Startup ecosystems can be fragmented, competitive, and hidden to newcomers, which is detrimental for local startups and community growth. The Startup Ecosystem Canvas seeks to provide local entrepreneurs with a clear list of resources for every stage of their startup journey, and outline a basic framework for communities to map their ecosystem.

With applications for the East Bay Founder Institute coming to a close, we are excited to release the East Bay Startup Ecosystem Canvas, which is currently in Draft v1 below! It was developed by the East Bay Founder Institute and local leaders Mark Montalban and Ben Larson.

This is just a DRAFT, and more input is needed, so please leave your comments on this collaborative Google document to help us complete the list. There are definitely omissions on this current version. 

Are you looking to build a startup in the East Bay? Then apply to the East Bay Founder Institute today!

Text version included below, for ease of searching:

Startup Stages

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There is no one right way to build a technology company, but for the sake of simplicity we have outlined a basic, common, sequential framework.

1. Idea Stage

This is where new entrepreneurs get inspired, learn best practices, develop skills, validate ideas, and begin to build their team and product.

A. Inspire

• Startup Media: Centralized local information, listings, and news. (i.e. startup blogs/ publications/ lists/ FB groups/ newsletters, Startup Digest)

1. Berkeley Startup Central
2. Oakland Startups List
3. Startup Digest Oakland
4. Tech.co Oakland

• Inspirational Events: Open, inclusive, beginner startup events (i.e. Startup Weekend, idea fairs, and inspirational meetups)

1. Autism Success in Tech
2. Bay Area Black Designers
3. Bay Area - Code Black Office Hours
4. Food Tech Startup
5. FuckUp Nights
6. Hustle Con
7. Ladies Technically Speaking Bay Area
8. Liberating Ourselves Locally
9. Oakland Technology Meetup
10. Open Source Wellness
11. Startup East Bay
12. Startup Weekend East Bay
13. Startup Weekend Latinx in Tech Oakland
14. Startup Weekend Oakland
15. Tech With Heart
16. The TechEquity Collaborative
17. Women Who Code East Bay

B. Educate

• Best Practices: Beginner knowledge-sharing events. (i.e. beginner events that serve to educate more than inspire, like 1 Million Cups, Startup Grind, Startup Founder 101, etc).

1. Bay Area Modular Synth Group
2. Berkeley-Oakland-East Bay Hardware Startup Meetup
3. CareerWaze Learning Meetup
4. Digital Storytelling
5. East Bay Agile and Lean Leadership
6. East Bay Bitcoin Meetup
7. East Bay Cloud Computing and Cyber Security Meetup
8. East Bay Virtual Reality
9. SF East Bay AI, Blockchain and Emerging Tech
10. SF East Bay Hardware Startups
11. Startup Best Practices
12. Startup Founder 101 Oakland
13. Startup Grind Fremont
14. Tech Liminal Meetup
15. Tech4Good Pleasanton
16. The East Bay WordPress Meetup Group
17. Unconscious Bias Project
18. Weekly WordPress Support Group

• Training & Feedback: Skill & Idea development. (Ex. bootcamps and comprehensive training programs, like Founder Institute, General Assembly, Lean Startup Machine, code camps, etc)

1. Accela Tech Meetup
2. Alameda County SBDC Perfecting Your Pitch
3. AMENA Boot Camp in Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
4. Berkeley Boot Camps
5. Berkeley Investment Group
6. Berkeley Lean Startup Circle
7. Berkeley Real and Artificial Intelligence Meetup
8. Berkeley Startup: Idea to IPO
9. Bootcamp Camp Tech Talk Tour
10. Business Laws for Startups and Entrepreneurs
11. coLLoquium
12. CommUNITY Cafe
13. Deep Learning Study Group
14. Emerging Technologies Conference
15. Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders
16. FinTech, RealTech East Bay and South Bay
17. Founder Institute
18. ICA Fund Good Jobs
19. Kapor Center for Social Impact
20. Learners Guild
21. Port Academy
22. Prospera
23. Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
24. SCORE East Bay
25. Silicon Valley Robotics
26. Silicon Valley Web Builder
27. The SF East Bay New Tech Meetup
28. Tri-Valley Lean Startup Circle
29. UC Berkeley Sutardja Center of Entrepreneurship & Technology
30. Uptima Business Bootcamp
31. Women of Wearables Bay Area Meetup

