On October 27, 2022, the Growth Factory celebrated the graduation of their first cohort (GF1) at a private event at their location in Rocklin. In addition to the thirteen GF1 companies, Growth Factory staff and dozens of program mentors attended the festivities.
The Growth Factory is a nonprofit startup accelerator and an accompanying early-stage venture fund building a Backyard Advantage – the uniting of Sacramento’s most innovative, committed, and successful leaders to rally around the most promising startup founders and help them succeed. Members of Cohort 1 met weekly for one year and received training and mentorship.
“We are grateful for the mentors in our community who provide both their time and expertise in developing the startups in this cohort,” stated Monique Brown, the Growth Factory’s managing director. “We are so proud of Cohort 1’s hard work and dedication.”
GF1 Companies
Epireminder: Hardware / software solution that enables novel handoff capability between caregivers, safe zones where medication is always available and life-saving medication networking.
Essential Aero: The Essential Aero platform, powered by artificial intelligence and a high-fidelity data capture system, automates aerial inspections – improving safety, operations, reporting, and record-keeping while drastically reducing the time and resources spent on risk detection.
Foodom: Foodom is everyone’s private chef marketplace connecting vetted chefs and busy parents to cook 1-2 times a week in the family’s kitchen, starting at $100 per week. Our asset-light model is doing to commercial kitchens what Uber did to taxis and Airbnb did to hotels, democratizing the private chef services, free of restrictive regulation.
Humanly: Humanly.io is a unified conversational AI for recruiting platform where automation and people work seamlessly together to surface the most qualified, diverse applicant pool at scale.
LifeStory.us: Remember.us brings family and friends together to celebrate the life of a loved one, in a new and stunningly beautiful way.
Matrubials: Matrubials is a life sciences company developing milk-derived therapeutics to address infectious diseases, with a focus on women’s health.
Onsight Technologies: A teleoperated robot that services and supports remote solar farms. It can be activated at any time and has the sensors and capabilities to provide meaningful data and analysis on site performance and risk at your fingertips.
Opeeka: Opeeka is a enterprise SaaS platform whose initial solution, P-CIS, is an assessment and outcomes management tool designed to help social and human services and mental/behavioral health care agencies and their staff to plan and guide person-centered care while measuring progress along personal trajectories of recovery and resilience.
OpenGrants: OpenGrants is a grant search engine and marketplace of independent grant consultants. You can find grants on your own, or hire an expert to help you search, apply for, and manage your grant.
Ravata: Ravata Solutions uses semiconductor manufacturing techniques to build consumables with the resolution required for embryo handling.
Respirana: Respirana, Inc. is on a mission to provide a simpler, safer, more cost-effective ventilation solution.
Sparck: Sparck is a personalized employee recognition and engagement platform that creates a thriving workplace your people will love. We equip you with when, what, and how to recognize each person in a way that is most meaningful to them within seconds.
Threatrix: Threatrix empowers industry-leading companies with the enterprise-class features, automation, and risk management solutions that your security teams demand and your legal teams require while supporting developers with fluid workflows to easily mitigate your companies risks.
Future Cohorts
The second cohort, GF2, launched in the spring and is currently underway. The Growth Factory intends to launch a new cohort every six months. Founders apply to be accepted into a small cohort of startups that receive 12 months of structured support. Learn more about the accelerator program here.
About the Growth Factory
The Growth Factory’s mission is to build an entrepreneurial engine that scales high growth companies in the Sacramento region and fuels a thriving culture and competitive economy. The Growth Factory is also a proud member of Morrow, a global community of leaders from accelerators, venture studios and venture hubs who are successfully working to build and scale venture backed companies in communities like Sacramento, outside of Silicon Valley. Through this network, they work alongside the best Venture Builders from around the world to exchange ideas, best practices and to provide their founders with access to this global family of resources and support.
StartupSac covered the launch of the Growth Factory in this July 2021 article.
