Food Business Accelerator 2025 for Early-stage Food Entrepreneurs in Connecticut, USA

The Food Business Accelerator (FBA) 2025 is a statewide accelerator for Connecticut early-stage food entrepreneurs. It aims to remove barriers to food entrepreneurship through training, network-building, and access to resources, including leadership development and market access opportunities. Benefits include a 12-week workshop series, seed funding, access to licensed kitchen space, coaching, mentorship, and opportunities to pitch to investors and partners.

Participation in a 12-week workshop series; seed funding; 10 hours of licensed commercial kitchen space; 1-on-1 coaching; assigned mentor; opportunity to vend at CitySeed Farmers Markets; SafeServe training and certification; opportunity to pitch to investors; access to entrepreneur resources listserv.

Open to food entrepreneurs who have recently launched or are working toward launching a food business in Connecticut, USA.