State Trade Expansion Program (STEP)

State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) is shown because it has a visible official owner, a public source, and enough structured inputs for Buronia to prepare a useful first filing pack for companies in California.

Strong simple-form fit for export-ready small businesses: trade shows, translation/globalisation, e-commerce and trade missions.

The official amount rule displayed on this page is: State-administered reimbursements; activity caps vary. Where a rate or cap is public, the calculator applies it. Where the authority varies support by call, budget, or national body, the calculator treats your input as a preparation scenario.

Use the check if the company can provide a plausible EIN, a real work email, and basic facts about the project, spend, or support need. If the company is not yet incorporated, the first useful step is usually to prepare the evidence separately.

• SMEs and startups checking whether the programme is worth deeper work.
• Founders comparing several public funding paths before hiring an advisor.
• Finance or operations teams collecting a clean internal evidence list.

The first intake focuses on: Ein, State, Export market, Planned activity, Estimated cost. Buronia turns those fields into a checklist and pre-application pack; the company still reviews the final submission and any authority-specific attachments.

After the short signup, the heavier evidence normally includes project descriptions, invoices or cost estimates, payroll or contractor data, IP or export details, financial statements, ownership information, and authority-specific declarations.

In the California business funnel, State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) sits beside SBIR / STTR, R&D payroll tax credit election. The best first filing depends on both upside and simplicity: a lower-value voucher can beat a large grant if the company can complete it this week.

Buronia is not U.S. Small Business Administration / state awardees. The official source remains the authority of record, and the final eligibility decision stays with that authority. This page exists to make the source, amount rule, calculator, and signup path visible before a company shares more data.