Business Accelerator

The Jacobs Center Business Accelerator (formerly CONNECT ALL @ The Jacobs Center) is the
regions first and only business accelerator program focused on low-to-moderate income residents of the City of San Diego. The program was an innovative partnership with the City of San Diego, the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation and CONNECT.

Since inception the program has graduated over 100 businesses from the intensive 4-month program. Alumni have raised over $3.1M in capital from investments (equity and debt) and created/retained 40 jobs in the San Diego region. The founders have reported having more confidence and many have already started a second business using the learnings and strategies from the program.

The Executive Director of the Program Labs was the chief architect of the program. He created the program, schedule, modular content delivery design, assessments, and feedback cycle for continuous improvement. This is an example of the type of economic development programming we can create for you.