Entrepreneurship
Greater Sacramento is seeing exponential growth in its entrepreneurial ecosystem. With numerous incubators, pitch competitions and accelerators and just 90 miles from the Bay Area, founders can access all the resources and partnerships they need to succeed.
$12.3 billion
in growth capital invested over the past five years
16
venture capital and angel funds
20
accelerators, incubators and entrepreneurship programs
5+
pitch competitions
Source: Pitchbook, StartupSac
Find your space
Greater Sacramento co-working spaces and incubators
The Greater Sacramento region is home to numerous coworking spaces and industry-specific incubators, including but not limited to the below.
Tech
- Ansync: Open-floor incubator with offices tailored for hardware tech startup operations
- Choose Folsom Workspace: Dynamic coworking facility including meeting and auditorium space
- Flex Space Folsom: Customizable workspaces with R&D, production and warehouse areas
- Frequency Coworking: A multi-purpose entrepreneurial workspace, including coworking, private offices and meeting and event spaces
- Inventopia: Incubator for tech and life science startups that require up-front R&D, prototyping and testing
Life science
- HM.CLAUSE Life Science Innovation Center: A partnership between UC Davis and HM.CLAUSE featuring wet lab space with 13 lab benches equipped for chemistry and molecular and cell biology research. Also features a greenhouse and open field space with trial capabilities
- Thermogenesis ReadyStart & IncuStart Labs: Shared office and lab space featuring cGMP ISO 7 clean rooms and 26 wet lab benches with shared equipment
- Connect Labs by Wexford: A flexible, scale-in-place lab and office space with ~$1.3M in specialized life science lab equipment at Aggie Square, UC Davis’ $1B innovation district in Sacramento
Agri-food tech
- The Lab@AgStart: Shared wet lab, food lab and coworking space, including 52 wet lab benches, a fermentation and tissue culture lab and commercial kitchen for food product development and prototyping
- Bayer AG LifeHub California: Office and wet lab space on Bayer’s vegetable research and development site in Woodland, focused on agriculture and food sustainability
Cleantech
Cal EPIC Battery Hub: Ramp-up factory providing access to programs, talent and resources to scale hard tech clean mobility products from prototype to small-scale production
Fuel your growth
Greater Sacramento investors and accelerators
Tap into regional investors, accelerators, programs, pitch competitions and funding to fuel your growth.
- Black Star Fund: Black-led venture capital firm that invests primarily in Black founders, including investments in Actively Black and Partake.
- Carlsen Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Sacramento State center providing education, community and support to enable founders to explore and launch their businesses.
- FourthWave: Accelerator for women-led technology businesses.
- Growth Factory: Accelerator for early-stage startups focused on transitioning from minimum viable product to product-market fit and building the funding case and leadership capacity to attract the capital and talent needed to scale.
- Moneta Ventures: Venture capital firm investing in early-stage enterprise software companies. The firm has 50 portfolio companies and manages over $300 million.
- MinervaVerse and MinveraFund: Accelerator, incubator and fund primarily focused on woman-founded and marginalized businesses.
Blaize
Azra Games
GoodLeap
Elve Speed
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Operating costs & incentives The Greater Sacramento region offers the productivity and talent advantages of a California location at a better value than coastal markets. We partner with state and local governments, utilities and other organizations to incentive and accelerate investment.
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The Greater Sacramento region offers the productivity and talent advantages of a California location at a better value than coastal markets. We partner with state and local governments, utilities and other organizations to incentive and accelerate investment.
NorCal Entrepreneur Hub Looking to start or scale your business in Greater Sacramento? The NorCal Entrepreneur Hub lists all the resources in the region, including investors, universities, mentoring programs, networking groups, training programs and more.
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Looking to start or scale your business in Greater Sacramento? The NorCal Entrepreneur Hub lists all the resources in the region, including investors, universities, mentoring programs, networking groups, training programs and more.
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