Category: Success Story

June 5, 2019

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

May 22, 2019

Andrea Wasko and Meaghan Gilbert of Los Osos, California launched their flagship product, the Quick Pickle Kit after starting Connoisseur…

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…

April 24, 2019

Meredith Pizzi started playing trumpet in the fifth grade and joined her school’s jazz band. It was after a performance…

April 10, 2019

Zea Sonnabend's organic farming bona fides cannot be overstated. With an MS in Plant Breeding from Cornell University and 35…

March 27, 2019

The idea to start BoltAbout came to Matt Maxwell in November 2015, when he was frustrated by public transportation options.…

March 13, 2019

Carmel Honey Company (CHC) grew out of a passion for bees and earning good grades.  As a 5th grade student…

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 30, 2019

Angela Bicos Mavridis, a San Marino, California resident, comes from an entrepreneurial family. Her father owned a drive-thru that served…