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What Is The California Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA)?

The California Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA) supports economic growth by providing resources and support to the state’s 4.3 million small businesses, including non-profits and startups. Our mission is to help all California small business-owners find and navigate resources, programs and regulations so they can start, manage, grow, become more resilient, and thrive. By ensuring equitable access to capital, markets and networks, we aim to help Democratize Access to Capital, Diversify the Innovation Economy and Drive Economic Mobility through Entrepreneurship.

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Our Network Provides Consulting and Training to Support Small Businesses from Bright Idea to Successful Exit

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$3.1B

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$2.9B

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SCALE in Action: Success Stories

Learn how these business-owners in a community near you took advantage of our small business support services to overcome their business challenges and grow their opportunities.

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Alive Ferments

Alive Ferments, a San Diego-based small business founded in 2020, is rooted in a philosophy of simplicity, tradition, and living food. Inspired by a childhood in southern Tuscany and California, founder Niccolo Fraschetti watched his mother keep a…

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Branded Content Media

Doug Birnbaum founded Branded Content Media to help mission-driven organizations connect with their audiences through the power of visual storytelling. With over 15 years of helping clients communicate through powerful visuals, the San Francisco…

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MoveWell Physical Therapy

MoveWell Physical Therapy is a physical therapy practice located in Cypress, California. Owned by Karen Wakamoto, the practice has been serving the Los Alamitos and Cypress community since 2009…

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Haven Lagree LLC

Grace Garver’s connection to the Lagree method goes back nearly ten years. As a military spouse in the Space Force community, she taught both Lagree and yoga in cities across the country, and along the way she discovered a strength in herself…

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JLCE Business Solutions

Cora Williams built JLCE Business Solutions around a simple conviction: that neurodivergent and chronically ill women have the capacity to build sustainable, thriving businesses, and that the right support can help them get there…

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Queen B’s Herbal Teas & More

Ursula Kemp-Paden’s path to entrepreneurship began not with a business plan, but with a health crisis. At one point she found herself bedridden, cycling through medications that brought more side effects…

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7 Lucky Farms

Xochitl Alejo grew up watching her parents and grandparents work the land, carrying with them knowledge rooted in places far from the Inland Empire. That inherited connection to farming, and to the traditions embedded in it, shaped the way…

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LABTOS

LABTOS, located in Westminster, California, is a dental manufacturing company owned by Jason Lee. The business produces generic standardized dental tools in large quantities for dental suppliers. Jason also operates 2XTOO…

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CLC Limousine Inc.

Cristian Rodriguez was born in Jalisco, Mexico, and immigrated to the United States at a young age. For many years, she built a career as an operations manager at…

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San and Wolves Bakeshop

Kym Torres, a first-generation Filipino American, founded San & Wolves Bakeshop in Brooklyn, New York. Later, Kym and her Husband Arvin, who had grown up in Long Beach, decided to move back to Arvin’s hometown…

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