Cultivate Small Business

We work hard to ensure we are providing tools and solutions to our customers to enable them to achieve their financial goals.

Santander’s Cultivate Small Business helps early-stage entrepreneurs build and sustain businesses in the food industry, with a focus on historically underserved founders in low-to-moderate income neighborhoods.  The program is completely free for eligible entrepreneurs and provides a 12 week food-focused curriculum, mentorship, and capital grants.

Apply

Cultivate Small Business supports entrepreneurs and businesses that meet the following criteria:

• In operation for at least one year
• Are working full time in the business and have fewer than 10 total full-time equivalent employees
• Revenues between $25,000 and $1,000,000 in the last calendar year
• Located in the United States

Our Fall cohort runs from September through November with applications accepted from March through June.

Our Spring cohort runs from March through June with applications accepted from November through January.

Please reach out to CultivateSmallBusiness@Santander.us with questions about program eligibility or application deadlines.

Partners

Santander is proud to work with our dedicated program partners: Initiative for A Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Babson College.