USC Columbia Technology Incubator

The Incubator nurtures the Midlands entrepreneurs and their new companies. The USC/Columbia Technology Incubator is a nonprofit corporation sponsored by the University of South Carolina, City of Columbia and other area governments. Materially, businesses and private donors support the Incubator. It is currently home to nearly 50 companies. Since its inception with Joel Stevenson in 1998, they have provided opportunities for entrepreneurs to commercialize their ideas. They have also produced successful, financially viable and freestanding businesses all while creating hundreds of additional jobs in the community. They want high-tech, high-growth companies that can benefit from all the Incubator partners including USC and Midlands Technical College with manufacturing startup facilities.