Accelerate
your
business.

ICA provides coaching, connections, and capital to grow Bay Area businesses and close the gender and racial wealth gap.

Shani Jones
Owner & Operator
Peaches Patties

Accelerate
your
business.

ICA provides coaching, connections, and capital to grow Bay Area businesses and close the gender and racial wealth gap.

Charles Farrier
Owner
Crumble & Whisk

Accelerate
your
business.

ICA provides coaching, connections, and capital to grow Bay Area businesses and close the gender and racial wealth gap.

Koji Kanematsu
Founder & CEO
Onigilly

Accelerate
your
business.

ICA provides coaching, connections, and capital to grow Bay Area businesses and close the gender and racial wealth gap.

Reign Free
Founder & Owner
Red Door Group

Accelerate
your
business.

ICA provides coaching, connections, and capital to grow Bay Area businesses and close the gender and racial wealth gap.

Aderaw Yeshiwas
General Manager
Brundo

What We Do

This is not
business as usual.

People of color, especially women of color, start businesses at higher rates than white people — but they are constrained by structural inequities and often overlooked by mainstream funders. We partner with, mentor, and invest in underestimated Bay Area entrepreneurs to accelerate great businesses and build an economy that works for all.

We Grow.

ICA provides resources, education, and personalized mentoring to help earlier-stage Bay Area companies chart a sustainable growth strategy.

Our Resources →

We Accelerate.

Our 12-week business Accelerator program provides Bay Area entrepreneurs with coaching, connections, and access to capital so they can scale up and become investment-ready.

Our Accelerator →

We Invest.

By providing fair and flexible equity and debt capital, we're changing the rules about who gets funding and why so business owners can create wealth for themselves and their employees.

Our Investments →

Testimonials

Hear from our Entrepreneurs.

“Working with ICA gave me broad tools that allowed me to analyze our company from different angles. It also helped me identify what kind of leader I was and what was my weakness. We really enjoyed the Accelerator and the special relationship with the hands-on ICA team. It is always good to know that there is a team that is willing to have your back.”

— MARIA PALACIO, PROGENY COFFEE

Testimonials

Hear from our Entrepreneurs

“ICA helped us find community-minded banks that were more interested in job creation. We have good partners, and we were fortunate to find them and have them advocate them for us when we stumbled.”

— Matt Kreutz, CEO, Firebrand Artisan Breads

Testimonials

Hear from our Entrepreneurs

“Whether through the ICA staff, the workshops, or my volunteer advisor, it was a great support network for me, particularly when I needed a sounding board around issues I was trying to solve within the business.”

— Reem Assil, CEO and Founder, Reem’s California

Work With Us

Join the movement.

Help accelerate great Bay Area businesses and create wealth in our community.

Entrepreneurs

Put a business pro in your corner. Get 1:1 business advising to address your specific business through access to the Bay Area’s most experienced and engaged advisors.

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Advisors

Your experience is invaluable. At ICA, our advisors play a pivotal role in supporting our clients’ growth, help spark local innovation, and give back to the community in powerful ways.

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Investors

The businesses in which ICA invests are successful companies committed to growth, good jobs, and wealth creation and with your help they are poised for long-term success.

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