Success Stories
Client Award Winners
2025 NYSBDC Neighorhood Business of the Year
2024 StartUp Business Plan Competition winner
2024 NYSBDC Millennial Small Business of the Year
2024 PowerUP! Business Plan Competition
2020 National Institutes of Health SBIR Award
Recent Success Stories
Pace SBDC helped Laura Hart, owner of Robofun, secure over a quarter million dollars in financing with guidance from business advisor Pedro Soto Jr. This funding allowed the business to address cash flow gaps, refinance existing debt, and continue growing its innovative education programs.
Pace SBDC Business Advisor Rawle Brown guided Aubrey Lawson and Ray Charles through business plan development, financial projections, and landlord negotiations for their Guyanese restaurant in Bedford Stuyvesant.
Pace SBDC Business Advisor, Greg Callender, helped Evan Clark and Coulton Vento secure a $180,000 SBA-backed loan to launch Mockingbird NYC, an alcohol-free cocktail bar in Park Slope. He guided them through the loan process and helped prepare the needed materials for lender review.
Pandemic Features
Lower East Side-based custom neon light studio, GLO Studio, had to temporally close its physical storefront due to COVID and with the assistance of Pace SBDC they successfully transitioned to operating exclusively online and also secured $200,000 financing from the PPP and EIDL programs.
Pace SBDC helped Norwegian Baked owner Hedvig Bourbon develop a business plan as well as formalize bookkeeping procedures for her Brooklyn-based commercial kitchen. Further, post pandemic, Pace SBDC helped the business secure a PPP forgivable loan, enabling the business to save three jobs.
Harlem Baking Company (HBC), is a dessert brand that produces confections served in jars. With support from Pace SBDC business advisors Rawle Brown and Susan Gluck, HBC received help on business planning, access to financing, and market positioning as they expand into producing a line of dessert products.
