$100K Loan to Help Local Entrepreneurs, New Ventures

Inventopia, a Davis startup incubator launched by 2008 Big Bang! winner Tim Keller, recently landed a $100K loan from the City of Davis to add specialized space needed by local entrepreneurs and new ventures. Its newest tenant, Peakb, develops naturally derived blue food coloring and was founded by UC Davis Professor Justin Siegel. Read the article>

Video: Making a Big Bang!

Benjamin Wang, 2014 Big Bang! Business Competition winner and founder/chief medical officer of NeVap Inc., shares how winning the competition helped launch his entrepreneurial journey, notes his successes since then—and explains how the Big Bang! helps innovators go from concept to company. Watch video >

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The diversity of backgrounds and thoughts that the Big Bang! brought in pushed me to reimagine how I saw the world around me. ... Through being introduced to new ideas and people, I was able to push my learning beyond what was in the textbooks."