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Regents Of The University Of California

Location

Oakland, CA

 

Project Name

The Verde Innovation Network for Entrepreneurship (The VINE) Project

 

Program

i6

 

Award Amount

Federal Share

Non-Federal Share

 

$500,000.00

$500,000.00

This EDA investment funds the creation of the Verde Innovation Network for Entrepreneurship (the VINE), a California statewide network of interconnected incubators, innovation hubs, research centers and other places, to support innovators and entrepreneurs in agriculture, food, and natural resource technologies. The VINE will be a catalyst to accelerate the commercialization of technologies that create transformative advances in food, agriculture, and natural resources in California, across both rural and urban communities.