Business Service Organizations (BSOs) offer technical support to entrepreneurs at all phases of their business life cycles. Support often comes in the form of classroom sessions, one-on-one counseling, and mentoring. That can include basic financial skills and financial statement creation, bookkeeping, marketing, IT training, scaling a business, and others.

Innovative Capital Providers, which includes BSOs that offer capital products, venture capital, and private equity, provide non-traditional forms of funding to help entrepreneurs access needed capital to run and grow their businesses. That includes revenue-based financing.

Worker cooperatives are a business ownership alternative. They offer collaborative ownership and allow workers to participate in a business’s profits, oversight, and often management using democratic practices.

To continue improving their services, BSOs need to gather new data continuously. That is where data collection platforms come in. They collect business-level information to help BSOs provide more tailored support to entrepreneurs and ecosystem-wide data and analysis to help FEBG and its Funders to make strategic decisions.

Ecosystem Designers are entities that provide the research necessary to recognize gaps in the small business ecosystem and identify efficient systems to fill those gaps. They create structures that allow for the easy and efficient flow of information and resources.