Archive for May 2021

Some of Roseville’s busiest commercial corridors are in the early stages of a planning effort aimed at introducing a new element to them: housing.

The fast-growing company has signed what is Oakland’s biggest lease so far in 2021.

Pleasanton is making its mark as a life sciences hotspot.

San Francisco small businesses may soon be eligible to line up for rent relief. But not if they work out of an office.

After her husband was stricken, Kristin Holloway is funding the search for a brighter future for patients of a form of early-onset dementia.

Andrea Lacy has been her own boss since 1996, when she started Luv’s Brownies and began selling her signature baked goods online at time when the concept of online delivery was still in its infancy and the Internet as we know it wasn’t much older. Now she’s gone mobile, selling desserts out of a truck that’s both a business pivot and a tribute to her Cuban heritage.

Take a look inside one of the quietest — and most active — life sciences companies in the Bay Area.

Conversions to more lucrative and in-demand lab space are all the rage in the Bay Area. Here’s how they’re done.

This List includes incubator and accelerator programs located in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano and Sonoma counties. Information was obtained from program representatives and SFBT research. Coworking spaces that do not provide mentoring or other business resources are excluded.

This List includes venture capital firms in the Greater Bay Area, which is defined as the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano and Sonoma. Information was obtained from Crunchbase and Business Journal research. Round Count counts the total number of rounds an investor invested in — sometimes they invest multiple times in the same company. In case of ties, companies are ranked by number of Bay Area companies invested in 2020.