You're past the "will this work?" question.
You're stuck on "why is growing this so hard?"
— and Virginia's support infrastructure is fragmented across forty agencies, half a dozen capital programs, and a dozen workforce portals.
You're not big enough for a full-time government-affairs person, an in-house lawyer, or a CFO who knows every capital program.
That's the gap FGBVA was built to close.
Every growth-stage operator hits the same four walls. We've indexed the programs behind each one and built the relationships to route you to the right named contact.
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Stage-matched monthly circles in Richmond, Hampton Roads, and Northern Virginia. Chatham House rules. One hot-seat, three asks, one win per session. You leave with a shortlist of things to do on Monday — not a pile of decks.
I spent six months trying to figure out which state program to call. FGBVA got me on the phone with the right person in a week — and that call turned into our biggest contract of the year.
We translate what operators tell us in circles into specific, measurable asks — the kind a legislator can vote on and an agency head can implement. No "business climate" abstractions. No panels about ecosystem vibrancy. Real line items: thresholds, timelines, dollar figures, portals, pilots. Members see every ask before it's filed.