C. Validate

• Team Formation: Resources for teaming up. (i.e. events or other resources that facilitate early-stage recruitment and cofounder matching)

1. Bay Area Entrepreneurs & Independent Businesses
2. Berkeley Entrepreneurs Association
3. Berkeley Startup Cluster
4. Black Professionals in STEM
5. Co-Founder Wanted Meetup Group by The Tech^map
6. CoFoundersLab
7. Comrade Fireside
8. East Bay Women's Network
9. Founder2be
10. FounderDating
11. Founders Network
12. Gateway's Bay Area Cannabis Startup Founder Community
13. Innovate East Bay
14. LocalPreneurs: Start Bold Ventures, Build Great Companies
15. San Francisco East Bay Entrepreneurs & Networkers
16. Silicon Valley Startup Opportunity Group for Immigrants
17. Startup Networking Night
18. Tomorrow Partners
19. Women Entrepreneurs of Berkeley
20. Women in Life and Career Transitions

• Build First Product: Hackathons & resources to build. (i.e. hackathons and other builder-focused events and resources)

1. Ace Monster Toys Makerspace
2. AEC Hackathon 5.0 - Oakland
3. Bay Area Tech Jam and Game Dev Meetup
4. Bots Hackathon
5. Consumer Goods - Design to Manufacture Cooperative
6. Counter Culture Labs
7. Curiosity Hacked Oakland
8. DREAMerHack: Hackathon Academy
9. GENOME LINK Hackathon
10. Hackermoms
11. Hayward Techies & Makers
12. Liberating Ourselves Locally
13. Makers Workspace
14. Nimby
15. Oakland Beginner's Programming Support Group
16. Predix Builders of SF Bay Area
17. Qeyno Hackathon Academy
18. Sudo Room
19. Supernode
20. Wonder Hack - A Family Hackathon

2. Launch Stage

In this stage, entrepreneurs establish and formalize the company, develop the product, get feedback from customers, and prepare for the next step.

A. Start

• Establish: Law firms & banks for startups

1. Bank of America
2. Bank of the West
3. Bend Law Group
4. Beneficial State Bank
5. Benjamin Law Group
6. California Bank & Trust
7. Chase Bank
8. Comerica Bank
9. Community Bank of the Bay
10. Donahue Fitzgerald
11. East Bay Business Lawyer
12. East West Bank
13. First Republic Bank
14. Metropolitan Bank
15. Nwamu Law Group
16. Silicon Valley Bank
17. Springmeyer Law
18. SPZ Legal
19. The Wilkerson Law Office
20. The Williams Firm
21. Union Bank
22. United Business Bank
23. US Bank
24. Wells Fargo

• Workspace: Co-working and flexible workspaces (note: “official” office space goes in 3.1.a. Infrastructure)

1. ActivSpace Berkeley
2. Big Oakland
3. Critosphere
4. East Bay Community Space
5. Impact Hub Oakland
6. NextSpace Berkeley
7. OAKSTOP
8. Phoenix Alameda
9. Port Workspaces
10. Powerhouse
11. Qulture Collective
12. Sandbox Suites
13. Tech Liminal
14. The Lab: Coworking at CEL
15. The Startup Admin Co-Munity
16. The Workshop Emeryville
17. Victory Workspace
18. WeWork Berkeley

B. Develop

• Formalize: Accounting, development and HR for early-stage startups.  

