Success stories
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Exquadrum Improves Rocket & Space Technologies with Help of SBIR Program
Exquadrum, Inc. is a research and development engineering company that develops and demonstrates new rocket propulsion and munitions technologies for the Department of Defense, NASA, and commercial...
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SBA Loan Programs Keep Indoor Climbing Company Open and Connected with the Community
Alice Kao discovered indoor climbing while living and working in London during a difficult time in her life. Wanting to share the healing and self-discovery that climbing brought her, she and her...
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Mac-O-Licious
Mac-O-licious is a small restaurant in the Valley Village area. It was founded as a food truck by Kelly Chapman in 2012, and it has successfully grown into a beautiful storefront in less than two...
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CJSeto Support Services, LLC
CJSeto Support Services, LLC (CJS) thrived under the auspices of the 8(a) program and continues to thrive after graduation. Managing Director Chet Seto owes this continued success partly to a...
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Southeast C&I Electric Co., Inc.
Southeast C&I Electric Co., Inc. was founded in 1984 by husband and wife team Marvin Lowrance and Virginia Parker. Marvin who had extensive electrical training in the military and Virginia who sought...
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Three Sisters Reinvent the Family Farm into a World Class Cheese Producer
After nearly 100 years of dairy farming along the Northern California coastline, the Giacomini family dairy farm had reached an impasse. The farm had grown to its limits at the same time that...
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Off the Grid
Originally from Denver, Colorado, Matt started his career as a public school educator. His professional career then took him to Southern Japan, where he taught English with the JET program. After...
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Engineer Brings the Dessert Flavors of Mumbai to San Francisco with SBA Assistance
A civil engineer who worked on large-scale transportation infrastructure systems like BART and Muni, Priti Narayanan was feeling burnt out at her job. One night, while walking with her wife in San...