FDI Directory · SelectUSA snapshot, February 2025

New Hampshire

Department of Business and Economic Affairs, State of New Hampshire

Priority sectors
12
Incentive programmes
4
Shovel-ready sites
0
Incubators
2
Countries courted
15

Sectors it is courting

Investment it is seeking from

Supply-chain projects it is looking for

Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Semiconductor Manufacturing and Advanced Packaging

Incentive programmes

  • Tax Credit

    Economic Revitalization Zone tax credit, Research & Development tax credit, Coos County Job Creation tax credit, Opportunity Zones

  • Tax Exemption

    Regenerative Manufacturing: No NH business tax for 10 years, No State Sales Tax, No State Personal Income Tax, Overall Low Business Tax

  • Loan/Loan Participation

    Bond financing, credit enhancements, loan guarantees

  • Other

    WorkInvestNH - NH Job Training fund

Technology-sector sub-sectors sought

FinTech, HealthTech (including MedTech), ICT (including Software / Cybersecurity / AI)

Programmes for international technology startups

The New Hampshire Tech Alliance is a unique association that works with startups and helps them find financing and provides other support for technology startups.

Incubators and accelerators

  • Dartmouth Regional Technology Center

    The Dartmouth Regional Technology Center (DRTC), consists of 60,000 square feet of laboratory and office space available to startup companies and growing businesses; with 15-20 active ventures. The main focus of DRTC is investments in medical technologies and other companies in the life sciences space.

  • Hannah Grimes Center

    The Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship in Keene, NH, focuses on providing space and support to small businesses and startups in a more rural part of the state. The Center draws on students from nearby Keene State University and from other experts to provide workshops and training, coaching, and office space and shared serves across a wide range of industries.

University and workforce programmes

  • Community College System of New Hampshire

    Collaboration with industry, customized training programs designed in partnership with industry (certificate, condensed and micro-credential training programs), student internships, WorkInvestNH's job training matching grant program, WorkReadyNH's hiring training/programs.

Additional services

Single point of contact for customized business assistance. BEA connects with other services in government and outside to make international investors feel like a part of our state ecosystems. BEA has a strong relationship with tech, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, and aerospace trade associations to help companies in these areas find suppliers and business partners. As a concierge-like service provider, BEA also supports companies with meetings with other government agencies on permitting, can help arrange job fairs, and promotes new investments to our partners and across the state.

In its own words

Information on New Hampshire's target industries and administrative policy goals can be found on BEA's Research and Strategies page: https://www.nheconomy.com/about-us/bea-reports These reports include an overview of key sectors including life sciences, advanced manufacturing, outdoor recreation, and others. These reports highlight employment, educational attainment, and clusters that can be strong locations for foreign investment in these sectors. The Business Recruitment and Expansion Executive Report highlights New Hampshire's strengths as a home for foreign investment and provides a strategy for moving forward and expanding in the state

Regional partner organisations

Who to contact

  • Adam BoltikInternational Trade Resource ManagerAdam.T.Boltik@livefree.nh.gov(603) 271-0331
  • Mark LaliberteBusiness Development Managermark.j.laliberte@livefree.nh.gov(603) 271-0322

100 North Main Street, Suite 100, Concord, NH 03301

What New Hampshire did not submit

These headings exist in the federal questionnaire and this jurisdiction left them blank. Blank means unanswered, not zero — it is not evidence that there is nothing there.

  • Site-selection services
  • Shovel-ready sites
  • Clean-energy programmes

Source: SelectUSA FDI Database — U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. All profile text above is Department of Business and Economic Affairs, State of New Hampshire's own submission, carried verbatim. Snapshot: February 2025. Programmes close, budgets change and people move on; confirm with the organisation before acting on anything here.

New Hampshire: what it offers foreign investors — Applied America