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Oct 21, 2026
Lowcountry charity investing in entrepreneurs
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Mike SwitzerHOST
Well, share with us what some of the programs are that entrepreneurs are benefiting from through your center.
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2:43Grady JohnsonGUEST
This opportunity to put this many entrepreneurs under one roof and with a large variety of business models, it becomes its own program.
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3:00Grady JohnsonGUEST
We've got the accelerator program that we've been running here for years where we're helping companies who already have a minimum viable product get into the market and scale that and get ready for follow-on investment.
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3:12Grady JohnsonGUEST
And we're adding programming now this year with the help funding from Low Country Impact Fund and the SCRA to add a program earlier stage where we can help entrepreneurs who've already got the idea and concept, but help them get from MVP to their first users in beta.

Mike SwitzerHOST
What do you suppose it is about your neck of the woods that is making it such a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity?
The First 250: Grady Johnson and Pete Sniderman on Funding Lowcountry Founders
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5:12Grady JohnsonGUEST
Well, think about it like, like the way we are, Bill, this is, this is like fertilizer.
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5:21Grady JohnsonGUEST
And, and you, you know, uh, the, the investment that, uh, that the low country impact fund made, uh, you know, under, under Pete's Pete's guidance, um, we can take, we can take that investment and, and we can help hundreds of entrepreneurs who, who will, um, you know, many of them, we, like I said a minute ago, trying to, we, what we do is we, we do whatever we can to de-risk their, uh, you know, their launch of a company or whatever stage they're in.
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5:56Grady JohnsonGUEST
And so many of them are going to become successful and they in turn are going to come back around and support the community.
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6:07Grady JohnsonGUEST
If you look at the hospitals around the Lowcountry or colleges and universities and you look at the names on those buildings, those are local entrepreneurs.
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