Growth Happens By Design.
Cities that invest in entrepreneurial infrastructure see higher business survival rates, stronger revenue growth, and more resilient local economies. Your entrepreneurs are ready, now all they need is a system built for their success.Every City Has Talent.
Not Every City Has Infrastructure.
Across California, Black and Latino entrepreneurs are driving new business creation. Yet many operate informally by running their businesses without the licenses, financial records, or banking relationships that open doors to capital, strengthen survival rates, and allow them to fully participate in the local tax base. For economic development leaders, this means the very people eager to build businesses are also the most at risk of closure, weakening business retention, job creation, and equitable-growth goals.
Cities respond with workshops, grants, and partner networks, but without a cohesive system, these efforts produce uneven outcomes and programs that are hard to measure or sustain. The result is familiar: promising businesses stall, commercial corridors lose momentum, and communities miss out on revenue, jobs, and mobility.
ESO closes this infrastructure gap with a model that meets these founders where they are today and delivers the outcomes communities count on for tomorrow.
See how entrepreneurial infrastructure changes economic outcomes.
The System That Builds Stronger Entrepreneurs
ESO Ventures has developed the Entrepreneurial Infrastructure Stack, a comprehensive framework that equips underinvested entrepreneurs with the education, support, and capital needed to build sustainable businesses, and gives our community partners the tools to make that support scalable.Each layer of the Stack works together to create a complete, measurable system for entrepreneurial growth.