1. Accounting & Business Solutions
2. CitrusBits
3. Franklin Management Systems
4. Henry Levy Group CPA Firm
5. HyperArts
6. Kollective Mobile
7. Kunai Consulting
8. Lee Accountancy Group
9. Management Recruiters of Berkeley
10. Merchants Accounting Services
11. Mortimer Smythe Designs
12. Moss CPA
13. Nelson Jobs
14. OCSI
15. Pioneer Tax and Accounting Services
16. Premier Talent Partners
17. Raizlabs
18. Rina Accountancy Corporation
19. Timpson Garcia, LLP

• Prepare for Seed: Incubators and advanced mentorship. (i.e. advanced knowledge sharing, later stage events and resources for startup TEAMS, Startup Next, etc)

1. Bay Area Legal Incubator
2. CITRIS Foundry
3. Cyclotron Road
4. QB3 Incubators
5. Raizlabs XLR8 Incubator
6. The Batchery
7. The Hood Incubator
8. The Hood Incubator Cannabis Business Accelerator Program
9. UpStart Lab

C. Launch

• Seed Accelerators: Seed funding mentor programs (Techstars-style programs that provide funding)

1. Berkeley BioLabs
2. Free Ventures
3. Gateway
4. Innovation Acceleration Group
5. LAUNCH
6. QB3
7. SkyDeck
8. The House

• Pitch & Demo: Show local startups for investment (i.e. demo days for companies seeking seed investment)

1. Alameda County SBDC East Bay Entrepreneur Pitch Fest
2. Demo Oakland - Better Ventures
3. East Bay Entrepreneur Pitch Fest
4. LAUNCH Startup Expo and Demo Day 2017
5. Pitching Your Idea For Success - Impact Hub Berkeley
6. The Batchery Batch 5 Demo Day

3. Growth Stage

Here, a startup proves their utility, receives recognition, and scales up. This usually requires funding, angels, VCs, and ways to connect them to startups.

A. Recognition

• Investor Networking:  Connect professional investors with founders. (i.e. events or groups that facilitate connections with professional investors)

1. Angel Investment Network
2. Berkeley Angel Network
3. Keiretsu Forum East Bay
4. The Arcview Group
5. UC Berkeley Haas Venture Fellows

• Major Media: Mainstream local business press. (i.e. major local or regional publications that frequently champion local businesses)

1. ABC
2. CBS
3. East Bay Times
4. FOX
5. Mercury News
6. NBC
7. Oakland Post
8. The Daily Californian

B. Funding

• Angels / Micro-VCs: Seed-stage investors

1. Alex Bernstein
2. Amy Wilson
3. Brooks Jordan
4. Chris Cooper
5. Cindy Padnos
6. Colin Walsh
7. David Price
8. Ed Dua
9. Erik Moore
10. Igor Feerer
11. Jesse Pollak
12. Josh Hannah
13. Kai Chang
14. Kathleen Willard
15. Lloyd Lawrence
16. Mitch Kapor
17. Naveen Jain
18. Nick McCann
19. Peter Secor
20. Renato Steinberg
21. Richard Chen
22. Ryan Merket
23. Sam Mansen
24. Sam Saliba
25. Stephen Leist

• Venture Capitalists: Series A and beyond

1. Base Ventures
2. Berkeley Ventures
3. Better Ventures
4. Claremont Creek Ventures
5. Illuminate Ventures
6. Insignia Capital
7. Kaiser Permanente Ventures
8. Kapor Capital
9. New Media Ventures
10. NewSchools Venture Fund
11. Strawberry Creek Ventures
12. Treehouse Capital LLC
13. Vista Equity Partners

C. Growth

• Infrastructure: Office space, HR, local business insurance. (i.e. office space/ HR/ insurance providers for capital-rich companies to grow and scale)

1. 42Floors
2. Caffrey Insurance Solutions
3. CF&P Insurance Brokers
4. Compass Consulting
5. Dealey Renton & Associates
6. Instant Offices
7. LoopNet
8. Mainz Brady Group
9. McDermottCosta Insurance
10. Regus
11. Rofo
12. Search Office Space
13. Strahan Insurance
14. Thacher Executive Search
15. U.S Wide Insurance Solutions
16. Witt/Kieffer

