Emerging Businesses

Through strategic partnerships, TVA works to ensure the growth and success of the Tennessee Valley business community.

Business incubator centers

Business incubator centers across the Valley provide entrepreneurs with on-site support services and rental space. Clients have access to technical, marketing, financial, legal and business planning assistance to enhance their business success rate and graduate to become stand-alone, viable businesses.

Bessemer Business Incubation System

Chattanooga/Hamilton County Business Development Center

Cleveland-Bradley Business Incubator

Cumberland Business Incubator

Cumberland Emerging Technologies Life Sciences Center

Decatur-Morgan County Entrepreneurial Center

Emerge Memphis

ETSU Innovation Lab

Four Lake Regional Industrial Development Authority

Kemper County Industrial Incubator

Murray State Regional Business and Innovation Center

Nashville Business Incubation Center

Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Neshoba Business Enterprise Center

Northeast Mississippi Business Incubation System

North Mississippi Enterprise Initiative, Inc.

Pioneer Center for Business Opportunity

Renasant Center for IDEAs

Shoals Entrepreneurial Center

Tech 2020

Western Kentucky University Innovation & Commercialization Center

Winston County Business & Industry Incubator

Women’s Business Center of North Alabama

Diversity Alliance

TVA participates with strategic partners to provide business tools and opportunities that help grow and sustain minority- and woman-owned businesses in the Valley. The partner organizations located across the Valley deliver services such as business plan development, loan preparation, marketing strategy, government contracting and company procurement assistance, and certification possibilities.

Diversity Alliance partners information and map (PDF)