There are thousands of funding programs available to small businesses — grants, loans, tax credits, and more. The landscape shifts constantly: programs open, deadlines pass, new money gets announced. FundBug keeps track of all of it so you don't have to.
Funding programs for small businesses are scattered across federal agencies, state economic development offices, local BIDs, CDFIs, corporate foundations, and nonprofit funds. There is no single place to look. And the landscape doesn't stay put — programs open and close throughout the year, deadlines come and go, and new opportunities get announced without much fanfare.
Staying on top of all of it would mean monitoring dozens of portals, reading fine print, and spending time you don't have evaluating whether something is even worth applying for. Most business owners can't do that — not because they don't care, but because they're running a business.
FundBug does the monitoring for you. We track what's open, what's closing, and what's new — and every two weeks we send you a ranked digest of the programs that actually fit your business right now.
When you sign up, you tell us about your business — your industry, where you operate, how long you've been running, who owns it, what you're working toward. That profile becomes the lens we use to filter and rank every program in our database.
The database is always moving. Programs get added when they open, pulled when they close, and updated when eligibility rules or deadlines change. We run automated status checks and manual reviews so that what reaches you is current — not a year-old listing that closed in February.
Your digest lands on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month. The first program is always your strongest grant opportunity right now. Everything else is ranked by fit and competition level, with a plain-English note explaining why it's relevant to your business specifically and what to keep in mind if you decide to apply.
Reach us at hello@fundbug.net. We're a small operation and we read every email.