified Oct 15, 2026
New York Business Plan Competition
Verified Oct 15, 2026
FuzeHub
Verified Oct 15, 2026
W. R. Berkley Innovation Labs / Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship (NYU Stern)
Verified Aug 12, 2026
Columbia Entrepreneurship (Columbia University)
Verified Aug 12, 2026
Cornell University — Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets (SC Johnson College of Business)
Verified Aug 12, 2026
Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship (Baruch College, CUNY)
Verified Aug 12, 2026
U.S. Federal Government
Verified Oct 15, 2026
SXSW
Verified Oct 15, 2026
Distinct New York state listings today include Grow-NY (food, beverage, and agriculture; awards up to $1,000,000 in our data), GENIUS NY (Syracuse accelerator competition for uncrewed systems / IoT / robotics), the New York Business Plan Competition for enrolled NY college founders, and FuzeHub’s Commercialization Competition for NY manufacturers and early-stage product companies (up to $50,000). Confirm current cycles on each official site.
University-layer listings include Columbia Venture Competition / Startup Columbia, NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge (multiple listing variants), Cornell eLab and the EMC² Mark Mobius Pitch Competition, and Baruch’s Business Plan & Pitch Competition. Award ceilings in our data range from about $1,500 to $300,000 depending on the program. Most are school-affiliated — confirm who can apply.
If you fit Grow-NY, GENIUS NY, FuzeHub, or NYBPC eligibility, prioritize those statewide paths. If you have a qualifying university affiliation, use the matching campus competition or eLab. Otherwise compare national equity-free grants and accelerators that include New York coverage, and use the New York business loans hub for ESD SSBCI credit rather than treating loans as grants.
This hub’s live grant slice is still dominated by national programs, and scraped Empire State Development resource pages are not reliable “New York grant” inventory. New York-only competition and accelerator rows are stored as rolling/open without reliable deadline fields (last verified June–August 2026). Competition cycles are seasonal — always use the official apply page for the current deadline.
Eleven competition and accelerator listings under this hub’s filters: Grow-NY, GENIUS NY, New York Business Plan Competition, FuzeHub, Columbia Venture Competition, Startup Columbia, NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge (two listing variants), Cornell eLab, EMC² Mark Mobius, and Baruch Business Plan & Pitch. Remaining cards are national programs also available in New York.
Statewide competitions like Grow-NY, GENIUS NY, and FuzeHub have their own applicant criteria (sector, location, stage). University competitions and eLab typically require student, alumni, or affiliate status — read each program’s rules.
They are not yet represented as clean state-scoped grant listings on our New York grants page. Prefer official Empire State Development sources for program discovery for now; this startup-funding hub highlights competitions and accelerators we can verify geographically.
Our database currently stores these competitions as rolling/open without fixed deadline fields. Use the official Grow-NY, GENIUS NY, FuzeHub, and NYBPC pages for the active cycle’s due dates.
Empire State Development SSBCI programs and New York CDFI lenders.
University pitch and business-plan competitions.
Grant programs available to New York businesses.
Manufacturing funding for New York businesses.
Equity-free grants, competitions, and accelerators nationwide.