The Innovation and Investment Readiness grants is designed encourage connection to funding opportunities for established startup and tech businesses.
Donor Name: City of Sacramento
State: California
City: Sacramento
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/22/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Programs funded in this category could include programming around technology commercialization, access to capital or grants, or customer acquisition for businesses ready to grow. Programming does not have to be cohort based.
Example projects that could be eligible include:
- Programming to help companies refine their product to connect with customers and investors
- SBIR/STTR Application, Phase I, or II support
- Pilot project and case study programming to help companies show real-world cases for customer acquisition.
Funding Information
Innovation and Investment Readiness: Up to $100,000.
Uses of Funds
- Program development and delivery costs (e.g. staff time, licensing costs, software, etc.)
- Salaries for staff delivering programming
- Training supplies and equipment
- Office space and co-working membership fees
- Marketing costs for program recruitment
- Food and non-alcoholic beverages provided to participants at the funded programs
- Software subscription fees
- Professional and contracted services.
Eligibility Criteria
- Proposed programming for Innovation and Investment grants must commit to at least 90% of participants of grant funded activities having either a residence or business with an address within Sacramento city limits. The remaining 10% of participants must either employ residents who live in the city limits, have a Business Operations Tax Certificate with the City of Sacramento, or demonstrate measurable business engagement in Sacramento city limits such as sales, contracts, or formal partnerships.
- Proposed programming may be new for the applicant or represent further development of existing programs.
- Proposed programming must be completed within a 12-month contract period beginning no earlier than March 30, 2026.
- All project activities funded by this grant program must be open and advertised to the general public and include publicity that recognizes the funding received from the City of Sacramento.
- Applicants must be in compliance with current and past City grants.
- Applicants must operate from a fixed place of business within the Sacramento city limits, except if grant-supported programming is provided within the city limits.
For more information, visit City of Sacramento.
