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Offers an eight-month, no-cost accelerator for innovators piloting solutions to environmental and resilience challenges in Los Angeles, providing mentorship, technical assistance, and connections to partners to help scale impactful projects for at-risk communities.
Accelerates commercialization of UC San Diego technologies with dual-use potential by providing funding, mentorship, and networks to help researchers and startups develop solutions for both civilian and defense applications, advancing them toward real-world deployment.
Learn more →12-week hybrid accelerator in Modesto, CA for circular bioeconomy startups, providing $100K total support including $15K non-dilutive grant, $35K investment, and $50K campus credits.
Learn more →A semester-based incubator program for founders aged 18+ to accelerate innovative ideas into reality. Through a semester course curriculum, students explore all steps to creating a startup: technical assistance, physical co-working space, subject matter expert and advisor sessions, and access to entrepreneurial resources. Also includes Youth Innovators Lab for ages 16–18. Past cohort graduates include smart business card companies and zero-waste product startups.
Learn more →Offers Cal Poly students and recent alumni a 12-week summer program to develop business models, receive mentorship, seed funding, and entrepreneurial training to launch scalable startups.
Learn more →\- Provides non-dilutive funding and commercialization support to small businesses developing innovative technologies through federal agency partnerships, helping them advance from concept to market with expert guidance and resources. \- Offers a nine-month accelerator to nurture and scale bioscience and healthcare innovations that improve health and wellness in Los Angeles communities, especially those impacted by limited access to new solutions. \- Delivers a nine-month immersive experience supporting innovators to pilot and expand solutions that boost community resilience and adaptability to weather disasters and environmental challenges at no cost.
Learn more →Offers a highly customized, resource-rich week of executive education featuring innovation classes, tech company insights, venture capital trends, and workshops, combined with networking and cultural experiences in the Bay Area.
Learn more →Offers personalized training, global market insights, intensive sales coaching, and legal support to help founders in sectors like clean tech, AI, and advanced manufacturing scale their startups, with opportunities for investor exposure and pitch development in Sacramento.
Learn more →A city/county-funded workforce development initiative managed by REDF connecting Los Angeles workforce agencies with employment social enterprises. Helps individuals overcoming barriers to employment (homelessness, justice involvement) gain jobs, on-the-job training, and wraparound support services. ESEs provide paid transitional work while participants receive case management, childcare/transportation assistance, and job placement support. Funded by CA Employment Development Department and WIOA.
Learn more →World's first accelerator focused exclusively on net-zero built environment technologies. A 6-month program for startups in energy, water, materials, HVAC, waste, and building decarbonization, offered by the U.S. Green Building Council California chapter.
Learn more →A 6-month, 100+ hour hands-on program for leaders of employment social enterprises (ESEs)—mission-driven businesses that employ people overcoming barriers to employment (justice system involvement, homelessness, addiction). Two leaders from each ESE participate per cohort. Teaches business development, experiment design, employee success program design, and financial sustainability. Upon completion, each enterprise receives a $20,000 unrestricted grant. Since 2016: 185+ ESE leaders supported across the U.S.
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