This section of the website is devoted to SBA’s most important customer, the entrepreneur. Whether your business is in the early stages of development or already thriving and seeking growth capital, we want to help you determine if venture capital financing is right for your company – and if so, who in the SBIC community might be willing to consider an investment. Remember, as the nation’s largest fund of funds, the SBIC Program does not invest directly in small businesses. Instead, SBA puts its confidence in premier venture capital funds to evaluate and invest in promising small companies.

Entrepreneurs have three sources to search for active SBICs. The first is our SBIC directory – a U.S. map on the SBIC homepage at www.sba.gov/inv. Just click on the state or states where your company is located. (Coming soon, we’ll be adding more search capabilities so entrepreneurs can look for SBICs according to investment stage, geographic or industry focus). The second source of SBIC information is under the member listing of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies (NASBIC) at www.nasbic.org. The third source is the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) website at www.naicvc.com, which dedicates financial resources to investment in an ethnically diverse marketplace. We hope you, the entrepreneur, will take advantage of this area of our website and that you visit us frequently.

For more Information
Operating SBIC's
How to seek SBIC Financing
Investment Types
A Venture Capital Primer for Small Business FM-5
Venture Capital 101