成人影片 Interior Business Accelerator accepting applications

Innovators meet on UAF Campus
UAF photo by JR Ancheta
Innovators discuss potential commercialization strategies during a 2017 workshop on the UAF campus.

Interior 成人影片 now has its first business accelerator, a program to help jump-start new businesses through  mentorship, networking, education and access to capital.

The 成人影片 Interior Business Accelerator is accepting applications for its first cohort. The deadline is April 4, 2022. The  eight-week in-person program will take place in Fairbanks. To obtain more information, apply or ask a question, visit .

Aspiring entrepreneurs and early-stage business owners from the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Denali Borough and Southeast Fairbanks and Yukon-Koyukuk census areas are welcome to apply. The accelerator will culminate in a pitch competition with a prize. 

The accelerator is a collaboration between the University of 成人影片 Fairbanks Center for Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship; the Fairbanks Economic Development Corp.; the 成人影片 Small Business Development Center and the UAF Community and Technical College.

Participants will also be eligible for microcredentials through the college.

鈥淭his accelerator is something that our community can really get behind and be proud of,鈥 said Mark Billingsley, Center ICE director. 鈥淲e all benefit from the launch of new businesses in the Interior, plus it鈥檚 fun and exciting.鈥 

鈥淭he 成人影片 Interior Business Accelerator is similar to, and inspired by, other programs in the state and throughout the country,鈥 said Jomo Stewart, president and CEO of FEDC, 鈥渂ut we鈥檙e excited to have created something local that can be more flexible to the needs of the small businesses that are so important to Fairbanks.鈥

ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: Mark Billingsley, director of Center ICE, mcbillingsley@alaska.edu, 907-474-2626. Jomo Stewart, president and CEO of FEDC, fedc@ak.net, 907-452-2185. Russ Talvi, business advisor and Fairbanks Center director, SBDC, russell.talvi@aksbdc.org, 907-456-7062. Mark Young, associate professor and program chair for applied business and accounting, UAF CTC, mdyoung2@alaska.edu, 907-455-2862.

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