For March’s Startup Happy Hour, StartupSac and the Carlsen Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Sac State welcomed Camille Richman, co-founder and CEO of Hamama. Hamama, is a West Sacramento startup that makes growing superfood greens fun. They’ve invented a fail-proof way for anyone, anywhere to grow nutritious microgreens at home year-round.
A graduate of the MIT Media lab with an engineering background, Camille and her co-founder launched Hamama after several years of growing food in the lab and at home and experiencing the benefits. It occurred to them, “What if people had a system to grow healthy food for them at home?” and Hamama was born. Launched in 2016, Hamama raised a $2 million investment round in 2020.
We kicked off the evening with an interview with Camille to learn how she got started as an entrepreneur, how the idea for Hamama came about, her experience reaching the $1 M revenue milestone, experience raising venture capital, plans to grow the company further, and more. Following the initial interview, we opened up a Q&A session with the audience to ask their startup questions and get answers from Camille. Check out the full interview and Q&A in the video below.
