Small Business Clients And Success Stories
Meet Our Latest Borrower: Ondonte Dental Staffing
Susan Melton is the owner of Ondonte, is a dental staffing company that refers temporary and permanent employment candidates to dental offices around the Bay Area. Ondonte helps create good-paying jobs at dental offices by maintaining a database of qualified dental staff who are looking to fill vacancies. There are between 80 and 120 people […]
Dec 05, 2017 – Small Business Clients And Success Stories • Small Business Loans •
Meet Our Latest Borrower: iThinkEvents
iThinkEvents is a comprehensive events management company founded by Gareth Gallagher in 2015. With offices in London, Singapore, and San Francisco, the team at iThinkEvents works to create events that are unimaginable until they happen, and unforgettable once they have. The business has seen tremendous growth since Gareth emigrated to the United States three years […]
Oct 30, 2017 – Small Business Clients And Success Stories • Small Business Loans •
Small Business Owner Spotlight: Julie Arvan
This week’s small business owner spotlight goes to the CMO (Chief Mother Office) of Nesting Days Newborn Carriers, Julie Arvan. Nesting Days is a baby carrier company with a social mission to N.E.S.T. – Nurture, Educate, Support, Transform. She wants change how we welcome babies into the world by making skin-to-skin baby wearing, comfortable, safe, easy […]
Aug 31, 2017 – Small Business Clients And Success Stories •
Small Business Owner Spotlight: Alexandra Destler
This week’s small business spotlight goes to Alexandra Destler, the owner and founder of SafetyNEST. Their social mission “is to become the ‘go-to’ trusted source for every pregnant woman and her health provider to safeguard a baby’s health against toxic chemical exposure.” Alexandra came to us in 2016 seeking help in re-positioning her business model. Since […]
Aug 31, 2017 – Small Business Clients And Success Stories •
Small Business Spotlight: Fancy Paws
Fancy Paws is a pet service provider located in Chicago, Illinois. Their services include dog walking, puppy visits, overnight stays, and feedings as well. Fancy Paws is a family-owned business that started in 2004. One of the owners, Chris came to Pacific Community Ventures last year looking for advice in creating a marketing and long-term business strategies. We paired […]
Aug 31, 2017 – Small Business Clients And Success Stories •
Small Business Owner Spotlight: Michael Thilgen
Meet Michael Thilgen, founder of Four Dimensions Landscaping Company. Four Dimensions’ goal is to bring people and nature together. They create well planned, carefully crafted, beautiful outdoor environments that enrich both human and natural life. As skilled designers, builders, and horticulturists, we provide landscape architecture, construction and horticultural maintenance to the San Francisco Bay Area […]
Aug 31, 2017 – Small Business Clients And Success Stories •
Small Business Owner Spotlight: Salene Castaneda
Meet Salene Castaneda, the superstar owner of Oakbrand and Salene Castaneda Creative Services. Oakbrand represents the culmination of over 20 years of creative services for small and commercial businesses, specializing in branding and business identity development, graphic design, custom logo design, digital mock-ups, prototypes, illustration, screen printing, and custom apparel and merchandise. Salene approached PCV’s […]
Aug 31, 2017 – Small Business Clients And Success Stories •
Meet Our Latest Borrower: Tadu Ethiopian Kitchen
Tadu Ethiopian Kitchen is an Ethiopian restaurant located in downtown San Francisco. The owners, Selamawet (Nani) Tsegaye and Elias Shawel, are immigrants from Ethiopia and opened their first location in the Tenderloin District in 2014. Their dishes range from vegan chickpeas (kik alicha wot) to lamb and injera (firfir – lamb alicha banatu). Prices for […]
Aug 15, 2017 – Small Business Clients And Success Stories • Small Business Loans •
Meet Our Latest Borrower: Native Juice Co.
Native Juice Co. is a juice and smoothie bar that specializes in fresh beverages made from local ingredients. The company also serves healthy snacks such as salads, wraps, avocado toasts, and soba noodle dishes. The owners support the broader local economy and local producers by sourcing all of their ingredients from Bay Area farmers’ markets […]
May 18, 2017 – Small Business Clients And Success Stories • Small Business Loans •
Meet Our Latest Borrower: Maker’s Common
Maker’s Common is a combined eatery and retail market, located in Downtown Berkeley, from the team that created the popular Mission Cheese restaurant in San Francisco. The restaurant is opening in 2017, and the team’s plan for the space is to have — of course — tons of cheese, plus charcuterie, wine, bread, and beer […]
Nov 11, 2016 – Small Business Clients And Success Stories • Small Business Loans •
Meet Our Latest Borrower: Preservation & Co.
Preservation & Co. offers a line of jams inspired by cocktails, and also cocktail mixes and pickled products. It was founded by Jason Poole in 2011, after he’d worked for 17 years in the service and hospitality industry. His passion for food got bigger and bigger, and he decided to start the company as a […]
Nov 11, 2016 – Small Business Clients And Success Stories • Small Business Loans •
Meet Our Latest Borrower: Boba Guys
Boba Guys offers artisanal boba and tea. The company brews real tea leaves and never uses powder. All teas are steeped in house. They have partnered with local producers like Straus Family Creamery to use organic milk and offer Califia almond milk or organic soy milk for non-dairy alternatives. For sweeteners, the company makes their […]