City Startup Labs (CSL), a Charlotte, NC-based nonprofit, has been the preeminent accelerator program for aspiring African American millennial entrepreneurs, through its Center of Excellence and more recently returning citizens (formerly incarcerated persons), through the ReEntry Entrepreneurship Program (REEP). CSL creates these new classes of entrepreneurs by providing a robust, culturally relevant, progressive, and disciplined approach to developing entrepreneurial talent, on-trend, business-ready skills, new venture creation, and deployment.
