Meet the 2024 Amazon Business Small Business Grants Recipients These small businesses are driving innovation and making an impact in their communities.
Small businesses play a vital role in addressing critical community needs such as safety, education, and wellness. However, achieving success as a small business is no easy feat - additional support empowers entrepreneurs to fulfill their missions and amplify their influence.
Since 2022, Amazon Business has awarded more than half a million dollars to small businesses across the country. Continuing on in its third year, Amazon Business is awarding over $250,000 in grants to 15 small businesses.
Meet the 2024 Small Business Grants recipients who will receive monetary grants and other Amazon prizes such as 1 year free annual Business Prime Small or Essentials plan depending on users on account, Amazon devices bundle (Ring alarm security kit, Kindle Scribe, eero wifi router, and Echo Show 8), and Amazon Basics office supplies.
Entrepreneur.com selected 15 candidates from over thousands of applications. Amazon Business customers then voted for their favorite small business. The results are in and we are excited to share the results:
4 Finalists each receiving $20,000 monetary grant and additional prizes:
- We Rock the Spectrum Racine County: Provides a sensory gym for special needs community
- Cedar Key Dolphin Project Inc.: Conducts research on bottlenose dolphins to advance marine conservation and foster sustainable coastal communities
- Humane LLC: Converts agricultural waste into organic fertilizers to sequester carbon and support sustainable farming
- Vitality Robotics: Uses machine learning and robotics to help scientists develop new life saving therapies faster
10 semi-finalists each will be receiving $15,000 monetary grant and additional prizes:
- Lil Sippers: Develops innovative baby care products like color-changing bottles to ensure safe feeding
- EVPlugz: Provides low to no cost electric vehicle charging infrastructure for low to middle-income communities
- Intentions Ranch: Cares for people and animals through alternative wellness retreats, therapeutic sessions and education
- NU Lives On: Provides music therapy to hospitalized children with severe heart conditions
- Guardian Airwaves LLC: Uses VR technology to offer immersive training for first responders
- ecobrew: Captures and purifies excess CO2 from breweries to make their operations more sustainable and cost-effective
- Lifeware Labs: Builds tools for combat medics and first responders to enable real-time triage and care recommendations
- TakuEnergy LLC: Connects remote regions to renewable energy and portable water
- ES Inc.: Supports organizations' carbon-neutral outcomes through sustainable waste disposal solutions
- ZobeLab: Combines EdTech, FinTech, AI, and the Metaverse to empower independent music artists around the world
Visit Small Business Grants to learn how these small businesses will use their grant and find out which business took home the grand prize of $25,000 monetary grant and additional prizes.
