The Winter Night Market featured a diverse array of local tri-county vendors and CSUMB small businesses, presenting an assortment of unique products and services. Attendees enjoyed handmade goods, prepackaged goods,…
Lavender Creek, the 2022 Startup Challenge winner, is thriving with its innovative lavender farm and wellness brand. Recently featured by American AGCredit and Edible Monterey Bay, the company’s Lavender Refreshment…
August 23, 2024 By Mark Muckenfuss The COVID-19 pandemic sent Daniel Howe’s focus from developing hi-tech trash cans to applying the same ideas to farmlands. Howe, a 2021 graduate of…
June 11th, 2024 Marina, Ca. By Denise Silva The Monterey Bay DART and the Institute for Innovation & Economic Development (iiED) held an engaging Startup Connect meetup on Tuesday, June…
This past Friday, the Institute for Innovation and Economic Development (iiED) and the College of Business at California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) hosted the 15th Annual Startup Challenge Monterey…
 Twenty innovative and exciting new businesses have been selected to be this year’s finalists in the Startup Challenge Monterey Bay. The following companies from Monterey, San Benito, and Santa…
March 12th, 2024 Marina, Ca. The Monterey Bay DART and the Institute for Innovation & Economic Development (iiED) hosted a dynamic Startup Connect meetup on Tuesday, March 12th. The conversations…
March 5, 2024 By Mark Muckenfuss StockProfs' YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@StockProf Cal State Monterey Bay professors Jennifer Kuan and Timothy Orme want to turn a scary place into a friendly one.…
On Tuesday, January 9th, Monterey Bay DART and the Institute for Innovation & Economic Development (iiED) held their monthly Startup Connect meeting via Zoom. Six regional industry leaders shared their…
CSUMB's Institute for Innovation and Economic Development (iiED) has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco 2023 AHEAD program. The iiED's proposal is specifically targeted at potential…
Startup Monterey Bay is a program of the Institute for Innovation and Economic Development at the CSUMB College of Business.