TechTown is Detroit’s Entrepreneurship Hub

We help tech startups and local businesses launch and grow. We are an incubator and accelerator. We support businesses with coworking and office space, meeting space and event space. We also connect entrepreneurs to resources, and learning and networking events in Detroit.

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Tech. Neighborhoods. We mean business.

In the last 12 years, TechTown has supported 2,700 startups and small businesses. Our entrepreneurs do whatever it takes to make their good ideas happen. And what does TechTown do? Whatever it takes to help them get there.

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Tech Startup Programs

If you’re serious about your startup, have an innovative technology or want to play a larger role in the city’s burgeoning tech industry, TechTown is the place to start. We can help you with proof of concept, incubation and commercialization services.

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Small Business Support Programs

We can help you start or grow a retail business like a bakery, coffee shop, clothing boutique or grocery store. We also support service-based or lifestyle businesses like fitness studios or hair salons, as well as small manufacturers.

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Check out more than 150 TechTown-supported businesses on our Shop Local directory.

TechTown Spotlight

Retail 2020: Reflect and Recharge

We all love progress, but no one enjoys seeing the orange barrels come out during Michigan’s road construction season. Additionally, it takes on a completely different meaning if they appear outside the front door of your small business. For business owners on Livernois, Grand River and Bagley, this has been their reality all summer. Diggers, cement trucks, backhoes and semi-trucks zoom up and down the road, park in front of their businesses and rip up their sidewalks, making it even more difficult than normal to execute a marketing strategy.

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Radical Inclusion in Tech

Tech entrepreneurship is a powerful force for addressing societal problems and opportunities. Dr. Marlo Rencher, TechTown’s director of technology-based programs, benchmarked some of the best practices for creating an inclusive tech entrepreneurship environment.

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Raxplay: Putting Users Into the Music

Raxplay is creating a new way for music listeners everywhere to experience music. Our TechTown staff had an opportunity to sit down with founder Isaac Lymon to discuss how they started and what they are doing to turn music albums into mixed reality experiences.

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Offer your expertise to small businesses and startups in Detroit. Join our Professional Services Network and give back to the community by mentoring Detroit entrepreneurs.

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Events At TechTown

Our calendar is full of great business events and learning events. Join us at an upcoming event.

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Your tax-deductible donation helps launch and grow businesses across Detroit while contributing to the revitalization of a great American city.

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