New Food & Beverage Accelerator Program

The Food & Beverage Accelerator Program is a web-based 6-week course sponsored by the Virginia Small Business Development Center and led by Cureate Courses for growth-oriented consumer packaged goods Food & Beverage Producers with ready-to-scale operations.  

Participants will attend an interactive hour-long webinar to learn strategies to pivot toward new revenue streams, expand production, enter new territories and successfully scale. 

To be eligible for the program, companies must be:

• Located in the Roanoke or Lynchburg Region
• Planning for specific growth (e.g.. territory, product lines, production scale)
• Producers of food and beverage products in the consumer-packaged goods category

*This program is not designed for alcoholic beverage companies. There is a separate program designed for those companies.

Learn more and apply.