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  • 34,319 certified veteran-owned firms with a public location in the SBA VetCert snapshot of Oct 4, 2026.
  • 85.5% of them hold SDVOSB certification.
  • 50.8% started in 2021 or later; 16.3% started 2024 to 2026.
  • Most certified firms by state: TX 3,796, FL 3,630, VA 3,249, CA 2,592, GA 2,096.
  • 7,795 of 42,114 certified firms (18.5%) hide their public location.
  • Official acts found: South Carolina 2021, Douglas County OR 2022, Montana 2023 to 2026, Pennsylvania Senate resolution 2026.
  • South Carolina: bill introduced Feb 4, 2021 and adopted Feb 11, 2021, in 7 days.
  • Montana has proclaimed the week four years running, 2023 to 2026.
  • National Invest In Veterans Week runs March 1 to 7 every year.
  • Pattern, not proof: start-year gains beside proclamations do not show cause.
  • Montana: 144 certified firms with a public location, 93.1% SDVOSB.
  • Montana firms started since 2023: 32.6% vs 30.6% nationally.
  • Montana 2024 cohort: 16 of 16 firms hold SDVOSB, vs 90.1% nationally.
  • KRTV reported on March 6, 2026 on a Montana veteran who found a job with help from an employment program during transition.
  • Research Radar indexes 21 records: 19 read, 2 queued.
  • No indexed study uses a causal or quasi-experimental design.
  • Franchising has no indexed research record yet.
  • Open question: does SBA VetCert certification raise the chance of a federal contract? Contract awards are not observed.
  • Policy question: are newly certified veteran businesses constrained by capital in their first three years?
  • Jacksonville Vetrepreneur Summit: 186, 151 and 146 unique registrants in 2017, 2018 and 2019; 448 unique people overall.
  • Between 6% and 10% of later-year registrants had registered in an earlier year.
  • Among 2019 summit registrants who gave a business age, 62% were startups.
  • Jacksonville metro: 305 certified firms with a public location; 19.3% started 2024 to 2026 vs 16.3% nationally.
  • Scenario 2030 (current pace of new certified firms, no exits): top states TX, FL, VA, CA, GA.
  • Pace used: average of 2021 to 2024 start cohorts per state, added for 2027 to 2030.
  • Rank order is stable at the current pace: the top five stay TX, FL, VA, CA and GA; only small moves appear lower down, such as CO 11 to 10 and IL 13 to 12.
  • A what-if, not a forecast: exits, rule changes and certification lags are not modeled.
  • Top capability categories among certified firms: Management and professional consulting 5.0%; Construction 3.5%; Manufacturing and fabrication 3.4%.
  • Capability is one keyword-estimated primary category per firm.
  • Written narratives appear on 38.5% of firm profiles; capability statements on 11.9%.
  • 13.1% of certified firms are woman-owned and 38.4% are minority-owned.
  • 60.5% list a website.
  • Women veteran owners reported larger funding gaps than men in IVMF survey data: 44% could not secure growth funding vs 27%.
  • Veteran firms show higher survival and slower job growth in restricted Census data (Research Radar).

Facts come from the SBA VetCert snapshot of 2026-10-04 (aggregates), published proclamations and reports, and the datasets on this site. This is a data ticker, not a live news wire. The 2030 states view is a what-if, not a forecast. Veteran Business Super Intelligence℠ · National Invest In Veterans Week® · Google Dataset Search

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