Capacitor
Launching Your Business
The Capacitor Incubator Program is a cohort-based, hybrid incubation model for scalable businesses. This program model helps entrepreneurs identify their growth goals, assess the challenges holding them back, and create an action plan to overcome those challenges and scale their businesses. Capacitor works with business owners to help them achieve their goals, whether that’s expanding their service region to reach new clients, increasing their product lines, or securing funding to enhance their operations.
During the incubator, entrepreneurs are surrounded by a dedicated team of industry experts and fractional C-suite support to work through their “program roadmap,” which helps them set milestones and goals. Additionally, group sessions with fellow cohort participants, such as roundtable discussions and coworking days, help entrepreneurs build their community of fellow business owners in the Shenandoah Valley.
In engineering, a “capacitor” temporarily stores electrical energy through the accumulation of electric charges to release all the energy very quickly. Through the incubator program, entrepreneurs accumulate their own “electrical charges” of knowledge capital, social capital, human capital, and financial capital, so they can “release their energy” and quickly overcome hurdles.
What is an incubator?
“A startup incubator is a collaborative program for startup companies — usually physically located in one central workspace — designed to help startups in their infancy succeed by providing workspace, seed funding, mentoring, and training.”
With Capacitor, our goal is to make this incubation process more accessible by offering virtual mentorship and dispersing physical workspaces so that entrepreneurs from anywhere in the Shenandoah Valley can take advantage of the program.
Stay tuned for more information about the next cohort of Capacitor!
WHO should apply?
The Capacitor Program is best fit for early-stage entrepreneurs with validated business ideas who are preparing to scale their business. Entrepreneurs who apply for Capacitor should be prepared to dedicate 3-5 hours a month to meeting with coaches, mentors, and their cohort, as well as spending additional time outside of the program working to achieve their business goals.
Each Capacitor Cohort will accept 8-10 businesses. To be eligible for this program, your business must be located in the Shenandoah Valley.
HOW much does Capacitor cost?
Thanks to the support of Go Virginia Region 8, this program is currently free to all accepted applicants.
WHEN does Capacitor happen?
Applications for Cohort 2 are open from June 1, 2025 - June 22, 2025. You will hear from the SCCF team after June 22nd on whether or not you have been accepted.
Cohort 2 will run from July 8, 2025 - December 8, 2025.
What is a Capacitor?
In engineering, a “capacitor” temporarily stores electrical energy through the accumulation of electric charges in order to release all the energy very quickly. Through the incubator program, you will accumulate your own “electrical charges” of knowledge capital, social capital, human capital, and financial capital, so you can “release their energy” and quickly overcome hurdles in the first years of your business launch.
