Success stories

Mistakes Happen! This Product Rework Company Fixes Them

Today in the apparel, footwear, accessories, and much of the consumer goods sector, most products destined for U.S. stores and consumers are made abroad. Within these industry sectors, 99 percent of...

Workers at a long table in the Brandini Toffee production facility preparing toffee.

Young Entrepreneur Turns Family Toffee Recipe into a Sweet Success

Young entrepreneur, Brandon Weimer, learned how to make almond toffee from a family friend at a young age. While perfecting his recipe over time, the toffee became an enthusiastically anticipated gift...

Eric Schmidt, co-founder of Exquadrum, Inc., poses in a black lab coat with his company's technology equipment.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A creamery worker wearing an opaque hair bonnet, blue latex gloves, and a white smock smoothes the yellow, waxy skin of a round cake of aging cheese with a gauzy roller.

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...