# BUILD TO SCALE (11.024)

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/programs/11-024-build-to-scale/  
Publisher: Well Told Grants. Data: USAspending.gov and Grants.gov, updated November 7, 2026.

BUILD TO SCALE is run by Department of Commerce. From fiscal 2021 to 2025 it awarded $89.6 million in 109 grants, about $821,983 per award.

## Objectives

Entrepreneurs, especially technology entrepreneurs, flourish in healthy ecosystems. Technology-based economic development (TBED) grows ecosystems in which entrepreneurs can build and scale technology-driven businesses, which in turn create high-skill and high-wage jobs, economic opportunity, and the industries of the future. EDA’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE) awards grants through the Build to Scale (B2S) Program to foster technology-based ecosystems, to advance the growth of connected, innovation-centric economies that accelerate technology, and to enable commercialization to increase regional and global competitiveness.

## Funding by fiscal year

| Year | Amount | Awards |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $37.2 million | 50 |
| 2022 | $46.6 million | 50 |
| 2023 | $661,725 | 1 |
| 2024 | $4.2 million | 7 |
| 2025 | $897,425 | 2 |

## Largest recipients

| Recipient | State | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | Texas | $2.7 million |
| The Regents of the University of California | California | $2.0 million |
| Innovation Works, Inc | Pennsylvania | $2.0 million |
| Tampa Bay Wave Inc | Florida | $2.0 million |
| Codefi Foundation on Rural Innovation | Missouri | $2.0 million |
| Tennessee Technology Development Corporation | Tennessee | $2.0 million |
| New Energy Nexus New York LLC | New York | $2.0 million |
| Red Wing Ignite | Minnesota | $2.0 million |
| New England Aquarium Corporation | Massachusetts | $1.9 million |
| The Pennsylvania State University | Pennsylvania | $1.8 million |
| Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center, Inc. | Maryland | $1.8 million |
| Startupnv | Nevada | $1.8 million |
| Denver, City & County of | Colorado | $1.5 million |
| University of Illinois | Illinois | $1.5 million |
| Bioscience and Technology Business Center, Inc. | Kansas | $1.5 million |
| Launch New York, Inc. | New York | $1.5 million |
| The University of Texas at El Paso | Texas | $1.5 million |
| Southwestern Community College District | California | $1.5 million |
| Aglaunch Initiative | Tennessee | $1.5 million |
| Louisiana Tech University | Louisiana | $1.5 million |