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“ If a lot of the services that are in place with the ( California ) Mobility Center were available eight years ago , it would have greatly sped my time to market ,” says Terzo . “ That ’ s why I was
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CMC Chairman of the Board of Directors Arlen Orchard , who retired in October as CEO of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District , says the primary goal of the CMC is to try to find a faster path to market for startups . SMUD is a founding partner of the CMC and is also helping to fulfill companies ’ desire for operating in a more green and sustainable way while offering lower energy costs than are available elsewhere in the state .
“ We are looking at that next step of bringing new products to market , so we ’ re really focused on rapid commercialization ,” says Orchard , who adds that the CMC is currently in a softlaunch phase with three startups but expects to be fully operational in the first quarter of 2021 .
“ We ’ re hoping that a large part of what we ’ ll do will either grow businesses here in the Sacramento region or we ’ ll be able to attract business that will relocate some or all of their operations to the Sacramento region ,” he says , noting that success can lead to a snowball effect . “ I think as you create an ecosystem around mobility innovation , it will naturally attract other companies and will attract venture capital to invest in those companies .”
On the other side of the region , the City of Woodland is working to leverage its strong tradition in one of mankind ’ s oldest commercial activities , agriculture , into becoming a world-renowned center for what is an increasingly high-tech field .
AgStart is a public-private collaboration that will support innovators and startup companies in the agriculture , food and health sectors . The Lab @ Ag- Start will feature as many as 30 wet labs and also offer kitchen and office space that will support agricultural advances such as environmentally friendly biocon-
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