The Greater Pensacola Entrepreneur Fund assists Northwest Florida’s entrepreneurial community and serves as a navigation tool to help small businesses and startups access capital. The fund is an affiliate of the University of West Florida’s Center for Entrepreneurship and works with the economic development community, lenders, and loan recipients to ensure businesses achieve long-term success.

Why do we need the Greater Pensacola Entrepreneur Fund?

Communities that help entrepreneurs find and acquire funding create more jobs and promote sustainability. The fund’s mission is to provide a platform of financial stability for the greater Pensacola area’s company builders, enriching the quality of life for everyone in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.

Mission

The fund helps Pensacola area entrepreneurs and serves as a navigation tool to help small businesses and startups access capital. The fund works with the economic development community, lenders, and loan recipients to ensure businesses achieve success by creating high-value jobs, sustainability and economic resiliency.

Vision

To make the Pensacola metro area a world-class center for entrepreneurial development.

To provide a platform of financial stability for the Pensacola metro area’s company builders, enriching the quality of life for all citizens in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.

How do you start your journey?

Contact Mark Anderson at [email protected] or (850) 696-2414

321 N. DeVilliers St., Suite 103, Pensacola, FL 32501

Meet Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson is a business development professional with top-tier leadership experience in Pensacola, Atlanta, Miami and New York. He was named executive director of the Greater Pensacola Entrepreneur Fund in May 2015.

Anderson has worked for multinational media organizations such as Inc. Magazine, Inc.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and América Economia. He has worked with such clients as Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Regions Bank, Aflac, FedEx, Mercedes-Benz, AT&T, and the Disney Institute.

Anderson has participated in the University of Florida’s Visiting Professors Program, and has delivered speeches to organizations such as the German American Trade Council, the Economic Development Association of Alabama, and the World Association of Small & Medium Enterprises. Anderson is a graduate of Michigan State University and lives in Pensacola with his wife, Loretta.