Category: Success Story

  • Bosko and Maya Kante, ElectroSpit

    June 16, 2023
    Pioneering music technology company ElectroSpit makes the world’s only lightweight, fully-portable, tubeless talkbox. This technology allows musicians to play various instrumental sounds…
  • Bernadette Aguirre, INA Botanicals & Tea

    May 10, 2023
    Bernadette Aguirre is a first-generation Filipina American from San Francisco, California. She is the founder of INA Botanicals & Tea,…
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    Milagros Escuela, MamaArepas

    April 25, 2023
    Milagros Escuela is the owner of MamaArepas, along with her husband, Fidel Lozada. They have worked tirelessly to bring Venezuelan…
  • Jose Mendoza, FiestaBowls

    April 11, 2023
    FiestaBowls, located between 18th and 19th streets, is an example of the tenacity of the Mission’s business community. In challenging…
  • Xiomara Rosa-Tedla & Dagne Tedla, UnoEth

    March 17, 2023
    After a trip to Ethiopia to visit family, Dagne Tedla brought a leather messenger bag as a gift for his…
  • Lashawnda Scaccianoce, Delight Your Senses

    March 2, 2023
    Lashawnda Scaccianoce has been passionate about food and feeding people since she was young. In fact, she was only 11…
  • Mina Wilcox, Art Mina

    February 17, 2023
    Mina Wilcox comes from a long line of entrepreneurs. Her grandfather was a printmaker, and her parents ran a restaurant in Japan.…
  • Tana Harris, Harris Hoisting

    February 2, 2023
    Tana Harris had been in the construction industry for nearly 20 years when she started thinking about starting her own…
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    Wanda Blake, Wanda’s Cooking

    January 11, 2023
    Wanda Blake’s cooking apprenticeship started in her mother’s kitchen. It then continued in the kitchens of great aunts, aunties, grandmas,…
  • Reina Morales & Agustin Gomez, Tingo’s Plumbing

    December 28, 2022
    Despite the language barrier, Reina Morales and Agustin Gomez have been able to bring their business to success with the…