Category: Minorities

August 28, 2019

Rosa Guerrero Contreras had a dream of launching her own plant-based food business for the last five years. What started…

June 5, 2019

Koy Saichow grew up in a subsistence farming community in Thailand, where each season relatives, friends and neighbors would come…

May 10, 2019

Pancho Kachingwe founded The Hatch Oakland Bar & Restaurant in 2014 to cater to a booming downtown Oakland. "Everything was self-funded," he…

February 28, 2019

Robin King always dreamed of having her own business but never imagined it would come from such tragic circumstances. On…

February 13, 2019

Brenda Buenviaje had worked as a chef for years but lacked business experience. When she wanted to open her own…

January 16, 2019

DAD Services of Oakland, California is a janitorial company that specializes in providing top-notch commercial cleaning for San Francisco Bay…

November 7, 2018

Mother-and-daughter Rosario Sotelo and Rodnia Attiq are the owners of El Borrego, the first restaurant in San Diego to serve lamb barbacoa.…

October 24, 2018

Manuel Guerrero grew up surrounded by a family of entrepreneurs. He embraced this spirit and chose to pursue his entrepreneurial…

September 12, 2018

Before Maria Harrington was a business owner or even a teacher, she was a student at Berkeley exploring a question:…

August 29, 2018

Marcia Charles has worked in fashion for her whole life. When Marcia was 15-years-old, she started working at department store…