$500K
Growth capital secured
Success story · Birmingham cohort
Sarcor
Civil & transportation engineering
A civil engineering firm went from the brink of shutting down to $2.3M in new contracts and licensure in six states.
Selena Rogers Dickerson · President & CEO
Where they started
Strong technical capability and demand — but exhausted, stuck, and ready to shut down, despite completing the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program.
What changed
The outcomes after twelve weeks.
$2.3M
New contract value since the program
7
New hires in 2026
6
States licensed (from zero)
The story.
Sarcor supports roads, airports, and community development across the Southeast. After the intensive, the firm secured $500K in growth capital, added $2.3M in new contract value, and expanded its pipeline with existing clients by $400K.
Sarcor is now licensed in six states and pursuing a $10M joint venture with a Fortune 500 engineering firm — alongside work with the City of Birmingham, the City of Trussville, and Norfolk Southern.
The Capital Collective took me from trying to figure out how to grow, to actually growing. It put the jumper cables on me.
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