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State/Region: California, Northeastern California SBDC
SBDC: Northeastern California SBDC at Shasta-Cascade
SBDC Advisor: Susan Wright
SBDC Client: Wildcard Brewing Company
It started when Jeff and Jenny brewed two beers to give away as wedding favors at a brewery in San Luis Obispo, where they went to college. Homebrew projects and burst bottle explosions ensued in the years after. But a casual passion soon turned career as Jeff announced to Jenny that he had quit his job and had been accepted off a wait-list to brew school. You’d call them crazy, adventurous, unpredictable… a wildcard. Their story is one of the unexpected; a place where there are no limits, where perseverance and a free spirit will turn dreams into reality.
Wildcard Brewing Company opened its doors in November of 2012, with 4200 square feet of open warehouse space, a 10-gallon pilot system and a small, bare bones tasting room. For a year, the brewery serviced local accounts through a contract brewing relationship. It wasn’t until September of 2013 that they revealed a 15-barrel production brewery at the location off Crossroads Drive. (more…)
Manufactured in Michigan, Micro-LAM Technologies offers cutting edge technology that increases productivity and profitability for companies that make precision optical components such as lenses, telescopic mirrors, infrared imaging systems, laser components and smart gadget hardware. Micro-LAM’s product increases productivity by up to 500%, increases machine efficiency by up to 200%, improves part quality by an order of magnitude, and has an 8 to 10-month payback, making it a game changer in the precision manufacturing industry. Within a year of hitting the markets, Micro-LAM has sold systems in the US, Israel, the United Kingdom, Spain and Sweden.
CPR Tools Inc. was formed in 1995 and is all about data. CPR Tools performs advanced data recovery services on all types of storage media, including hard drives, phones, tablets, flash drives and more. It has recovered data from shredded media, fire damaged media, water damaged media, and USB drives that your son knocked off the table while you were working!
Stratom, Inc., founded in 2001, provides strategic solutions and advanced technologies to government, commercial and global clients. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Stratom has additional locations in several states and the DC/National Capital region. Stratom is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Non-Traditional Defense Contractor, focusing on providing strategic solutions, training support, research and development (R&D), engineering, and system integration services for unmanned systems. We have a 15-year history of delivering solutions directly to the Department of Defense (DoD) and to major defense contractors.
Torklift was founded in 1976 and started as a small retail shop where automotive and RV-related services and products were sold. It soon became a hub of new product innovation that exploded into the expansion of a manufacturing arm that sells RV and automotive products world-wide, with a strong fan-base of “Torklift-only” customers. Torklift products and services include trailer hitches, suspension, truck camper tie downs and turnbuckles, step systems, custom fabrication, trailer repair and wiring. The company has also hosted a community-wide fund-raiser called the Kent Turkey Challenge that has raised more than $113,000 for the Kent Food Bank since its inception.