North Bay Business Journal

  • Small food-milling firm sees bright future

    July 26th, 2010

    SEBASTOPOL – A long-time family-owned business in Sonoma County has jumped on opportunities offered by the soft real estate market and new SBA incentives to purchase its own building in Santa Rosa.

  • Hydrofarm expands into 28,000 square feet

    July 26th, 2010

    PETALUMA – Hydrofarm, which manufactures and distributes indoor gardening equipment, is again in expansion mode, growing its Petaluma space by 25 percent.

  • New Momentum moves to San Rafael

    July 19th, 2010

    SAN RAFAEL – A high-tech web detective agency has moved its headquarters from Irvine to San Rafael with expansion in mind.

  • Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster, Wavepoint in partnership

    July 15th, 2010

    ROHNERT PARK – The Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster has formed a strategic relationship with Wavepoint Ventures, it announced today.
    The venture will identify and support innovative startups throughout the North Bay region, according to SMBC Executive Director Michael Newell.
    Wavepoint, a venture capital firm with offices in El Dorado Hills and Menlo Park, manages seed-stage investment funds [...]

  • TriVascular obtains new $60 million infusion

    July 12th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA — TriVascular of Santa Rosa, California, announced today the close of $60 million in funding, comprised of a Series C equity financing and growth capital venture debt.

  • Calix leveraging stimulus funds

    July 12th, 2010

    PETALUMA – Calix (NYSE: CALX) raised close to $200 million to leverage stimulus grants of $7.2 billion to rural carriers. Now the first round of grantees has chosen vendors, and some analysts say the Petaluma telecom access equipment maker’s strategy is already paying off.

  • Redwood Hill launches large solar project

    July 12th, 2010

    SEBASTOPOL – Sebastopol-based Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery is finally realizing a longtime goal to reduce its carbon footprint by offsetting all of its electricity use with solar energy. Installation begins this month on a 586-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system at the company’s processing facility on Highway 116. When completed in late summer or early fall, the system is expected to generate 834,998 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, saving the company more than $1.5 million in utility costs over 10 years.

  • BusinessOnLine opens office in Marin

    July 5th, 2010

    SAUSALITO — Internet marketing firm BusinessOnLine is expanding into Northern California by opening an office in Sausalito.

  • Jim Kovach leaves Buck Institute for startup

    July 5th, 2010

    MARIN COUNTY — Jim Kovach, former president and COO of the Buck Institute for Age Research in Novato, left last week to spend full time at his startup Athleticode.

  • YardPods offers a garden view that is green too

    July 5th, 2010

    SAN RAFAEL — A new Marin County company is testing the mettle of the tiny-building market with a steel-framed structure designed for European-style garden offices, back yard sitting rooms or pool cabanas.

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