• Expansion: Growth accelerators/consultants. (i.e. programs and business consultants for capital-rich companies to grow and scale)

1. Accenture
2. Berkeley Consulting
3. BTS Consulting Group
4. CGI IT
5. Charles River Associates
6. Circlepoint
7. Cliff Consulting
8. Deloitte
9. Ernst and Young
10. FTI Consulting
11. Incito
12. Infosys Consulting
13. KPMG
14. Milliman
15. Navigant Consulting
16. Piedmont Avenue Consulting
17. Xantrion

4. Success Stories

Successful homegrown companies that have raised significant institutional funding, employ a large workforce, or have achieved liquidity.

1. Blue Bottle Coffee
2. Breezy
3. Browserling
4. Captricity
5. CashBet
6. Clef
7. Comfy
8. CryptoMove
9. Even
10. Final
11. FR8Star
12. Globetouch
13. Imperfect Produce
14. Jiko
15. Josephine
16. Kaiser Permanente
17. LaunchDarkly
18. Lucid
19. Marqeta
20. Mayvenn
21. Mosaic
22. Mynd
23. npm
24. Pandora
25. Renew Financial
26. Rockbot
27. Roofstock
28. Suiteness
29. Trellis
30. VSCO

Supporters

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To facilitate the steps, every ecosystem needs strong supporters.

1. Evangelists

Successful local founders who lead the ecosystem & frequently mentor newbies.

1. Abhinav Kukreja
2. Adam Sterling
3. Anand Kulkarni
4. Andre Marquis
5. Anne Soto
6. Ben Larson
7. Cameron Baradar
8. Carter Laren
9. Chon Tang
10. Christina Pappas
11. Christopher Ategeka
12. Danielle Vivo
13. David Bloom
14. Deepak Gupta
15. Emily Kirsch
16. Eugene Noh
17. Gigi Wang
18. Henry Chesbrough
19. Ikhlaq Sidhu
20. Jeremy Fiance
21. Justine Marcus
22. Kal Deutsch
23. Ken Singer
24. Keyan Sarrafzadeh
25. Lian Song
26. Lili Gangas
27. Luca Cosentino
28. Mark Montalban
29. Mike Cohen
30. Miriam Zuk
31. Mudit Goyal
32. Naeem Zafar
33. Nikki Hallgrimsdottir
34. Princessa Bourelly
35. Randy Haykin
36. Rhonda Shrader
37. Samvit Ramadurgam
38. Solomon Darwin

2. Government

Public organizations that facilitate local economic development (ex. Start with the chamber of commerce, “Invest in XXX”, “Economic Ministry of XXX” , “Innovation”, R&D, etc)

1. Alameda SBDC
2. Berkeley Chamber of Commerce
3. City Innovate Foundation
4. Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
5. Oakland Startup Network
6. OpenOakland
7. Startup in Residence
8. The Alameda Chamber of Commerce
9. The Civic Design Lab - City of Oakland

3. Talent

Major local business or tech universities and employers that attract and retain local talent.

• Local Universities (universities with prominent technical or business programs)

1. California College of the Arts
2. California State University, East Bay
3. Mills College
4. Patten University
5. Saint Mary's College of California
6. University of California, Berkeley

• Local Employers (Major technical employers, like Microsoft or Google or large local companies, with large local offices, “major technology companies in XX”)

1. AECOM
2. Cisco
3. Fathom
4. Infor
5. Kaiser Permanente
6. Navis
7. Oracle
8. Pandora
9. Pixar Animation Studios
10. Safeway
11. Workday

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Learn more about the Startup Ecosystem Canvas here, and leave us your thoughts on the East Bay Canvas on this collaborative Google document (This is just a DRAFT, and more input is needed!)

Are you looking to build a startup in the East Bay? Then apply to the East Bay Founder Institute today