One in three businesses launched in Mesa County have been supported by the Business Incubator Center.

That’s 33% of 4,754 small, local businesses. Not corporations moving to the Grand Valley or a national department store opening at the mall, clarified Dalida Sassoon Bollig, chief executive officer for the incubator.

While that statistic was part of the incubator’s recently released 2024 annual report, “this is an all-time figure,” Sassoon Bollig said.

It reflects data metrics tracked by the incubator since it was founded in 1986 and verified by both state and federal agencies that also confirmed the data points presented in the 2024 report, she said.

During that year, 526 Mesa County entrepreneurs and small businesses were supported by the incubator, which helped to launch 29 start-up

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